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Audrey Colegrove is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials. She is the producer of The Materials Universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Bailey Tibbett is a graduate student in the Keitz group at the University of Texas at Austin exploring the various applications of microbial metabolism specifically extracellular electron transfer to electron acceptors by the model organism Shewanella oneidensis. Bailey is the host of Season 2 of the Materials Universe Podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Stephanie Hurst's research centers on the design and synthesis of unique inorganic and organometallic complexes, with a particular emphasis on functional transition\u2011metal systems that exhibit p\u2011delocalization. She develops multi\u2011metallic platinum and palladium complexes with potential applications in energy transfer and catalysis. Her group also investigates how modified material surfaces\u2014such as tungsten selenide (WSe\u2082) and other dimetal chalcogenides\u2014can be tailored through surface functionalization. These materials show promise as competitors to diamond nitrogen\u2011vacancy systems for generating entangled qubits. Such emerging \u201cquantum materials\u201d are expected to play a critical role in enabling entangled quantum states, which will be foundational for advancing new branches of quantum\u2011based computation.
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