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news

Congratulations to Benjamin Magruder (IRG-2, Ph.D. ChemE '25) Named 2026 Schmidt Science Fellow.

2026 IPRIME Mid-Year Workshop "Plastic Film Circularity: Ambition, Reality, and Opportunity"

Congratulations to Hyunsol Son (IRG-1) on receiving the APS Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Travel Award.

publications

High metal–insulator topotactic cycling endurance in electrochemically gated La_0.5Sr_0.5CoO_3−δ Probed by humidity-dependent operando fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Piezoresistivity as a fingerprint of ferroaxial transitions

Mesoscopic morphologies in frustrated ABC bottlebrush block terpolymers

Equilibrium phase behavior of gyroid-forming diblock polymer thin films

Circular dichroism of distorted double gyroid thin film metamaterials

Continuously tuning strong exciton-photon coupling via molecular orientation in organic microcavities

highlights

IRG-1
Pushing the Limits of Topotactic Cycling Endurance in Oxide Electrochemical Transistors

IRG-2
Mesoscopic Morphologies in Frustrated ABC Bottlebrush Block Terpolymers

Seed
Materials Design Rules for Organic Polaritonics

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