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Research Focus: Design, synthesis, and characterization of polymeric biomaterials for bone tissue engineering
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Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials.
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Research Focus: Our research focuses on computational chemical science and engineering, with a long-term goal to achieve predicting modeling and design of functional materials and molecules for a sustainable society.
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Research Focus: In-situ metrology, process engineering, material science
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Research Focus: Chemical sensors, antifouling coatings, responsive interfaces, and nanoparticle dispersions
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Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology
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Research Focus: In vitro models, biomaterials, biosensors,
microdevices, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery
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Research Focus: Tumor microenvironment, biomimetic materials, tissue biomechanics, tumor-stromal interactions, tumor immunology
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Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials
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Research Focus: Immunoengineering, biomaterials, stem cell engineering, drug delivery
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Research Focus:
Colloids and interfacial phenomena, interparticle forces, self- and directed assembly, colloidal crystals, active motion, reconfigurable materials.
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Research Focus: Molecularly engineered materials, intracellular delivery of antigens and molecular adjuvants, engineering vaccine colloids and surfaces, cancer immunotherapy, diabetes and islet transplantation
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Research Focus: Metabolic engineering; metabolic flux analysis;
diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; cancer and immune cell metabolism;
photosynthesis research; cell culture engineering
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Research Focus:
Industrial chemical engineering; professional communication
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Research Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integration
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Research Focus: Modeling and imaging the bone-tumor microenvironment to study the complex process of metastatic seeding and outgrowth of tumor cells in the bone marrow
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Research Focus: Engineering education, inclusion of underrepresented students in STEM, instructional design, first year programs
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Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems
| 03Research |
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| 03Research |
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Research Focus: Molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, development and application of molecular theories, improving efficiency of biofuel conversion, computational studies of skin lipid self-assembly
| 03Research |
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Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis
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Research Focus: Drug delivery, regenerative medicine, RAFT
polymerization, stimuli responsive polymers, intracellular delivery of
biomacromolecular drugs, on demand drug release, nanocarrier in vivo
pharmacokinetics, molecularly-targeted breast cancer therapy
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Research Focus: Computational immunology and virology
| 05Affiliated |
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Research Focus: Protease-responsive biosensors for siRNA and drug delivery in
vitro and in vivo, advanced materials for immunomodulation devices for sepsis
treatment.
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Research Focus: Nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, leaching assessment and methods, management of residuals from energy production, contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment and waste systems.
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Research Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology
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Research Focus: Semiconductor nanocrystals
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Research Focus: Immunoengineering, biomaterials, stem cell engineering, drug delivery
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Research Focus: Chemo-mechanical behavior and long-term performance of cement-based composites; Nanoscale behavior and nanomodification of cement and concrete materials; 3D printing of infrastructure materials; Mechanical/chemical/energy responses at material interfaces; Nanoscale interfacial interactions and dynamics in heterogeneous materials; Chemomechanically adaptive materials; Coupled chemo-transport-mechanical modeling
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Research Focus:
Simulation protocols to rationally design protein mutants for enhancing the rate or selectivity for enzyme catalysis and peptide machine, machine learning models to efficiently predict protein mutational hotspots for functional enhancement, automatic high-throughput computational workflow to design biomolecules for catalytic, pharmaceutical, energy, and environmental applications
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Research Focus: in vitro reconstitution, computation, and theory, to further illuminate the complexities of the microtubule cytoskeleton
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Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems
| 06Emeritus |
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Research Focus: Automotive catalyst coating, plant-wide modeling, simulation, and control, polymer processing.
| 06Emeritus |
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Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria
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Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis
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Research Focus: Fermentation process development of air fluidized bed reactors, protein recovery by bubble and foam fractionation and enzyme kinectics and fermentation modeling
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