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

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

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

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
• Andrew Wessman – alloy and process development of aviation materials, with an emphasis on superalloys and additive manufacturing processes

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