December 7-8
More than 300 attended the inaugural Triangle Hard Matter Workshop, hosted virtually by the Duke Materials Initiative.
The program had three tracks:
- Energy Materials
- Metamaterials
- Quantum Materials
“Collaboration really is a core strength of DMI and Duke. And, the Triangle Hard Matter Workshop is another example of that strength."
Stefan Zauscher | director, Duke Materials Initiative
Program

Sir John Pendry
Imperial College of London
Plenary Speaker for Metamaterials

Mercouri Kanatzidis
Northwestern University
Plenary Speaker for Energy Materials
"Solar Electricity from Metal Halides? Who would have thought …:Incredible Perovskites”

Viktor Podolskiy
University of Massachusetts-Lowell
"Light Manipulation and Emission Engineering with Hyperbolic and Ballistic Metamaterials"

Igor Bondarev
North Carolina Central University
“Plasmons, Excitons, and Excitonic Complexes in Transdimensional Quantum Materials”

Wenshan Cai
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Creating Nonlinear Metamaterials with Hot-Carrier Dynamics”

Rene Lopez
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Volker Blum
Duke University
“Theory of Tunable New Semiconductor Materials for Energy and Electronics”

Brad Lokitz
Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mark Walters
Director, Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMiF) at Duke University