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2025 IRG-2: Chemical Mapping of Nanoparticle–Ligand Interfaces in Optical Nanocavities

2025 IRG-2: Chemical Mapping of Nanoparticle–Ligand Interfaces in Optical Nanocavities

Understanding processes in photon–phonon scattering, absorption, and chemical reactions in optical nanocavities is important for single-molecule sensors, single-photon emitters, and photocatalysis. However, the influence of electromagnetic fields, charge transfer, and...
2025 IRG-1: Grain Rotation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Materials: Multiscale Observations in Pt Thin Films

2025 IRG-1: Grain Rotation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Materials: Multiscale Observations in Pt Thin Films

Using in-situ atomic resolution HAADF-STEM imaging, the study provides direct experimental evidence that grain rotation in nanocrystalline materials is primarily driven by disconnection-mediated shear-coupled grain boundary (GB) migration, confirming a...
2025 IRG-1: Neural Network Kinetics: Exploring Diffusion Multiplicity and Chemical Ordering in Compositionally Complex Materials

2025 IRG-1: Neural Network Kinetics: Exploring Diffusion Multiplicity and Chemical Ordering in Compositionally Complex Materials

We introduce a neural network kinetics (NNK) scheme that predicts and simulates diffusion-induced chemical and structural evolution in complex concentrated chemical environments. The framework is grounded on efficient on-lattice structure and chemistry representation...
2025 IRG-2: Machine Learning-guided Investigation of Structure-Property Relationships in Materials Systems

2025 IRG-2: Machine Learning-guided Investigation of Structure-Property Relationships in Materials Systems

Machine learning (ML) models can be interpretable, providing new fundamental physical/chemical insights into materials systems. We developed interpretable ML models1 to investigate two very different materials systems: • Peptide “wires” experimentally shown to exhibit...
2025 IRG-2: Redox-Enabled Pathway Complexity in Supramolecular Hydrogels

2025 IRG-2: Redox-Enabled Pathway Complexity in Supramolecular Hydrogels

This paper reports: Redox-enabled pathway complexity in amino acid-functionalized perylene diimides (PDIs) and its consequence for the macroscopic hydrogel network. Chemical reduction and subsequent oxidation enable a kinetically trapped state of the micellar network,...
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Center for Complex and Active Materials

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