Completed Superseeds & Seeds (DMR – 1720415)

Seed – Characterization of Electron Transport and Luminescence of Corroded Metal Alloys

Funding Period: September 1, 2020 – March 31, 2022

Principal Investigators

Jennifer Choy
Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics

Adrien Couet
Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics and Materials Science and Engineering

Students & Postdocs

Ricardo Vidrio

Maryam Zahedian

Hongliang Zhang

Superseed – Validation of Soft Composite Characterization via Microcavitation and Correlation with Macroscopic Mechanical Behavior

Funding Period: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021

Principal Investigators

Andrew Boydston
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Padma Gopalan
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Co-Investigators

Stephan Rudykh
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Ramathasan Thevamaran
Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics

Students & Postdocs

Jizhe Cai

Yuhai Xiang

Materials Systems for Controlling Extra- and Intracellular Assembly and Function

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020

Principal Investigator

Wendy Crone
Professor, Engineering Physics
crone@engr.wisc.edu

Co-Investigators

Timothy Kamp
Professor, Medicine/Cell and Regenerative Biology
Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research

Lih-Sheng Turng
Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Students

Alana Stempien, astempien@wisc.edu

Molecularly Doped Topological Photonic Materials

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020

Principal Investigator

Randall Goldsmith
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Co-Investigators

Paul Campagnola
Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Zongfu Yu
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Students & Postdocs

  • Samuel Alkmin, alkmin@wisc.edu
  • Michael Mattei, mattei2@wisc.edu
  • Lei Ying, lying8@wisc.edu
  • Ming Zhou, mzhou34@wisc.edu

Synthetic Soft Matter Inspired by Behaviors of Bacterial Communities

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020

Principal Investigators

David Lynn
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Helen Blackwell
Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Co-Investigator

Reid Van Lehn
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Students & Postdocs

  • Harshit Argawal, hagarwal3@wisc.edu
  • Lawrence Chen, lmchen@wisc.edu
  • Curran Gahan, cgahan@wisc.edu
  • Kayleigh Nyffleler, nyffeler@chem.wisc.edu
  • Benjamin Ortiz, bortiz@wisc.edu
  • Samarthaben Patel, spatel46@wisc.edu
  • Thomas Polaske, polaske@wisc.edu
  • Fengrui Wang, fwang82@wisc.edu
  • Korbin West, khwest@wisc.edu
  • Ke Zhao, kzhao29@wisc.edu

Potential Energy Landscape, Two-Level System and Boson Peak in Silica

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020

Principal Investigator

Bu Wang
Asisstant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
bu.wang@wisc.edu

Co-Investigator

Isabel Szlufarska
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Students

Zheng Yu, zheng.yu@wisc.edu

Machine Learning Algorithms for High-Throughput Materials Data

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – August 31, 2020

Principal Investigator

Victor Zavala
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
victor.zavala@wisc.edu

Co-Investigator

Reid Van Lehn
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Students

  • Shengli Jiang, sjiang87@wisc.edu
  • Alexander Smith, adsmith23@wisc.edu

Complex Oxides Nanomembranes: Synthesis, Assembly, and Order-from-Disorder Transitions in Confined Geometries

Funding Period: April 1, 2019 – January 31, 2020

Principal Investigators

Francesca Cavallo
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Investigator

Christoph Deneke
Professor, Applied Physics, Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP

Students

  • Divya Jioty Prakash, University of New Mexico, dprakash@unm.edu
  • Vijay Saradhi Mangu, University of New Mexico, vjsaradhimangu@unm.edu