Research Areas

• Advanced Materials
• Biological Engineering
• Energy
• Theory and Computation

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Areas of Research

• Biotechnology and Bioengineering

  Development of biomaterials and tissues, modelling of metabolic pathways and transport systems, computational biology and bioinformatics, studies on cell growth and products.

  
  Faculty:

  Kevin Dorfman, Benjamin Hackel, Wei-Shou Hu, Yiannis Kaznessis, Kenneth Keller, Efrosini Kokkoli, Friedrich Srienc, Robert Tranquillo, Joseph Zasadzinski, Kechun Zhang

• Ceramics and Metals

  Measuring and improving mechanical behavior of ceramics and other materials, modelling the processing of ceramics, developing new ceramic materials with interesting properties. Studying high temperature properties of minerals and planetary materials.

  
  Faculty:

  Lorraine Francis, William Gerberich, Bharat Jalan, Chris Leighton, Alon McCormick, David Shores, Renata Wentzcovitch

• Coating Processes and Interfacial Engineering

  Development of models and materials for coating, as well as examining coating processes, with applications to adhesives, magnetic disks and tapes, intergrated circuits, and the production of polymer electronics on flexible substrates.

  
  Faculty:

  Lorraine Francis, William Gerberich, Eric Kaler, Satish Kumar, Christopher Macosko, Alon McCormick, Michael Tsapatsis

• Crystal Growth and Design

  Understanding and modelling crystal growth, studies on crystalline organic semiconductors and nanocrystals, properties and modelling of thin films.

  
  Faculty:

  Eray Aydil, Jeffrey Derby, C. Daniel Frisbie, Bharat Jalan, Chris Leighton

• Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Materials

  Development of materials with novel electronic, optical, and magnetic properties.

  
  Faculty:

  Eray Aydil, Matteo Cococcioni, C. Daniel Frisbie, Russell J Holmes, Bharat Jalan, Chris Leighton, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Renata Wentzcovitch

• Polymers

  Developing polymers for new applications, such as drug delivery and compact disks, studies on natural polymers, advances in biorenewable and biodegradable polymers, nanoscale morphology in melts and solutions, rheological properties.

  
  Faculty:

  Frank Bates, Xiang Cheng, Efrosini Kokkoli, Timothy Lodge, Christopher Macosko, David Morse

• Reaction Engineering and Chemical Process Synthesis

  Continued pioneering research in chemical reaction engineering, conversion of biomass to hydrogen, analyzing the role zeolites and crystalline membranes in reaction catalysis and product separation.

  
  Faculty:

  Eray Aydil, Aditya Bhan, Edward Cussler, Alon McCormick, Lanny Schmidt, David Shores, William Smyrl, Michael Tsapatsis

• Theory and Computation

  Modelling of various chemical and material engineering processes using high performance computing, studies in process analysis and design, complex fluids and condensed matter systems, and nonlinear process control.

  
  Faculty:

  Matteo Cococcioni, Prodromos Daoutidis, Jeffrey Derby, Kevin Dorfman, Yiannis Kaznessis, Satish Kumar, Alon McCormick, David Morse, Renata Wentzcovitch