The first example of synthetic living material featuring dissipative behaviors directly controlled by the fuel consumption of their constituent cells.
The first example of synthetic living material featuring dissipative behaviors directly controlled by the fuel consumption of their constituent cells.
A collaboration between the de Pablo, Rowan and Jaeger groups at the University of Chicago developed a novel class of suspensions with stimuli-responsive polymer particles to be able to transition reversibly between liquid to solid behavior in response to temperature,
Novel chemical reactions enable scalable and atom-economic synthesis of two-dimensional metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes). These directly synthesized MXenes from the University of Chicago show excellent energy storage capacity for Li-ion intercalation.
Plant/polymer composite materials have been fabricated. These composite materials are stimuli responsive and can undergo shape-shifting behavior in response to temperature or light.
IRG1 has developed a toolkit for carrying out simulated X-ray adsorption spectroscopy (XAS). XAS is a powerful technique for understanding the surface local structure and chemistry of complex interfaces at the nanoscale.
IRG1 has developed a computational framework for understanding how nanoparticles (NPs) assemble at the interface between two immiscible fluids.
This is the first demonstration of living ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) from a biological substrate.
The ability to thermally trigger a conformational changeand collapse in a constituent resilin-like protein (RLP) providesthe opportunity to build, and eventually move, a bundlemer nanostructure.
This work demonstrates that the TI vdW material Bi2Se3 can be grown as a single-crystalline single-orientation film on semiconductor substrates with appropriate substrate pre-treatment conditions.
IRG-2 developed a symmetry-based approach that uses only few inputs, to carry out an efficient yet systematic search for topological magnons in magnetic insulators. Robust against disorders and decoherence, they serve as potential platforms for magnon-based spintronic devices.