Superseeds & Seeds 2017 – 2023 (DMR – 1720415)
Superseed – Defects in 3D Topological Photonic and Acoustic Materials: Challenges Across Length Scales
Funding Period: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Randall Goldsmith Professor, Chemistry |  | Chu Ma Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Co-Investigators
 | Paul Capagnola Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics |  | Amalio Fernández-Pacheco Associate Professor, CSIC-University of Zaragoza | |
 | Tim Osswald Professor, Mechanical Engineering |  | Zongfu Yu Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | |
Students & Postdocs
 | Brandon Hacha |  | Boyuan Liu |  | Zijie Liu | ||
 | Michael Mattei |  | Camila Montoya Ospina | ||||
 | Alec Redmann |  | Emily Shelton | ||||
 | Michael Wang |  | Dajun Zhang |
Superseed – Nonequilibrium Magnetic States in Strain Membranes
Funding Period: July 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Jason Kawasaki Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |  | Uwe Bergmann Professor, Physics |
Co-Investigators
 | Chang-Beom Eom Professor, Physics |  | Jiamian Hu Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering | |
 | Dane Morgan Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |  | Daniel Rhodes Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering | |
 | Izabela Szlufarska Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |  | Yin Wang Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering | |
 | Jun Xiao Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
 | Ryan Ash |  | Roberta Candela |  | Fan Fei | ||
 | Syeda Gardezi | Taehwan Jung | Jessica Kienbaum | ||||
| Zach LaDuca |  | Yulu Mao | |||||
 | Caleb Robinson | Tamalika Samanta |  | Noah Welke | |||
 | Tairan Xi | Mojue Zhang |
Seed – Development of Organic Framework Ion Conductors (OFIC) via Molecular Engineering
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Dawei Feng Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
TBD
Seed – Breaking Through the Substrate Bottleneck for Ultra-efficient Visible Emitters: Growth of High Quality InGaN Buffers on Sputtered and Thermally Crystallized ScAlMgO4
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Shubhra Pasayat Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
 | Guangying “Tina” Wang |
Seed – Heterogeneous Atomic Centers as Tunable Materials for Catalysis and Quantum Information
Funding Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Marcel Schreier Assistant Professor, Chemical an Biological Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
 | Alexander Zielinski |
Seed – Exploring Factors that Control the Choices of Latinx S&E Students to Pursue Graduate Study
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Samuel Pazicni Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry |
Students & Postdocs
 | Jorge Rivera-Cólon |
Seed – Understanding Metal Agglomeration in Zeolite Micropores under Reaction Conditions
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Siddarth Krishna Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
 | Sara Ahsan |
Seed – Finding the Best Oxide-wide Band Gap Semiconductor Interface
Funding Period: September 1, 2022 – August 31, 2023
Principal Investigators
 | Chirag Gupta Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Students & Postdocs
 | Md Tahmidul Alam |