Reconfigurable Electronic Materials Inspired by Nonlinear Neuron Dynamics

Sarbajit Banerjee

Texas A&M University; Chemistry Dept.
(Associate Director)

banerjee@chem.tamu.edu

Banerjee Research Group Website

Banerjee is the Davidson Chair in Science and Chancellor EDGES Fellow at Texas A&M University, and is a faculty member in the Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Departments. As founding Co-Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics, he directed more than 50 researchers.

Research

Banerjee’s research expertise is in the interplay between geometric and electronic structure in solid state materials. His recent contributions include discovery of a novel class of MxV2O5 materials with colossal metal-insulator transitions, identification of polaron oscillation and lone-pair-mediated mechanisms for neuromorphic functions, and strategies for precisely modulating intercalation phase diagrams. As part of reMIND, Banerjee will explore intercalation mechanisms for neuromorphic computing by leveraging and expanding the single crystal foundry and will develop operando X-ray probes of electronic and structural transformations.

Publications

  1. Andrews J, Santos D, Meyyappan M, Williams R, Banerjee S. Building Brain-Inspired Logic Circuits from Dynamically Switchable Transition-Metal Oxides. Trends in Chemistry. 2019 November; 1(8):711-726. doi: 10.1016/j.trechm.2019.07.005
  2. Handy J, Zaheer W, Rothfuss A, McGranahan C, Agbeworvi G, Andrews J, García-Pedraza K, Ponis J, Ayala J, Ding Y, Watson D, Banerjee S. Lone but Not Alone: Precise Positioning of Lone Pairs for the Design of Photocatalytic Architectures. Chemistry of Materials. 2022 January 31; 34(4):1439-1458. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03762
  3. Luo Y, Rezaei S, Santos D, Zhang Y, Handy J, Carrillo L, Schultz B, Gobbato L, Pupucevski M, Wiaderek K, Charalambous H, Yakovenko A, Pharr M, Xu B, Banerjee S. Cation reordering instead of phase transitions: Origins and implications of contrasting lithiation mechanisms in 1D ȗ- and 2D Į-V 2 O 5. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022 January 21; 119(4):-. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2115072119
  4. Parija A, Handy J, Andrews J, Wu J, Wangoh L, Singh S, Jozwiak C, Bostwick A, Rotenberg E, Yang W, Fakra S, Al-Hashimi M, Sambandamurthy G, Piper L, Williams R, Prendergast D, Banerjee S. Metal-Insulator Transitions in b’-CuxV2O5 Mediated by Polaron Oscillation and Cation Shuttling. Matter. 2020 May; 2 (5):1166-1186. doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.01.027
  5. Sellers D, Braham E, Villarreal R, Zhang B, Parija A, Brown T, Alivio T, Clarke H, De Jesus L, Zuin L, Prendergast D, Qian X, Arroyave R, Shamberger P, Banerjee S. Atomic Hourglass and Thermometer Based on Diffusion of a Mobile Dopant in VO 2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2020 August 12; 142 (36):15513-15526. doi: 10.1021/jacs.0c07152