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CIMA PREM Partners, Dr. Betancourt & Dr. Kerwin, Join Class of National Academy of Inventory

March 7, 2025
CIMA PREM Partners, Dr. Betancourt & Dr. Kerwin, Join Class of National Academy of Inventors
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Baldini Named as Recipient of Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship

Feb. 28, 2025
Baldini Named as Recipient of Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
Edoardo Baldini

Edoardo Baldini Awarded CAREER Grant

Dec. 16, 2024
Dr. Edoardo Baldini awarded CAREER grant.
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MRSEC Faculty Dr. Wennie Wang Wins APS Award

Oct. 15, 2024
Dr. Wennie Wang wins the Maria Goeppert Mayer Award
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From Lab to Launch: Gabriel Cassio's Start-Up Emerges from Activate Fellowship

Sept. 26, 2024
Gabriel Cassio, a post-doc from the Yu labs, has been awarded a fellowship to found his start-up, Nanoscale Labs.
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MacDonald Announced as Winner of Inaugural Hill Prize in Physical Sciences

March 22, 2024
Allan MacDonald, professor and Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in Physics, is the recipient of the 2024 Hill Prize in Physical Sciences from the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology
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Texas Engineers Receive Funds Through Joint French Science Program

Dec. 22, 2023
Delia Milliron and D. Nicolas Espinoza were among the 2023 awardees of the Dr. Cécile DeWitt-Morette France-UT Endowed Excellence Fund.
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Dr. Delia Milliron awarded 2023 MRS Medal

Nov. 10, 2023
Dr. Delia Milliron is awarded the MRS Medal for the development of optically tunable metal oxide nanomaterials for applications such as energy-saving electrochromic windows.
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New Grant Aims to Gain Control Over Disordered Materials

Oct. 20, 2023
Truskett, Rosales, Milliron, Roberts receive New Grant that aims to gain control over disordered materials

Moumita Das Announced as APS Fellow

Oct. 19, 2023
Moumita Das received APS Fellow for fundamental mechanistic insights into the collective properties and rigidity transitions in multi-component biological and bio-inspired soft materials, and for contributions to building an inclusive and diverse soft matter community.

RET, Elizabeth Schuster, publishes lesson to TeachEngineering

Sept. 12, 2023
RET Alumna, Elizabeth Schuster published her lesson on Gel Engineering to TeachEngineering.org.
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With New Grant, Physicist Explores Using Sound to Transmit Data in Quantum Computers

Aug. 23, 2023
UT Austin’s Keji Lai has received a Moore Foundation award reserved for the country’s top experimental physicists.
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National Science Foundation investment will help fund UT research into adaptive, ultra-thin materials

Aug. 6, 2023
Awarded at the beginning of the summer, the National Science Foundation gave $18 million in funding to the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials at UT, one of 20 Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers across the country.
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New Materials That Could Transform Our Lives Are in the Works at UT Austin

July 27, 2023
The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials at The University of Texas at Austin has been on the leading edge of materials development for the past six years. With a fresh infusion of funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the center will turn its attention to new research thrusts that will bring to life materials with enhanced properties and capabilities.
Frances Camille Wu, a graduate research assistant in the Microelectronics Research Center, uses a microscope to study electronic devices in a clean room at the Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas.

The Future of Materials Is One Step Closer

July 26, 2023
A technological leap sits on the horizon, with exciting capabilities like quantum computing, soft robotics and more coming down the pike. To bring these ideas to reality will require engineering new classes of materials that make up their building blocks. The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials at The University of Texas at Austin has been on the leading edge of materials development for the past six years. With a fresh infusion of funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the center will turn its attention to new research thrusts that will bring to life materials with enhanced properties and capabilities.

NSF invests $162 million in research centers to accelerate materials science from lab to factory

June 26, 2023
The Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials is one of nine MRSEC receiving funding for 6 years.
Anna & Gabe

Two REU alumni listed as co-authors on ACS publication

April 14, 2023
Anna Lynch & Gabriel Pohlman, 2021 Summer REUs, listed as co-authors on a paper published with ACS Publications. Their mentor, Sanket Kadulkar, is first author on this publication.
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IRG 1: 

Primary MRSEC support acknowledged:

  1. Chang, WJ; Green, AM; Sakotic, Z; Wasserman, D; Truskett, TM; Milliron, DJ. Plasmonic Metal Oxide Nanocrystals as Building Blocks for Infrared Metasurfaces. Accounts Mater. Res. 2024, 6(1), 104-113. DOI: 10.1021/accountsmr.4c00302 .

  2. Clarke, J; Melcher, L; Crowell, AD; Cavanna, F; Houser, JR; Graham, K; Green, AM; Stachowiak, JC; Truskett, TM; Milliron, DJ; Rosales, AM; Das, M; Alvarado, J. Morphological control of bundled actin networks subject to fixed-mass depletion. J. Chem. Phys. 2024, 161(7), 74905-. DOI: 10.1063/5.0197269 .

  3. Chang, WJ; Roman, BJ; Green, AM; Truskett, TM; Milliron, DJ. Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy by Resonant Vibrational Coupling with Plasmonic Metal Oxide Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2024, 18(31), 20636-20647. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c06145 .

  4. Sherman, ZM; Kang, JH; Milliron, DJ; Truskett, TM. Illuminating Disorder: Optical Properties of Complex Plasmonic Assemblies. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15(24), 6424-6434. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01283 .

 

Partial MRSEC support acknowledged:

  1. Sakotic, Z; Raju, A; Chang, W; Ware, A; Hilario, FE; Brown, M; Hungund, D; Magendzo, Y; Povinelli, M; Truskett, T; Milliron, D; Wasserman, D. Mid-infrared absorption, emission, and non-linear response in extreme sub-wavelength films. Proc. SPIE 2024, 13110(), 131100F-. DOI: 10.1117/12.3025541 .

  2. Metola, P; Roberts, ST; Anslyn, EV. Is the spontaneity of chemical reactions related to time travel?. Supramol. Chem. 2023, 34(11-12), 463-467. DOI: 10.1080/10610278.2024.2404029 .

  3. Bender, JT; Sanspeur, RY; Valles, AE; Uvodich, AK; Milliron, DJ; Kitchin, JR; Resasco, J. The Potential of Zero Total Charge Predicts Cation Effects for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9(9), 4724-4733. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01897 .

  4. Sherman, ZM; Milliron, DJ; Truskett, TM. Distribution of Single-Particle Resonances Determines the Plasmonic Response of Disordered Nanoparticle Ensembles. ACS Nano 2024, 18(32), 21347-21363. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c05803 .

  5. Wilson, KS; Volek, TS; Gross, N; Link, S; Baiz, CR; Roberts, ST. Transient Absorption Microscopy Using Widefield Lock-in Camera Imaging. J. Phys. Chem. C 2024, 128(28), 11723-11731. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c02984 .

  6. Shubert-Zuleta, SA; Barragan, VS; Berry, MW; Russum, R Jr; Milliron, DJ. How Depletion Layers Govern the Dynamic Plasmonic Response of In-Doped CdO Nanocrystals. ACS Nano 2024, 18(26), 16776-16789. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02223 .

IRG 2: 

Primary MRSEC support acknowledged:

  1. * Choe, J; Baydin, A; Ye, GH; Ma, BW; Nnokwe, C; Rodriguez-Vega, M; Lujan, D; Chaudhary, S; Tay, F; He, JM; Nojiri, H; Zhou, JS; Fiete, GA; Kono, J; He, R; Li, XQ. Magnetoelastic coupling driven magnon gap in a honeycomb antiferromagnet. Phys. Rev. B 2024, 110(10), 104419-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.104419 .

  2. Chen, J; Li, HZ; Gainza, J; Muñoz, A; Alonso, JA; Liu, J; Chen, YS; Belik, AA; Yamaura, K; He, JM; Li, XY; Goodenough, JB; Zhou, JS. Exotic Magnetism in Perovskite KOsO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2024, 132(15), 156701-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.156701 .

  3. Chen, J; Belik, AA; Yamaura, K; Zhou, JS. New Structural Distortions in Osmate Perovskite Na1-x K x OsO3 Synthesized under High Pressure. Chem. Mat. 2024, 36(11), 5587-5595. DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00568

 

Partial MRSEC support acknowledged:

  1. Gao, FY; Peng, XY; Cheng, XL; Boström, EV; Kim, DS; Jain, RK; Vishnu, D; Raju, K; Sankar, R; Lee, SF; Sentef, MA; Kurumaji, T; Li, XQ; Tang, PZ; Rubio, A; Baldini, E. Giant chiral magnetoelectric oscillations in a van der Waals multiferroic. Nature 2024, 632(8024), 273-+. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07678-5 .

  2. Ni, Y; Huang, D; Liang, DF; Liu, A; Liu, XH; Sampson, K; Liu, ZD; Quan, JM; Watanabe, K; Taniguchi, T; Efimkin, DK; Levinsen, J; Parish, MM; Li, XQ. Valley-Mediated Singlet- and Triplet-Polaron Interactions and Quantum Dynamics in a Doped WSe2 Monolayer. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2025, 134(3), 36901-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.036901 .

  3. Yang, SJ; Jeon, YR; Kim, D; Mohan, S; Kutagulla, S; Disiena, M; Banerjee, SK; Akinwande, D. Giant memory window performance and low power consumption of hexagonal boron nitride monolayer atomristor. npj 2D Mater. Appl. 2025, 9(1), 9-. DOI: 10.1038/s41699-025-00533-9 .

  4. Kareev, M; Liu, XR; Terilli, M; Wen, FD; Wu, TC; Doughty, D; Li, HZ; Zhou, JS; Zhang, QH; Gu, L; Chakhalian, J. Epitaxial Stabilization of a Pyrochlore Interface between Weyl Semimetal and Spin Ice. Nano Lett. 2025, 25(3), 966-972. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c03969 .

  5. Wang, YM; Burg, GW; Lian, B; Watanabe, K; Taniguchi, T; Bernevig, A; Tutuc, E. Emergent Symmetry and Valley Chern Insulator in Twisted Double-Bilayer Graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2024, 133(24), 246401-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.246401.

  6. Li, HZ; Zhang, YY; Geng, NS; He, JM; Chariton, S; Prakapenka, V; López, CA; Alonso, JA; Zurek, E; Lin, JF; Zhou, JS. Experimental and theoretical study of the phase transition between perovskite polytypes of BaPtO3 under high pressure and temperature. Phys. Rev. B 2024, 110(9), 94108-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.094108 .

  7. *Wu, SH; Cossio, G; Derkacs, D; Yu, ET. A Broadband Light-Trapping Nanostructure for InGaP/GaAs Dual-Junction Solar Cells Using Nanosphere Lithography-Assisted Chemical Etching. Sol. RRL 2024, 8(22), -. DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400531 .

  8. Wolf, TMR; Huang, CL. Quasi-boson approximation yields accurate correlation energy in the 2D electron gas. Phys. Rev. Res. 2024, 6(3), 33296-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.033296 .

  9. Li, SC; Guo, SC; Wang, YT; Li, HZ; Xu, YM; Carta, V; Zhou, JS; Chen, X. Enhanced magnon thermal transport in yttrium-doped spin ladder compounds Sr14-xYxCu24O41. J. Appl. Phys. 2024, 136(4), 45105-. DOI: 10.1063/5.0214897 .

  10. *Shi, JJ; You, WJ; Li, X; Gao, FY; Peng, XY; Zhang, SJ; Li, JX; Zhang, Y; Fu, L; Taylor, PJ; Nelson, KA; Baldini, E. Revealing a distortive polar order buried in the Fermi sea. Sci. Adv. 2024, 10(28), eadn0929-. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn0929 .

  11. Guo, SC; Li, HZ; Bai, X; Wang, YT; Li, SC; Dunin-Borkowski, RE; Zhou, JS; Chen, X. Size-dependent magnon thermal transport in a nanostructured quantum magnet. Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. 2024, 5(3), 101879-. DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.101879 .

  12. Ganski, CM; De Palma, AC; Yu, ET. Enhanced Electromechanical Response Due to Inhomogeneous Strain in Monolayer MoS2. Nano Lett. 2024, 24(26), 7903-7910. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01126 .

  13. Zeng, YX; Wolf, TMR; Huang, CL; Wei, NM; Ghorashi, SAA; MacDonald, AH; Cano, J. Gate-tunable topological phases in superlattice modulated bilayer graphene. Phys. Rev. B 2024, 109(19), 195406-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.195406 .

 

Seeds/Initiatives 

The initial Seed Projects for this award commenced in June 2024.

 

Shared Facilities

The publications listed immediately below acknowledge both use of CDCM MRSEC shared facilities and CDCM MRSEC research support. These publications are also listed under the IRG publication listings above, and indicated there by a *.

  1. Gao, FY; Peng, XY; Cheng, XL; Boström, EV; Kim, DS; Jain, RK; Vishnu, D; Raju, K; Sankar, R; Lee, SF; Sentef, MA; Kurumaji, T; Li, XQ; Tang, PZ; Rubio, A; Baldini, E. Giant chiral magnetoelectric oscillations in a van der Waals multiferroic. Nature 2024, 632(8024), 273-+. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07678-5 .

  2. Choe, J; Baydin, A; Ye, GH; Ma, BW; Nnokwe, C; Rodriguez-Vega, M; Lujan, D; Chaudhary, S; Tay, F; He, JM; Nojiri, H; Zhou, JS; Fiete, GA; Kono, J; He, R; Li, XQ. Magnetoelastic coupling driven magnon gap in a honeycomb antiferromagnet. Phys. Rev. B 2024, 110(10), 104419-. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.104419 .

  3. Wu, SH; Cossio, G; Derkacs, D; Yu, ET. A Broadband Light-Trapping Nanostructure for InGaP/GaAs Dual-Junction Solar Cells Using Nanosphere Lithography-Assisted Chemical Etching. Sol. RRL 2024, 8(22), -. DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400531 .

  4. Shi, JJ; You, WJ; Li, X; Gao, FY; Peng, XY; Zhang, SJ; Li, JX; Zhang, Y; Fu, L; Taylor, PJ; Nelson, KA; Baldini, E. Revealing a distortive polar order buried in the Fermi sea. Sci. Adv. 2024, 10(28), eadn0929-. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn0929 .

 

The publications listed immediately below acknowledge use of CDCM MRSEC shared facilities under award number DMR-1720595 and were published during the current award period and not previously reported for the current award (DMR-2308817).

  1. Graham AJ; Partpilo G; Dundas CM; Mahfoud IEM; Halwachs KN; Holwerda AJ; Simmons TR; Fitzsimons TM; Coleman SM; Rinehart R; Chiu D; Tyndall AE; Sajbel KC; Rosales AM; Keitz BK. Transcriptional regulation of living materials via extracellular electron transfer. Nat. Chem. Biol. 2024, 20(10), 1329-1340. DOI: 10.1038/s41589-024-01628-y .

  2. Castilla-Casadiego DA; Morton LD; Loh DH; Pineda-Hernandez A; Chavda AP; Garcia F; Rosales AM. Peptoid-Cross-Linked Hydrogel Stiffness Modulates Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Immunoregulatory Potential in the Presence of Interferon-Gamma. Macromol. Biosci. 2024, 24(7), 2400111 . DOI: 10.1002/mabi.202400111.

  3. Gao, Y; Zhou, YC; Ji, XD; Graham, AJ; Dundas, CM; Mahfoud, IEM; Tibbett, BM; Tan, BJM; Partipilo, G; Dodabalapur, A; Rivnay, J; Keitz, BK. A hybrid transistor with transcriptionally controlled computation and plasticity. Nat. Commun. 2024, 15(1), 1598-. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45759-1 .

  4. Mason, KS; Huang, SY; Emslie, SK; Zhang, Q; Humphrey, SM; Sessler, JL; Page, ZA. 3D-Printed Porous Supramolecular Sorbents for Cobalt Recycling. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146(6), 4078-4086. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c12635 .

  5. Stevens, LM; Recker, EA; Zhou, KA; Garcia, VG; Mason, KS; Tagnon, C; Abdelaziz, N; Page, ZA. Counting All Photons: Efficient Optimization of Visible Light 3D Printing. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2023, 8(23), -. DOI: 10.1002/admt.202300052 .