James Adams
President’s professor
Undergraduate program chair, materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Atomic-scale computer simulation to understand the structure, properties, processing and design of materials.
Materials science and engineering
Terry Alford
Terry Alford
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Materials properties for low-power electronics and novel integrated-circuit components formation and adhesion of sol-gel metal systems for biomedical applications.
Kumar Ankit
Kumar Ankit
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Computational modeling of microstructure and defects’ evolution, Structure-processing correlations, Phase transformations, Deformation-reaction-convection couplings and pattern formation in materials processing and geoprocesses.
Hamed Arami
Hamed AramiAssistant ProfessorMaterials science and engineering Research InterestsNovel bioelectronic materials as brain-machine interfaces, materials science, bioelectronics, nanotechnology and molecular brain [email protected]
Candace Chan
Candace Chan
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Lithium-ion batteries and electrochemical capacitors; electrochemical energy storage, solar-to-fuel photoelectrochemistry, nanomaterial synthesis.
Peter Crozier
Peter Crozier
Professor
Graduate program chair, materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Seeing materials with Electrons: Synthesis, characterization and evolution of nanomaterials and nanostructures related to energy and the environment; strong emphasis on advanced electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy. Catalytic materials, electroceramics. photocatalysis.
Sandwip Dey
Sandwip Dey
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications.
Cody Friesen
Cody Friesen
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Integrated storage devices (batteries); electrochemical energy storage; surface science.
Qijun Hong
Qijun Hong
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Density functional theory, deep learning, high temperature high pressure materials, materials design and discovery, database and infrastructure, prediction of materials properties
Yang Jiao
Yang Jiao
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Computational materials design; microstructure and effective properties of heterogeneous materials; multifunctional composites design and modeling; granular materials; biomaterials.
Stephen Krause
Stephen Krause
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Engineering education, engineering outreach to K-12, education materials characterization.
Jian Li
Jian Li
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials, study of the structure and electrical and optical properties of organic and inorganic molecules.
Linqin Mu
Richard King
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
Designing advanced cathode materials for lithium batteries and beyond, understanding degradation mechanisms and interfacial chemistry in energy storage devices.
Alexandra Navrotsky
Alexandra Navrotsky
Regents Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Solid state chemistry, thermodynamics and structure of materials. Energy materials (fuel cells, batteries and water splitting), nuclear energy materials, hybrid inorganic/organic materials, zeolites, material stability on Earth and other planets
Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman
Lamonte H. Lawrence Professor in Solid State Science
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Semiconductor, superconductor and dielectric materials, thin film materials synthesis, materials characterization, electronic structure.
Karl Sieradzki
Karl Sieradzki
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Mechanical properties and characterization of materials; electrochemistry and alloy corrosion; nanoporous materials; surface science.
Sandhya Susarla
Sandhya Susarla
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
The interplay between spin, charge, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom drive novel electronic and magnetic behavior in low-power microelectronic devices and quantum computers. Susarla group uses state-of-the-art analytical electron microscopy tools (4D-STEM and EELS) to unravel this relationship at the atomic scale.
Sefaattin Tongay
Sefaattin Tongay
Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Tongay’s research focuses on synthesis of next generation low-dimensional materials and understanding their optical, electrical, mechanical, and magnetic properties using state-of-art experimental and theoretical techniques.
Feng Yan
Feng Yan
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Thin film and nanomaterials for solar energy harvesting and conversion; low-dimensional semiconducting chalcogenides and Metal Thioseleno Phosphates; thin film ferroelectrics and multiferroics, scanning probe microscopy for nanoscale characterization, photomechanical response of the semiconductor materials; photoelectrochemical and photocatalysts; biomass materials for nanofibrous composites.
Sui Yang
Sui Yang
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering
Research Interests
Artificial materials across the scales, placing an emphasis in architecting light-matter interactions that expand or break the traditional technological boundaries.