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 assistant professor Yong-Jie Hu 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.