Award Abstract # 2011750
Princeton Center for Complex Materials

NSF Org: DMR
Division Of Materials Research
Recipient: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: June 29, 2020
Latest Amendment Date: August 5, 2024
Award Number: 2011750
Award Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager: Serdar Ogut
sogut@nsf.gov
 (703)292-4429
DMR
 Division Of Materials Research
MPS
 Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: September 1, 2020
End Date: August 31, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $18,000,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $14,850,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2020 = $3,000,000.00
FY 2021 = $3,000,000.00

FY 2022 = $3,000,000.00

FY 2023 = $3,000,000.00

FY 2024 = $2,850,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Leslie Schoop (Principal Investigator)
  • Ali Yazdani (Former Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Princeton University
1 NASSAU HALL
PRINCETON
NJ  US  08544-2001
(609)258-3090
Sponsor Congressional District: 12
Primary Place of Performance: Princeton University
Bowen Hall
Princeton
NJ  US  08544-2020
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
12
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): NJ1YPQXQG7U5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): MATERIALS RSCH SCI & ENG CENT
Primary Program Source: 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 068Z, 8614, 054Z, 095Z, 9250, 9177, 1711, 7237, 094Z, 144E, 9178, 7203, 7573
Program Element Code(s): 173500
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

Nontechnical Description:

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Princeton University is a thriving research center and educational outreach resource that serves the campus, local community, and the greater mid-Atlantic region. The research is focused on two key fundamental areas of science that underlies creating new quantum technologies and biology-inspired materials. The development of topological quantum materials is crucial for catalyzing next-generation quantum technologies for sensing, computing, and communicating. The application of such technologies will have wide-ranging implications for national security, industrial competitiveness, and workforce development for decades to come. This MRSEC's research will lay the foundations of the field of living materials science by bridging materials science and biology or soft matter. Establishing this new field will lead to advances in biotechnology, as well as many other industries reliant on nanotechnology using polymers, gels, colloids, biofilms, and other soft materials. Training the next generation of world-class materials scientists and sharing the excitement of their research with the broader community are fundamental pillars of this MRSEC?s mission. Moreover, the Princeton MRSEC leverages its substantial institutional resources and facilities to encourage collaborations with the broader research community, including industrial partners who not only provide stakeholder insights, but also opportunities for workforce development beyond academia. Outreach activities are popular and meaningful opportunities to engage the general public, school teachers, and students of all ages, and spark their enthusiasm and appreciation for materials science in the world around them.

Technical Description:

The unique research underway at the Princeton MRSEC addresses some of the most exciting topics posed by the NSF?s Big Ideas. The IRG-1 team is focused on uncovering novel electronic effects in a wide range of new quantum materials, from spin liquid systems to novel 2-D systems and their twisted stacks, and various superconducting and non-symmorphic materials. The team searches for and synthesizes new topological materials guided by the application of machine learning techniques combined with topological quantum chemistry ? taking on the NSF?s Big Idea ?The Quantum Leap.? The IRG-2 team is uncovering new insights into how cells use macromolecules to function, while also using these insights toward the design of new responsive materials systems with highly tunable properties. Their research is helping to lay the foundation for a new field of ?living? materials science at the interface of biology, chemistry, engineering, and physics ? addressing the NSF?s Big Ideas ?The Rules of Life? and "NSF2026".

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Hoff, Brianna L and Skorupskii, Grigorii and Moya, Jaime M and Yuan, Fang and Cheng, Guangming and Xie, Jiaze and Yao, Nan and Schoop, Leslie M "NaW 2 S 4 and Rb x WS 2 : Alternative Sources for 2M-WS 2 and 1T-WS 2 Monolayers" Inorganic Chemistry , v.63 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03350 Citation Details
Hossain, Md. S. and Ma, M. K. and Villegas-Rosales, K. A. and Chung, Y. J. and Pfeiffer, L. N. and West, K. W. and Baldwin, K. W. and Shayegan, M. "Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Disordered Wigner Solid" Physical Review Letters , v.129 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.036601 Citation Details
Hossain, Md Shafayat and Zhang, Qi and Wang, Zhiwei and Dhale, Nikhil and Liu, Wenhao and Litskevich, Maksim and Casas, Brian and Shumiya, Nana and Yin, Jia-Xin and Cochran, Tyler A and Li, Yongkai and Jiang, Yu-Xiao and Zhang, Yuqi and Cheng, Guangming a "Quantum transport response of topological hinge modes" Nature Physics , v.20 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02388-1 Citation Details
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