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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: Molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, development and application of molecular theories, improving efficiency of biofuel conversion, computational studies of skin lipid self-assembly
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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: 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:
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
| 02Teaching |
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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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Research Focus: Structure and tribological properties of nano confined fluids, structure-conductance relationships in atomic and molecular junctions, the phase behavior of polymer-grafted nanoparticles, and the self-assembly of lipids and biomembranes.
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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: 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.
| 05Affiliated |
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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: 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: 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: Chemical oxidation of pollutants, emissions of volatile organic carbons (VOCs) from surface impoundments, efficient production of oxygen by the reduction of ilmenite
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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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