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2025 Seed: Discovery of Helical Inorganic Crystals as Building Blocks for Chiral and Non-reciprocal Excitations

2025 Seed: Discovery of Helical Inorganic Crystals as Building Blocks for Chiral and Non-reciprocal Excitations

The realization of chiral and non-reciprocal excitations in inorganic crystalline materials necessitates the development of new atomically-precise chiral solid state crystals and understand their fundamental optical/electronic states that arise from the resulting...
2025 IRG-2: Hierarchical Assembly of Conductive Fibers from Coiled-Coil Peptide Building Blocks

2025 IRG-2: Hierarchical Assembly of Conductive Fibers from Coiled-Coil Peptide Building Blocks

The paper describes the use of a short protein (peptide) sequence feature to control self-assembly using pH. We showed that this control allows access to structures unprecedented in nature or computationally designed protein assemblies. The resulting nanowires are...
2025 Seed: Anomalous Hall Spin Current Drives Self-Generated Spin–Orbit Torque in a Ferromagnet

2025 Seed: Anomalous Hall Spin Current Drives Self-Generated Spin–Orbit Torque in a Ferromagnet

Spin–orbit torques enable energy-efficient manipulation of magnetization by electric current and hold promise for applications ranging from non-volatile memory to neuromorphic computing. A team lead by Prof. Ilya Krivorotov of the CCAM seed project discovered a new...
2025 IRG-2: Cryo-EM Informed Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Investigate the Disulfide Hydrogel Self-Assembly

2025 IRG-2: Cryo-EM Informed Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Investigate the Disulfide Hydrogel Self-Assembly

Disulfide hydrogels, based on cysteine-driven redox systems, exhibit remarkable self-assembly properties through reversible disulfide bond formation, making them a promising platform for dynamic material design. A research team from IRG-2, led by Prof....
2025 IRG-2: Dynamic Electronic Structure Fluctuations in the De Novo Peptide ACC-Dimer Revealed by First-Principles Theory and Machine Learning

2025 IRG-2: Dynamic Electronic Structure Fluctuations in the De Novo Peptide ACC-Dimer Revealed by First-Principles Theory and Machine Learning

An IRG2 team, led by Prof. Sahar Sharifzadeh (Boston University) and Prof. Stacy Copp (University of California, Irvine), has developed an approach that integrates machine learning with density functional theory (DFT) calculations to study dynamic...
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Center for Complex and Active Materials

University of California, Irvine

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Irvine, CA 92697

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