Department of Materials Science & Engineering

Synthesis of thin-film electronic materials and devices using metal organic chemical vapor...

Nuclear Fuels and Materials, with emphasis on characterization and property evaluation;...

Stem Cell Engineering; Directed Stem Cell differentiation, Cell Materials Interactions; Tissue...

nanomaterials, nanocomposites for electronic and biomedical applications, magnetic materials,...

Applied aspects of cargo monitoring, detector testing and characterization for gamma-ray...

Silanols as novel antimicrobial materials, novel approaches to facilitating various drugs to...

Delivery methods for stem cells, Antimicrobial surface modifications, Nanoparticles for gene...

Biointerfaces, antifouling, polymer surfaces/modification, polymer networks, microtopographies,...

Research Interest: materials characterization and analysis, sustainable materials,...

Magnetic Biomaterials; Nanomagnetic Gene Transfection; Nanomagnetic Cell Actuation;...

Backscatter x-ray imaging, reactor analysis, nuclear power plant dynamics and control, space...

Two-phase flow, nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics, quantitative visualization, nuclear reactor...

Nuclear safeguards, detection statistics of radiation from fissile materials, and the physics...

Interaction of Primary research and teaching interests include inter-relationship of processing,...

Semiconductor and dielectric growth and characterization, grapheme, solid state sensors, focused...

Diffusion in metals, solidification, crystal growth, phase transformation kinetics, interfaces,...

Advanced modeling and simulation; criticality safety; neutron and photon cross section...

Biomimetic synthesis of organic-inorganic hybrid composite materials; biomineralization-...

Remote Sensing, Muclear Nonproliferation/counterproliferation, Nuclear Security, and Nuclear Policy

Computational materials science, ab-initio methods, structure prediction algorithms,...