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Materials make up everything. As our ability to examine materials in greater detail and at higher resolutions has increased, so has our understanding of what impacts the properties and performance of materials. It has enabled us to engineer nano-scale structures with increasing control, which has revealed exciting and valuable opportunities with new materials. This can impact everything from how we harvest energy from the sun, so-called photovoltaic materials, to how we transport electrons in electronic devices through semi-conductor materials. Using nano-engineering to develop advanced materials that can harvest energy more effectively and transport energy more efficiently fundamentally advance efforts in reducing energy demand and providing the building blocks for future generations of renewable energy technologies.

Research in RASEI has a broad range of expertise in this foci. We have researchers using cutting-edge microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to provide detailed insights into the structure and composition of materials at the molecular scale. RASEI includes teams that specialize in synthesizing new molecular building blocks for materials, teams expert in taking these building blocks and constructing more complex architectures from them, teams who build devices and applications from these architectures, and teams who use advanced computational models, theory, and machine learning to better understand the physical properties of the advanced materials, which feedback into the design process.