Research Programs
Seed Projects

Seed Projects allow us an opportunity to respond rapidly to exciting new developments, and also help stimulate projects that might evolve into fully-fledged IRG programs in future proposals.

We are currently supporting 4 seed projects which are described below:

  • Dynamic Nuclear Polarization as a Unique Tool to Probe Materials
    Song-I Han (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

    Biologically Inspired Low-Temperature Route to Improved Nitride-Based Electronic Materials

    Martin Sagermann (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
    Daniel Morse (Inst. for Collab. Biotechnologies; Molec. Bio.; BMSE)

  • Materials with Continuous Chemical and Mechanical Gradients
    Herb Waite (Molecular Biology, Chemistry,BMSE)
    Galen Stucky (Materials and Chemistry)

  • Engineering Gate Dielectric and Self-Assembly of Conjugated Polymer for Ambipolar Light Emitting Semiconducting Polymer Field Effect Transistors (FETs)

    Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
    Guillermo Bazan (Materials and Chemistry)
    Alan J. Hegger (Physics and Materials)