Center for Hybrid, Active, & Responsive Materials

Check out CHARM's newest student spotlights from each of our IRGs: Tochukwu Nwoko and Hassan Shaikh! 👩🏾‍🔬👨🏾‍🔬 Visit our student spotlight page to get to know them both and our other highlighted students : tinyurl.com/charmspotlight

This study explores magnon hybridization with plasmons, phonons, and photons. Examples include strong coupling in TI/AFM bilayer, spin Nernst effect, and manipulating magnon-photon interactions. @UD_Charm aippub.org/421NR4e

Are you lacking the "materials" to find something cool to do this summer? Join us for our interdisciplinary materials Research Experiences for Undergraduates program at UD CHARM! Applications are open, so visit our site for more info and the application: tinyurl.com/udcharmreu

It's #GivingTuesday at UD! Donations to our FORGES HS program will help developing future great engineers and scientists. Opportunities start with donors like you. FORGES donation page: tinyurl.com/mr4cva8k Share with your friends and family to help us make a difference!

We hope everyone had a warm & joyous Thanksgiving! During this giving season, consider donating to our summer program FORGES, enabling us to provide a stipend to our HS participants: tinyurl.com/mr4cva8k Opportunities like this start here, with your support #GivingTuesday!

🎉 Congratulations to Benjamin Jungfleisch on his NSF CAREER award. You can read more about Benjamin's research in this UDaily article: mrsec.udel.edu/2024/10/30/jun…

Exciting new article on bioorthogonal polymerization of bundlemers! The latest CHARM collaborative effort investigates UHMW protein-like linear polymers that form elastic hydrogels. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Continuing our celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month & STEM, we are highlighting the Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff 🧫👩🏽‍🔬 Learn more about Dr. Villa-Komaroff's work in a profile here: tinyurl.com/ycyr98tv

Hispanic Heritage Month started on September 15th! To celebrate Hispanic heritage in the field of Materials Science, we are highlighting the late Dr. Oswaldo Luiz Alves 🥼🇧🇷 Learn more about Dr. Luiz Alves' work in an interview here: tinyurl.com/mr3jsps3

National Postdoc Appreciation Week begins today! Be sure to take a moment to thank your local CHARM postdocs for the work that they do for our Center! 🫂🎓🧑🏽‍🔬

CHARM Newsletter: Fall '24 Edition - mailchi.mp/c1a0bce94ce7/u…

We had a great turn out at the UDxBrandeis MRSEC-wide Industry Networking Event last week! We hope all attendees learned a lot from our guests. A special thanks to the MRSEC alumni panel volunteers from @udcharm @BrandeisMRSEC @uwmemc @NorthwesternU & @UCSanDiego

Check out CHARM's newest student spotlight: Laura Scheuer from IRG2! 👩🏻‍🔬🧪 Visit our student spotlight page to get to know Laura and our other highlighted students: tinyurl.com/charmspotlight

Our CHARM reps had a great time at the Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools (CAMPS). We thank CAMPS 2024 for having @DrLkorley as a faculty presenter and giving space for our grad students to present. A big thanks to the students of @UChiMaterials & @TexasCDCM for organizing!

July is Disability Pride Month! We encourage all our members to take 1 workday to consider challenges you may face being in a lab with low accessibility as you go through the day. Check out this article from UW that provides ideas about lab accessibility: tinyurl.com/2s3cmhyc

Check out CHARM's newest student spotlight: Sirajis Salekin from IRG1! 👨🏽‍🔬🧪 Visit our student spotlight page to get to know Sirajis and our other highlighted students: tinyurl.com/charmspotlight You can follow him on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/in/syntopicist/

Happy Pride to all of our LGBTQIA+ scientists & staff within CHARM and across the nation! This month we'd like to first highlight the late Jemma Redmond 🏳️‍🌈🧑🏽‍🔬 Take some time to read about her work in the 3D printing of biomaterials here: tinyurl.com/yeymx3ar

The next AANHPI materials scientist we're highlighting this month is the inventor of smart concrete, Dr. Deborah D.L. Chung! Read Caltech's alumna profile of Dr. Chung and learn about her history and motivations here: tinyurl.com/nuhrf7b2

It's Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! We're highlighting the late Dr. Peter Tsai. His invention in the 90's of the N95 mask has saved many lives, especially during COVID #AANHPI Learn more about Dr. Tsai from an article his daughters wrote here: tinyurl.com/3su26af7

The Materials Research Society's UD chapter is participating in the University's I💛UD Giving Day! You can donate to help support their travels to conferences in order to present their research and expand their education. Show your support via this link: tinyurl.com/6s66db44