Faculty, News, Research

2023 MSE Research

By Staff

The department faculty, postdocs and graduate students maintain ongoing and robust research each year. This post is regularly updated throughout the year with current our research.

Kaveh Ahadi

  1. Ethan G. Arnault, Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, David A. Muller, Divine P. Kumah, Mohammad S. Bahramy, Gleb Finkelstein, Kaveh Ahadi. “Anisotropic superconductivity at KTaO3(111) interfaces.” Science Advances, February 17, 2023.

Aram Amassian

  1. Masoud Ghasemi, Boyu Guo, Kasra Darabi, Tonghui Wang, Kai Wang, Chiung-Wei Huang, Benjamin M. Lefler, Laine Taussig, Mihirsinh Chauhan, Garrett Baucom, Taesoo Kim, Enrique D. Gomez, Joanna M. Atkin, Shashank Priya, and Aram Amassian. “A multiscale ion diffusion framework sheds light on the diffusion–stability–hysteresis nexus in metal halide perovskites.” Nature Materials, February 27, 2023.
  2. Andrew H. Comstock, Chung-Tao Chou, Zhiyu Wang, Tonghui Wang, Ruyi Song, Joseph Sklenar, Aram Amassian, Wei Zhang, Haipeng Lu, Luqiao Liu, Matthew C. Beard & Dali Sun. “Hybrid magnonics in hybrid perovskite antiferromagnets.” Nature Communications, April 1, 2023.
  3. So Min Park, Mingyang Wei, Jian Xu, Harindi R. Atapattu, Felix T. Eickemeyer, Kasra Darabi, Luke Grater, Yi Yang, Cheng Liu, Sam Teale, Bin Chen, Hao Chen, Tonghui Wang, Lewei Zeng, Aidan Maxwell, Zaiwei Wang, Keerthan R. Rao, Zhuoyun Cai, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Jonathan T. Pham, Chad M. Risko, Aram Amassian, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Kenneth R. Graham, Michael Grätzel, Edward H. Sargent. “Engineering ligand reactivity enables high-temperature operation of stable perovskite solar cells.” Science 381, July 14, 2023.
  4. Tonghui Wang, Ruipeng Li, Hossein Ardekani, Lucía Serrano-Luján, Jiantao Wang, Mahdi Ramezani, Ryan Wilmington, Mihirsinh Chauhan, Robert W. Epps, Kasra Darabi, Boyu Guo, Dali Sun, Milad Abolhasani, Kenan Gundogdu, Aram Amassian. “Sustainable materials acceleration platform reveals stable and efficient wide-bandgap metal halide perovskite alloys.” Matter, July 25, 2023.
  5. So Min Park, Mingyang Wei, Nikolaos Lempesis, Wenjin Yu, Tareq Hossain, Lorenzo Agosta, Virginia Carnevali, Harindi R. Atapattu, Peter Serles, Felix T. Eickemeyer, Heejong Shin, Maral Vafaie, Deokjae Choi, Kasra Darabi, Eui Dae Jung, Yi Yang, Da Bin Kim, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Bin Chen, Aram Amassian, Tobin Filleter, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Kenneth R. Graham, Lixin Xiao, Ursula Rothlisberger, Michael Grätzel & Edward H. Sargent. “Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells.” Nature, Oct 23, 2023.

Veronica Augustyn

  1. Md Sazzad Hossain, Adolfo I. B. Romo, Seth Putnam, Jahan Dawlaty, Veronica Augustyn, Joaquín Rodríguez-López. “Electrode potential driven dissociation of N-heterocycle-BF3 adducts: a possible manifestation of the electro-inductive effect.” Angewandte Chemie, April 13, 2023.
  2. Jamie W. Gittins, Yuan Chen, Stefanie Arnold, Veronica Augustyn, Andrea Balducci, Thierry Brousse, Elzbieta Frackowiak, Pedro Gómez-Romero, Archana Kanwade, and others. “Interlaboratory Study Assessing the Analysis of Supercapacitor Electrochemistry Data.” ChemRxiv May 26, 2023.
  3. Jenelle Fortunato,  Yun Kyung Shin,  Michael A. Spencer,  Adri C. T. van Duin, and  Veronica Augustyn. “Choice of Electrolyte Impacts the Selectivity of Proton-Coupled Electrochemical Reactions on Hydrogen Titanate.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023, June 14, 2023.
  4. Jenelle Fortunato,  Benjamin Z. Zydlewski,  Ming Lei,  Noah P. Holzapfel,  Matthew Chagnot,  James B. Mitchell,  Hsin-Che Lu,  De-en Jiang,  Delia J. Milliron, Veronica Augustyn. “Dual-Band Electrochromism in Hydrous Tungsten Oxide.” ACS Photonics, September 1, 2023.

Donald Brenner

  1. Douglas E. Wolfe, Christopher M. DeSalle, Caillin J. Ryan, Robert E. Slapikas, Ryan T. Sweny, Ryan J. Crealese, Petr A. Kolonin, Sergei P. Stepanoff, Aman Haque, Simon Divilov, Hagen Eckert, Corey Oses, Marco Esters, Donald W. Brenner, William G. Fahrenholtz, Jon-Paul Maria, Cormac Toher, Eva Zurek, Stefano Curtarolo. “Influence of Processing on the Microstructural Evolution and Multiscale Hardness in Titanium Carbonitrides (TiCN) Produced via Field Assisted Sintering Technology.” Materialia, January 12, 2023.

Ramón Collazo

  1. Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pegah Bagheri, Dolar Khachariya, Seiji Mita, Cristyan Quiñones-García, Yan Guan, Baxter Moody, Pramod Reddy, Ronny Kirste, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High conductivity and low activation energy in p-type AlGaN.” Applied Physics Letters, February 28, 2023.
  2. Shane Stein, Dolar Khachariya, Seiji Mita, M. Hayden Breckenridge, James Tweedie, Pramod Reddy, Kacper Sierakowski, Grzegorz Kamler, Michal Bockowski, Erhard Kohn, Zlatko Sitar, Ramon Collazo, Spyridon Pavlidis. “Schottky contacts on ultra-high-pressure-annealed GaN with high rectification ratio and near-unity ideality factor.” The Japan Society of Applied Physics, March 14, 2023.
  3. Pegah Bagheri, Ronny Kirste, Pramod Reddy, Seiji Mita, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Formation and characterization of Ti-Vacancy complex in AlN as a candidate for qubit.” SPIE OPTO, March 17, 2023.
  4. Ramon Collazo, Pegah Bagheri, Ronny Kirste, Pramod Reddy, Seiji Mita, Zlatko Sitar. “Color centers in AlN as qubit candidates: point defect management.” SPIE OPTO, March 17, 2023.
  5. Ronny Kirste, Seiji Mita, Houston Dycus, Jack Almeter, James Tweedie, James Loveless, Pramod Reddy, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Wing tilt in ELO grown GaN.” SPIE OPTO, March 21, 2023.
  6. Rohan Sengupta, Shipra Vaidya, Dennis Szymanski, Dolar Khachariya, Michal Bockowski, Grzegorz Kamler, Pramod Reddy, Zlatko Sitar, Ramón Collazo, and Spyridon Pavlidis. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Monolayer MoS2 on Chemomechanically Polished N-Polar GaN for Future 2D/3D Heterojunction Optoelectronics.” Applied Nano Materials, March 24, 2023.
  7. Pegah Bagheri, Cristyan Quiñones-Garcia, Dolar Khachariya, James Loveless, Yan Guan, Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pramod Reddy, Ronny Kirste, Seiji Mita, James Tweedie, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High conductivity in Ge-doped AlN achieved by a non-equilibrium process.” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 122, Issue 14, April 5, 2023.
  8. Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pramod Reddy, Baxter Moody, Cristyan Quiñones-García, Pegah Bagheri, Dolar Khachariya, Rafael Dalmau, Seiji Mita, Ronny Kirste, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High p-conductivity in AlGaN enabled by polarization field engineering.” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 122, Issue 15, April 11, 2023.
  9. James Loveless, Ronny Kirste, Baxter Moody, Pramod Reddy, Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Jack Almeter, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Performance and Reliability of State-of-the-art Commercial UVC Light Emitting Diodes.” Solid-State Electronics, September 14, 2023.
  10. C. E. Quiñones, D. Khachariya, P. Bagheri, P. Reddy, S. Mita, R. Kirste, S. Rathkanthiwar, J. Tweedie, S. Pavlidis, E. Kohn, R. Collazo, Z. Sitar. “Demonstration of near-ideal Schottky contacts to Si-doped AlN.” Applied Physics Letters, Vol 123, Issue 17, Oct 1, 2023.

Bharat Gwalani

  1. Arpit Thomas, Ambrish Kumar, Gopinath Perumal, Ram Kumar Sharma, Vignesh Manivasagam, Ketul Popat, Aditya Ayyagari, Anqi Yu, Shalini Tripathi, Edgar Buck, Bharat Gwalani, Meha Bhogra, and Harpreet Singh Arora. “Oxygen-Vacancy Abundant Nanoporous Ni/NiMnO3/MnO2@NiMn Electrodes with Ultrahigh Capacitance and Energy Density for Supercapacitors.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, January 2023.
  2. Mayur Pole, Zexi Lu, Tanvi Anil Ajantiwalay, Matthew Olszta, Shalini Tripathi, Anqi Yu, Hardeep Mehta, Tianhao Wang, Xiaolong Ma, Arun Devaraj, Bharat Gwalani. “Modes of strain accommodation in Cu-Nb multilayered thin film on indentation and cyclic shear.” Surfaces and Interfaces, Vol 37, April 2023.
  3. Zheng Li, Harsha Rao, Rasha Atwi, Bhuvaneswari M. Sivakumar, Bharat Gwalani, Scott Gray, Kee Sung Han, Thomas A. Everett, Tanvi A. Ajantiwalay, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Nav Nidhi Rajput & Vilas G. Pol. “Non-polar ether-based electrolyte solutions for stable high-voltage non-aqueous lithium metal batteries.” Nature Communications 14, February 16, 2023.
  4. Tanvi Ajantiwalay, Xiaolong Ma, Anqi Yu, Mayur Pole, Joshua Silverstein, Suveen Mathaudhu, Arun Devaraj, Bharat Gwalani. “Shear deformation of pure-Cu and Cu/Nb nano-laminates using micromechanical testing.” Scripta Materialia, June 2023.
  5. Aditya Nittala, Jacob Smith, Bharat Gwalani, Joshua Silverstein, Frank F. Kraft, Keerti Kappagantula. “Simultaneously improved electrical and mechanical performance of hot-extruded bulk scale aluminum-graphene wires.” Materials Science and Engineering: B, Volume 293, July 2023.
  6. A. Thomas, G. Perumal, D.B. Padmanaban, A. Kumar, R.K. Sharma, A. Ayyagari, Xiaolong Ma, B. Gwalani, H.S. Arora. “High strain-rate driven nano-tubular architecture in NiMn alloy for supercapacitor electrodes.” Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 465, June 1, 2023.
  7. Abhinav Srivastava, Hrishikesh Das, Daniel Ramirez Tamayo, Lei Li, Mayur Pole, Bharat Gwalani, Ayoub Soulami, Jorge F. dos Santos, Keerti S. Kappagantula, MD Reza-E-Rabby. “Extent of interlocking and metallurgical bonding in friction riveting of aluminum alloy to steel.”
  8. Elizabeth Kautz, Bharat Gwalani, Zefeng Yu, Tamas Varga, Kenneth Geelhood, Arun Devaraj, David Senor. “Investigating Zirconium Alloy Corrosion with Advanced Experimental Techniques: A Review.” Journal of Nuclear Materials, June 16, 2023.
  9. Abhishek Sharma, Sriswaroop Dasari, Tirthesh Ingale, Chao Jiang, Bharat Gwalani, Srivilliputhur G. Srinivasan, Rajarshi Banerjee. “Introducing local chemical ordering to trigger a planar-slip-initiated strain-hardening mechanism in high entropy alloys.” Acta Materialia, Vol. 258, October 1, 2023.
  10. Abhinav Omprakash Fulmali, Satyaroop Patnaik, Dinesh Kumar Rathore, Debashish Bhattacharjee, Bharat Gwalani, Bankim Chandra Ray, Rajesh Kumar Prusty. “Enhanced extreme temperature bending and delamination resistance of GFRP composites through z-directional aligned nano-reinforcement: Emphasizing the effects of CNT functionalization.” Composites Science and Technology, September 23, 2023.

Albert Kwansa

  1. Atrouli Chatterjee, Preeta Pratakshya, Albert L. Kwansa, Nikhil Kaimal, Andrew H. Cannon, Barbara Sartori, Benedetta Marmiroli, Helen Orins, Zhijing Feng, Samantha Drake, Justin Couvrette, LeAnn Le, Sigrid Bernstorff, Yaroslava G. Yingling, Alon A. Gorodetsky. “Squid Skin Cell-Inspired Refractive Index Mapping of Cells, Vesicles, and Nanostructures.” ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, January 24, 2023.
  2. Buang Zhang, Sabila K. Pinky, Albert L. Kwansa, Spencer Ferguson, Yaroslava G. Yingling, and Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts. “Correlation of Emulsion Chemistry, Film Morphology, and Device Performance in Polyfluorene LEDs Deposited by RIR-MAPLE.” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, March 29, 2023.
  3. Akhlak U. Mahmood, Mehedi H. Rizvi, Joseph B. Tracy, and Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Solvent Effects in Ligand Stripping Behavior of Colloidal Nanoparticles.” ACS Nano, June 13, 2023.
  4. Albert L. Kwansa ,  Rakhee C. Pani ,  Joseph A. DeLoach ,  Arianna Tieppo ,  Eric J. Moskala ,  Steven T. Perri , and  Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Molecular Mechanism of Plasticizer Exudation from Polyvinyl Chloride.” Macromolecules, ACS Publications, June 22, 2023.

Yin Liu

  1. Ruijuan Xu, Kevin J. Crust, Varun Harbola, Rémi Arras, Kinnary Y. Patel, Sergey Prosandeev, Hui Cao, Yu-Tsun Shao, Piush Behera, Lucas Caretta, Woo Jin Kim, Aarushi Khandelwal, Megha Acharya, Melody M. Wang, Yin Liu, Edward S. Barnard, Archana Raja, Lane W. Martin, X. Wendy Gu, Hua Zhou, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, David A. Muller, Laurent Bellaiche, Harold Y. Hwang. “Size-Induced Ferroelectricity in Antiferroelectric Oxide Membranes.” Advanced Materials, February 4, 2023.

Jay Narayan

  1. Nayna Khosla, Jagdish Narayan, Roger Narayan, Xiao-Guang Sun and Mariappan Parans Paranthaman. “Nanosecond Laser Annealing of NMC 811 Cathodes for Enhanced Performance.” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, March 8, 2023.
  2. Zehao Cui, Nayna Khosla, Tianxing Lai, Jagdish Narayan, and Arumugam Manthiram. “Laser-Assisted Surface Lithium Fluoride Decoration of a Cobalt-Free High-Voltage Spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 Cathode for Long-Life Lithium-Ion Batteries.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 1, 1247–1255 January 11, 2023.

Zlatko Sitar

  1. Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pegah Bagheri, Dolar Khachariya, Seiji Mita, Cristyan Quiñones-García, Yan Guan, Baxter Moody, Pramod Reddy, Ronny Kirste, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High conductivity and low activation energy in p-type AlGaN.” Applied Physics Letters, February 28, 2023.
  2. Shane Stein, Dolar Khachariya, Seiji Mita, M. Hayden Breckenridge, James Tweedie, Pramod Reddy, Kacper Sierakowski, Grzegorz Kamler, Michal Bockowski, Erhard Kohn, Zlatko Sitar, Ramon Collazo, Spyridon Pavlidis. “Schottky contacts on ultra-high-pressure-annealed GaN with high rectification ratio and near-unity ideality factor.” The Japan Society of Applied Physics, March 14, 2023.
  3. Pegah Bagheri, Ronny Kirste, Pramod Reddy, Seiji Mita, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Formation and characterization of Ti-Vacancy complex in AlN as a candidate for qubit.” SPIE OPTO 2023.
  4. Ramon Collazo, Pegah Bagheri, Ronny Kirste, Pramod Reddy, Seiji Mita, Zlatko Sitar. “Color centers in AlN as qubit candidates: point defect management.” SPIE OPTO, March 17, 2023.
  5. Ronny Kirste, Seiji Mita, Houston Dycus, Jack Almeter, James Tweedie, James Loveless, Pramod Reddy, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Wing tilt in ELO grown GaN.” SPIE OPTO, March 21, 2023.
  6. Rohan Sengupta, Shipra Vaidya, Dennis Szymanski, Dolar Khachariya, Michal Bockowski, Grzegorz Kamler, Pramod Reddy, Zlatko Sitar, Ramón Collazo, and Spyridon Pavlidis. “Chemical Vapor Deposition of Monolayer MoS2 on Chemomechanically Polished N-Polar GaN for Future 2D/3D Heterojunction Optoelectronics.” Applied Nano Materials, March 24, 2023.
  7. Pegah Bagheri, Cristyan Quiñones-Garcia, Dolar Khachariya, James Loveless, Yan Guan, Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pramod Reddy, Ronny Kirste, Seiji Mita, James Tweedie, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High conductivity in Ge-doped AlN achieved by a non-equilibrium process.” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 122, Issue 14, April 5, 2023.
  8. Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Pramod Reddy, Baxter Moody, Cristyan Quiñones-García, Pegah Bagheri, Dolar Khachariya, Rafael Dalmau, Seiji Mita, Ronny Kirste, Ramón Collazo, and Zlatko Sitar. “High p-conductivity in AlGaN enabled by polarization field engineering.” Applied Physics Letters, Volume 122, Issue 15, April 11, 2023.
  9. James Loveless, Ronny Kirste, Baxter Moody, Pramod Reddy, Shashwat Rathkanthiwar, Jack Almeter, Ramon Collazo, Zlatko Sitar. “Performance and Reliability of State-of-the-art Commercial UVC Light Emitting Diodes.” Solid-State Electronics, September 14, 2023.
  10. C. E. Quiñones, D. Khachariya, P. Bagheri, P. Reddy, S. Mita, R. Kirste, S. Rathkanthiwar, J. Tweedie, S. Pavlidis, E. Kohn, R. Collazo, Z. Sitar. “Demonstration of near-ideal Schottky contacts to Si-doped AlN.” Applied Physics Letters, Vol 123, Issue 17, Oct 1, 2023.

Martin Thuo

  1. Chuanshen Du, Paul Gregory, Dhanush U. Jamadgni, Alana M. Pauls, Julia J. Chang, Rick W. Dorn, Andrew Martin, E. Johan Foster, Aaron J. Rossini, Martin Thuo. “Spatially Directed Pyrolysis via Thermally Morphing Surface Adducts.” Angewandte Chemie, July 19, 2023.

Joseph Tracy

  1. Akhlak U. Mahmood, Mehedi H. Rizvi, Joseph B. Tracy, and Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Solvent Effects in Ligand Stripping Behavior of Colloidal Nanoparticles.” ACS Nano, June 13, 2023.

Ruijuan Xu

  1. Ruijuan Xu, Kevin J. Crust, Varun Harbola, Rémi Arras, Kinnary Y. Patel, Sergey Prosandeev, Hui Cao, Yu-Tsun Shao, Piush Behera, Lucas Caretta, Woo Jin Kim, Aarushi Khandelwal, Megha Acharya, Melody M. Wang, Yin Liu, Edward S. Barnard, Archana Raja, Lane W. Martin, X. Wendy Gu, Hua Zhou, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, David A. Muller, Laurent Bellaiche, Harold Y. Hwang. “Size-Induced Ferroelectricity in Antiferroelectric Oxide Membranes.” Advanced Materials, February 4, 2023.

Yaroslava Yingling

  1. Atrouli Chatterjee, Preeta Pratakshya, Albert L. Kwansa, Nikhil Kaimal, Andrew H. Cannon, Barbara Sartori, Benedetta Marmiroli, Helen Orins, Zhijing Feng, Samantha Drake, Justin Couvrette, LeAnn Le, Sigrid Bernstorff, Yaroslava G. Yingling, Alon A. Gorodetsky. “Squid Skin Cell-Inspired Refractive Index Mapping of Cells, Vesicles, and Nanostructures.” ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, January 24, 2023.
  2. James S. Peerless, Alexey V. Gulyuk, Nina J. B. Milliken, Gyu Dong Kim, Elliot Reid, Jae Woo Lee, Dooil Kim, Zachary Hendren, Young Chul Choi, and Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Role of Nanoscale Morphology on the Efficiency of Solvent-Based Desalination Method.” ACS ES&T Water, January 25, 2023.
  3. Buang Zhang, Sabila K. Pinky, Albert L. Kwansa, Spencer Ferguson, Yaroslava G. Yingling, and Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts. “Correlation of Emulsion Chemistry, Film Morphology, and Device Performance in Polyfluorene LEDs Deposited by RIR-MAPLE.” ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, March 29, 2023.
  4. Akhlak U. Mahmood, Mehedi H. Rizvi, Joseph B. Tracy, and Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Solvent Effects in Ligand Stripping Behavior of Colloidal Nanoparticles.” ACS Nano, June 13, 2023.
  5. Christina J Bayard, Yaroslava G Yingling. “Computer-Assisted Design and Characterization of RNA Nanostructures.” RNA Nanostructures pp 31–49, August 13, 2023.
  6. Thomas J. Oweida and Yaroslava G. Yingling. “Resolving Structure of ssDNA in Solution by Fusing Molecular Simulations and Scattering Experiments with Machine Learning.” Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2023.