Assistant Professor
jtheron@umich.edu
734-763-6914
University of Michigan
Affiliation(s):
IRG 2
Faculty
Department:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Extramural Member, Center for Nanoscale Science
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- 2020 Highlights
- Atomic Structure of Domain Walls in a Polar Metal
- Atomic-scale measurement of polar entropy
- Simple Theory for Binding-Based Molecular Chemotaxis
- Shape-programmed 3D printed swimming microtori for the transport of passive and active agents
- Heat transport in phonetic metalattices
- Spinodal Electronic Phase Separation in VO2
- Education & Outreach: Building PREM
- 2022 Highlights
- Crossover from Ising to Rashba Superconductivity in Epitaxial Bi2Se3/Monolayer NbSe2 Heterostructures
- Electrocaloric Effect of Perovskite High Entropy Oxide Films
- Enhancing Catalytic Activity by High-Entropy Bandgap Engineering
- Inclusive Scientific Gatherings
- Mission-focused Mentoring of PREM Undergraduates
- Optical Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Protein with Machine Learning
- Penn State Sustainable Lab Program
- Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Epitaxial Topological Insulators/Superconductor Heterostructures
- 2019 Highlights
- Electric-Field Control of Polar Vortices
- Large Property Enhancements through Minute Symmetry Breaking
- Acoustic Regulated Rheotaxis of Catalytic Micromotors
- Substrate-driven Chemotactic Assembly in Enzyme Cascade
- Nickel Magnetic Metalattices
- Functional nanostructure synthesis
- Nanowire orientation and assembly
- College Prep for Blind/Low-Vision Students
- Engaging Center Students & Postdocs
- 2018 Highlights
- — Enhanced diffusion of enzymes induced by changes in conformation fluctuations
- — Lead Zirconate Titanate MEMS Ultrasound Arrays
- — Learning from Data to Design Acentric Materials
- — Nanowire Assembly Enables Switchable Broadband Polarizers
- — Science Camps for Blind and Low-vision Students
- — Subatomic microscopy as a key to materials design
- — Well-ordered Colloid "Compounds"
- 2017 Highlights
- — All-dielectric Near-infrared Artificial Mirror
- — Controlling the 'coffee ring effect' to design coatings, cosmetics, and spray drying
- — Correlated Metals as Transparent Conductors
- — High-precision quantum anomalous Hall state
- — MRSEC Tour Guide Team
- — Polar Vortices in Oxide Superlattices
- — Single-crystal Semiconductor Core Fibers
- 2016 Highlights
- — Wafer-Scale Growth of Correlated Electronic Oxides
- — A Ferroelectric with a Metal-Insulator Transition
- — Boundaries Can Steer Active Janus Micromotors
- — A Cheap Disposable Microfluidic Device for Diagnosing Disease
- — Extreme Band-Gap Reduction in Laser-crystallized Si Fibers
- — Structural Aftershocks in VO2 Switching
- — Single Fluxon Controlled Resistance Switching
- — Integrating Diversity Across Programs
- 2014 Highlights
- — A New Family of Layered Piezoelectrics
- — Broadband and Wide Field-of-view Plasmonic Metasurface-enabled Waveplates
- — Dual-‐Plasmonic Gold–Indium Oxide Hybrid Nanoparticles
- — Extending Crystallographic Foundations of Materials
- — MRSEC-Millennium Scholar Partnership
- — NanoDays at Penn State
- — Resistance quantum oscillations in topological nanotubes
- 2005 - 2013 Highlights
- 2013 Highlights
- Layered Ferroics as Superior Microwave Dielectrics
- Biocompatible nanomotors powered by ultrasound: magnetic steering and interactions with live cells
- Bone-Crack Detection, Targeting and Repair Using Ion Gradients
- Crystalline Si p-i-n junction flexible fibers
- Enzyme Molecules as Nanomotors
- Getting to Know the Science in your Pocket$
- Institutional-Level Diversity Initiatives#
- Neal-Ideal Optical Metamaterial Absorbers with Super-Octave Bandwidth
- Non-Mechanical Pumps With a Memory of an Applied Signal
- Quantum Phase Slips and Switching Bistability in Superconducting Nanowires
- Re-imagining CVD for Nanomaterials
- Single-‐Fluxon Controlled Resistance Switching in Cen7meter Long Nanowires
- Thermotropic Phase Boundaries
- Transition between Collective Behaviors of Micromotors in Response to Different Stimuli
- Tunable Nanowire Patterning with Acoustic Tweezers
- 2012 Highlights
- Electric-Field Control of Magnetism
- Engaging Diverse High School Students
- Integrated photonic systems based on transformation optics devices
- Interplay between topological Insulator and superconductor
- Light-Emitting Triangles for Applications in Optical Technology
- Manipulating Single Cells & Organisms with Acoustic Tweezers
- Molecular sensing is greatly enhanced by doped Graphene
- Self-Powered Microscale Pumps Based on Analyte-Initiated Depolymerization Reactions
- Superconductivity in Centimeter-Long In-Ga Nanowires
- Women in STEM Mixer
- 2011 Highlights
- Autonomous Motors Powered by Ultrasound
- CdS motors are switchable by light
- Colossal negative magnetoresistance in adatom-engineered graphene
- Hidden Roto Symmetries in Nature Discovered
- Low-‐Loss Zero-‐Index Metamaterial in the Near-‐Infrared
- Materials for High Speed Fiber Optoelectronics
- Micropumps powered by analyte-initiated depolymerization
- Museum Show: Hidden Power
- Optical Switching of Liquid Crystals using Surface Acoustic Waves
- Superconductivity and Vortices in Topological Insulator Nanoribbons
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