IRGs

IRG Leader: Ellen Williams
IRG-1 seeks to establish predictive structure-property relationships for low-dimensional interfaces of promising materials candidates for optoelectronic and nanoelectronic applications. Investigations on layered structures (metal chalcogenides and graphenes), organic molecular films (anthracene-, pentacenene-, and phthalocyanine-based), and confined structures (islands and dots) permit direct determination of interface structural dynamics […]

IRG Leader: H. Dennis Drew
This IRG is focused on the science and technology of multiferroic transition metal oxides. In multiferroic materials, magnetism and ferroelectricity coexist. The coupling of these two order parameters provide interesting possibilities of increased functionality. They can exhibit large magnetoelectric and magnetoelastic effects, in which magnetic fields can produce an […]

SEED Leader: Min Ouyang
We are interested in exploring new physics, materials and applications based on the spin degree of freedom of electrons and nuclei within ordered nano-engineered architecture with an emphasis on both development of novel synthetic methodologies for spin-based hybrid organic-inorganic nanostructures and fundamental studies of spin-charge interactions and spin transport within nanostructured […]

SEED Leader: Sang Bok Lee
We are interested in synthesis of multifunctional nanotubes and nanowires with various materials such as conductive polymers, metal oxides, metals, and their composites materials, based on well-controlled template synthesis method. Using these nanotube/nanowire structures, we are exploring new chemical, physical, electrochemical, and biological properties and their applications in fast electrochemical […]

Figure 1. Transmission electron microscope image of hybrid porous silica nanoparticles, synthesized via high-temperature aerosol methods. A,B) phase-segregated SiO2/Fe2O3 particles; superparamagnetic nanocomposite particles; C) nanoporous silica particles.

SEED Leaders: Sheryl Ehrman, Douglas English, Lyle Isaacs, Michael Zachariah
We are using ultra-sensitive fluorescence-based measurements to evaluate the effects of surface chemistry on the loading and release of […]