Gregory P. Carman, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech, 1991)
Electromagnetoelasticity models and characterization, thin film shape memory, nanoscale multiferroics, magnetoelastics and piezoelectric materials
Jane P. Chang, Ph.D. (MIT, 1998)
Materials processing, gas-phase and surface reaction, plasma enhanced chemistries, atomic layer deposition, chemical microelectromechanical systems, and computational surface chemistry
Yong Chen, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1996)
Nanoscale science and engineering; micro- and nano-fabrication; self-assembly phenomena; microscale and nanoscale electronic, mechanical, optical, biological, and sensing devices, circuits, and systems
Bruce S. Dunn, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1974)
Synthesis and characterization of electromechanical materials, energy storage, sol-gel materials and chemistry
Nasr M. Ghoniem, Ph.D. (U. Wisconsin, 1977)
Mechanical behavior of high-temperature materials; radiation interaction with material (e.g., laser, ions, plasma, electrons, and neutrons); material processing by plasma and beam sources; physics and mechanics of material defects; fusion energy
Mark S. Goorsky, Ph.D. (MIT, 1989)
Electronic materials processing; strain relaxation in epitaxial semiconductors and device structures; high-resolution X-ray diffraction of semiconductors, ceramics, and high-strength alloys
Vijay Gupta, Ph.D. (MIT, 1989)
Experimental mechanics, fracture of engineering solids, mechanics of thin film and interfaces, failure mechanisms and characterization of composite materials, ice mechanics
Yu Huang, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2003)
Nanomaterial fabrication and development, bio-nano structures
Subramanian S. Iyer, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1981)
System scaling technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic computing
Ioanna Kakoulli, D.Phil. (Oxford, England, 1999)
Chemical and physical properties of nonmetallic archaeological materials; alteration processes in archaeological vitreous materials and pigments
Richard B. Kaner, Ph.D. (U. Pennsylvania, 1984)
Synthesis, characterization, and applications of superhard metals, conducting polymers, thermoelectrics, and graphene
Xiaochun Li, Ph.D. (Stanford, 2001)
Scifacturing (science-driven manufacturing), super metals by nanoparticles self-dispersion, scalable nanomanufacturing, smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing
Ali Mosleh, Ph.D., NAE (UCLA, 1981)
Reliability engineering, physics of failure modeling and system life prediction, resilient systems design, prognostics and health monitoring, hybrid systems simulation, theories and techniques for risk and safety analysis
Qibing Pei, Ph.D. (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 1990)
Electroactive polymers through molecular design and nano-engineering for electronic devices and artificial muscles
Dwight C. Streit, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1986)
Properties of electronic materials, characterization techniques, correlation of material and device performance
Sarah H. Tolbert, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1995)
Self-organized nanostructured materials for energy storage, energy harvesting, nanomagnetics and nanoelectronics
Kang L. Wang, Ph.D. (MIT, 1970)
Nanoscale physics, materials and devices nanoelectronics, magnetics and photonics, nonlinear interactions of correlated devices and nanosystems
Paul S. Weiss, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1986)
Atomic-scale surface chemistry and physics, molecular devices, nanolithography, biophysics and neuroscience, nanometer-scale electronics and storage, surface interactions, surface motion, dynamics, and direct manipulation, extending capabilities of scanning tunneling microscope, molecular-scale control and measurement of composition and properties in membranes
Benjamin M. Wu, D.D.S. (U. Pacific, 1987), Ph.D. (MIT, 1997)
Processing, characterization, and controlled delivery of biological molecules of bioerodible polymers; design and fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds and precursor tissue analogs; tissue-material interactions and dental biomaterials
Ya-Hong Xie, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1986)
Physical properties and device application of graphene and other van der Waals materials; semiconductor physics, heterostructures, and devices; epitaxy pf semiconductor thin films; nanofabrication
Jenn-Ming Yang, Ph.D. (U. Delaware, 1986)
Nanomechanical testing, nanostructured materials, ceramic and ceramic matrix composites, hybrid materials and composites, material synthesis and processing
Yang Yang, Ph.D. (U. Massachusetts Lowell, 1992)
Organic and inorganic semiconductor materials and devices with emphasis on solution processes; fundamental understanding of material properties; optoelectronic devices (LEDs, PVs, TFT, sensors)
Alan J. Ardell, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1964)
Irradiation-induced precipitation, high-temperature deformation of solids, electron microscopy, physical metallurgy of aluminum/lithium alloys, precipitation hardening
David L. Douglass, Ph.D. (Ohio State, 1958)
Oxidation and sulfidation kinetics and mechanisms, materials compatibility, defect structures, diffusion
John D. Mackenzie, Ph.D. (Imperial C. London, England, 1954)
Glass science, ceramics, electrical properties of amorphous materials, materials recycling
Kanji Ono, Ph.D. (Northwestern U., 1964)
Mechanical behavior and nondestructive testing of structural materials, acoustic emission, dislocations and strengthening mechanisms, microstructural effects, and ultrasonics
King-Ning Tu, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1968)
Kinetic processes in thin films, metal-silicon interfaces, electromigration, Pb-free interconnects, 3D IC packaging
Suneel Kodambaka, Ph.D. (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002)
In situ microscopy, surface thermodynamics, kinetics of crystal growth, phase transformations and chemical reactions, thin film physics
Jaime Marian, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2002)
Computational materials modeling and simulation in solid mechanics, irradiation damage, plasticity, phase transformations, thermodynamics and kinetics of alloy systems, algorithm and method development for bridging time and length scales and parallel computing applications
Gaurav N. Sant, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2009)
Development and design of sustainable low-CO2 footprint materials for infrastructure construction applications
Ximin He, Ph.D. (U. Cambridge, England, 2011)
Biologically inspired materials based on stimuli-responsive polymers and micro-/nano-structure fabrication for applications in biomedicine, environment, and energy
Eric P. Bescher, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1987)
Advanced cementitious materials, sol-gel materials, organic/inorganic hybrids
Esther H. Lan, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1994)
Nano-bio incorporation of biochemistry into materials science engineering
Sergey Prikhodko, Ph.D. (Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics NASU, Ukraine, 1994)
Characterization of materials by means of microscopes and spectroscopes