Materials Science Research
Fields of Research
- Advanced polymeric materials
- Alloy theory, concurrent design, theory-assisted materials engineering, electronic structure theory
- Applications of artificial intelligence techniques to materials processing and manufacturing, neural networks for process modeling and sensor data processing, manufacturing process control
- Archaeometallurgy, industry and university partnerships
- Aerospace materials
- Bio materials and biocompatibility
- Ceramic processing, modeling of ceramic processing
- Characterization, thermal stability, and thermal degradation mechanisms of polymers
- Chemical and physical processing of materials, engineered materials, materials synthesis
- Chemical vapor deposition
- Coating materials and applications
- Computational condensed-matter physics, semiconductor alloys, first-principles phonon calculations
- Computer modeling and simulation
- Control systems engineering, artificial neural systems for senior data processing, polymer cure monitoring sensors
- Crystal and molecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography
- Dielectrics and ferrimagnetics
- Drug-delivery system
- Electro deposition
- Electron microscopy analysis
- Electrophotography
- Experimental condensed-matter physics, thermal and electrical properties of materials, superconductivity
- Extractive and process metallurgy, electrochemical corrosion, synthesis of ceramic precursor powders and metal powders
- Forging, deformation modeling, high-temperature material behavior
- Fuel cell materials
- Fullerene synthesis, combustion chemistry
- Heat and mass transfer, materials processing
- Heterogeneous catalysis, reformulated and alcohol fuels, surface analysis
- High temperature materials
- Intelligent automated systems, intelligent process control, robotics, artificial neural systems
- Materials synthesis, interfaces, flocculation, fine particles
- Materials for energy generation
- Mathematical modeling of material processes
- Mechanical metallurgy, failure analysis, deformation of materials, advanced steel coatings
- Mechanics of Materials
- Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC)
- Molten salt processing
- Mössbauer spectroscopy, ion implantation, small-angle X-ray scattering, semiconductor defects
- Nano materials
- Non destructive evaluation of defects and microstructures
- Novel separation processes: membranes, catalytical membrane reactors, biopolymer adsorbents for heavy metal remediation of ground surface water
- Nuclear materials and processing
- Numerical modeling of particulate media, thermo-mechanical analysis
- Optical properties of materials and interfaces
- Phase transformations and mechanisms of microstructural change, electron microscopy, structure-property relationships
- Photovoltaics
- Physical metallurgy, ferrous and nonferrous alloy systems
- Physical vapor deposition, thin films, coatings
- Polymer chemistry and physics
- Power electronics, plasma physics, pulsed power, plasma material processing
- Process monitoring and control for composites manufacturing
- Corrosion Science and Engineering
- Processing and characterization of electro-ceramics (ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics, and dielectrics), glass-ceramics for electronic and structural applications
- Pyrometallurgy, corrosion, materials synthesis, coatings
- Reactive metals properties and processing of ceramics and ceramic-metal composites
- Self-assembly and nanofabrication
- Solidification and near net shape processing
- Surface physics, epitaxial growth, interfacial science, adsorption
- Thermodynamic modeling of ferroelectrics
- Transformations, microstructure, deformation, fracture
- Transport phenomena, mathematical modeling, kinetic properties of colloidal suspensions, and diffusion with chemical reaction
- Weld metallurgy, materials joining processes
- Welding and joining science
- X-ray diffraction analysis