Chibueze Amanchukwu’s research is focused on enabling long duration electrical (batteries) and chemical energy storage for a sustainable energy future. His team is especially interested in modifying electrolyte and ion solvation behavior to control electrochemical processes occurring in batteries and electrocatalytic transformations such as carbon dioxide capture and conversion. They couple data science, computation, synthesis, and characterization to holistically understand ion transport in electrolytes and control interfacial reactions for efficient and cheap long duration storage.
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Junhong Chen Research Group’s goal is to impact our society through scientific discoveries and sustainable technological innovations.  His research interest lies in molecular engineering of nanomaterials and nanodevices, particularly hybrid nanomaterials featuring rich interfaces and nanodevices for sustainable energy and environment.
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The Esser-Kahan laboratory focuses on adaptive materials by developing materials that mimic the human body in their ability to respond and adapt to an external environment.
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The Hsu group designs, synthesizes, and fabricates materials for innovative light and heat management. With multidisciplinary approaches ranging from fundamental materials science to system-level mechanical engineering, they aim to perform transformative research that could make changes, big or small, to the world.
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The Liu Group studies and solves issues in energy, environment, and health. They design materials from the molecular level, construct structural engineering from different length scales, use advanced tools for detailed characterizations, and correlate the materials microscopic properties to macroscopic performance. Rationally-designed materials will be synthesized with tunable properties through chemical or electrochemical routes. Areas include resource extraction from water systems, separation and catalysis in liquid and gas phases, development of electrochemical system in manufacturing.
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The Park group’s research focuses on the science and technology of nanomaterials. Their research is multidisciplinary; the group includes researchers with diverse backgrounds, including chemistry, material science, and electrical engineering. Their research goals include building atomically-thin integrated circuitry and exploring novel electrical, optical, and optoelectric properties of low-dimensional nano-structures, which will allow the development of advanced devices.
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The Patel group focuses on functional polymeric materials (e.g. electronic conductors, ion conductors, redox-active) for energy conversion and storage applications. The current focus is on batteries and thermoelectrics. They have a strong expertise in the characterization of polymers that allows us to understand charge transport, electrochemical, and morphological properties. They frequently leverage synchrotron x-ray scattering and spectroscopy techniques to advance our understanding of functional polymers at the molecular, nano-, and micro-scale.
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Dmitri Talapin’s research interests focus on inorganic nanomaterials, from synthetic methodology to self-organization to charge transport and device applications. Current research interests of the Talapin Group lie in the development of novel materials through the assembly of functional nanoscale building blocks. In recent years, they have explored synthesis of novel nanomaterials, inorganic ligand chemistry development for electronic application, self-assembly of nanocrystals into ordered superstructures, and electronic studies of nanocrystal arrays.
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The Tian group is interested in probing the molecular-nano interface between biological and semiconductor systems, emphasizing novel material synthesis and device conception. The group is interested in imitating cellular behavior using semiconductor nanomaterials and augmenting existing biological systems with semiconductor components. Additionally they are developing new biophysical tools to understand subcellular dynamics. Finally, they are seeking designs and solutions for semiconductor-based active matter.
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Sihong Wang’s research focuses on the development of biomimetic polymer electronics and bio-energy harvesting for interfacing with the human body and other biological systems as wearable and implantable devices. The overarching goal of the research is to develop functional polymers and devices that combine advanced electronic/photonic properties with biomimetic mechanical, chemical properties, and operation principles, for realizing the continuous, efficient, and long-term stable acquisition and processing of health data.
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