JHU Partners With Morgan State on Center to Develop Ultrathin 2D Materials

Using a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense, Johns Hopkins and Morgan State University are creating the Center for Advanced Electro-Photonics with 2D Materials, a first-of-its-kind initiative with a dual mission: to develop two-dimensional materials for use by DoD, and to expand and diversify the technology and defense-sector talent pipelines by training students from underrepresented minority groups. Operated in partnership with JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory, with support from scientists at the U.S. Army's Adelphi Laboratory Center and Aberdeen Proving Ground research centers, the new center is part of DoD's efforts to establish Centers of Excellence in Biotechnology and Materials Science at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Key players from Johns Hopkins include Susanna Thon, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Paulette Clancy, professor and head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Rama Venkatasubramanian, who leads the Energy and Thermal Management team in APL's Research and Exploratory Development Department; and David Shrekenhamer, a senior research scientist in APL's REDD.