• Aerospace
• Armors
• Space Exploration
• Biocomposite materials
• Sustainability
• Electronics
• Energy
• Sensing
• Photonics and quantum materials
• Scalable solution processing of energy, electronic, optical & quantum materials

• Biocompatibility, protein & cell micropatterning
• Tissue engineering
• Photodynamic Therapy
• Bio-Sensors
• Protein immobilization
• Drug delivery & diagnostics
• Nano-, bio-technology
• Sustainability
• Biohybrid materials for environment and sustainability
• Membranes
• Kidney Dialysis

• Manufacturing
• Polymers
• AAI/ML for additive manufacturing and biosensing
• Quantum Materials
• Energy Materials

• Scalable solar cell materials and processing
• Energy systems and storage
• Energy conversion
• Li-ion battery materials

• High resolution & analytical electron microscopy
• Micro- & nanostructure determination
• Optical microscopy technique development
• X-ray, optical, Raman & electron spectroscopy
• X-ray & neutron scattering
• Scanning probe microscopy
• Interface & surface characterization
• Microwave-optical material characterization
• Electronic, photonic & microwave photonic characterization
• Magnetic, mechanical & thermal properties characterization
• Aerospace composites
• High-resolution & high-speed atomic force microscopy
• 3D fast force mapping

Dwayne D. Arola
Guozhong Cao
Ting Cao
Bruce Hinds
Kannan Krishnan
Jun Liu
Devin MacKenzie
Peter Pauzauskie
Xiaodong Xu
Jihui Yang
Miqin Zhang
Shuai Zhang

• Environmental effects
• Block-copolymers
• Self-assembly
• Interface engineering
• Biocrystallization
• Reaction kinetics & thermodynamics
• Interfacial dynamics & mineralization
• Photo and electro catalysis

Lucien Brush
Ting Cao
Kannan Krishnan
Di Xiao
Jihui Yang
Navid Zobeiry

• Atomistic computer simulations of structures
• Properties of crystalline defects
• Computational modeling of solidifications
• Modeling studies of materials processing
• Electronic structure calculations
• Modeling of magnetic & mechanical properties
• Micro-magnetic modeling
• First-principles calculations
• Multi-scale modeling of failure
• Process simulation of polymer composites

• Nano-mechanics
• Condensed matter physics
• Semiconductor materials
• Magnetic materials
• Topological & electronic materials

Ting Cao
Devin MacKenzie
Charlie Marcus
Peter Pauzauskie
Di Xiao
Xiaodong Xu
Matthew Yankowitz

• Quantum dot & photonics processing for integrated quantum optical devices
• First-principles calculations
• Theory
• Quantum optoelectronics
• Quantum electronics
• Quantum information science
• Data storage and computing