Materials
Science &
Engineering

Professor Naresh Thadhani and graduate students in the High-Strain-Rate
Gas-Gun Facility

W.B. Carter

Ceramic coatings, combustion chemical vapor deposition, and thermal barrier coatings

J.K. Cochran, Jr.

Ceramic processing, ceramic foams, rheology of slurries, and powder processing.

R.A. Gerhardt

Impedance spectroscopy of all classes of materials (electroceramics, conducting polymers, metallic alloys and composites). Characterization and applications of porous materials. Structure-property relationships, especially electrical and optical properties.

H. Garmestani

Microstructure/property relationship in advanced materials including composites, superplastics, magnetic and thin film layered structures.

A.M. Gokhale

Quantitative characterization and modeling of microstructures and fracture paths, damage evolution, microstructure-based modeling and simulations of materials behavior, Physical Metallurgy of Aluminum and Magnesium alloys, and steels. Biomaterials, coatings, oxidation of high temperature materials, ion beam modification of materials.

D.N. Hill

Vacuum electron devices, thin film coatings, crystal growth, skull melting, field emitter arrays, eutectic composites, powder metallurgy.

W.S. Johnson

Mechanical behavior of advanced material systems (metallics, composites and bonded joints). Predictive modeling of fatigue, fracture, and non-linear material processes. Constituent level micromechanics modeling.

M. Li

Fundamental properties and processes of materials, and predicting material behaviors, including phase transitions, glass transition, mechanical and magnetic properties in solids and liquids.

M. Liu

Defects and transport in solids, electrophysical and electrochemical behavior of thin films and interfaces, solid state ionics, and electroceramics.

V. Tohver Milam

Designing and characterizing colloids functionalized with biologically-relevant macromolecules such as oligonucleotides and cellular adhesion molecules.

R. Narayan

Epitaxial heterostructures for biological agent sensors, pulsatile-release drug delivery device materials, and tissue engineered materials.

M. Sacks

Synthesis, processing, and characterization of ceramics, glasses, and composites for advanced structural, electronic, and optical applications.

K. Sandhage

Novel reaction processing of a variety of ceramic-based materials for biomedical, sensor, refractory, electromagnetic, and structural applications.

T.H. Sanders, Jr.

Thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, physical metallurgy, phase transformations, solidification.

P. Singh

Corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, high temperature oxidation, microstructure/property relationships in alloys and composite materials.

R.L. Snyder

X-ray analysis, ceramic sciences.

R.F. Speyer

Sintering of high-performance ceramics, ceramic actuators, gas-fired radiant emitters, smart feedback control, and thermophysical properties of materials.

C.J. Summers

High definition displays, molecular and chemical beam epitaxy, semiconductor tailoring and growth.

R. Tannenbaum

Polymer nanosynthesis, block co-polymers, metal nanocluster chemistry, interfacial chemistry and catalysis, coordination and conducting polymers.

N.N. Thadhani

Synthesis and processing of nanocrystalline intermetallics with unique structural, energetic, magnetic, and thermoelectric properties; investigation of shock-induced chemical reactions in intermetallic, ceramic, and thermite systems; and high-strain-rate deformation and fracture of metals, ceramics, and composites for applications in energy absorption and target penetration.

Z.L. Wang

Science and applications of nanoparticles, nanowires and nanobelts; functional oxide and smart materials; nanomaterials for biomedical applications.

C.P. Wong

Polymers for electronic and photonic packaging. Conductive Adhesives.