Faculty

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.

Electrochemical energy conversion and storage, mass/charge transport phenomena, electrochemical reaction kinetics, flowable slurry electrodes.

Additive Manufacturing, Printed Electronics, Additive Packaging, Metamaterials, Functional Printable Inks, Electromagnetics and RF Devices

Processing: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Compounding, Foaming, Injection Molding; Materials: Multifunctional Nanocomposites, Biopolymers & Biocomposites, Advanced Polymeric Foams

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

Robot Learning, Learning from Demonstration, Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning

Plastics processing, including extrusion, injection molding, and novel processing techniques; nanomanufacturing with polymers; 3D printing

Nanotoxicology, analytical toxicology, human bio/monitoring for toxic exposures, inflammation, oxidative stress, asthma, isocyanates, PFAS

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.

Space experiments, Hyperspectral imaging from UV to near IR, Lidar.

Plastics Recycling, Bioplastics, Microplastics, Safer Solvents and Chemicals, Biomass Conversion

Communication Networks & Network Security

Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Nanomaterials

Analytical Chemistry, Materials

Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management; Organization Theory

Visible and ultraviolet instrumentation, Sounding rockets, Small satellites, Tomography & other novel data analysis techniques.

Sports Medicine and Human Performance; Autonomic Nervous System Function; Enhancement and Promotion of Health and Fitness

Host-microbe interaction; microbial pathogenesis, Infection/inflammation-mediated cancer, immune responses, Inflammatory diseases; Gastro-intestinal diseases; ‘gut in a dish’ model with microbes, epithelial cells and immune cells; Organoid and stem cell biology; organoid-based disease modeling.

Computational chemistry, Machine Learning, Nonequilibrium Assembly, Biomimetic Active Matter; Computational Nanoscience

Research center operations; experimental mechanics of sports equipment; material characterization of composite materials, foams, and wood; and high-speed imaging Experimental mechanics of sports equipment; material characterization of composite materials, foams, and wood

Molecular and Developmental Biology

Neurorehabilitation, Gaming for Telerehabilitation, Motion capture outside of laboratory settings, Neuroimaging, Neurocapacity and Behavior Change

Data Management Systems 

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology, nanowires

Nanomaterial growth and optoelectronic device applications

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

Structural health monitoring, Diagnostics and Prognostics, Structural dynamics, Vibrations, Acoustics, Signal processing, Nonlinear Dynamics

Self-organized dynamics in complex systems, Multi-agent systems, Connected and autonomous vehicles, System reliability and prognostics, Robotic ensembles

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

Gait rehabilitation, biomechanics and neuromuscular control of human walking

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

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

Geotechnical Engineering

Nano-composites, Coatings, Transparent conductive electrodes, Organic photo-voltaic, Collaborative research between faculty members, Industry and Government partners.

Electrochemical energy generation and storage, Solar energy conversion through photo-electrochemical reactions, Ion-conductive membranes for electrochemical systems, Nanostructured materials, CFD simulation of energy conversion devices

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

Combustion, Biofuels, Internal Combustion Engines, Machine Learning, Energy Resilience, Propulsion

Nutritional Epidemiology; Nutritional Sciences; Clinical Trials; Gut Microbiome; Musculoskeletal Aging

Rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers, design, properties and processing of elastomers, nano materials.

Robotics, Test and Evaluation, Human-Robot Interaction, Field Testing

Polymer Processing, Multiscale Fiber Manufacturing, Electrospinning, Polymer Nanocomposite, Extrusion, Additive Manufacturing, Hierarchical Structural Assembly, Smart Textile.

Novel functional materials for printed electronics and additive manufacturing, Synthesis and characterization of different types of nanomaterials, RF and microwave device characterization, Rapid prototyping

Materials Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Analytical Chemistry, Energy Materials, Photonics

Cell Biology

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Sports Engineering, Finite Element Modeling

Renewable polymers, Plastics recycling, extrusion, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Textiles, Multi-Scale Modeling, Finite Element Modeling, Adhesively Bonded Joints, Sandwich Structures, Tissue Engineering, Discrete Element Method

printed electronics, low-thermal budget curing, conductive inks, wearable electronics, nanofabrication, electrochemistry, sensors

Polymers and Biopolymers in Biomedicine; Antimicrobial and Biofilm-Controlling Systems, Drug Delivery and Biomedical Devices.

Sustainable Energy Engineering; Plasma Science & Engineering; Computational Transport Phenomena

Optical sensors and optical devices

Physical & materials chemistry at surfaces & interfaces

Computational and Experimental Aerodynamics, Renewable Energy, Engineering Education

Reaction engineering; chemical kinetics; catalysis; sustainability principles

Technology-based Neurorehabilitation, Home-based Rehabilitation and Monitoring Technology, Human and Human-Robot Performance.

Transportation Engineering

The chemistry of electrophilic azides, glyconanomaterials, antimicrobial nanomaterials, graphene chemistry

Strategic management and entrepreneurship

Biomedical Imaging, Medical Image Reconstruction, Medical Image Processing & Analysis

Applied Electromagnetics, High-Frequency Circuits and Systems

Bio-inspired surface science and engineering; Roll-to-Roll processing for functional polymeric surface; High-rate manufacturing of polymer nanocomposites