Penn-COMPASS Partnership: IRG4/Solvay/CNRS
IRG-4 creates new forms of matter by assembling nanometer-sized crystals into large, ordered, complex assemblies (nanocrystal superlattices.
Murray (IRG-4) and Donnio (CNRS) have synthesized a library of molecules (polycatenars) that enable new kinds of nanocrystals and superlattices.
Broader Impact
Lego Optics Lab @GEMS Summer Camp
The Kagan (IRG-4) group created a Lego Optics lab for Penn’s Girls in Engineering, Math and Science (GEMS) summer camp for 6th-8th grade girls.
Middle school girls learn about the reflection, refraction, polarization, and diffraction of light hands-on. Lego is used to build mounts for light sources, optical elements, and detectors and the interaction of light with matter.
UPENN Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers
The LRSM at UPENN is a center of excellence for materials research and education. It facilitates collaboration between researchers from different disciplines ? physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology ? to advance transformative scientific projects and solve societal challenges.