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
fcavallo@unm.edu
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