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Research

Research Areas

Additive Manufacturing

Faculty Applications
Dwayne D. Arola
Devin MacKenzie
Eleftheria Roumeli
Quansan Yang
  • Aerospace
  • Armors
  • Space Exploration
  • Biocomposite materials
  • Sustainability
  • Electronics
  • Energy
  • Sensing
  • Photonics and quantum materials
  • Scalable solution processing of energy, electronic, optical & quantum materials

Biomaterials & Bionanotechnology

Faculty Applications
Dwayne D. Arola
Bruce Hinds
Kannan Krishnan
Devin MacKenzie
Peter Pauzauskie
Eleftheria Roumeli
Avik Som
Quansan Yang
Miqin Zhang
Shuai Zhang
  • 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

Data Science & Computation

Faculty Applications
Ting Cao
Devin MacKenzie
Navid Zobeiry
  • Manufacturing
  • Polymers
  • AAI/ML for additive manufacturing and biosensing
  • Quantum Materials
  • Energy Materials

Energy Materials

Faculty Applications
Jun Liu
Devin MacKenzie
Jihui Yang
  • Scalable solar cell materials and processing
  • Energy systems and storage
  • Energy conversion
  • Li-ion battery materials

Materials Characterization

Faculty Applications
Guozhong Cao
Ting Cao
Mo Chen
Bruce Hinds
Juan Carlos Idrobo
Jun Liu
Peter Pauzauskie
Xiaodong Xu
Quansan Yang
Shuai Zhang
Navid Zobeiry
  • 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

Materials Chemistry

Faculty Applications

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

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

Materials Modeling

Faculty Applications

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

Materials Physics

Faculty Applications
Ting Cao
Mo Chen
Kannan Krishnan
Di Xiao
Xiaodong Xu
Matthew Yankowitz
Shuai Zhang
  • Nano-mechanics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • Semiconductor materials
  • Magnetic materials
  • Topological & electronic materials

Quantum Materials

Faculty Applications

Ting Cao
Mo Chen
Devin MacKenzie
Charles 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