Chemical and Materials Engineering
Kimberly Anderson, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biocompatible Surfaces, Cancer Cell Metastasis, Cell-Based Biosensors, Microfluidic Devices for Biological Applications
Rodney Andrews, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization
Thomas John Balk, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Deformation Mechanisms and Mechanical Behavior of Nanoporous Metals, in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy, Structure, Thin Film Plasticity
Matthew J. Beck, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Application of Novel Quantum Mechanical Methods to Diffusion, Computational Materials Science of Nanomaterials and Materials for Energy, Electron Transport and Catalysis.
Brad Berron, Ph.D.
Research Areas: biomolecular interactions with interfaces, coatings for drug delivery, electrode modification, enzyme mediated polymerization, interfacial transport phenomena, Materials for biological detection
Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Membrane Separation, Nanotechnology, Tunable Membranes and Biocatalysis, Water Treatment
Yang-Tse Cheng, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biomedical Devices, Conservation, Energy, Nanostructured Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing
Thomas Dziubla, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Active Polymeric Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Functionalized Polymer Nanocarriers, Postsurgical Adhesions., Pro/antioxidant Biomaterials, Wound Healing
Richard E. Eitel, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Ceramics, Clinical and Translational Science, Lab-on-a-Chip, Materials Science and Engineering, Microfluidics, Smart Materials and Devices
Derek L. Englert, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biomass conversion to biofuels and higher value products, Microfluidic technology for studying biological processes, Tissue culture/engineering
Eric A. Grulke, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Advanced Carbon Materials and Nanotechnology, Diffusion in Polymers, Polymerization
J. Zach Hilt, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Polymer Science
Bruce J. Hinds, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Molecular Electronics, Nanoscale Device Fabrication, Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Thin Film Processes
Douglass S. Kalika, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Blends and Synthetic Membranes, Polymer Nanocomposites, Polymer Processing, Rheology
Barbara L. Knutson, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biotechnology, Materials Processing, Self-Assembly in Compressed Fluids, Separations, Solution Thermodynamics, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Biosynthesis
Daniel W. Pack, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Engineering of advanced drug delivery systems with an emphasis on human gene therapy for the prevention control and treatment of disease
Christina M. Payne, P.E., Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biophysics, Biopolymers, Biotechnology, Computational science, Energy, Enzymes, Molecular modeling
Stephen E. Rankin, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biotechnology, Interfacial Science, Multiscale Modeling, Nanotechnology, Reaction Engineering, Renewable Energy, Separations
Asit K. Ray, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Chemical and Transprort Processes Associated with Microparticles, Light-scattering, Optical Microsensors based on Spherical Microparticles, Physical, Synthesis of Tailored Micro- and Nano-particles
Jeffrey Seay, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Biofuels, Computer Aided Process Engineering, Energy, Green Engineering, Process Design, Process Safety, Sustainability
David L. Silverstein, Ph.D.
Research Areas: colloids and interfacial phenomena, distance learning, Fluids modeling in porous media, interactive multimedia educational software, model-based process control, surface kinetics, surfactant induced water movement
Jimmy L. Smart, PhD, PE.
Research Areas: Use of Membranes for Water Purification
Tate T. H. Tsang, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Parallel Computation of Three-Dimensional Transport of Reactive Species in Air Pollution Modeling
Fuqian Yang, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Contact Deformation of Materials, Electrical-Chemical-Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Micromechanics of Advanced Materials
Tongguang (Tony) Zhai, Ph.D.
Research Areas: Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture, Micro and Macrotexture, Simulation of Fatigue Damage, Structure/Property Relations