Injectable Glucose-Responsive Hydrogels for Multi-Hormone Therapy

Diabetes blood glucose management requires rigorous therapy, but fails to fully return healthy glucose control. New materials will be engineered that can bind to insulin and regulate its release more exactly in response to changes in blood glucose.

Sponsors:

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

ND Investigators:

Matthew Webber

CAREER: Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Supramolecular Hydrogels Using Fuels

The NSF CAREER award research will utilize high-affinity motifs and light responsive motifs to realize fuel-dependent non-equilibrium formation and stability in host-guest supramolecular hydrogels.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Matthew Webber

Interaction with Ionizing Radiation with Matter, University Research Alliance (IIRM-URA)

This work will examine the radiation effect on resistive memory and ferroelectric transistor memory and pursue strategies for mitigation of radiation effects through materials engineering, device redesign, and applications level masking techniques.

Sponsors:

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Collaborators:

Penn State University

CAREER: Catalytic hollow-fiber membranes as an efficient and scalable process in water treatment

The team is investigating the kinetic mechanisms, stability, and scalability of catalytic hollow-fiber membrane synthesis parameters, operational conditions, and water quality parameters to solve fundamental and applied problems in water treatment.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Kyle Doudrick

Rapid hypoglycemic rescue devices for glucose-response glucagon

This research aims to combat hypoglycemia with a new class of materials that exist only in the presence of glucose fuel, and integrate these into devices for prophylactic glucagon rescue.

Sponsors:

American Diabetes Association

ND Investigators:

Matthew Webber

Optimizing Additive Manufacturing of Thermoelectric Materials using Bayesian Optimization-Enhanced Transfer Learning

The research objective is to develop a Bayesian optimization-enhanced Machine Learning algorithm to optimize the additive manufacturing processes of thermoelectric semiconductor materials for energy conversion applications.

Sponsors:

U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Yanliang Zhang, David Go, and Alexander Dowling

Collaborators:

Idaho National Laboraroy

Collaborative Research: Machine learning exploration of atomic heterostructures towards perfect light absorber and giant piezoelectricity

Researchers are developing a machine-learning-guided density functional theory tool for the discovery of new heterostructures exhibiting perfect light absorption in the visible spectrum and giant piezoelectricity of order 1000 pm/V.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Chris Hinkle

Collaborators:

University of Minnesota

Mid-infrared intraband and localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopies of doped semiconductor nanocrystals

Addressing a need in the area of doped, IR active, semiconductor nanocrystals (NC), this team will direct absorption measurements on both small ensembles and individual mid infrared-responsive NCs utilizing infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Ken Kuno

Realizing robust superfluorescence from nanocrystal superlattices

This work investigates nanocrystal superfluorescence though concerted theoretical and experimental studies with the ultimate goal of realizing robust, room temperature nanocrystal superlattice superfluorescence.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Ken Kuno, Boldizsar Janko

Mass Sensing, Strong Vibrational Coupling and Super-Resolution Imaging of Noble Metal Nanostructures

This work aims to create nanometer sized mass balances that can operate at room temperature, and explore vibrational coupling between the mechanical modes of the gold nanoplates and determine whether these modes can be coherently controlled.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Greg Hartland

Collaborative Research: Design a New Polymer Platform for Engineering Fast and Selective Molecular Transport in Membranes

This research will exploit a flexible polymer platform with a wide range of structure and functionality that aids elucidating the effects of molecular-level and mesoscale features to ultimately engineer fast and selective gas transport in polymers.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Haifeng Gao, Ruilan Guo

Microresonator solitons in quantum cascade lasers

The goal of this program is to create the first soliton sources of long-wavelength light on a chip. Solitons are ultrashort pulses which have high peak power, large spectral bandwidth, and ultrashort temporal duration.

Sponsors:

Department of the Air Force

ND Investigators:

David Burghoff

Collaborators:

Princeton University

Leveraging a new theoretical paradigm to enhance interfacial thermal transport In wide bandgap power electronics

This research utilizes first-principle calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, and experiments to study phonon transport across different interfaces.

Sponsors:

Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S. Department of Navy

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo

Collaborative Research: Chemically Modified, Plasma-Nanoengineered Graphene Nanopetals for Spontaneous, Self-Powered and Efficient Oil Contamination Remediation

There is a need to develop new oil spill remediation technologies. This research will focus on key factors that control plasma-nanogenerated graphene nanopetals (GPs) and then demonstrate an improved oil skimmer system based on the GP technology.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo

Collaborators:

University of Nevada, Reno

Fast, Multi-spectral, Polarization-Sensitive IR Detectors for Solar Astronomy from 5 to 100 Microns

This team aims to develop a new class of high-cadence imaging detectors in the 3 to 100 um wavelength range with novel polarization and spectral properties to characterize the layer of the solar atmosphere that is sensitive to these wavelengths.

Sponsors:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ND Investigators:

Gary Bernstein, Gergo Szakmany, Wolfgang Porod, Alexei Orlov, Edward Kinzel, David Burghoff

Advanced Designs for GaN-based Vertical IMPATT Diodes

This program aims to develop and demonstrate GaN-based impact ionization avalanche transit-time diodes for high-power microwave through millimeter-wave frequency generation.

Sponsors:

Department of Navy

ND Investigators:

Patrick Fay

CAREER: Targeting assembly in colloidal materials by tilting the free energy surface

This work hypothesizes that kinetics may be used to control the crystallization of colloidal particles starting from fundamental clusters and involves detailed exploration of the self-assembly of colloidal materials via molecular simulation.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Jonathan Whitmer

An engineered tissue model of aged mammary microenvironment

Researchers aim to better understand the impact of aged breast tissue and its biological impact on cancer development by developing an Aging-mimicking Breast Tissue (ABTe) model for breast cancer research.

Sponsors:

National Institutes of Health

ND Investigators:

Pinar Zorlutuna, Siyuan Zhang, Zonggao Shi, Xiaoshan Yue

IMPACT (Innovative Materials and Processes for Accelerated Compute Technologies)

Professor Hinkle will explore the synthesis of new oxide-based, 3D Dirac and topological metals including oxides. Professor Datta will investigate ferroelectric/amorphous oxide semiconductor gate stacks for non-volatile reconfigurable interconnects.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Chris Hinkle and Suman Datta

Collaborators:

Stanford University

Collaborative Research: Ice melting-induced flows by an adjacent heated immiscible liquid layer

The team will conduct fundamental research on ice melt flows accompanied by convective single and multi-roll flow structures that occur during the melting of an ice wall in contact with an immiscible liquid absorbing heat in the range of 1 to 50 kW/m2.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Hirotaka Sakue, Seong-kyun Im

Collaborators:

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Applications and Systems Driven Center for Energy-Efficient Integrated NanoTechnologies (ASCENT)

Led by Notre Dame, ASCENT is a microelectronics research center funded by the SRC and DARPA. Its mission is to provide advances in integrated nanoelectronics to sustain the promise of Moore’s Law.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation and DARPA

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta, Patrick Fay, Michael Niemier

Collaborators:

Cornell, Georgia Tech, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue, Stanford, University of Minnesota, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, University of Colorado, University of Texas-Dallas, and Wayne State.

Electron spin effects in semiconductor nanostructure: magnetism and topology

Researchers are investigating coupling between magnetism and topology in semiconductors to develop robust spintronic topological phases using magnetic topological heterostructures.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Margaret Dobrowolska, Jacek Furdyna, Xinyu Liu, Badih Assaf

CMI: Super Resolution THz Imaging of Nanostructures

The goal of this project is to develop a super-resolution terahertz (THz) microscope that will be capable of recording THz images with a spatial resolution of a few hundred nanometers and a field of view of hundreds of microns.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Gregory Hartland

Highly Sensitive Multiplexed Nanocone Array for Point-of-Care Pan-Cancer Screening

The ultimate goal of this research is to develop the first optical fiber nanoarray for point-of-care (POC) quantification of a massively large library of molecular biomarkers for a wide range of bio-sensing applications.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Satyajyoti Senapati

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Light-Excited Supercavitation

This project will study the force and energy balance of spherical nanoparticles (NP) inside a supercavitation with the greater goal to understand the fundamentals of light-driven super-fast plasmonic NP movement to develop novel applications.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo and Eungkyu Lee

Collaborators:

Colorado Mesa University

CAREER: Printing and interface engineering of colloidal nanocrystals for flexible thermoelectrics and electronics

The project goal is to establish a scalable additive manufacturing process to fabricate flexible films using colloidal nanocrystals, and create methods to tailor and control electronic, thermal and thermoelectric transport properties.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Yanliang Zhang

High-performance biocatalytic membranes with self-contained radial polymer mediators for water reclamation and reuse

In this research, the team is integrating redox-active radical polymer mediators and laccase enzymes on membrane supports to deliver a state-of-the-art treatment technology for the removal and degradation of micropollutants.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

William Phillip, Na Wei

Unifying principles for the design and manufacture of chemically patterned polymeric membrane

The goal of this research is to develop the fundamental knowledge that enables the systematic design and fabrication of charge-patterned mosaic membranes used in chemical separations and sensing processes.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

William Phillip

Collaborative Research: Using molecular functionalization to tune nanoscale interfacial energy and momentum transport

The goal of this project is to demonstrate a novel technique for molecular-level tuning of interfacial thermal conductance (ITC), surface charge, capillary properties, and biological interaction of solid-liquid interfaces.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo

Collaborators:

Colorado Mesa University

Refractory Plasmonics Enabled by Single Crystal Nanostructures

The objective of this research is to demonstrate that suitably protected single-crystal nanostructures of gold, silver, and copper can act as high-performance photoactive materials at elevated temperatures.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Svetlana Neretina

Engineering deterministic electron correlations and topological states in site-controlled III-V quantum droplets

The aim of this research is to produce deterministic quantum electron droplets to support "large scale" development of composite fermion Majorna zero modes. These methods will be explorable and exploitable by the quantum technology scientific community.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Gregory Snider, Alexander Mintairov, Alexei Orlov

Collaborators:

Tyndall National Institute, Queen's University Belfast

Adiabatic systems for low power computation

This project investigates MEMS structures for both crucial parts of a computational system: logic and energy recycling clocks. Adiabatic Capacitive Logic eliminates electrical contacts and leakage in logic, and power resonators can recycle energy.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Gregory Snider, Alexei Orlov

CAREER: Tissue-engineering an aging heart: The effect of aged cell microenvironment in myocardial infarction

The team is establishing a unique tissue engineered model system of the aging human myocardium and investigating the role of the aging tissue microenvironment on cell survival upon myocardial infarction.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Pinar Zorlutuna

CAREER: Fundamental materials studies on fast ion diffusion in model side-chain ionomers

Researchers are synthesizing and characterizing model polymers to understand the parameters governing ion transport rates in ionomer ionic domains, while simultaneously integrating educational and outreach programs for women in STEM fields.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Jennifer Schaefer

RET Site: Biologically and physically inspired computing models and systems

The objective of the program is to form partnerships between Notre Dame personnel and high school teachers and students to help prepare high school students for forthcoming changes to information processing systems.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Michael Niemier, Kevin Bowyer

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Synergistic Effect of Graphene Plasmonics and Nanoscale Spatial Confinement on Solar-Driven Water Phase Change

This project aims to understand basic mechanisms of synergistic effects of graphene plasmonics and nanoscale spatial confinement of solar-driven water phase change via electromagnetic wave calculations, molecular simulations, and experimental validation.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Eungkyu Lee

Collaborators:

University of Nevada

Backend-of-the-line (BEOL) compatible GaN growth and passivation for 3D integration

This project will build on recent success in driving down the growth temperatures of other compound semiconductors and on the team’s extensive experience in Ga-based III-V and III-N research.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation, Intel

ND Investigators:

Chris Hinkle

Energy harvesting approaches to low-temperature plasma generation for field applications

Researchers aim to engineer low-temperature plasmas that operate without a power supply by harvesting thermal or mechanical energy to directly produce an air plasma -- improving water purification, sterilization, wound healing, and pollution control.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

David Go, Seung-Kyun Im

Elucation of CO2 transport mechanisms in polyvinylamine-based facilitated transport membranes

This research aims to accelerate the rational design of facilitated transport membranes (FTMs) by elucidating the mechanisms of CO2 transport across polyvinylamine (PVAm), a model FTM.

Sponsors:

American Chemical Society

ND Investigators:

Casey O'Brien, William Phillip

Regulating gas transport in molecularly engineered polymer membranes

The research goal is to use specifically-designed model polymer networks with controlled architectural regularity and targeted synthetic motifs to determine the impact of crosslink inhomogeneity on the gas transport in crosslinked polymer membranes.

Sponsors:

U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Ruilan Guo

SemiSymBio: Cardiac muscle-cell-based couples oscillator networks for collective computing

Researchers are exploring the potential of coupled oscillator networks made of living heart muscle cells as collective computing components for solving computationally hard problems such as optimization, learning and inference tasks.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Pinar Zorlutuna, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Suman Datta

CAREER: Chain-growth polymerization of AB2 monomer to produce hyperbranched polymers

This project focuses on new methods for polymer synthesis. It offers, for the first time, a novel one-pot polymerization method that can produce hyperbranched polymers with well-defined structures and compositions.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Haifeng Gao

CAREER: Three-dimensional, super-resolution, and super-sensitivity quantitative molecular multiphoton

The research goal is to study, develop, characterize, and evaluate a new method for super-resolution molecular imaging in living animals while simultaneously integrating educational and outreach programs aimed at future biophotonics researchers.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Scott Howard

NEW materials for LogIc, Memory and InTerconnectS (New Limits)

Team members are developing backend-of-the-line (BEOL) materials and integration processes focusing on the low-temperature growth of traditional and novel semiconductors.

Sponsors:

Purdue University, Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Chris Hinkle

Collaborators:

University of Michigan, Penn State University, University of Texas Dallas

Gradient Coatings for Molten Salt Corrosion Under Radiation Field

The project’s goal is to develop a combinatorial aerosol based printing process to discover and develop coating materials for molten salt corrosion using a high throughput methodology to screen large numbers of compositions and processing conditions.

Sponsors:

Idaho National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Yanliang Zhang

Investigation of Oxygen Insertion Channel Field Effect Transistor Architecture for Enhanced Transport and Improved Positive Bias Temperature Instability (PBTI)

Researchers are fabricating long channel NMOS devices on control and Mears silicon technology wafers, extracting mobility components as a function of temperature and electric field, and comparing experimental results to theoretical predictions.

Sponsors:

ATOMERA

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Biomimetic infection reporting antimicrobial nanoparticles for wound and surgical site applications

Researchers are developing an antibiotic independent, nanomaterial-based system for topological applications that could also be used to detect infectious agents and monitor wound healing.

Sponsors:

Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

ND Investigators:

Prakash Nallathamby, Shaun Lee

Multi-Bit-per-Cell (MBC) Ferroelectric FET Memory Using Ferroelectric (FE) Superlattice with Anti-Ferroelectric (AFE) Interfacial Coupling

The goal is to design, synthesize and optimize a ferroelectric superlattice structure based on stacked layers of ferroelectric thin films with non-ferroelectric spacer layers, demonstrating a fully CMOS compatible multi-bit/cell ferroelectric FET memory.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Multi-Component Semiconducting Oxide FETs: Materials-Device Co-Design,Synthesis, NanoFabrication, Characterization and Benchmarking

The team aims to design, synthesize and optimize a thermally stable, hydrogen insensitive n-type semiconducting oxide thin film with electron mobility ~100cm2V-1s-1, to demonstrate a fully back-end-of-the-line compatible n-channel oxide FET.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

The impact of nanostructure geometry on photo-thermal evaporation processes

The team models and conducts experiments in the International Space Station and terrestrial experiments to understand the link between geometric factors of plasmon nanostructures and the evaporation process when they are heated by optical excitations.

Sponsors:

Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS)

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang, Hirotaka Sakaue

Simulation of Supercooled Droplet Icing using Luminescent Imaging

Researchers are providing experimental data showing the impact of droplets on a surface using luminescent imaging techniques for a variety of physical conditions.

Sponsors:

ANSYS Inc.

ND Investigators:

Hirotaka Sakaue, Aleksandar Jemcov

Out-of-equilibrium self-assembly for rapid hypoglycemic rescue

To provide a read-out of the disease state in diabetes, researchers are preparing highly unstable materials that exist only in the presence of glucose and rapidly dissipate/dissolve if glucose is absent.

Sponsors:

Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

ND Investigators:

Matthew Webber

EFRI 2-DARE: Ultra-low power, collective-state device technology based on electron correlation in two-dimensional atomic layers

Researchers are exploring 2D layered materials as a means to deterministically control ionic diffusion for electronic device applications of significant technological importance.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Collaborators:

Penn State, Georgetown, Rutgers

Negative Capacitance Enabled Scaling to Achieve 1 THz Cut-off Frequency Transistors on a CMOS Platform

Researchers are using the physics of negative capacitance in an extremely thin silicon-on-insulator (ETSOI) platform to fabricate and demonstrate negative capacitance transistors with 1 THz cutoff frequency in a completely CMOS compatible process.

Sponsors:

UC-Berkeley, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Improving fast response pressure sensitive paint for acoustic and blast tube test applications

The goal of this project is to improve the performance of fast-response, pressure-sensitive paint for both acoustic and blast tube applications at Sandia National Laboratories.

Sponsors:

Sandia National Laboratory

ND Investigators:

Hirotaka Sakaue

In-Pile Instrumentation Initiative: Work Package 4

This project will develop functional sensors via additive manufacturing and study the sensors through in-pile tests and post-irradiation examinations to understand radiation effects on the printed sensor material structures and properties.

Sponsors:

Idaho National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Yanliang Zhang

Collaborative research: Visual cortex on silicon

The goal is to fabricate and characterize a network of 100 coupled oscillators, investigate their synchronization dynamics, and benchmark the complete vision pipelines for each hardware technology option.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Collaborators:

Penn State University

Low-voltage, high non-linearity (high ION & low IOFF) select devices for cross-point memory applications

This research aims to successfully demonstrate low voltage selectors with high on-off ratio, extreme nonlinearity, tunable hysteresis, thermal stability (at operating temperature) and controlled variation, a critical milestone for 3D cross-point memories.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Steep slope energy efficient logic and memory technology for energy autonomous information processing

Sponsors:

North Carolina State University, National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Suman Datta

Let spin-wave physics do the computing

In this research, the team is working to demonstrate a specific hardware block that uses the spin-wave substrate to show that this hardware can be configured to solve a number of computationally hard problems.

Sponsors:

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

ND Investigators:

Wolfgang Porod, Gary Bernstein, Jonathan Chisum, Alexei Orlov

Collaborative research: Programmable THz devices enabled by high-performance optical spatial modulation for advanced imaging and adaptive communications

The objective of this work is to explore and demonstrate a novel high-performance optical THz spatial modulation technology based on mesa-array approach for efficiently achieving tunable and reconfigurable quasi-optical devices.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Lei Liu

Collaborators:

Oregon State University

Parametric study of microfiber coating in a pipe flow

The project goal is to perform a parametric study of micro-fiber coating in a pipe flow for reducing skin-friction drag.

Sponsors:

Tanaka Ai America

ND Investigators:

Hirotaka Sakaue

SpecEES: Chip-scale millimeter-wave spectrum/signal analyzer using spin-wave diffraction and interference

This project presents a micromagnetics-based real-time spectrum sensor that is low cost, high performance and chip-scale, to process millimeter and microwave information using spin waves in magnetic thin films.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Wolfgang Porod, Gary Bernstein, Jonathan Chisum

Liquid-Free, Deformable Electrolytes for Use in Lithium Metal Batteries with Porous Anodes

This research investigates liquid-free, deformable electrolytes based upon branched polymers for use with porous anodic current collectors to facilitate uniform lithium metal electrodeposition and high coulombic efficiency.

Sponsors:

ElectroChemical Society

ND Investigators:

Jennifer Schaefer

Thermal evaporation around optically excited functionalized nanoparticles

For potential use in solar absorber-assisted thermal evaporation applications, specially functionalized nanoparticles that can be heated through light absorption are being investigated to further understand their localized heating properties.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Hsueh-Chia Chang

Collaborators:

College of Saint Benedict, Saint John's University

Collaborative research: Opto-phononic-electronic materials and devices for the far-infrared

The research objective is to develop optical materials and opto-phononic-electronic devices that control and emit far-infrared light by engineering surface waves and the interaction of these surface waves with bulk and/or engineered optical phonons.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Anthony Hoffman

Collaborators:

University of Texas Austin

Complex Transport of Complex Nanoparticles in Complex Flows: Integrating Lab and Field Data with Models at Multiple Scales

This study completely integrates lab and field experiments and modeling to determine the fate of complex nanoparticles in complex streams, providing key advances in understanding nanoparticle fate and transport in realistic flow environmental systems.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Kyle Doudrick, Diogo Bolster

Optically controlled waveguide architectures for advanced tunable and reconfigurable THz circuits

This project investigates and demonstrates three optically controlled waveguide architectures based on a novel photo-induced spatial modulation for developing high-performance tunable and reconfigurable THz passive components.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Lei Liu, Patrick Fay

Collaborative research: Plasmonic nanoantenna electrode arrays (NEAs) for massively multiplexed identification of stem-cell derived cardiac cells in regenerative therapies

Researchers are working on a new generation of ultrasensitive molecular-plasmonic voltage sensors for non-invasive, real-time and subcellular precision mapping of tiny fluctuations on membrane potentials of neural networks.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Pinar Zorlutuna

Collaborators:

UC Santa Cruz

An analog hardware system for solving Boolean satisfiability

This project aims to design an analog hardware system for solving a representative NP-complete problem, the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem. SAT is quintessential to many electronic design automation problems.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Sharon Hu

Sequencing antibodies with a synthetic sub-nanometer pore

The team is developing and validating a sub-nanopore through a thin, charged membrane to directly sequence the amino acids and post-translation chemical modifications in a single denatured antibody molecule.

Sponsors:

Open Philanthropy Project

ND Investigators:

Greg Timp

Collaborators:

UC-San Diego, Johns Hopkins University

Predicting Mechanical Strength Properties of Titanium from the Powder Bed Fusion Process

Sponsors:

Rolls Royce North America V4 Institute

ND Investigators:

Tengfei Luo, Richard Billo

ALERT Center of Excellence in Explosives Research

As one of nine Centers of Excellence across the country, this is a multi-university, multi-institution partnership conducting transformational research, technology and educational development for effective response to explosives-related threats.

Sponsors:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

ND Investigators:

Ken Sauer, Anthony Hoffman, Scott Howard

Collaborators:

Northeastern University, Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Boston, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, New Mexico State, Puerto Rico, Purdue, Rensselaer, Rhode Island, Texas Tech, Tufts, Washington State

Rational design of barrier films to enable rechargeable Mg-S batteries

The researchers are fabricating UV-curable barrier films for the electrolyte-cathode interface to enable capacity retention in Magnesium-sulfur rechargeable batteries.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Jennifer Schaefer

Determining the Accuracy of Cephalosporin Allergy Testing

This research addresses both an unmet need to understand the utility of in vivo and in vitro diagnostic strategies in patients labeled as cephalosporin allergic, and a need to define the origin and mechanisms of true IgE-mediated cephalosporin allergy.

Sponsors:

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, National Institutes of Health

ND Investigators:

Basar Bilgicer

20-kV GaN Switch Technology Demonstrated in High-Efficiency Medium-Voltage Building Block

Researchers are designing, simulating, fabricating, and characterizing vertical GaN p-n junction diodes, as well as performing material-level characterization to validate material quality and quantify any defects arising in the fabrication processing.

Sponsors:

Virginia Tech, U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Patrick Fay

Novel devices and circuits for side channels

The project goal is to identify novel devices and associated logic gates and circuits for cryptographic primitives that produce symmetric power and radiation signatures to solve side channel leakages, and that can be integrated with CMOS processes.

Sponsors:

Semiconductor Research Corporation

ND Investigators:

Michael Niemier, Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi

Spatially resolved infrared absorption spectroscopy of individual semiconductor nanostructures

Spatially resolved infrared absorption measurements are conducted on individual nanostructures. A counter-propagating pump/probe optical geometry is used with a high numerical aperture refractive objective for improved spatial resolution.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Masaru Kuno, Gregory Hartland

CAREER: Mid-infrared intersubband polaritonics

This project studies the physics of mid-infrared cavities resonantly coupled to intersubband transitions and demonstrates superluminescent optical devices based on this coupling. The results will be used to improve technical education at all levels.

Sponsors:

National Science Foundation

ND Investigators:

Anthony Hoffman

Therapeutic cell engineering with synthetic nanoparticles to rejuvenate endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs)

Researchers are working to significantly improve the clinical prospect of ECFCs using surface engineering and controlled release of bioactive molecules to the cell surface.

Sponsors:

Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute

ND Investigators:

Donny Hanjaya-Putra

TMD FETs for secure circuits through polymorphic logic gates

Transistors are key electronic devices used to amplify and route signals between states, a logic 1 and 0. This work focuses on hardware implementation of circuits from transistors that can intrinsically operate as both, electron and hole conductors.

Sponsors:

Purdue University, Applied Research Institute

ND Investigators:

Sharon Hu

MICCoM – SSAGES ad COPSS packages

This work continues the development, validation, and maintenance of the SSAGES package, and supports cross-collaborations and code couplings to COPSS, DASH, QBOX, and WEST.

Sponsors:

U.S. Department of Energy

ND Investigators:

Jonathan Whitmer

Collaborators:

Argonne National Laboratory, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, UC Davis, University of Chicago