Anne Stevens Assistant Professor Jill Wenderott has received a two-year NSF grant for her project “Accelerating Synthesizability of Mixed Anion Materials.”
The process of creating new materials typically involves a trial-and-error approach that is driven by researcher intuition. This is an inefficient practice that can waste both time and materials.
In this project Wenderott and co-PI Yong-Jie Hu, Hoeganaes Endowed Assistant Professor in Powder Metallurgy, will use computational materials science to predict the creation of new inorganic materials. They will then validate these predictions in the laboratory, establishing a feedback loop to drive improvements in future predictions, creating a methodology to accelerate the development of new materials that are vital components of next-generation energy, optoelectronic, and biomedical devices.