September 2008
PCCM Renewed through 2014!

The Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), Princeton's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), has received a generous six-year renewal from the National Science Foundation (NSF), through August 2014. Under this new award, PCCM will be able to continue and expand its research and educational outreach programs, continue to support and build first-rate computational and experimental facilities, and enhance the connections between Princeton and outside organizations. The four principal research areas in the new PCCM - Interdisciplinary Research Groups, or IRGs - are:

IRG-A: Electronic Materials with Triangular Lattice and Dirac Excitations
(co-leaders: Nai-Phuan Ong (Phys) and Robert Cava (Chem)

IRG-B: Design and Control of Buried Active Molecular Materials Interfaces
(co-leaders: Antoine Kahn (EE) and Lynn Loo (ChE))

IRG-C: Integrated Self-Assembled Nanostructures
(co-leaders: Athanassios Panagiotopoulos (ChE) and Richard Register (ChE))

IRG-D: Quantum Control in Semiconductor Nanostructures
(co-leaders: Ali Yazdani (Phys) and Jason Petta (Phys))

For a more extensive description of the new PCCM from Princeton's perspective, click here.

For the NSF press release on the outcome of the recent MRSEC competition, click here.