• Biocompatibility, protein & cell micropatterning
• Tissue engineering
• Photodynamic Therapy
• Bio-Sensors
• Protein immobilization
• Drug delivery & diagnostics
• Nano-, bio-technology

• Bio-inspiration
• Structure property correlation
• Genetically engineered materials
• Bio-synthetic hybrids
• Bio-energy
• Self-assembly
• Hard-tissue regeneration
• Structural biomimetics
• Friction & wear of orthopedic implant materials

Guozhong Cao
Kannan Krishnan
Mehmet Sarikaya
Jihui Yang

• Powder consolidation/Powder Synthesis
• Single crystal growth
• Sol-gel techniques
• Thin film deposition
• Chemical vapor deposition
• Physical vapor deposition
• Sintering & microstructure development

• Phase equilibria in ceramic systems
• Electrical and optical properties
• Magnetism and transport
• Mechanical behavior & failure mechanisms

Dwayne D. Arola
Guozhong Cao
Brian Flinn
Devin MacKenzie
Mehmet Sarikaya

• Ceramic, Metallic and polymer matrix composites
• Microstructure development
• Imaging of micro-defects
• Organic/inorganic hybrids
• Toughening of novel composites
• Adhesive layer effects

• Fast ion conductors
• Ferroelectric Materials
• Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics
• Rare-earth doped laser glass
• Electrodes and electrolytes
• Piezoceramic composites
• Nanomagnetism
• Spinelectronics
• Electro-optic materials
• Plasmonics
• Thin film transistors
• Energy materials
• Light-emitting materials
• Sensors
• Molecular Electronics
• Nanowire Devices
• Microwave photonics
• Optical properties and luminescence
• Electronic, optical & microwave packaging materials
• Thin film preparation and properties
• Multiphoton absorbing materials
• Nonlinear optical materials & devices
• Light harvesting materials & devices
• Information storage materials
• Spin-resolved transport & devices
• Charge transport phenomena in nanostructures

• High resolution & analytical electron microscopy
• Micro- and nanostructure determination
• Optical microscopy technique development
• X-ray, optical, Raman & electron spectroscopy
• X-ray and neutron scattering
• Scanning probe microscopy
• Interface and surface characterization
• Microwave-optical material characterization
• Electronic, photonic & microwave photonic characterization
• Magnetic, mechanical & thermal properties characterization

Dwayne D. Arola
Guozhong Cao
Bruce Hinds
Kannan Krishnan
Devin MacKenzie
Fumio Ohuchi
Peter Pauzauskie
Mehmet Sarikaya
Jihui Yang
Miqin Zhang

• Environmental effects
• Block-copolymers & SAMs
• Surface chemistry
• Self-assembly
• Interface engineering
• Surface modifications
• Biocrystallization
• Reaction kinetics & thermodynamics

• 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

• Strongly correlated electron systems
• Materials dimensional properties
• Photon transport
• Single Electron Transport
• Ionization/plasma-surface interactions
• Electron & hole transport processes
• Magnetism & Spinelectronics
• Spin-dependent transport

• Elastic and plastic deformation
• Corrosion and corrosion control
• Failure analysis
• Fracture, fatigue & torsion
• Processing
• Colloidal nanocrystals & superlattices
• Electroplating & hi-temp thermal bonding of Cu-on-Si
• Design of alloys
• Phase transformation
• Durability
• Novel processing for bulk nanocrystalline
• Shape memory alloys

• Polymers for electroluminescence & light harvesting
• Polymers for 3-D microfabrication
• Mechanical properties of polymers
• Bio-polymers
• Polymer nanostructures
• Polymer nanowires
• Design & synthesis of functional molecules & polymers for electrical optical & biological applications
• Processing of structural polymers
• Polymers for Energy & Sensing
• Target delivery and controlled release