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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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Elif Ertekin
IRG2 Leader
Axel Hoffmann
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Pinshane Huang
IRG1 Leader
Nicola Perry
IRG2 Leader
Andre Schleife
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Kay Tsai
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Arend van der Zande
IRG1 Leader
Joshua Vura-Weis
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