The Fredrickson Lab research aims to elucidate the chemical principles underlying the structures of the solid-state compounds that form upon alloying metals together: intermetallic compounds. Their focus is to reveal the chemical origins of these structures, with the ultimate goal of gaining some degree of synthetic control of this structural diversity. With this knowledge in hand, they hope to use atomic structures of these phases as parameters for optimization of a variety of material properties important for energy technology, including superconductivity, thermoelectricity, and catalysis.