Our goal is to understand the mechanisms, capabilities, and applications of electrostatic and electrochemical gating. Our vision is to transform the understanding of electrolyte-based electrostatic and electrochemical gating, realizing electrical control over an extraordinary range of electronic phases and function.
The IRG-1 senior investigators and their primary areas of expertise are:
Chris Leighton (CEMS) Leader: Synthesis, electronic and magnetic properties, scattering, electrolyte gating
Turan Birol (CEMS): Density functional theory (DFT), dynamical mean field theory (DMFT)
Rafael Fernandes (PHYS): Microscopic and phenomenological modeling
Vivian Ferry (CEMS): Nanophotonics and metamaterials, nanofabrication, electromagnetic simulation/modeling
C. Daniel Frisbie (CEMS): Organic electronics, ionic liquids and gels
Martin Greven (PHYS): X-ray and neutron scattering, nonlinear magnetic response, superconductivity
Bharat Jalan (CEMS): Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), oxide semiconductors
Andre Mkhoyan (CEMS): Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS)
Jeff Walter (Augsburg U, Physics): Sulfides, synthesis, electronic and magnetic properties, electrolyte gating
Xiaojia Wang (ME): Thermal transport, ultrafast pump-probe techniques, time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR)
IRG-1 collaborator(s) and their primary areas of expertise are:
Mahesh Mahanthappa (CEMS): Amphiphile/polymer synthesis, thermodynamics, scattering
IRG-1 researchers:
Rohan Chakraborty: Graduate Student — Ferry/Leighton
Rashmi Choudhary: Graduate Student — Jalan/Greven
Jaeyub Chung: Postdoctoral Researcher — Frisbie/Mahanthappa
Ezra Day-Roberts: Postdoctoral Researcher — Fernandes/Birol
John Dewey: Graduate Student — Leighton/Jalan
Dominique Gautreau: Graduate Student — Birol/Wang
Supriya Ghosh: Graduate Student — Mkhoyan/Jalan
Nicholas Horton: Undergraduate Student — Greven/Leighton
Issam Khayr: Graduate Student — Leighton/Greven
Shutong Li: Graduate Student — Birol/Jalan
Jierui Liang: Postdoctoral Researcher — Leighton/Frisbie
Sreejith Nair: Graduate Student — Jalan/Birol
Will Postiglione: Graduate Student — Leighton/Greven
Prachi Sharma: Postdoctoral Researcher — Fernandes/Birol
Zhifei Yang: Graduate Student — Jalan/Mkhoyan
Chiou Yang Tan: Graduate Student — Greven/Leighton
Hwanhui Yun: Postdoctoral Researcher — Mkhoyan/Birol
Chi Zhang: Graduate Student — Wang/Leighton/Jalan
Yingying Zhang: Graduate Student — Wang/Leighton/Jalan
He Zhu: Graduate Student — Birol/Jalan
The focus of IRG-2, Mesoscale Network Materials, is to discover and exploit scale-invariant shape-filling amphiphile (SFA) motifs to robustly assemble functional nets and to understand how processing impacts their properties
The IRG-2 senior investigators and their primary areas of expertise are:
Mahesh Mahanthappa (CEMS) Leader: Amphiphile/polymer synthesis, thermodynamics, scattering
Frank Bates (CEMS): Polymer synthesis, thermodynamics, mechanics
Michelle Calabrese (CEMS): Rheology/mechanics, in situ scattering, dynamics
Kevin Dorfman (CEMS): Mesoscale simulations, theory
Christopher Ellison (CEMS): Thin film self-assembly, polymer processing
Vivian Ferry (CEMS): Nanophotonics and metamaterials, nanofabrication, electromagnetic simulation/modeling
Timothy Lodge (CEMS/CHEM): Polymer characterization, scattering, dynamics
Karen Lozano (UTRGV Mech. Eng.): Processing internally structured nanofibers from network-forming soft materials
Theresa Reineke (CHEM): Amphiphile/polymer synthesis, self-assembly
Ilja Siepmann (CHEM): Molecular simulations, model development
IRG-2 researchers:
Pengyu Chen: Graduate Student — Dorfman/Mahanthappa
Bryan Cote: Graduate Student — Ferry/Ellison
Shuquan Cui: Postdoctoral Researcher — Lodge/Bates
Soumi Das: Postdoctoral Researcher — Reineke/Calabrese
Hannah Dietrich: Graduate Student — Bates/Dorfman
Faegheh (Fafa) Hoshyargar: Graduate Student — Siepmann/Mahanthappa
Alicia Huggett: Graduate Student — Lodge/Reineke
Michael Hyatt: Postdoctoral Researcher — Mahanthappa/Bates
Daoyuan Li: Graduate Student — Siepmann/Lodge
Lucy Liberman: Postdoctoral Researcher — Bates/Lodge
Benjamin Magruder: Graduate Student — Dorfman/Ellison/Mahanthappa
Jinwoo Oh: Postdoctoral Researcher — Ellison/Mahanthappa
Sojung Park: Postdoctoral Researcher — Dorfman/Bates
Camila Perales Rodriguez: Graduate Student — Mahanthappa/Lodge
Szu-Ming Yang: Graduate Student — Ellison/Mahanthappa
The Center operates an ambitious Seed program designed to foster innovation and promote Center growth and evolution.
Awards are made to individual faculty members or small clusters in support of high risk projects or research in emerging areas.
The current seed investigators and projects are:
Sapna Sarupria (CHEM): Using Machine Learning to Enhance Simulations of Self-assembling Molecules
Ognjen Ilic (ME): High-fidelity Photonic Reconfigurability with Phase-Change and Electrically Biased Metamaterials
Jessica Lamb (CHEM): Switchable Cationic and Anionic Polymerization
Ke Wang (PHYS), Fiona Burnell (PHYS),
Vlad Pribiag (PHYS):
Investigation of Anisotropic, Nodal and Topological Material Properties in 2D Superconductors
Christy Haynes (CHEM), Renee Frontiera (CHEM):
Photonic Properties of Chiral Nanostructures
Boya Xiong (CEGE): Host Defense Peptide-Enabled Filtration Materials for Pathogen Control
seed project archive
Current Seed researchers:
Mahmoud Matar Abed: Graduate Student — Haynes
Jiayi He: Graduate Student — Haynes
Brandon Hosford: Graduate Student — Lamb
Saumitran Kasturirangan: Graduate Student — Burnell
Daniel Kindem: Graduate Student — Ilic
Yujie Luo: Graduate Student — Ilic
William Ramos: Graduate Student — Lamb
Ziwei Yu: Graduate Student — Frontiera
Youchi Zhang: Graduate Student — Sarupria
Funded by the National Science Foundation through the University of Minnesota MRSEC under Award Number DMR-2011401
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