Superseeds & Seeds

Superseed – Defects in 3D Topological Photonic and Acoustic Materials: Challenges Across Length Scales

Funding Period: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2023

Principal Investigators

Randall Goldsmith
Professor, Chemistry
Chu Ma
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Co-Investigators

Paul Capagnola
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
Amalio Fernández-Pacheco
Associate Professor, CSIC-University of Zaragoza
Tim Osswald
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Zongfu Yu
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Students & Postdocs

Brandon Hacha Boyuan Liu Zijie Liu
Michael Mattei Camila Montoya Ospina
Alec Redmann Emily Shelton
Michael Wang Dajun Zhang

Seed – Development of Organic Framework Ion Conductors (OFIC) via Molecular Engineering

Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022

Principal Investigators

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

Shubhra Pasayat
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Students & Postdocs

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

Marcel Schreier
Assistant Professor, Chemical an Biological Engineering

Students & Postdocs

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

Samuel Pazicni
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

Students & Postdocs

Jorge Rivera-Cólon

 

Seed – Understanding Metal Agglomeration in Zeolite Micropores under Reaction Conditions

Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023

Principal Investigators

Siddarth Krishna
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Students & Postdocs

Deepak Sonawat

 

Seed – Finding the Best Oxide-wide Band Gap Semiconductor Interface

Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023

Principal Investigators

Chirag Gupta
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Students & Postdocs

Md Tahmidul Alam

 

Seed Highlights

  • MRS Bulletin Cover June 2022

    Wisconsin MRSEC Investigator, Jason Kawasaki, Helps Shape Journal Issue Dedicated to Heusler Compounds

    Jason Kawasaki, an investigator with the Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison brought his passion for Heusler compounds to his appointment as guest editor of the June 2022 Issue of the MRS Bulletin.

  • (2022) Spray-on “SLIPS” and Controlled release “SNIPS”: New Designs for Slippery Antifouling Materials

    Coatings that prevent fouling are critical in commercial, industrial, and healthcare contexts. Wisconsin MRSEC researchers have developed new spray-based methods to make nanoporous water-repelling films and spray-on ‘slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces’ (SLIPS). These coatings are antifouling to a range of substances and microorganisms and can be produced using scalable, manufacturing-compatible methods. They also developed new antifouling ‘slippery nanoemulsion-infused porous’ (SNIPS) that use water-in-oil nanoemulsions to slowly release encapsulated cargo.

  • (2022) An Underwater Topological Waveguide at MHz Frequencies

    Concepts of topology recently have been brought to bear on materials designed to control sound waves. Sound wavelengths are much longer than light, making acoustic materials easier to synthesize and their behavior easier to measure. Wisconsin MRSEC researchers are using topological acoustic materials to explore topological physics and enable applications in sensing, communication, and energy transport.

  • (2021) Controlling Waves with 3D Printed Materials

    Materials with a repetitive pattern the same size as the wavelength of a wave can be used to control the wave, causing it to bend, perfectly reflect or transmit, or even turn around corners. Where different patterns meet, even more exotic behavior occurs, including making highways for light or sound that only travel in one direction or where the waves cannot be dissipated. Synthesizing such materials is a major challenge, which  Wisconsin MRSEC researchers have met by adapting a family of 3D printing techniques.

  • (2020) Energy Transfer Inside of a Topological Photonic Materials

    The Wisconsin MRSEC has shown that molecules inside in a type of topological photonic material called a Weyl crystal can exchange energy over much larger distances. The intricate twisting structure of the material uses light to connect one molecule to others much farther away. Developing photonic Weyl crystals may contribute to more efficient LEDs and solar cells and improve molecular sensors.

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