Seed Projects allow us an opportunity to respond rapidly to exciting new developments, and also help stimulate projects that might evolve into fully-fledged IRG programs in future proposals.

Active Seed Projects - 2019

• Selecting for phase-separating nucleic acid coacervates
  Irene A. Chen (Chemistry & Biochemistry), Omar A. Saleh (Materials)

• Electronic structure and scattering mechanisms in twisted bilayer graphene
  Andrea Young (Physics), Vojtech Vlcek (Chemistry & Biochemistry)

Active Seed Projects - 2018

• Search for Majorana Fermions in Topological Superconductors
  John Harter (Materials), Cenke Xu (Physics)

• Perturbing Topological Crystalline Insulators with Strain, Dopants, and Ferroelectricity
  Kunal Mukherjee (Materials)

• Point Defects in Boron Nitride for Quantum Information Science
  Chris Van de Walle (Materials)

iSuperSeed 2018

• Shape from Activity-Driven Folding: a Path to Materials Morphogenesis
  M. Cristina Marchetti, Mark Bowick, Zvonimir Dogic and Sebastian Streichan