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.
2023
A Micromechanics Theory for Light-Interactive Dynamic Materials
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna (Materials)
Developing a Hydrogel Platform for Tunable Release of Matrix-Bound Nanovesicles
Marley Dewey (Bioengineering) & Ryan Stowers (Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering)
2021
Understanding Thermal Effects on the Microstructure of Additive Manufactured Materials
Yangying Zhu (Mechanical Engineering), Raphaele Clement (Materials)
Stereochemically Well-Defined Polymeric Materials via Biocatalytic Polymerization
Yang Yang (Chemistry)
2019
Selecting for Phase-Separating Nucleic Acid Coacervates
Irene A. Chen (Chemistry & Biochemistry), Omar A. Saleh (Materials)
Electronic structure and scattering mechanisms in twisted bilayer graphene
Andrea Young (Physics), Vojtech Vlcek (Chemistry & Biochemistry)
2018
Search for Majorana Fermions in Topological Superconductors
John Harter (Materials), Cenke Xu (Physics)
Perturbing Topological Crystalline Insulators with Strain, Dopants, and Ferroelectricity
Kunal Mukherjee (Materials)
Point Defects in Boron Nitride for Quantum Information Science
Chris Van de Walle (Materials)
iSuperSeed 2018
Shape from Activity-Driven Folding: a Path to Materials Morphogenesis
M. Cristina Marchetti, Mark Bowick, Zvonimir Dogic and Sebastian Streichan