Projects

The overarching goal of this project is to identify and understand the dynamic pathways and interactions involved in the assembly of functional quantum nanostructures, focusing on atomically thin 2D quantum materials that are crucial to DOE’s energy mission.

Development, validation, and distribution of external-parameter-free methods and open source codes to predict and understand the properties of functional materials, emphasizing those with strong electronic correlations, van der Waals and spin-orbit interactions.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand the formation, behavior, and enhancement of atomic defects that can host stable and addressable quantum states.

The overarching goal of this project is to unravel the fundamental principles for precision deconstruction of step-growth polymers using tailored ionic liquids and upcycling to novel polymers with circularity.

This research advances the fundamental understanding of the interplay between bonding interactions at the ligand-metal binding site with the interactions in the surrounding environment and uses the insights to guide our design of new separation systems.

The overarching goal of this project is to elucidate how interfaces and dimensionality affect chiral transport phenomena by targeted modification of the underlying many-body electronic, magnetic, and lattice interactions in heterostructured quantum materials.

The overarching goal of this project is to understand and control disorder-induced changes in superconducting and topological states across atomic to mesoscopic length scales with quantum microscopies that will guide the development of emerging superconducting quantum devices.