Center for Hybrid, Active, and Responsive Materials

UD CHARM is a hub of interdisciplinary integration and infrastructure development to drive cross-cutting materials innovation. Using its materials science platform, UD CHARM is committed to training a new generation of innovators with focused diversity and education programming. Our Vision Harness the integrated power of computational design, innovative synthetic and manufacturing processes, and nano-scale characterization to unlock the substantial promise of complex, synthetic materials at multiple length/time-scales. Our Research IRG 1: Peptide Active Materials Developing new bioinspired materials with targeted architectures and the capacity to generate simple machine movement. IRG 2: Hybrid Quantum Materials with Emergent Terahertz Functionalities Understanding and controlling interfaces and transduction to create hybrid materials with emergent THz functionalities.