Nanomanufacturing

Nanomanufacturing Center

Meet Our Faculty

Robert Malloy, Ph.D.

Professor & Department Chair

Plastics product design, polymer processing, recycling of thermoplastics.
Emmanuelle Reynaud, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Materials Science, Nanomanufacturing
Daniel F. Schmidt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Materials preparation and structure/properties relationships in polymer nanocomposites, polymer crosslinking and network formation, pre-ceramic polymers, sol-gel chemistry and materials analysis (porosimetry, permeation testing, thermal analysis, x-ray diffraction & spectroscopic techniques)
Alkim Akyurtlu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Electromagnetics
Craig Armiento, Ph.D.

Professor

Fiber Optics, Semiconductor & Devices
Todd Avery, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Peter Avitabile, D.Eng.

Professor & Co-Director

Modal Analysis, Analytical and Experimental Structural Dynamics
Carol Barry, D.Eng.

Co-Director, Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence; Associate Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing; Professor

Extrusion, injection molding, electrorheology, novel processing techniques, coatings, CAE & nano plastics processing
Dhimiter Bello, Sc.D., MSc

Associate Professor
Susan J. Braunhut, Ph.D.

Professor

Tissue Regeneration; Ionizing Radiation Therapy for Human Cancer; Hyperthermia; Breast Cancer; Vascular Biology; Extracellular Matrix
Bridgette Budhlall, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Synthesis & applications of polymer colloids & soft matter towards stimuli-responsive materials. Emulsion polymers. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for biomedical devices, drug delivery systems & biosensors.
Majid Charmchi, Ph.D.

Professor, Associate Chair & Graduate Coordinator

Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics
Julie Chen, Ph.D.

Vice-Provost for Research, Professor, Co-Director

Composite Materials, Nanomanufacturing.
Michael J. Ellenbecker, Sc.D.

Professor
Rudolf Faust, Ph.D.

Professor

Polymer Chemistry
Zhiyong Gu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology, nanowires
Lee Jun, ScD

Research Professor

Characterization and analysis of novel nanostructured materials, anti microbial properties on silver nanoparticlate-filled medical graded polymer, plastics processing for nano feature, environmental coating development and establish test bed for MMIC related to accelerated THB test.
David Kazmer, Ph.D

Professor

Plastics product design & process engineering
Jayant Kumar, Ph.D.

Professor, Director

Material Science, Optical & electronic properties of materials, Optical Spectroscopy, Devices
Pradeep Kurup, Ph.D.

Professor

Geotechnical Engineering
Young-Kyun Kwon

Assistant Professor Physics
Xuejun Lu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics & Fiber Optics
Sanjeev Manohar, Ph.D.

Associate Dean, Associate Professor
Martin Margala, Ph.D.

Chair, Professor, Deputy Director - AETC

Digital & Mixed-Signal VLSI Design & VLSI Testing
Kenneth Marx, Ph.D.

Professor

Biochemistry, Physical Biochemistry, Data Mining, & Cheminformatics
Melisenda Jean McDonald, Ph.D.

Professor

Biochemistry
Joey Mead, Ph.D.

Co-Director, Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence; Deputy Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing; Professor

Rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers, design, properties and processing of elastomers, nano materials.
Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Biocatalysis, greener advanced materials (electronic, photo-responsive polymers, molecularly integrated hybrid nanomaterials, materials for energy conversion/storage), elastomers, thermal & morphological characterization of materials, roll to roll manufacture of flexible electronic products
Christopher Niezrecki, Ph.D.

Professor, Director - Wind Energy Research Group, Co-director - Structural Dynamics & Acoustic Systems Laboratory

Modeling & control of vibrations & acoustics, smart structures & materials
Eugene J Rogers, Ph.D., M.S., N.R.C.C., MT(ASCP)

Professor, Chair

Clinical Chemistry, Analytical Biochemistry
Marina Ruths, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Surface & Colloid Chemistry
Daniel Sandman, Ph.D.

Professor, Associate Director

Organic & materials chemistry; synthesis & physico-chemical study of organic & polymeric conjugated materials; solid state polymerization
Thomas B. Shea, Ph.D.

Professor, Director

Cell Biology
Mengyan Shen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Nanoscience and technology, condensed matters and optics
Hongwei Sun, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Microfluidics
Joel Therrien, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Nanoelectronic Devices
Xingwei Wang, Ph.D

Associate Professor

Optical biosensing & biomedical devices
James E. Whitten, Ph.D.

Chairman, Professor

Physical & materials chemistry at surfaces & interfaces
Xiaoqi (Jackie) Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor

Environmental Engineering

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