Seeds (2014-2020)
- Seed 1: Nanostructured Copolymers with Semicrystalline Hydrophobic Domains Prepared by Transition Metal Catalysis
PIs: Brad Carrow, Chem and Richard Register, CBE
- Seed 2: Organic Thin-film Bipolar Junction Transistors
PIs: Barry Rand, EE and Antoine Kahn, EE
- Seed 3: What is the Atomic Structure of Sustainable Concrete?
PIs: Claire White, Civil & Environmental Engineering and George Scherer, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Seed 4: New Semiconductors for Solar Fuel Synthesis
PIs: Robert Cava, Chem and Andrew Bocarsly, Chem
- Seed 5: New Diamond Color Centers for Quantum Communication
PIs: Nathalie de Leon, EE and Stephen Lyon, EE
- Seed 6: Molecular Packing and Efficient Triplet Harvesting in Singlet Fission :
PIs: Greg Scholes, Chem and Lynn Loo, CBE
- Seed 7: Novel nanostructures for nonlinear frequency conversion :
PIs: Alejandro Rodriguez, EE, Loren Pfeiffer, EE and Claire Gmachl, EE
- SuperSeed 8: Hierarchical engineering of soft materials: From multi-phase coexistence to synthetic nucleosomes
PIs: Howard Stone, MAE, Mikko Haataja, MAE, and Andrej Košmrlj, MAE
- Seed 9: Synthesis of new topological materials
PI: Leslie M. Schoop (Chem)
- Seed 10: Architecting soft functional materials with capillary instabilities
PI: Pierre-Thomas Brun (CBE)
- Seed 11: Exploring correlated and topological quantum phases in twisted bilayer crystals
PI: Sanfeng Wu (Physics)
- Seed 12: New topological materials: Insights from machine learning and strong correlation
PI: Nicolas Regnault (Physics)
- iSuperSeed: Harnessing the "Rules of Life" to enable bio-inspired soft materials
PIs: Howard Stone (MAE), Sujit Datta (CBE), Andrej Košmrlj (MAE), Clifford Brangwynne (CBE), Bonnie Bassler (MolBio)