Dmitri Cordova

About

The Cordova Lab at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in Michigan State University will focus on understanding the underlying chemistry of highly anisotropic extended lattices. We aim to build on existing interfaces in bulk crystals to target new materials with multi-dimensional heterointerfaces and modular subunits. Our unifying concept is control — specifically, control over nucleation and crystal growth. Once we achieve this control by understanding the interactions at the interfaces of low-dimensional motifs, we can intuitively design structures with specific functionalities for energy harvesting, optoelectronics, quantum devices, and sensing.

Education

• University of California Irvine, Postdoc 2020-2025
• University of Oregon, Ph.D. in Chemistry 2020
• University of the Philippines Manila, B.S. in Biochemistry 2013

Selected publications

• Cordova, D. L. M.*; Chua, K.*; Kerr, T. A.; Aoki, T.; Knez, D.; Skorupskii, G.; Lopez, D.; Ziller, J.; Fishman, D. A.; Arguilla, M. Q. Atomically precise inorganic helices with a programmable irrational twist. Nature Materials. 2024, 23, 1347
• Cordova, D. L. M.; Zhou, Y.; Milligan, G.; Cheng, L.†; Kerr, T.; Ziller, J.; Wu, R.; Arguilla, M. Q. Sensitive thermochromism of InSeI, a highly anisotropic and tubular 1D van der Waals solid. Advanced Materials. 2024, 36(21), 2312597
• Cordova, D. L. M.; Chua, K.; Huynh, R.; Aoki, T.; Arguilla, M. Q. Anisotropy-driven crystallization of dimensionally resolved quasi-1D van der Waals nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2024, 145(41), 22413
• Cordova, D. L. M.; Fender, S. S.; Kam, T. M.; Seyd, J.; Albrecht, M.; Lu, P.; Fischer, R.; Lu, P.; Johnson, D. C. Designed synthesis and structure-property relationships of kinetically stable [(PbSe)1+δ]m(VSe2)1 (m = 1, 2, 3, 4) heterostructures.