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news

Team led by Chris Leighton, Turan Birol, and Rafael Fernandes (IRG-1) Makes Groundbreaking Discovery in Magnetoionics

Jiayi He (IRG-2, Haynes) awarded EAS research award

Xiaojia Wang (IRG-2, Seed) promoted!

publications

Gate-Tuned Insulator-Metal Transition in Electrolyte-Gated Transistors Based on Tellurene

MoTe₂ Lateral Homojunction Field-Effect Transistors Fabricated using Flux-Controlled Phase Engineering

Metal-insulator transition in a semiconductor nanocrystal network

Polycation Architecture and Assembly Direct Successful Gene Delivery

Synthesis, Simulation, and Self-Assembly of a Model Amphiphile to Push the Limits of Block Polymer Nanopatterning

Observation of Anisotropic Strain-Wave Dynamics and Few-Layer Dephasing in MoS₂ with Ultrafast Electron Microscopy

highlights

IRG-1
From Semiconductor to Metal in Two-dimensional Tellurium

IRG-2
Crossing the insulator-to-metal transition in a nanocrystal network

IRG-3
Computational Design of Triblock Amphiphiles with 1-nm Domains

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