Superseed – Defects in 3D Topological Photonic and Acoustic Materials: Challenges Across Length Scales
Funding Period: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Randall Goldsmith Professor, Chemistry |
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Chu Ma Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Co-Investigators
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Paul Capagnola Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics |
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Amalio Fernández-Pacheco Associate Professor, CSIC-University of Zaragoza |
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Tim Osswald Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
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Zongfu Yu Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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Students & Postdocs
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Brandon Hacha |  |
Boyuan Liu |  |
Zijie Liu | ||
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Michael Mattei |  |
Camila Montoya Ospina | ||||
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Alec Redmann |  |
Emily Shelton | ||||
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Michael Wang |  |
Dajun Zhang |
Superseed – Nonequilibrium Magnetic States in Strain Membranes
Funding Period: July 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Jason Kawasaki Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Uwe Bergmann Professor, Physics |
Co-Investigators
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Chang-Beom Eom Professor, Physics |
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Jiamian Hu Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Dane Morgan Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Daniel Rhodes Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Izabela Szlufarska Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Yin Wang Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
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Jun Xiao Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
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Ryan Ash |  |
Roberta Candela |  |
Fan Fei | ||
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Syeda Gardezi | Taehwan Jung | Jessica Kienbaum | ||||
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Yulu Mao | |||||
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Caleb Robinson | Tamalika Samanta |  |
Noah Welke | |||
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Tairan Xi | Mojue Zhang |
Seed – Development of Organic Framework Ion Conductors (OFIC) via Molecular Engineering
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Dawei Feng Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
TBD
Seed – Breaking Through the Substrate Bottleneck for Ultra-efficient Visible Emitters: Growth of High Quality InGaN Buffers on Sputtered and Thermally Crystallized ScAlMgO4
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Shubhra Pasayat Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
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Guangying “Tina” Wang |
Seed – Heterogeneous Atomic Centers as Tunable Materials for Catalysis and Quantum Information
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Marcel Schreier Assistant Professor, Chemical an Biological Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
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Alexander Zielinski |
Seed – Exploring Factors that Control the Choices of Latinx S&E Students to Pursue Graduate Study
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Samuel Pazicni Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry |
Students & Postdocs
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Jorge Rivera-Cólon |
Seed – Understanding Metal Agglomeration in Zeolite Micropores under Reaction Conditions
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Siddarth Krishna Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
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Sara Ahsan |
Seed – Finding the Best Oxide-wide Band Gap Semiconductor Interface
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
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Chirag Gupta Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
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Md Tahmidul Alam |