Welcome!
CFM serves researchers at WFU with an interest in a broad range of materials, providing a departmental-overarching platform that overcomes historical divisions. If you have any questions, please contact us at cfm@wfu.edu.
Mission
The mission of CFM is to propel WFU into the top tier of materials research by overcoming barriers between its various subfields—materials modeling, synthesis, processing, and characterization.
The center provides a platform to connect a broad range of materials-focused research groups and support the multidisciplinary research necessary for break-through developments. The center implements its mission via activities in research, education, and outreach.
Quick Facts
- Director: Prof. Thonhauser
- Int. Funding: Provost’s Office
- Ext. Funding: DOE, NSF
- Established: 2018
- Departments: 7
- WFU Schools: 2
- Members: 41
- Affiliates: 50
Events
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Thursday, November 14, 2024
News
Publications
- Materials and Cavity Design Principles for Exciton-Polariton Condensates, ACS nano (2025), DOI:10.1021/acsnano.4c15929.
- Designing Contact Independent High‐Performance Low‐Cost Flexible Electronics Advanced Materials (2024), DOI:10.1002/adma.202410442.
- Complete separation of benzene-cyclohexene-cyclohexane mixtures via temperature-dependent molecular sieving by a flexible chain-like coordination polymer, Nature communications 15,1 (2024), DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-46556-6.
- Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3., Nature Mater. 22 (2023), DOI:10.1038/s41563-022-01401-3.
- Effect of connectivity on the carrier transport and recombination dynamics of perovskite quantum dot networks, ACS Nano 18 (2024), DOI:10.1021/acsnano.3c10239.