2018
IRG1: Switching Conductivity On or Off at an Interface
IRG2: Enhancement of the Quality Factor of Metallic Glass Resonators via Cyclic Shear Training
IRG2: Tailoring Crystalline Phases via Nucleus Starvation
Education and Outreach: Materials & Manufacturing Summer Teachers’ Institute (MMSTI)
2017
IRG1: Transferring electrons to a superconductor
IRG1: Teaching neural networks via materials science
IRG1: Tailoring Topological Surface States
IRG1: New Haven Science Fair Participation
IRG2: Combinatorial Screening of Metallic Glass Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
IRG2: Developing a Solar Outreach Program for Haiti
IRG2: Nanoscale Effects on Critical Cooling Rates of Metallic Glasses
Public Talk Series: Science Saturday: “Watching Atoms Move”
Seed: Clearing the Way for Quantum Information
Empowering the Next Generation of Female and Minority Scientists in STEM
Education and outreach: Mysteries of Sand! CRISP Public Lecture
Education and outreach: Math & Science in the Elementary School Classroom
National Collaboration: MBE System at the National Synchrotron Light Source II
MBE System for Undergraduate Teaching
Industry: Start-Up: Supercool Metals
2016
IRG1: Revealing Hidden Phases in Materials
IRG1: Robust, Easy-to-Use Atomic Force Microscopy in Vacuum
IRG2: Electrocatalytic Surfaces Using Bulk Metallic Glass Nanostructures
IRG2: Cooling Speed Affects Ductility of Metallic Glasses
Seed 1: Nucleation and Growth Are NOT Independent
Seed 2: Helping Superconducting Qubits “Remember”
Education and Outreach: Inspiring New Haven Students Through the Years
Education and Outreach: Resources for STEM Professionals
Facilities: MRSEC inspired CT State Colleges and Universities Center for Nanotechnology
Workshop: 66th New England Complex Fluids Workshop
2015
IRG1: “Seeing” through a wall by quantum tunneling
IRG2: Sacrificial Nanoimprint Lithography of Bulk Metallic Glasses
IRG2: Nanoscale Imprinting into Bulk Metallic Glasses
Seed: “Seeing” the Crystallization of Metallic Glasses at the Nanoscale
Seed: Using Light to “See” Sound in Solids
National Labs: Yale-BNL Symposium on Materials and Catalysis
Industry: Developing Ferroelectric DRAM Into a Commercial Product
2014
IRG2: Shear Enhanced Crystallization Kinetics in a Metallic Glass
IRG2: Engineering Cellular Response Using Nanopatterned Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG)
Seed: NMR Imaging of Particulate Media
International Collaboration: “Scaling of structural lubricity”
Facilities: “New Cryomicrotome & Cryogen-Free Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)”
2013
IRG1: “Engineering the Electronic Structure of Crystalline Oxide Layers”
IRG1: ”Multi-Dimensional Scanning Probe Microscopy”
IRG2: “Finding a glass needle in a haystack”
IRG2: “Predicting the Glass-Forming Ability of Metal Alloys”
Seed: “Novel 3D Imaging of Granular Materials”
National Laboratory Collaboration: “Interface Science Village at the Advanced Photon Source”
2012
IRG1: “Switchable Electron Shapes at an Interface”
IRG1: “Silicon Integrated High Speed Electro-optic Modulators”
IRG2: “Cell Interactions with Bulk Metallic Glass Surfaces”
IRG2: “Novel Mechanical Properties of Amorphous Solids”
Seed: “Design of Complex Granular Metamaterials”
International Collaboration: “US-China Innovation and Cooperation Conference”
International Collaboration: “18th International Workshop on Oxide Electronics”
Domestic Collaboration: “50th New England Complex Fluids Workshop”