Faculty within the Materials Branch
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Hoda Amani Hamedani
Develops multifunctional materials and flexible nanostructured platforms for electrochemical and biomedical devices, localized drug delivery, neural interfacing, and electrochemical sensing; studies nanomaterials evolution/interactions in controlled (liquid) environments using in-situ characterization techniques
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Eric Baer
Develops processing-structure-property relationships in polymeric systems; creates micro- and nano-layered films; and produces biomimetic hierarchical structures of soft materials
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Bud Baeslack III
Researching materials science and engineering
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Erika Barcelos
Develops geospatial predictive models and geospatial data science tools to study climate and environmental related phenomena and their impacts in nature. Develop data management and data integration frameworks for data and metadata to enable FAIRification.
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John Blackwell
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Laura Bruckman
Develops predictive lifetime models for materials degradation related to stress conditions and induced degradation mechanisms evaluated by quantitative spectroscopic characterization of materials
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Jennifer Carter
deformation mechanisms of metals and metal-matrix composites; fatigue, fracture, and creep; failure analysis; electron microscopy; 3D microscopy; novel methodologies for multi-scale material characterization; data science and analytics; open science
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Chung-Fu Cheng
My research interest focuses on developing polymers with unique mechanical properties and understanding their process-structure-property relationships.
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Alberto Costa
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Mark De Guire
Analyzes performance of ceramics in energy applications, including fuel cells and oxygen transport membranes
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Frank Ernst
Studies and engineers microstructures, interfaces and surfaces of metallic materials by novel methods of processing and microcharacterization
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Roger French
Applies data science and analytics to energy and materials science research problems
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Janet Gbur
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Arthur Heuer
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Michael Hore
Combines experiments, theory and simulation to study fundamental problems in the polymer physics of grafted and non-linear polymers
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Hatsuo Ishida
Develops advanced benzoxazine resins, thermosetting resins based on natural renewable materials and green flame retarding systems
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Alex Jamieson
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Peter Lagerlof
Develops a unified theory for plastic deformation via slip and deformation twinning
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John Lewandowski
Researches material reliability for biomedical and structural applications, advanced materials manufacturing and processing/microstructure/property relationships. Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing.
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Joao Maia
Develops multi-scale, complex polymer-based materials, using both experimental and computational-based tools
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Ica Manas-Zloczower
Engineering new materials and technologies for industrial applications
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David Matthiesen
Develops process engineering solutions for the manufacturing of new magnetic materials
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Jim McGuffin-Cawley
Develops new methodologies for material processing, characterizes processing-property relationships, studies high-temperature diffusion and solid-state reactions, fosters industry-university relationships
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Sveta Morozova
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Pirouz Pirouz
Optimizes semiconductors, electron microscopy, mechanisms of twinning and metal-ceramic interfaces
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Valentin Rodionov
Investigates catalysis with soft materials: catalytic surfactants and polymers; complex macromolecular architectures for bio-inspired catalysis; and ligand-mediated nanocatalysis
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David Schiraldi
Develops bio-based, flame-retarded plastics, polymer aerogels and packaging materials; and studies properties of polyesters
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Alp Sehirlioglu
Develops new materials through exploitation of interfaces to control functionality and exploration of multi-functionality for energy-related applications
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Abhinendra Singh
My current and future research interests are multi-disciplinary and lie at the intersections of soft matter, fluid dynamics, rheology, and tribology and integrates rigorous discrete particle simulations with hydrodynamics to study the particle-laden flows.
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Pawan Tripathi
Develop data analysis techniques, tools, and pipelines for high dimensional datasets in materials science such as synchrotron XRD, XCT, and advanced manufacturing to reveal insights, and correlations and improve predictive modeling leveraging deep learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical methods. Materials Data Science, Advanced Manufacturing, Synchrotron Data Analysis, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Uncertainty Quantification, Atomistic Simulation
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Gerhard Welsch
Develops new processing methods and designs for energy storage and optimized materials
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Matthew Willard
Investigates phase transformations and materials processing, especially their impact on structure and properties of materials
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Gary Wnek
Develops advanced polymers for packaging, biomaterial applications and more.
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Jeffrey Yarus
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Lei Zhu
Develops high-energy and high-performance polymers based on close relationships among structure, property and processing