{"669804":{"#nid":"669804","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Collaborative Research Teams for High-Impact Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENewly arrived at Georgia Tech, Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gra.org\/distinguished_investigator\/8\/Jason_Azoulay.html\u0022\u003EJason Azoulay\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u0026nbsp;and the School of Materials Science and Engineering has put together two interdisciplinary and mult-institutional teams that have landed prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF\u2019s \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/designing-materials-revolutionize-engineer-our\u0022\u003EDesigning Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d (DMREF) program is the agency\u2019s principal vehicle to continue the momentum of the decade-long Materials Genome Initiative. This high-profile program seeks to take advantage of the power of machine learning and chemical synthesis to develop new functional materials.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProf. Azoulay\u2019s team will collaborate on a project titled \u201c\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/dmref.org\/project\/345\u0022\u003EOrganic Materials Architectured for Researching Vibronic Excitations with Light in the Infrared\u003C\/a\u003E\u201d, with a delightful acronym (\u201cMARVEL-IR\u201d) and a very serious purpose: to harness an under-utilized part of the electromagnetic spectrum for problems in energy, sensing, information science, manufacturing, and other fields. We\u2019re all familiar with infrared radiation (heat lamps, for example). However, current semiconductor \u0026nbsp;technologies that absorb and convert this light efficiently to electrical signals require complex manufacturing, high costs, cooling, and lack compatibility with silicon electronics, attributes that remain prohibitive for their widespread usage and the development of critical emerging technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Azoulay laboratory creates novel organic polymers that address these challenges, and the MARVEL-IR team will explore and develop these materials into functional devices.\u0026nbsp; The collaborating investigators include colleagues \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hu-group.org\/group\/\u0022\u003EEmma Hu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026gt; (Georgia Tech Materials Science and Engineering), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sfeirlab.ws.gc.cuny.edu\/\u0022\u003EMatthew Sfeir\u003C\/a\u003E (City University of New York), \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/flexible-electronics.ucsd.edu\/\u0022\u003ETse Nga Ng\u003C\/a\u003E (University of California San Diego), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bmwong-group.com\/\u0022\u003EBryan Wong\u003C\/a\u003E (University of California Riverside), Jarrett Vella (Air Force Research Laboratory), and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/brilliantmatters.com\/about-us\/\u0022\u003EPhilippe Berrourad\u003C\/a\u003E (Brilliant Matters, Inc.).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn response to the NSF\u2019s identification of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/new.nsf.gov\/funding\/opportunities\/growing-convergence-research-gcr\u0022\u003EGrowing Convergence Research\u003C\/a\u003E (GCR) as one of its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/special_reports\/big_ideas\/index.jsp\u0022\u003E10 Big Ideas\u003C\/a\u003E, Prof. Azoulay is also leading a program titled \u201cCollaborative Research: GCR: Convergence on Phosphorus Sensing for Understanding Global Biogeochemistry and Enabling Pollution Management and Mitigation.\u201d GCR aims to foster deeply integrated interdisciplinary approaches to solving important societal problems, and the Azoulay-led team is a great example.\u0026nbsp; This project brings together supramolecular and inorganic chemistry (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/floodweb.sitehost.iu.edu\/\u0022\u003EAmar Flood\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Indiana University and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cse.umn.edu\/chem\/valerie-c-pierre\u0022\u003EValerie Pierre\u003C\/a\u003E, University of Minnesota), polymer science, soft-matter electronics, and electrical engineering (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/azoulaygroup.org\/\u0022\u003EJason Azoulay\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;Geogia Tech and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/flexible-electronics.ucsd.edu\/\u0022\u003ETse Nga Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, University of California San Diego), and environmental and marine science (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gulfbase.org\/people\/dr-alan-m-shiller\u0022\u003EAlan Shiller\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;University of Southern Mississippi, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ishii-lab.umn.edu\/people\/satoshi-ishii\u0022\u003ESatoshi Ishii\u003C\/a\u003E, University of Minnesota).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPhosphorus pollution is caused by large-scale use of agricultural fertilizers; it can have very harmful effects on global biological productivity, food resources, energy generation, and climate. \u0026nbsp;Yet there currently exists no way to reliably, accurately, and inexpensively measure the amount of phosphorus out in the real world. These investigators will use the $3.6MM award over five years to give the world the tools needed to understand this problem, a necessary first step to solving it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the Azoulay laboratory, see:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/azoulaygroup.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/azoulaygroup.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENewly arrived at Georgia Tech, Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gra.org\/distinguished_investigator\/8\/Jason_Azoulay.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJason Azoulay\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry \u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003Eand the School of Materials Science and Engineering has put together two interdisciplinary and mult-institutional teams that have landed prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Newly arrived at Georgia Tech, Associate Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator Jason Azoulay of the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry  and the School of Materials Science and Engineering has put together two interdisciplina"}],"uid":"34732","created_gmt":"2023-09-20 19:46:27","changed_gmt":"2023-09-20 20:02:57","author":"cos-websu3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"671773":{"id":"671773","type":"image","title":"chem-art-1.png","body":null,"created":"1695239220","gmt_created":"2023-09-20 19:47:00","changed":"1695239220","gmt_changed":"2023-09-20 19:47:00","alt":"graphic of High-Impact Research","file":{"fid":"254897","name":"chem-art-1.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/chem-art-1.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/chem-art-1.png","mime":"image\/png","size":284548,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/20\/chem-art-1.png?itok=ttvGKcz7"}},"671774":{"id":"671774","type":"image","title":"Jason Azoulay.png","body":null,"created":"1695240110","gmt_created":"2023-09-20 20:01:50","changed":"1695240110","gmt_changed":"2023-09-20 20:01:50","alt":"profile picture for Jason Azoulay","file":{"fid":"254898","name":"Jason Azoulay.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/Jason%20Azoulay.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/Jason%20Azoulay.png","mime":"image\/png","size":434173,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/20\/Jason%20Azoulay.png?itok=EXVkPjIY"}},"671775":{"id":"671775","type":"image","title":"chp-graphic.jpg","body":null,"created":"1695240149","gmt_created":"2023-09-20 20:02:29","changed":"1695240149","gmt_changed":"2023-09-20 20:02:29","alt":"Graphic of a computer chip","file":{"fid":"254899","name":"chp-graphic.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/chp-graphic.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/09\/20\/chp-graphic.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53660,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/09\/20\/chp-graphic.jpg?itok=Hqryl3ry"}}},"media_ids":["671773","671774","671775"],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}