Dave McIlroy

I am a physicist. I like math and stuff like that. I like to play in my lab. I have lots of condensed matter toys that allow me to create unique and interesting materials and study their stoichiometry, morphology, electrical and optical properties.

Long live Rich Sanchez!

Research Interests:

I am an experimental condensed matter physicist. I study the chemical, optical and electrical properties of unique materials that we create in my laboratory. This includes silica nanosprings, and more recently, mesoscopic gold polyhedral structures, which we refer to as pyramids. We combine these materials with other materials to create what are referred to as emergent materials - materials that have unique properties that their parts by themselves don't possess.