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The overarching goal of this project is to attain a fundamental, predictive understanding of key chemical processes in aqueous solutions, at mineral-water interfaces, and within geologic media that affect mineral nucleation, growth, and dissolution and drive changes in porosity, permeability and water quality.
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Understand and control the physico-chemical mechanisms that govern hydroxylation and carbonation processes during direct air capture (DAC) of CO2 using magnesium oxide.
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The overarching goal of this project is to understand how to co-design correlated and topological states of matter by exploiting the interplay between symmetry, correlation, and topology in oxide- and chalcogenide-based quantum heterostructures.
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The overarching goal of this project is to advance our understanding of correlated quantum materials through discovery, development, and investigation of model materials that exhibit magnetic order, topological order, and collective phenomena.
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The overarching goal of this project is to understand how defects, disorder, and long-range interactions affect functionality
and stability across a material’s phase diagram.
and stability across a material’s phase diagram.
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Our overarching goal is to predict novel quantum materials and to understand the impact of defects, dopants, and interfaces on the properties of quantum materials with
improved first-principles-based theory and computational approaches.
improved first-principles-based theory and computational approaches.
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Our overarching goal is the quantitative understanding of the many-body states generated in electronic models for quantum materials, involving both strong correlation and SOC,
with simultaneously active spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom.
with simultaneously active spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom.
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The overarching goal of this program is to establish a fundamental understanding of atomistic mechanisms that control the structure and dynamics of metallic and other liquids and glasses.