NERC

Director(s):

Bartosz A. Grzybowski

Lead Institution:

Northwestern University

Mission:

To understand self-organization in dissipative, far-from-equilibrium systems and to use this knowledge to synthesize adaptive, reconfigurable materials for energy storage and transduction.

Research Topics:

catalysis (homogeneous), catalysis (heterogeneous), thermal conductivity, thermoelectric, bio-inspired, energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), superconductivity, mechanical behavior, charge transport, materials and chemistry by design, synthesis (novel materials), synthesis (self-assembly)

Materials Studied:

MATERIALS: metal, polymer

INTERFACES: organic/metal, liquid/solid

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: 0D, 1D, 2D, 3D

Experimental and Theoretical Methods:

X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, lithography, surface science, molecular dynamics (MD), density functional theory (DFT), monte carlo (MC), quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, mesoscale modeling, finite element method, multiscale modeling, next generation optimization methods, extreme scale computing