Inorganic Materials
The Inorganic Materials emphasis focuses on fundamental questions regarding the relations between material structure, microstructure, composition and function. The research involves creation, characterization and understanding of a diverse array of materials: organic-inorganic hybrids, porous materials, thin electronic films, magnetic oxides and intermetallics, inorganic biomaterials, and multifunctional (particularly multiferroic) materials. State-of-the-art experimental and computation techniques along with large-scale user facilities such as synchrotron radiation and neutron sources constitute important facets of the research.
Specific areas of current interest include:
- Open-framework materials and materials for hydrogen storage.
- Solution processing and solution-phase epitaxy of functional electronic materials.
- Bulk and nanomagnetic materials and materials for catalysis
- Multiferroic materials and the coupling between functions in novel materials.
- Multicomponent oxide thin films for electronic devices, and the relationships between defects and electronic properties.
- Nanomaterials, mesoporous materials, and biomaterials for applications in energy and medicine.
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