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The Grainger College of Engineering
Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
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IRG 1: Directing Spin, Charge, and Energy with 2D Strainscapes
IRG2: Photo-Ionics: Controlling Ion Transport and Defects with Light
Current Seeds
Seed 1: Interfacial coupling and tuning in mixed-dimensional heterostructures
Seed 2: Using Altermagnets for Straintronics Applications
Outreach Seed 2026: A traineeship to explore novel photonic memristors enabled by photo-ionic phase change materials for programmable photonic computing
Past Seeds
Spatiotemporally-Controlled Ion Transport via Photoswitchable Semi-Crystalline Polymer Networks (2024-2025, Superseed)
Understanding and Engineering Chemical Strain for Single-Photon Emission in hBN (2024-2025, Superseed)
Prior MRSEC 2017-2024 DMR-1720633
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I-MRSEC Creative Materials Program
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Daniel Ceballos
Daniel Ceballos
Daniel Ceballos
Undergraduate, Seed, Lynford Goddard mentor
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