NRTGE | No Reason to Get Excited

Periodic Table as a Playground: Quantum Materials, Molecular Intercalation, and the Chemistry of Crystals That Change Color | Lilia Xie

June 23, 2026·1h 25m
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Send us Fan Mail What if the technologies of the future are built from materials we haven't even made yet? In this episode of No Reason to Get Excited (NRTGE), Dr. Aaron Winkler sits down with Lilia Xie, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University, to explore the world of quantum materials, where the arrangement of atoms, the energy of electrons, and even the angle between atomic layers can transform a material from insulator to metal to supe...

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