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The MIT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center pursues disruption through materials, from X-ray detector materials at the nanometer scale that allow tremendous gains in the resolution of X-ray-based medical imaging, to improving the yield and efficiency of producing critical metals and scalable synthesis of sulfur-based semiconductors.

IRG 2 establishes the materials science of biomolecular condensates, the membraneless assemblies that cells form by liquid-liquid phase separation, relating biomolecular sequence and composition to condensate material properties and encoding those properties on demand.

IRG 2 develops chemically functionalizable two-dimensional transition-metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitrides (MXenes) with tunable optical, electronic, and magnetic properties, for flexible and printable electromagnetic shielding, tunable photonic devices, and adaptive electronic systems.

IRG 2 deploys synthetic organic and coordination chemistry to design electronic states in two-dimensional superlattices, assembling molecules onto, or superimposing molecular lattices over, a parent low-dimensional solid-state material, and focuses on realizing collective phenomena such as superconductivity and quantum spin liquids.

IRG 1 uses quantum clusters, particles, and quantum wells as the building blocks for quantum metamaterials that harness quantum confinement, correlations, and ultimately entanglement as new levers of optical functionality, to achieve ultrahigh nonlinearities and ultrafast response speed.

IRG 2 pursues a fundamental understanding of structure-property relationships in high-temperature chalcogenide melts, which are promising as electrolytes for electrometallurgy of critical metals including copper, iron, and neodymium, and as growth fluxes for semiconductor synthesis.

IRG 2 co-designs materials platforms, including van der Waals heterostructures, misfit superlattices, and molecular crystals, together with engineered electromagnetic environments such as optical cavities, to stabilize quantum phases that have no equilibrium counterpart, without relying on intense laser pulses.

The Atomically Engineered Materials (AtEM) Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln advances the design and fabrication of novel materials with exceptional control at the atomic scale, enabling new pathways toward next-generation electronics, computing, sensing, and communication technologies.

IRG 1 develops atomically thin van der Waals semiconductors that host coherent, long-lived collective excitations, including spin waves and electric-dipole waves, and uses them to carry information across device-relevant distances with very little energy loss, toward ultralow-power information platforms that unify electronics and photonics.

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials discovers and designs novel materials for next-generation technologies, from novel electronic materials that can lead to faster and more energy-efficient electronics and the building blocks of future quantum computers, to programmable, life-inspired materials.