At interfaces, reduced dimensionality and non-local interactions conspire to generate emergent chemistry with no bulk analogue.
The King Lab measures how spatial confinement, ultrafast dynamics, broken symmetry, and chirality at interfaces conspire to generate emergent chemistry, and turns those insights into design principles.
Our primary research directions and recent advances
How physical extent, anisotropy, and boundary conditions determine which collective excitations a material can support, and which it cannot.
Polaron formation, carrier-phonon coupling, and ultrafast dynamics don't just happen at interfaces, they are key to interfacial function.
At ferroic domain boundaries, symmetry breaking creates interfacial chemistry with no bulk analogue and new routes to programmable material behavior.
Chirality encodes information about interfacial structure that achiral measurements cannot access, connecting molecular-scale symmetry to emergent optical and electronic behavior.
Our research is made possible through the generous support of these agencies and foundations
We gratefully acknowledge the support of these funding agencies and foundations, which has been essential to our research progress and scientific discoveries. This support allows us to pursue cutting-edge investigations into interfacial science and develop new techniques for nanoscale imaging.
