Additional Information on
Participants:
Current
participants in the Nano PhD program draw from the departments of: Physics,
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering,
Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. A list of faculty currently
active in the Nano SE PhD program and nanotechnology research is given below:
Dr.
S. P. Ahrenkiel, Assistant Professor of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering,
PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, high resoltution TEM microscopy and
diffraction methods, energy and nano materials.
Dr. Dimitrios E. Anagnostou, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D.,
University of New Mexico. Reconfigurable, planar and flexible antennas and RF
devices. Synthesis of EM structures using Neural Network techniques.
Dr. D. Boyles, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., Purdue University; Synthetic
organic chemistry, isolation, synthesis, modification of natural products,
medicinal chemistry, synthesis of plant growth regulators, synthesis of
conjugated polymers, supramolecular assembly, monomer and polymer synthesis.
Dr. R. Corey, Chair and Associate Professor of Physics, Ph.D. Washington
University, St. Louis Experimental condensed matter physics, solid State NMR,
characterization of electronic and magnetic materials.
Dr. W. Cross,
Assoiciate Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering , Ph.D.
University of Utah, Composite materials, nano inks materials.
Dr. Hao Fong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. University of Akron, Nano-scaled
polymer, ceramic and carbon/graphite fibers and their applications.
Dr. Haiping Hong, Research Scientist IV, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Carbon nanotube based composites, nanofluids, nanogrease.
Dr. A. Petukhov, Professor of Physics, Ph.D. St. Petersburg Technical University,
Condensed matter theory, semiconductors and spintronic devices.
Dr. J. Kellar, Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering; Ph.D.,
University of Utah; Nano- materials, characterization of composite materials.
Dr. Lidvin Kjerentgroen, Professor of Mechanical Eng; Ph.D., University
of Arizona.
Dr. J. A. Puszynski, Professor of Chemical Engineering;
Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague; Synthesis and processing of
ceramics, combustion synthesis, reaction engineering, kinetics of heterogeneous
reactions, mathematical modeling.
Dr. S. Smith, Associate Professor
of Nano Science and Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Energy and time-resolved nanoscale optical spectroscopy, electronic and photonic
properties of nano- and energy-materials. Group website
Dr. David Salem, Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Chemical and
Biological Engineering, Director of Composites and Polymer Engineering (CAPE)
Laboratory ; Ph.D., University of Manchester; Polymer processing and
nanocomposites. CAPE web site
Dr. James Sears, Director of Additive
Manufacturing Laboratory ; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign;
Additive manufacturing and processing utilizing nanomaterials. AML web site
Dr. Vladimir Sobolev, Professor of Physics; Ph.D., The Kharkov State
University, Ukraine; Properties of ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconducting, and
high-temperature superconducting materials (bulk, thin films, and nanosize
particles), magnetic resonance, magneto-optic investigations of magnetic films,
acoustic measurements.
Dr. Micheal West, Assistant Professor of
Materials and Metalurgical Engineering; Ph.D., The University of Tennessee;
Friction Stir Welding
Dr. K. Whites, Steven P. Miller Endowed Chair
and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of
Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Artificial electromagnetic materials; high
impedance surfaces; ultra-wideband antennas and wireless communications;
space-based gossamer antennas; solar sails and electromagnetic sailcraft; RF and
microwave circuits; computational electromagnetics.
Dr. Haeyeon Yang,
Associate Professor of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Ph.D. Brown University.
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of III-V semiconductor nanostructures, scanning tunneling
microscopy.
Dr. Zhengtao Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D.
SUNY Binghamton. Nano imprinting and lithography.