Center for Mesoscale Transport Properties (m2m#S)

Director

Amy Marschilok

Lead Institution

Stony Brook University

Class

2014-2026 (Center known as m2m from 2014 to 2018, and m2m/t from 2018 to 2020)

Mission

To understand and harness disorder and entropy to build the science foundation for new design spaces that enable sustainable, long cycle life electrochemical energy storage.

Partner Institutions

SUNY Stony Brook
BNL
Columbia
Cornell
LBNL
Lehigh Univ
UT Austin
Xavier Univ

Quick Facts

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https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/m2m/

BES Staff Contact

Craig Henderson

Grand Challenges Addressed

Transformative Opportunities Addressed

Mastering Hierarchical Architectures and Beyond-Equilibrium Matter

Trans. Opp. #1

Understanding the Critical Roles of Heterogeneity, Interfaces, and Disorder

Trans. Opp. #2

Exploiting Transformative Advances in Imaging Capabilities across Multiple Scales

Trans. Opp. #5

BES Reports Addressed

Highlights

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Applying a voltage to lanthanum strontium manganite (LSMO) can cause it to separate into distinct regions with dramatically different magnetic properties, as illustrated by the red and blue colors in the above figure.

Tuning Magnetism With Voltage Opens a New Path to Neuromorphic Circuits

Experiments show that applied voltage can dramatically alter the magnetic properties of quantum materials.

A metallic line atop a medium biased at the edge of chaos can provide effective negative resistance for time-varying signals, outputting a larger signal compared to its input. The energy for amplification comes from the static bias applied to the medium.

The “Edge of Chaos” Amplifies Signals Without Transistors

Emulating the edge of chaos of axons enables a metal wire to overcome its resistance without cooling, thereby amplifying signals flowing inside of it.