Atom-Level Innovations: Rice’s Big Bet on Advanced 2D Materials

Rice University’s Boris Yakobson has received over $4 million in federal funding to advance research on 2D materials, interfaces in composite materials, and nonequilibrium chemical processes.

His work aims to develop better production methods, understand material behavior under extreme conditions, and explore new material synthesis for applications in energy and defense technologies.

Advanced Materials Research at Rice University
Advanced materials are an important point of innovation for areas critical to national security such as energy, defense, aeronautics, and aerospace technologies. Rice University materials scientist Boris Yakobson has won three awards from two federal agencies totaling $4,140,611 over several years to research challenging aspects of advanced materials’ production, performance and dynamics.

The awards are representative of Rice as a nationally relevant site of materials science research. Yakobson said he hopes the projects, which build on prior work, “lead to discoveries that really transform how we understand, make, and work with advanced materials.”