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Chemical and Materials Engineering

Kim Anderson - cell adhesion to surfaces, biocompatible sensors, cell-based biosensors, biofouling.

D. B. Bhattacharyya - Membrane Separation/Functionalization, Tunable Membranes and Biocatalysis, Dechlorination of Hazardous Organics by Nano-Structured Metals

Paul Dunbar - Environmental, Biochemical modeling, and Electrochemical

Ari Geertsema - Industrial applications of coal and gas conversion, Coal gasification, Direct coal liquefaction, Natural gas reforming, Gas-to-liquid technologies, Fischer-Tropsch technology, Petrochemical catalytic processing, Techno-economic viability of ventures, Technology management.

Peter Gillis - Principles of mechanics and solid state physics with application to materials

Eric Grulke - Advanced Carbon Materials; Diffusion in Polymers, Polymerization

Bruce Hinds - Nano-scale device fabrication, molecular electronics/spintronics, thin film processes, semiconductor interface states, inorganic chemical synthesis.

Gerald Huffman - Liquefaction of Waste Materials and the coliquefaction of waste materials with Coal

Frank Huggins - Energy, Environment, Element Speciation, XAFS Spectroscopy, Particulate Matter

Doug Kalika - polymers, plastics, rheology, membranes

Mark Keane - Heterogeneous Catalysis; Adsorption Phenomena; Zeolites; Environmental Pollution Control; Catalytic Enantioselectivity; Growth of Highly Ordered Carbon by Catalysis; Kinetic Modeling.

Richard Kermode - Control and Process Design for Improving the Synthesis of Moderately Complex Processes

Barbara Knutson - Compressed and supercritical fluid technology; Phase behavior of fluorinated and CO2-expanded liquids for synthesis, separation, and materials processing; Whole cell and enzymatic synthesis and product recovery; Interactions of macromolecules and biomolecules at compressible fluid interfaces.

Rhonda Lee-DeSautels - Powder Technology, Interparticle Forces, Gas-Solid Fluidization, Wastewater Treatment Modeling

James Morris - Deformation and recrystallization texture studies, Recrystallization kinetic, Formability studies

Kenji Okasaki - Nanocrystalline materials, Dental Implants

Lynn Penn - Fundamental aspects of adhesion at interfaces, heterogeneous phase chemical modification of solid surfaces, tethered polymer chains, responsive surfaces, fiber-reinforced polymers (composites), and nanocomposites.

Steve Rankin -Materials, Synthesis, Self-Assembly, Simulation, Organic-inorganic Hybrids

Asit Ray - Light Scattering, Physical Chemical Processes Associated with Microparticles, Synthesis of Micro and Nano-sized Particles, Optical Microsensors Based Spherical Microparticles.

Philip Reucroft - Surface analysis and structural characterization of single layer and multilayer materials that have been fabricated by CVD and PVD techniques. Wear resistant coatings on machine tools. Thermodynamics of gas and vapor interactions with microporous/mesoporous carbons and polymers. Surface analysis of novel materials, heterogeneous catalysts and carbonaceous materials. Electrical characteristics of semiconducting and metallic systems

J. Thomas Schrodt - Viscosity non-idealities, kinetic mechanism(s)

David Silverstein - Fluids modeling in porous media; colloids and interfacial phenomena; surface kinetics; surfactant induced water movement; model-based process control; distance learning; interactive multimedia educational software.

Jim Smart - membrane; environmental; pervaporation; water purification; remediation

Tate Tsang - Least-squares finite element method, Parallel computation of three-dimensional transport of reactive species in air pollution modeling, Large eddy simulation.

Fuqian Yang - Micromechanics of Advanced Materials, Microelectromechanical Systems, Smart Materials and Structures, Electromechnical Behavior of Dielectric Materials.

Tongguang Zhai - Metal Fatigue and Fracture, Micro- and Macro-texture, Structure/Property relations, Electron Microscopy and Acoustic Microscopy, Powder Metallurgy Magnetic Materials, and Failure Analysis.

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