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Northwestern University Department of Chemistry in 2024-2026 reads as a 57-PI network with 135 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Materials Science as the leading field (25% of slots across 33 PIs; 33 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (15% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), and Perovskite Materials and Applications as the leading topic (4% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 17 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Mercouri G. Kanatzidis (44.6 weighted works; Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices). The strongest pairings are Mercouri G. Kanatzidis and Vinayak P. Dravid (14 shared works, weight 7.7). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 39.4, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, led by Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Chad A. Mirkin, Edward H. Sargent.