Anyone used material design style contact chips in their ionic apps?

I want to have a typeahead contact search input in my app where selecting a contact results in a contact chip being prepended to the input field, for example:

https://material.angularjs.org/latest/demo/chips
http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_contact_chips.asp

I can put something together but I just wanted to first check there wasn’t an Ionic component already available for this, and how people are doing this in there apps?

Cheers,

Derek.

Well I heard that chips is coming to ionic 2

http://blog.ionic.io/announcing-the-release-of-ionic-2-beta-6/

anyone has other alternative for using md chips ?