Center for Complex and Active Materials CCAM

Professors Jian Luo and Shyue Ping Ong (UC San Diego) and Xiaoqing Pan (UC Irvine) discovered a new class of compositionally complex perovskite oxides (CCPOs) as high-performance Li-ion solid electrolytes, which can be promising for making solid-state batteries for electric vehicles with improved density and safety.

Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
https://ccam.uci.edu/a-new-class-of-solid-electrolytes-discovered/

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Last month, CCAM held an in-person two-day MRSEC workshop at UC Irvine. This event was held in conjunction with the External Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB) meeting. Highlights include work on a wide range of research projects in different IRG/Seed theme sessions - the interfacial science of complex concentrated materials; and investigation of synthetic self-assembly system including supramolecular peptides.

We want to shine a light on the exciting work Kai He is doing at University of California, Irvine.

He joined UCI in 2022 as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as part of MRSEC-sponsored faculty recruitment.

He is building his research program closely connected with Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) and CCAM to address key challenges at the intersection of , ,and , where a large variety of complex concentrated materials play critical roles. His is focused on the development of advanced electron methodologies to investigate the structure, , and transport properties of complex material interfaces on the level.

He has received multiple academic awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award (2023), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Award (2021), ACS Petroleum Research Fund New Investigator Award (2021), and NSF EPSCoR Track-4 Fellowship for Early Career Faculty (2019).

We are so pleased to have you as part of the team, Kai!

Have you heard about the great research Elizabeth Lee and her team are doing to bring fundamental understanding of how the dynamical arrangement of and their electronic structure impact the material-wide properties during synthesis, processing, and device operating conditions? Elizabeth’s current MRSEC research activities focus on solid-state point defects and interfaces for applications.

She has earned the U.S. Department of Energy Leadership Computing Challenge Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Electronics and Photonics Materials Award, the University of Chicago Mentoring Award, and most recently, the University of California, Irvine Samueli Faculty Development Chair.

Congratulations, Elizabeth!

This week we are highlighting the breakthrough work Camilo Vélez Cuervo is doing as part of our MRSEC senior/junior faculty mentoring program. Camilo is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at University of California, Irvine. His specialty is micro/nano device fabrication with a focus on magnetic microsystems. He envisions leveraging the network and resources from MRSEC to develop new understandings on 3-D printing of magnetic materials at microscale, and to selectively alter mechanical and electromagnetic properties in printed domains.

Wishing you a safe and fun Memorial Day Weekend!

We are seeking a program coordinator in the department at University of California, Irvine, UCI Samueli School of Engineering - Graduate and Professional Studies, Mse Uci.

This is a full time position with benefits.



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This week we want to highlight the amazing work Luis Jauregui is doing as part of our MRSEC senior/junior faculty mentoring program.

Luis is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at University of California, Irvine and Mse Uci. His research spans multiple disciplines, including , and . He works cohesively with several groups at MRSEC to create topological transitions in materials, and to manipulate electron correlations by strain engineering.

He received the Intel PhD Fellowship Award and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in 2022 for his work on dynamically tuning quantum materials.

As part of our UC Irvine MRSEC's junior faculty development program, where we've established mentoring networks between senior and junior faculty, we want to highlight some of the individuals involved.

This week we want to introduce you to Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, an assistant professor in the Physics Department at University of California, Irvine. Through the MRSEC seed program, he is researching the nano-manipulation of van der Waals two-dimensional materials, with a special emphasis on studying the quantum electronic effects of strain and deformations, as well as exploring new methods of low-dimensional crystal growth. Recently, his group developed a new technique to grow ultrathin and flat crystals by using the atomically-flat van der Waals materials as a nanoscale mold.

He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Career Award and the National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers Fellow.

Congratulations, Javier!

We want to introduce you to Seunghyun Sim (Seu), a junior faculty member who is instrumental to our MRSEC center. She and her team develop dissipative living that show dynamic behavior upon responding to encased functionalities. Dissipative behavior is an important mechanism commonly found in nature that shapes structural and functional complexities of material. Although various forms of synthetic dissipative materials have been reported, dissipative “living" material, until now, was unprecedented.

To date, her work has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Journal of the American Chemical Society. She received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award and Scialog Fellow.

University of California, Irvine, Mse Uci

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Last month, CCAM held an in-person two-day MRSEC workshop at University of California, Irvine. This event was held in conjunction with the External Scientific Advisory Board (ESAB) meeting. Highlights include work on a wide range of research projects in different IRG/Seed theme sessions - the interfacial science of complex concentrated materials; and investigation of synthetic self-assembly system including supramolecular peptides.

UCI Samueli School of Engineering - Graduate and Professional Studies
Mse Uci

https://ccam.uci.edu/annual-uci-mrsec-workshop/

This month we are highlighting junior faculty members who are pillars in our center. One of those leaders is Stacy Copp. Stacy's research group develops new machine learning (ML) models for the predictive design of biomolecular materials. Her work harnesses approaches from data science to understand the complex connection between biomolecule sequence and materials properties for peptides and nucleic acids, and was recently published in ACS Nano.

She has received the AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Kathy Alberti Faculty Award for graduate student advocacy and promotion (UCI). University of California, Irvine UCI Samueli School of Engineering - Graduate and Professional Studies