Research: Advanced Material and Manufacturing
Creating high-performance materials and efficient manufacturing processes.
- metals processing technologies including cold spray, laser additive manufacturing, plasma surface engineering, and friction stir welding
- materials development and processing of plastics, natural biopolymers, composites, and wound-healing biomaterials
- surface treatment and coating technology focused on biomedical, energy, environment, and defense applications
- bioprocessing technologies to create specialty chemicals from renewable sources; develop biodegradable plastics to optimize crop growth; produce hydrochar and biochar for use in soil health
- durability of infrastructure materials
Research Projects:
Additive manufacturing and 3-D printing of polymers, composites, and ceramics
Advanced characterization of materials
Advanced coating technologies
Advanced coating technology for corrosion and wear prevention.
Advanced manufacturing technology and machine-building for the production of fiber-reinforced,
custom-profile filaments and tapes for use in high-volume additive manufacturing of
composites and bio composites.
Advanced Soft-Magnetic Materials for Electrified Propulsion Systems
Antimicrobial Biomaterials that Interfere with Bacterial Nucleotide Messenger Signaling
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering for applications such as wound healing, drug delivery,
and tissue repairs.
Bioprocessing, scale-up, and process/structure/property characterization of biopolymers
from microbes.
Bioprocessing Equipment to Bridge the Lab-scale to Pilot-scale Gap in the Research,
Development and Commercialization of Bioproducts from Agricultural and Forestry Wastes
BioWRAP: developing advanced, tunable, sprayable biopolymers which and prevent weed
growth, fertilize crops, and manage water resources. The biopolymers are made with
crop residues, chicken feathers, and other natural products. The resulting biopolymer
film will biodegrade before the next crop is planted
CAREER: Determining and tuning the impact of low-level metal-based nanoparticles on
actin cytoskeleton in normal and cancer cells
Collaborative Research: E-RISE RII: BioNitrogen Economy Research Center
Collaborative Research: Using Spin Networks to Enable Next-Generation 'SABRE' Imaging
and Polarizing Molecular Systems at Scale
Composite and Nanocomposite Advanced Manufacturing - Biomaterials Center
Computer vision systems and closed-loop quality control in die-casting
Conducting Cell Free Biomanufacturing for Biosynthetic Monomers and Sustainable Biomaterials
Corrosion and wear performance of metal alloys
Critical materials for Defense, particularly focusing on the development of energetic
materials
DARPA-BRACE: Biomanufacturing of microbial byproducts as the next generation of bioeffectors
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Swati Srivastava, Saurabh Dhiman
Defining the mechanisms and functional significance of endocytic defects within disorders
of cholesterol biosynthesis
Department of Defense – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): Bio-Inspired
Restoration of Aged Concrete Edifices (BRACE)
Department of Defense – Small Business Innovation Research: Graphene and helix shaped
steel fiber dosed concrete for EMP and Blast Protection - Phase 2
Determining the Metabolic Organization and Enzymology of the Fundamentally Important
Flavonoid Biosynthetic Pathway
Devising a Tunable Stiffness Hydrogel Material to Overcome Ineffective Wound Closure
During Space Flight
Developing Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage.
Developing a Syringe Filter Device for Hyaluronan Capture from Cancer Patients Serum
for Diagnostic, Prognostic and Chemotherapy Monitoring Applications
Development of new compositions of solid solutions of complex perovskite oxides with
high level of piezoelectric effect, and other parameters
Exploring Heterogeneous Catalysis in Supercritical Fluids and Solvents for green chemistry
and fuels.
Fabricating self-assembled nanoparticle arrays for large-scale photocatalysis
Flexible Cabon Nanofibers
FMSG: Bio: RAMP-Bio-CAFe: Routing Advanced Manufacturing of BioPolymer(s): Capturing
Agri-feedstocks in Cell free Factories
Functional coatings for defense and biomedical applications.
Functional coatings for defense and biomedical applications
Imaging cellulose synthase complex in-situ using single molecule tracking and advanced
imaging
Insights into Inflammation, BioSNTR II
Machine learning-based quality control in 3D printing
Machine learning-enhanced recycling of PEEK polymer for sustainable in-space 3D printing
and manufacturing
Metals processing technologies including cold spray, laser additive manufacturing,
plasma surface engineering, and friction stir welding.
Metals processing technologies including cold spray, laser additive manufacturing,
plasma surface engineering, and materials joining (fusion and friction stir welding)
Modular Joint-on-a-Chip for Early In Vitro Pre-clinical Pharmaceutical Research
Molecular Modeling of Adsorption and Thermodynamics Related to Two-Dimensional Materials.
MonArk Quantum Foundry – characterization of 2D materials for quantum information
science
Multifunctional composites for construction and infrastructure applications to function
in, and/or sustain, severe and hazardous environments.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Cooperative Agreement Notice: Enhancing
Research in Additive Manufacturing Processes for Lunar Application and Planetary Use
in Tribal Housing Development
Polymer and composite materials development and characterization
Polymer nanocomposites for battery anodes, solid-state electrolytes, and other energy
storage applications.
Polymers, Composites, and Materials Development and Characterization
Precise Polymeric Patch Design on Anisotropic Nanorings to Realize Controlled Orientation
in Self-assembled Photonic Metamaterials
Processing, structure, property relationships in advanced alloys and additive manufacturing
Processing, structure, property relationships in advanced and additive manufacturing.
Quantum Materials Institute – developing nonlinear optical materials for quantum communications
Rejuvenating aged bone regeneration by innovative nanomaterials-mediated drug delivery
Revealing the Reconfiguration Dynamics of Lipid Bilayer and Its Hydration Structures
with Nanoscale Resolution during Electroporation
Reversing epithelial-mesenchymal transition in metastatic cancer cells using engineered
nanomaterials and a mild photothermal effect
Scalable, High Energy Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Security printing and anti-counterfeiting technologies
Surface treatment and coating technology focused on biomedical, energy, environment,
and defense applications
Surface treatment and coating technology focused on biomedical, energy, environment,
and defense applications.
Synthesizing Catalytic Materials for Hydrogen and Ammonia production.
Understanding asphaltene adsorption and aggregation behaviors at electrified surfaces
through a correlated force microscopy-electron microscopy study
Utilizing Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents for Extraction, Separation, and
Electrochemical applications.