The new center will build a campus-wide ecosystem for designing and manufacturing materials of the future at U-M while training a more representative workforce.
A team led by Rachel Goldman is exploring how disruptions in a material's atomic structure could act as "nano-pipelines" for efficient transport of charge and spin.
Wang's research focuses on wide bandgap semiconductors, which have potential applications for power electronics and radio frequency communication devices.
Funding from the professorship will enable the Sun group to pursue high-risk, high-impact research projects related to fundamental synthesis and processing science.
