Anastassia N. Alexandrova, PhD (Utah State, 2005)
New functional materials (heterogeneous catalysts, artificial metalloenzymes, alloys, quantum materials, qubits); electronic structure; chemical bonding
Alexander A. Balandin, PhD (Notre Dame, 1996)
Electronic materials and devices; nanofabrication; quantum, topological, and chiral materials; Brillouin-Mandelstam-Raman light scattering spectroscopy; phonon thermal transport and phonon engineering; electronic noise in materials and devices; composites for electromagnetic interference shielding and thermal management; emerging quantum devices and technologies
Gregory P. Carman, PhD (Virginia Tech, 1991)
Electromagnetoelasticity models and characterization, thin film shape memory, nanoscale multiferroics, magnetoelastics and piezoelectric materials
Jane P. Chang, PhD (MIT, 1998)
Materials processing, gas-phase and surface reaction, plasma enhanced chemistries, atomic layer deposition, chemical microelectromechanical systems, and computational surface chemistry
Yong Chen, PhD (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, PhD (UCLA, 1974)
Synthesis and characterization of electrochemical materials, energy storage, sol-gel materials and chemistry
Mark S. Goorsky, PhD (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, PhD (MIT, 1989)
Experimental mechanics, fracture of engineering solids, mechanics of thin film and interfaces, failure mechanisms and characteriza-tion of composite materials, ice mechanics
Yu Huang, PhD (Harvard, 2003)
Nanomaterial fabrication and development, bio-nano structures
Subramanian S. Iyer, PhD (UCLA, 1981)
System scaling technology, advanced packaging and 3D integration, technologies and techniques for memory subsystem integration and neuromorphic computing
Ioanna Kakoulli, DPhil (Oxford, England, 1999)
Chemical and physical properties of non-metallic archaeological materials; alteration processes in archaeological vitreous materials and pigments
Richard B. Kaner, PhD (U. Pennsylvania, 1984)
Synthesis, characterization, and applications of superhard metals, conducting polymers, thermoelectrics and graphene
Xiaochun Li, PhD (Stanford, 2001)
Scifacturing (science-driven manufacturing), super metals by nanoparticles self-dispersion, scalable nanomanufacturing, smart manufacturing, additive manufacturing
Jaime Marian, PhD (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
Ali Mosleh, PhD, 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, PhD (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 1990)
Electroactive polymers through molecular design and nanoengineering for electronic devices and artificial muscles
Gaurav N. Sant, PhD (Purdue, 2009)
Development and design of sustainable low-CO2 footprint materials for infrastructure construction applications
Sarah H. Tolbert, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1995)
Self-organized nanostructured materials for energy storage, energy harvesting, nanomagnetics and nanoelectronics
Kang L. Wang, PhD (MIT, 1970)
Nanoscale physics, materials and devices nanoelectronics, magnetics and photonics, nonlinear interactions of correlated devices and nanosystems
Yinmin (Morris) Wang, PhD (Johns Hopkins, 2003)
Mechanical behavior of nanostructured metals and additively manufactured materials, laser-materials interactions, materials under extreme conditions, fusion science and technology, lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
Paul S. Weiss, PhD (UC Berkeley, 1986)
Atomic-scale surface chemistry and physics, molecular devices, nano-lithography, 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
Ya-Hong Xie, PhD (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, PhD (U. Delaware, 1986)
Nanomechanical testing, nanostructured materials, ceramic and ceramic matrix composites, hybrid materials and composites, material synthesis and processing
Yang Yang, PhD (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, PhD (Stanford, 1964)
Irradiation-induced precipitation, high-temperature deformation of solids, electron microscopy, physical metallurgy of aluminum/lithium alloys, precipitation hardening
Kanji Ono, PhD (Northwestern U., 1964)
Mechanical behavior and nondestructive testing of structural materials, acoustic emission, dislocations and strengthening mechanisms, microstructural effects, and ultrasonics
Dwight C. Streit, PhD, NAE (UCLA, 1986)
Properties of electronic materials, characterization techniques, correlation of material and device performance
King-Ning Tu, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1968)
Kinetic processes in thin films, metal-silicon interfaces, electromigration, Pb-free interconnects
Benjamin M. Wu, DDS (U. Pacific, 1987), PhD (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
Aaswath P. Raman, PhD (Stanford, 2013)
Metamaterials, optical and photonic materials, nanophotonics, plasmonics, thermal sciences, energy systems, computational methods
Ximin He, PhD (Cambridge, England, 2011)
Optical sensing of chemical and biological molecules; bioinspired self-regulating materials; novel stimuli-responsive polymers for soft robots; photo-responsive materials for optics, photonics, waveguides, and photo-harvesting
Amartya Banerjee, PhD (U. Minnesota, 2013)
Computational materials science, first principles methods, discovery and simulation of novel materials, electronic materials, energy materials, multiscale methods and algorithms, mechanics of materials and structures, numerical methods and scientific computation
Laura Kim, PhD (Caltech, 2019)
Nanophotonics, plasmonics, diamond spin microscopy, defect centers in diamond, quantum sensing, photonic materials, 2D/quantum materials, mid-IR technologies
Suneel Kodambaka, PhD (U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2002)
In situ microscopy, surface thermodynamics, kinetics of crystal growth, phase transformations and chemical reactions, thin film physics
Eric P. Bescher, PhD (UCLA, 1987)
Advanced cementitious materials, sol-gel materials, organic/inorganic hybrids
Sergey Prikhodko, PhD (Kurdyumov Institute for Metal Physics NASU, Ukraine, 1994)
Characterization of materials by means of microscopes and spectroscopes
Magdalena Balonis, PhD (U. Aberdeen, Scotland, 2010)
Development of functional materials for extending the service life of concrete infrastructure, design of new cementation agents with reduced CO2 footprint, conservation and protection of cultural heritage
Marta Pozuelo, PhD (Complutense U. Madrid, Spain, 2004)
In situ nanomechanical characterization of metallic materials