Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor of industrial engineering, will serve as the PI. Gary Cheng, associate professor of industrial engineering, and Muhammad A. Alam, the Jai N. Gupta Professor of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as Co-PIs.

"We propose to carry out research about nanomanufacturing of heterostructured nanodevices at large scale for adaptive electronics," said Wu.

Project summary:
Hybrid heterostructures with 1D and 2D semiconductors can open up new realms of materials science and engineering, and play important roles in the adaptive electronics and optoelectronics due to their miniaturized dimensions, the potential for achieving high-density assembly, excellent mechanical and semiconductor properties. This project aims to identify the fundamental mechanism to enable the nanoengineered 1D/2D hybrid heterostructures by holistically integrating the laser-shock enabled rapid sub-10nm processing in 2D materials with the bottom-up 1D nanowire growth. The proposed technique is expected to establish a novel nanomanufacturing platform at Purdue for designing and creating new artificial materials with tunable properties.