Faculty

Plastics product design, polymer processing, recycling of thermoplastics.

Additive Manufacturing, Printed Electronics, Additive Packaging, Metamaterials

Applied Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Composites, and Structures

Printed Electronics, Photonics, Semiconductor Devices, Fiber Optic Communications

Modal Analysis, Analytical and Experimental Structural Dynamics

Radiation Therapy and Medical Countermeasures for Radiological Terrorism; Development of Novel Cancer Treatments and Biosensors for Toxicity Testing and Cancer Diagnosis

Polymer colloids, soft matter, stimuli-responsive polymers, emulsion polymerization and water-based polymer coatings, inks and adhesives. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for nanomedicine, biomedical devices, drug delivery devices and biosensors.

Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology, nanowires

Materials science, self-healing materials, additive manufacturing (i.e. 3D printing) techniques

Computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, process control, injection molding, part design, mold design, finite element analysis

Plastics product and process design, process simulation, instrumentation, and control

Material Science, Optical & electronic properties of materials, Optical Spectroscopy, Devices

Geotechnical Engineering

Optoelectronics, Photonics, Infrared lasers and photodetectors, and focal plane arrays, optical antennas

Sustainable approaches to polymers, additives and multifunctional materials, structure-property-utility relationships of plastics and elastomers. Polymers and additives from renewable resources. Thermal & morphological characterization of materials, prototyping and scalable manufacture of flexible electronic products.

Renewable energy systems, wind turbine dynamics, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, optical sensing, structural health monitoring, non-destructive inspection, and smart materials

Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Nanotribology

Nanoscience and technology, condensed matters and optics

Renewable polymers, Plastics processing, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

Nanoelectronic Devices, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Wide badgap semiconductors and sensors

Optical sensors and optical devices

Physical & materials chemistry at surfaces & interfaces

Wastewater Treatment

Polymer Chemistry

Biochemistry, Physical Biochemistry, Data Mining, & Cheminformatics

Biochemistry

Clinical Chemistry, Analytical Biochemistry