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Doping steers how a square net distorts
Josh and coworkers track the structural evolution of PrSbₓTe₂₋ₓ₋δ in Physical Review Materials, mapping how the charge density wave shifts from a single wave vector to a multiple-q phase as Te replaces Sb in the square net.
Phys. Rev. Mater.
A tribute to Roald Hoffmann’s orbital perspective
Emily and coworkers trace how dimensionality shapes electronic structure across square-net-derived bonding motifs, in an invited contribution to the Inorganica Chimica Acta special issue honoring Roald Hoffmann.
Invited perspective
A new family of superconductors in the PtPb₃Bi structure type
Lior and coworkers report in Chemistry of Materials a set of superconductors built on the PtPb₃Bi structure type.
Chem. Mater.
One-dimensional conduction channels in a correlated Mott insulator
With Maia Vergniory’s group, the team shows in Nature Communications that obstructed Wannier charges produce one-dimensional conduction channels in NiS₂.
Nat. Commun.
PCCM renewed as an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The Princeton Center for Complex Materials receives $18 million over six years, through 2032, with Leslie serving as Center Director.
PCCM
Lattice instabilities can steer epitaxy
Nitish and coworkers show in ACS Nano that a Peierls-like instability in TaCo₂Te₂ directionally locks the growth of a symmetry-mismatched epilayer, suggesting structural modulations as a design tool for heterostructures.
ACS Nano
Emily Ward wins the Nat C. Robertson *42 Graduate Fellowship
Princeton Chemistry’s award for outstanding achievement by a first-year graduate student goes to the Schoop Lab.
Student award
Emily Ward awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Emily joins the group’s NSF Graduate Research Fellows: Connor Pollak, Xin (Jason) Zhang, Gabrielle Carrel, and alumni Scott Lee and Brianna Hoff.
NSF GRFP
Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund award
Together with Andrei Bernevig, we received Schmidt funding to build an AI-guided library of twistable quantum materials.
Funding
A machine-predicted superconductor, made real
With the Kim group at Cornell, an interpretable machine-learning model predicted the superconductor PtPb₃Bi (predicted Tc 2.93 K); we grew it and measured 2.98 K. More members of the family followed.
Preprint
A printable antiferromagnet
Ten minutes of sonication in water turns an air-sensitive precursor into a stable ink of core-shell antiferromagnetic nanosheets. Fang’s paper appears in Chemistry of Materials.
Chem. Mater.
Leslie named co-PI of the NSF AI Materials Institute
Princeton joins the Cornell-led, $20M NSF institute (AI-MI) that pairs artificial intelligence with real synthesis and characterization; Leslie serves as co-PI and on the executive management team.
AI-MI
Leslie receives the PECASE
The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor the U.S. government gives to early-career researchers.
Award
A chemical design strategy for noncoplanar magnets
Grigorii, Milena, and coworkers show in Nature Communications how to design magnets with giant Hall responses instead of finding them by accident.
Nat. Commun.
A facile route to flat bands
Simple chemical rules point to kagome materials with flat electronic bands near the Fermi level.
Featured
Scalable 2D superconductors from a beaker
Xiaoyu’s Science Advances paper delivers an air-stable, water-based superconducting monolayer ink.
Sci. Adv.
Using the logic of chemistry to build quantum materials
A Princeton profile of Leslie and the lab’s approach to materials with revolutionary properties.
Princeton profile