Faculty by discipline

Materials science and engineering

James Adams

James Adams

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.

[email protected]
480-965-3316
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 281
Mailcode 6106

Terry Alford

Terry Alford

Terry Alford
Associate Director and 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.

 

[email protected]
480-965-7471
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 242
Mailcode 6106

Kumar Ankit

Kumar Ankit

Kumar Ankit
Associate 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.

[email protected]
480-965-4541
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 265
Mailcode 6106

Hamed Arami

Hamed Arami

Hamed Arami
Assistant Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Novel bioelectronic materials as brain-machine interfaces, materials science, bioelectronics, nanotechnology and molecular brain imaging

Candace Chan

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.

[email protected]
480-727-8614
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 38
Mailcode 6106

Peter Crozier

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.

[email protected]
480-965-2934
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 251
Mailcode 6106

Sandwip Dey

Sandwip Dey

Sandwip Dey
Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Adsorbents, catalysts and membranes for sustainable energy and clean water applications.

[email protected]
480-965-7493
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 483
Mailcode 6106

Cody Friesen

Cody Friesen

Cody Friesen
Associate Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Integrated storage devices (batteries); electrochemical energy storage; surface science.

[email protected]
480-965-3954
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 395E
Mailcode 6106

Qijun Hong

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

[email protected]

Tempe Campus

Yang Jiao

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.

[email protected]
480-965-4560
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 387
Mailcode 6106

Stephen Krause

Stephen Krause

Stephen Krause
Professor
Materials science and engineering

Research Interests
Engineering education, engineering outreach to K-12, education materials characterization.

[email protected]
480-965-2050
Tempe Campus, ECG 207
Mailcode 6106

Jian Li

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.

[email protected]
480-727-8938
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 259
Mailcode 6106

Linqin Mu

Linqin Mu

Linqin Mu
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

Shuaib Abdelrahman

Alexandra Navrotsky
Regents Professor
Materials science and engineering
Chemical 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.

[email protected]
480-965-5932
P.O. Box 871604
Tempe, AZ  85287-1604

Nathan Newman

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.

[email protected]
480-727-6934
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 493
Mailcode 6106

Karl Sieradzki

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.

[email protected]
480-965-8990
Tempe Campus, ISTB4 395A
Mailcode 6106

Sandhya Susarla

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.

[email protected]
Tempe Campus
Mailcode 6106

Sefaattin Tongay

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.

[email protected]
480-727-4301
Tempe Campus, ENGRC 283
Mailcode 6106

Feng Yan

Portrait of 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.

[email protected]
Tempe campus

Sui Yang

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.

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Tempe Campus