Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM)

Vision Statement:

The vision of the proposed PREM Center is to establish a joint research powerhouse on computational materials science and to increase recruitment, retention and degree attainment by members of underrepresented groups in materials research.

Young man peering through a molecular model.

Outreach

Publications

Dr. Nicholas Kioussis

Luis Agapito, Jacob Gayles, Christian Wolowiec, and Nicholas Kioussis Aviram-Ratner rectifying mechanism for DNA base-pair sequencing through graphene nanogaps,, J. of Nanotechnology, 23 135202 (2012).

Dr. Donna Sheng

P. Ghaemi, J. Cayssol, D. N. Sheng, and A. Vishwanath, “Fractional topological phases and broken time-reversal symmetry in strained graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 266801 (2012).

Dr. Gang Lu

Z. Li, X. Zhang and G. Lu, “Dipole-Assisted Charge Separation in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaic Heterojunctions: Insight from First Principles Simulations”, J. Phys. Chem. C 116, 9845-9851(2012)

Dr. Jussi Eloranta

Nonadiabatic dynamics by the mean-field and surface-hopping approaches: energy conservation considerations, S. L. Fiedler and J. Eloranta. Mol. Phys. 108, 1471 (2010).

Dr. Igor Beloborodov

Nonlinear transport characteristics of mesoscopic tunnel junctions far from equilibrium A. Glatz, N. M. Chtchelkachev, and I. S. Beloborodov Phys. Rev. B 86, 045440 (2012)

Welcome To PREM

Fostering Innovation and Education in Computational Materials Science

This PREM is a partnership between the multidisciplinary W. M. Keck Computational Materials Theory Center at California State University Northridge, a Hispanic-serving institution, and the Princeton Center for Complex Materials, the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Princeton University.

Objectives

Objectives of the PREM partnership are:

to initiate and expand collaborations on research and education for emergent materials
to broaden participation in materials research and education through recruitment, retention and outreach programs involving high school students and teachers, undergraduate and graduate students
to leverage and harness the intellectual power and research infrastructure to address grand challenges in emergent materials research
to promote accessibility of multidisciplinary cutting-edge research and education experience to underrepresented groups
to stimulate and develop strong industrial-university-national laboratory partnerships in materials research

Research

The research emphasis will be on the development of physical models, numerical algorithms and robust simulation techniques for the study of:

Interfacial Charge Transfer and Separation in Excitonic Photovoltaics
Quantum Phenomena in Topological Materials
Spintronics in Multifunctional Devices

Find out more about this PREM's Research

Highlights

NanoTech WorkShop

Undergraduate student Jacob Gayles explaining in the nanoscale, the size of a particle affects important properties of the material. See more photos of the workshop