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Focus Areas

Additive Manufacturing

  • Douglas A. Loy – new materials chemistry and alloy development, optical devices, medical implants
  • Pierre Lucas – optical devices
  • Krishna Muralidharan – process modeling, process monitoring and control
  • David Poirier – alloy development, process modeling
  • Barrett G. Potter – process monitoring and control, optical devices
  • Andrew Wessman – alloy development, additive manufacturing for aerospace, process monitoring and control
  • Xiaodong Yan

Heritage Conservation

  • Pamela Vandiver – application of materials science and engineering principles to the preservation of ancient artifacts and reverse engineering of ancient technologies

Integrated Computational Science and Engineering

  • Pierre Deymier – phononic crystals, biomaterials, semiconductor cleaning, multiphysics models
  • Krishna Muralidharan – development of thermal and thermoelectric materials via nanostructuring graphene-based phononic metamaterials
  • David Poirier – International Space Station experiments designed to unravel the microgravity on microstructure and dendrite morphology
  • Andrew Wessman – modeling of metallurgical structure formation and mechanical behavior of structural materials
  • Xiaodong Yan

Materials for Energy Conversion and Heat Control

  • Erica L. Corral – novel materials research to protect aerospace vehicles from the harshness of hypersonic flight environments
  • Pierre Deymier – phononic crystals, biomaterials, semiconductor cleaning, multiphysics models
  • Douglas A. Loy – polymer synthesis for use in fuel cell and hydrogen storage
  • Krishna Muralidharan – development of thermal and thermoelectric materials via nanostructuring graphene-based phononic metamaterials
  • Barrett G. Potter – nanostructuring to improve energy conversion efficiency in thin-film photovoltaics
  • Erin L. Ratcliff - printable electronic materials and devices for energy and sensing

Materials Synthesis, Processing and Fabrication

  • Erica L. Corral – novel materials research to protect aerospace vehicles from the harshness of hypersonic flight environments
  • Douglas A. Loy – polymer synthesis for use in fuel cell and hydrogen storage
  • Pierre Lucas – chalcogenide glasses to convert efficiently wasted heat into useful energy
  • Krishna Muralidharan –  development of thermal and thermoelectric materials via nanostructuring graphene-based phononic metamaterials
  • David Poirier – International Space Station experiments designed to unravel the microgravity on microstructure and dendrite morphology
  • Barrett G. Potter – nanostructuring to improve energy conversion efficiency in thin-film photovoltaics
  • Srini Ragavan – fundamental concepts of contamination in liquids important to semiconductor manufacturers, and methods for the removal of implant resists
  • Erin L. Ratcliff - printable electronic materials and devices for energy and sensing
  • Andrew Wessman – alloy and process development of aviation materials, with an emphasis on superalloys and additive manufacturing processes
  • Xiaodong Yan

Optical Materials

  • Pierre Lucas – chalcogenide glasses to convert efficiently wasted heat into useful energy
  • Barrett G. Potter – nanostructuring to improve energy conversion efficiency in thin-film photovoltaics
  • Erin L. Ratcliff - printable electronic materials and devices for energy and sensing
  • Xiaodong Yan
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