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:
Vivian Ferry (CEMS) Leader: Nanophotonics and metamaterials, nanofabrication, electromagnetic simulation/modeling
Chris Bartel (CEMS): Density functional theory (DFT), thermodynamics, phase transformations
Turan Birol (CEMS): Density functional theory (DFT), dynamical mean field theory (DMFT)
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
Chris Leighton (CEMS): Synthesis, electronic and magnetic properties, scattering, electrolyte gating
Andre Mkhoyan (CEMS): Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS)
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:
Luca Buiarelli: Graduate Student — Birol/Jalan
Rohan Chakraborty: Graduate Student — Ferry/Leighton
Rashmi Choudhary: Graduate Student — Jalan/Birol
Silu Guo: Graduate Student — Mkhoyan/Birol/Jalan
Issam Khayr: Graduate Student — Greven/Leighton
Armand Lannerd: Graduate Student — Bartel/Leighton
Jierui Liang: Postdoctoral Researcher — Leighton/Ferry
Sreejith Nair: Graduate Student — Jalan/Birol
Nileena Nandakumaran: Postdoctoral Researcher — Leighton/Greven
Chiou Yang Tan: Graduate Student — Greven/Leighton
Hyunsol Son: Graduate Student — Leighton/Greven
Jiazhen Xu: Graduate Student — Frisbie/Ferry
Xiaotian Xu: Graduate Student — Wang/Frisbie/Jalan
Zhifei Yang: Graduate Student — Jalan/Mkhoyan
Chi Zhang: Graduate Student — Wang/Jalan/Leighton
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
Michelle Calabrese (CEMS) Co-Leader: Rheology/mechanics, in situ scattering, dynamics
Frank Bates (CEMS): Polymer synthesis, thermodynamics, mechanics
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
Theresa Reineke (CHEM): Amphiphile/polymer synthesis, self-assembly
Ilja Siepmann (CHEM): Molecular simulations, model development
IRG-2 researchers:
Giselle Campos: Graduate Student — Mahanthappa/Lodge
Shuquan Cui: Postdoctoral Researcher — Lodge/Bates
Soumi Das: Postdoctoral Researcher — Reineke/Calabrese
Alicia Huggett: Graduate Student — Reineke/Lodge
Daoyuan Li: Graduate Student — Siepmann/Lodge
Luyang Li: Postdoctoral Researcher — Dorfman/Bates
Benjamin Magruder: Graduate Student — Dorfman/Ellison
Emily McGuinness: Postdoctoral Researcher — Ferry/Ellison
Ayaka Moriyama: Graduate Student — Ellison/Ferry
Camila Perales-Rodriguez: Graduate Student — Lodge/Mahanthappa
Subrata Santra: Postdoctoral Researcher — Lodge/Bates
Anubhav Sarmah: Postdoctoral Researcher — Calabrese/Ellison
Caini Zheng: Graduate Student — Lodge/Siepmann
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:
Renee Frontiera (CHEM), Russ Holmes (CEMS),
Oggy Ilic (ME):
Chiral Polaritonic Materials: renewed
Lynn Walker (CEMS), Cari Dutcher (CEMS, ME),
Mahesh Mahanthappa (CEMS):
High Internal Phase Emulsions (HIPE) Stabilized by Macromolecular Surfactants: new - description coming soon
Kade Head-Marsden (CHEM):
Theoretical Prediction of Temperature-Dependent Spin Relaxation in Molecular Systems used in Quantum Information Science.
Kelsey Stoerzinger (CEMS): Understanding the Electrical Double Layer and Mechanisms of Electrochemical Gating
David Flannigan (CEMS), Turan Birol (CEMS),
Rafael Fernandes (PHYS)
Materials for Topological Phononics
seed project archive
Current Seed researchers:
Rana Bachnak: Graduate Student — Dutcher
Koray Aydogan: Graduate Student — Head-Marsden
Yicheng (Betty) Liu: Graduate Student — Holmes
Yujie Luo: Graduate Student — Ilic
Samuel Carlson: Graduate Student — Ilic
Devesh Pathak: Postdoc — Stoerzinger
Arghya Sarkar: Graduate Student — Frontiera
Simon Willis: Graduate Student — Flannigan
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