NSF REU SITE: Integrating Computation and Experiment to Create Revolutionary Materials Possible projects for summer 2026 Faculty Mentor Possible Project(s) Diego Gomez-Gualdron Project 1: Machine-learning aided development of metal-organic frameworks for water harvesting from air Project 2: Machine-learning aided development of metal-organic frameworks for direct CO2 capture from from air David Halat Project 1: Ion dynamics in phase-separated electrolyte systems probed by NMR relaxation and diffusion Project 2: Beyond-lithium ion transport in complex electrolytes probed by multinuclear diffusion and electrophoretic NMR Megan Holtz Project 1: Atomic scale crystal structure determination near dislocations and defects Project 2: Molecular beam epitaxy growth of hexagonal oxides for energy-efficient computing Samantha (Sam) Johnson Project 1: Solvation Structure and Dynamics in Complex Electrolytes Jihye Kim Project 1: Recovery of Rare-earth Elements (REEs) from Bauxite residue Project 2: Selective electrodeposition of Ni and Co leveraging coordination chemistry Annalise Maughan Project 1: Synthesis and ionic-electronic transport properties of layered superionic conductors AMCh2 Michael McGuirk Project 1: Cooperatively Flexible Metal–Organic Frameworks Aashutosh Mistry Project 1: Characterizing Reactivity & Transport in Electrodes for Critical Materials Recovery Project 2: Electrochemically Probing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction for Grid-storage Batteries Alex Pak Project 1: Hierarchical Representation Learning across the Protein and Polymer Design Space Ryan Richards Project 1: Synthesis and Characterization of ZnS photocatalysts Anna Staerz Project 1: Metal oxide gas sensors and impurities Project 2: Super critical CO2 and corrosion Some Final Posters from 2024
