Research

In addition to IRG research MEM·C also funds competitive exploratory and multidisciplinary team research.

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Arthur Barnard

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David Bergsman

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Ting Cao

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Cole DeForest

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Matthew R. Golder

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Juan Carlos Idrobo

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Munira Khalil

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Mo Li

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Jiangyu Li

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Lucas R. Meza

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Alshakim Nelson

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Matthew O’Donnell

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Nadya Peek

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Lilo Pozzo

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Jessica Ray

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Gerald Seidler

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Stefan Stoll

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Ashleigh Theberge

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Alexandra Velian

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Dianne Xiao

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Publications

1. High-Throughput Workflow for the Synthesis of CdSe Nanocrystals Using a Sonochemical Materials Acceleration Platform

   Maria Politi, Fabio Baum, Kiran Vaddi, Joshua Vasquez, Edwin Antonio, Brittany P. Bishop, Nadya Peek, Vincent C. Holmberg, Lilo D. Pozzo
   ChemRxiv2023IRG 1, MEM-Seed, Year 6Lilo Pozzo, Vincent Holmberg, Nadya Peek

2. Laboratory X-ray Emission Spectrometer for Phosphorus Kα and Kβ Study of Air-Sensitive Samples

   Gerald Seidler, Jared Abramson, Brandi Cossairt, Alexandra Velian, Ricardo Rivera-Maldonado, William Holden
   ChemRxiv2023IRG 1, MEM-Seed, Year 6Alexandra Velian, Brandi Cossairt, Gerald Seidler

3. Mechanoredox Catalysis Enables a Sustainable and Versatile Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer Polymerization Process

   Progyateg Chakma, Sarah M. Zeitler, Fábio Baum, Jiatong Yu, Waseem Shindy, Lilo D. Pozzo, Matthew Ross Golder
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2023, 135, e202215733MEM-Seed, Year 6Matthew R. Golder, Lilo Pozzo

4. Direct Patterning of Perovskite Nanocrystals on Nanophotonic Cavities with Electrohydrodynamic Inkjet Printing

   Cohen, Theodore A.; Sharp, David; Kluherz, Kyle T.; Chen, Yueyang; Munley, Christopher; Anderson, Rayne T.; Swanson, Connor J.; De Yoreo, James J.; Luscombe, Christine K.; Majumdar, Arka; Gamelin, Daniel R.; Mackenzie, J. Devin
   Nano Letters2022, 22, 5681-5688IRG 1, MEM-Seed, Year 6Christine Luscombe, Daniel Gamelin, James DeYoreo, Arka Majumdar, Devin MacKenzie

5. Conjugated Metal−Organic Macrocycles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrical Conductivity

   Leo B. Zasada, Lorenzo Guio, Austin A. Kamin, Diwash Dhakal, Madison Monahan, Gerald T. Seidler, Christine K. Luscombe, and Dianne J. Xiao
   Journal of the American Chemical Society2022, 144, 4515-4521IRG 1, MEM-Seed, Year 5Dianne Xiao, Christine Luscombe, Gerald Seidler

6. Diaryliodonium Salts Facilitate Metal-Free Mechanoredox Free Radical Polymerizations

   Sarah M. Zeitler, Progyateg Chakma, Matthew Golder
   Chemical Science2022, 13, 4131MEM-Seed, Year 5Matthew R. Golder

7. Thermolabile Cross-Linkers for Templating Precise Multicomponent Metal–Organic Framework Pores

   Geary, Jackson; Wong, Andy H.; Xiao, Dianne J.
   J. Am. Chem. Soc.2021, 27, 10317-10323MEM-Seed, Year 5Dianne Xiao

8. SINDy-BVP: Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics for boundary value problems

   Shea, Daniel E. and Brunton, Steven L. and Kutz, J. Nathan
   Phys. Rev. Research2021, 3 (2), 023255MEM-Seed, Year 5Nathan Kutz

9. Designing artificial two-dimensional landscapes via atomic-layer substitution

   Yunfan Guo, Yuxuan Lin, Kaichen Xie, Biao Yuan, Jiadi Zhu, Pin-Chun Shen, Ang-Yu Lu, Cong Su, Enzheng Shi, Kunyan Zhang, Changan HuangFu, Haowei Xu, Zhengyang Cai, Ji-Hoon Park, Qingqing Ji, Jiangtao Wang, Xiaochuan Dai, Xuezeng Tian, Shengxi Huang, Letian Dou, Liying Jiao, Ju Li, Yi Yu, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Ting Cao, Tomás Palacios, and Jing Kong
   PNAS2021, Vol. 118 No. 32MEM-Seed, Year 5Ting Cao

10. Extraction of Instantaneous Frequencies and Amplitudes in Nonstationary Time-Series Data

    Daniel E. Shea; Rajiv Giridharagopal; David S. Ginger; Steven L. Brunton; J. Nathan Kutz
    IEEE Access2021, 9, 83453-83466MEM-Seed, Year 5David Ginger, Nathan Kutz

11. Unraveling Strain Gradient Induced Electromechanical Coupling in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene Moiré Superlattices

    Li, Y., Wang, X., Tang, D., Wang, X., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Gamelin, D. R., Cobden, D. H., Yankowitz, M., Xu, X., Li, J.
    Adv. Mater.2021, 33, 2105879-IRG 1, IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 5Xiaodong Xu, Daniel Gamelin, Matthew Yankowitz, David Cobden

12. Bismuth-doping Alters Structural Phase Transitions in Methylammonium Lead Tribromide Single Crystals

    Erin Jedlicka, Jian Wang, Joshua Mutch, Young-Kwang Jung, Preston Went, Joseph Mohammed, Mark Ziffer, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Aron Walsh, Jiun-Haw Chu, and David S. Ginger
    Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters2021, 12, 2749-2755IRG 1, IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4David Ginger, Jiun-Haw Chu

13. Surface Modification of Black Phosphorus with Group 13 Lewis Acids for Ambient Protection and Electronic Tuning

    Daniel Tofan, Yukako Sakazaki, Kendahl Walz Mitra, Ruoming Peng, Seokhyeong Lee, Mo Li, Alexandra Velian
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition2021, 60, 8329-8336IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Alexandra Velian, Mo Li

14. Competing Correlated States and Abundant Orbital Magnetism in Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene

    Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang, Yuhao Li, Zaiyao Fei, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz
    Nature Communications2021, 12, 4727IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz

15. Experimental Measurement of the Intrinsic Excitonic Wavefunction

    Michael K. L. Man, Julien Madéo, Chakradhar Sahoo, Kaichen Xie, Marshall Campbell, Vivek Pareek, Arka Karmakar, E Laine Wong, Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Nicholas S. Chan, David R. Bacon, Xing Zhu, Mohamed Abdelrasoul, Xiaoquin Li, Tony F. Heinz, Felipe H. da Jornada, Ting Cao, Keshav M. Dani
    2020, arXiv:2011.13104IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Ting Cao

16. Surface Functionalization of Black Phosphorus with Nitrenes: Identification of P=N Bonds Using Isotopic Labeling

    Kendahl Walz Mitra, Christine H. Chang, Michael P. Hanrahan, Jiaying Yang, Daniel Tofan, William M. Holden, Niranjan Govind, Gerald Seidler, Aaron J. Rossini, Alexandra Velian
    Angewandte Chemie International Edition2020, 60, 9127-9134IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Gerald Seidler, Alexandra Velian

17. Directly Visualizing the Momentum-Forbidden Dark Excitons and Their Dynamics in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

    Julien Madéo, Michael K. L. Man, Chakradhar Sahoo, Marshall Campbell, Vivek Pareek, E. Laine Wong, Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Nicholas S. Chan, Arka Karmakar, Bala Murali Krishna Mariserla, Xiaoqin Li, Tony F. Heinz, Ting Cao, Keshav M. Dani
    Science2020, 370, 1199-1204IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Ting Cao

18. Electrically Tunable Correlated and Topological States in Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene

    Shaowen Chen, Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang, Valerie Hsieh, Zaiyao Fei, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, David H. Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Cory R. Dean & Matthew Yankowitz
    Nature Physics2020, 17, 374-380IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz

19. Symmetry Breaking in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

    Minhao He, Yuhao Li, Jiaqi Cai, Yang Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz
    Nature Physics2020, 17, 26-30IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz

20. Hierarchical Nanosheets Built from Superatomic Clusters: Properties, Exfoliation and Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Intercalation

    Jonathan A. Kephart, Catherine G. Romero, Chun-Chih Tseng, Kevin J. Anderton, Matthew Yankowitz, Werner Kaminsky and Alexandra Velian
    Chemical Science2020, 11, 10744-10751IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Matthew Yankowitz, Alexandra Velian

21. Separation of the Valley Exciton-Polariton in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors with an Anisotropic Photonic Crystal

    Ruoming Peng, Changming Wu, Huan Li, Xiaodong Xu, and Mo Li
    Physical Review B2020, 101, 245418IRG 2, MEM-Seed, Year 4Mo Li, Xiaodong Xu

22. Layer-by-Layer Fabrication of 3D Hydrogel Structures using Open Microfluidics

    Lee, U. N.; Day, J. H.; Haack, A. J.; Bretherton, R. C.; Lu, W.; DeForest, C. A.; Theberge, A. B.; Berthier, E.
    Lab on a Chip2020, 20, 525-536MEM-Seed, Year 3

23. Tunable temperature- and shear-responsive hydrogels based on poly(alkyl glycidyl ether)s

    Fellin, C.R., Adelmund, S.M., Karis, D.G., Shafranek, R.T., Ono, R.J., Martin, C.G., Johnston, T.G., DeForest, C.A. and Nelson, A
    Polym. Int.2019, 68, 1238-1246MEM-Seed, Year 5Cole DeForest, Alshakim Nelson

24. High-Throughput Sequential Excitation for Nanoscale Mapping of Electrochemical Strain in Granular Ceria

    Huang, B.; Esfahani, E. N.; Yu, J.; Gerwe, B. S.; Adler, S. B.; Li, J.
    Nanoscale2019, 11, 23188-23196MEM-Seed, Year 3

25. On-Demand Sonochemical Synthesis of Ultrasmall and Magic-Size CdSe Quantum Dots in Single-Phase and Emulsion Systems

    Kastilani, R.; Bishop, B. P.; Holmberg, V. C.; Pozzo L. D.
    Langmuir2019, 35, 16583-16592MEM-Seed, Year 3Vincent Holmberg