Report summary

University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in 2024-2026 reads as a 43-PI network with 73 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Materials Science as the leading field (27% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Materials Chemistry as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 18 PIs; 18 labels), and Block Copolymer Self-Assembly as the leading topic (4% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 18 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Theresa M. Reineke (15.9 weighted works; RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques). The strongest pairings are Bharat Jalan and K. Andre Mkhoyan (12 shared works, weight 5.7). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 17.2, around Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Organic Chemistry, led by Christopher J. Ellison, Timothy P. Lodge, C. Daniel Frisbie.