The Center for Advanced and Intelligent Materials brings together researchers in chemistry, physics, biological sciences, and other disciplines to explore the materials of the future. Together, they challenge themselves to identify and create new materials, and to understand the basic science of novel phenomena in these materials. Because everything is made of something, such understanding could one day drive breakthroughs in, for example, energy sources, medical treatments, and computer technologies.
This exciting enterprise will be located in a new building that will focus on three areas of scientific inquiry - materials for energy and sustainability, living and life-inspired materials, and quantum materials – and house three infrastructure units: the Materials Observatory, the Quantum Foundry, and the Molecularium.
Director
Prof. Leeor Kronik
Prof. Leeor Kronik’s research focuses on the theoretical understanding of the basic microscopic properties of materials, including electronic, optical, mechanical, and magnetic—both in terms of their composition and structure. To that end, he uses “first principles calculations,” in which material properties are predicted from the atomic number and mass of the atomic species involved, based on the laws of quantum physics.
