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In February 2023, the I-MRSEC hosted over 40 middle schoolers and teachers from Franklin STEAM Academy, a Champaign public middle school, at Materials Research Lab for a day of hands-on activities and lab visits.

A feasible optical  interconnect on a silicon complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor chip demands epitaxial growth and monolithic integration of diode lasers and optical detectors with guided wave components on a (001) Si wafer, with all the components preferably operating in the wavelength range of 1.3–1.55 μm at room temperature.

Moiré materials realized by controlling the twistbetween different atomic layers represent anemerging family of crystals with unique electronicproperties.

By mapping momentum-resolved electronic states using time-resolved and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, researchers recently revealed that monolayer Ag confined between bilayer graphene and SiC is a large gap (>1 eV) 2D semiconductor, consistent with ab initio GW calculations.

Living polymer networks, including tissues andbiofilms, actively respond to complex combinations ofenvironmental inputs, leading to differentiation,regeneration, and development.

With declining numbers of STEM degrees and limited diversity in the STEM workforce, there is a need for expansion of research opportunities for undergraduate and high school students, in particular those from underrepresented groups.

The Ohio State University and University of California, Santa Barbara MRSECS  partnered  to  host  the  Conference  Across  MRSECs  and PREMs (CAMPS) in October 2022.

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.

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.