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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Nanoscience and nanotechnology concern the discovery and application of how materials and processes behave on the nanoscale in diverse areas of engineering, science and health care.

 

Faculty involved in nanoscience and nanotechnology research:

Michael Alles

Research Focus: Application of advanced and emerging semiconductor technologies in radiation environments, modeling and simulation of radiation effects in semiconductor devices and circuits, and workforce development
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Leon Bellan

Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Bharat Bhuva

Research Focus: Computer aided design tools, radiation effects on integrated circuits, modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, and VLSI design
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10

Joshua Caldwell

Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors
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Peter Cummings

Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems
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Ravindra Duddu

Research Focus: Computational solid mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, cohesive zone modeling of fatigue delamination, extended finite element method and level set method, computational geophysics.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Mona Ebrish

Research Focus: Developing multiple techniques to fabricate and evaluate biological and chemical sensors that can be integrated with efficient power devices on foundry compatible chiplets, small integrated circuits with specialized functionality that make up larger integrated circuits
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Philippe Fauchet

Research Focus: Photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, all using silicon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Daniel Fleetwood

Research Focus: Effects of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices and materials, microelectronics reliability, defects and low-frequency noise.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Kenneth Galloway

Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Todd Giorgio

Research Focus: Protease-responsive biosensors for siRNA and drug delivery in vitro and in vivo, advanced materials for immunomodulation devices for sepsis treatment.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Mukesh Gupta

Research Focus: Shear-thinning hydrogels, Tissue sealant/adhesives, Stimuli-responsive biomaterials, Organic/Polymer Chemistry, Targeted drug delivery
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Frederick Haselton

Research Focus: Microfluidic transport of particles, multi-spectral quantum dot-based retinal imaging, DNA logic operations for viral diagnostics, molecular basis of corneal regeneration both in homeostasis and wound repair
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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William Hofmeister

Research Focus: Additive Manufacture, Laser/Material Processing, bioMEMS. Nucleation, solidification and diamond microelectronics.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Arto Javanainen

Research Focus: Radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Kane Jennings

Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Weng Poo Kang

Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Jeffrey Kauppila

Research Focus: Radiation-Hardened Circuit Design, Radiation-Enabled Compact Modeling, Simulation of Radiation Effects on Circuits and Systems, Layout-Aware Modeling, Near-Threshold Computing, Digital Circuit Design, Analog Circuit Design, Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Michael King

Research Focus: cellular engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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David Kosson

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.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Paul Laibinis

Research Focus: Chemical sensors, antifouling coatings, responsive interfaces, and nanoparticle dispersions
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Matthew Lang

Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Eugene LeBoeuf

Research Focus: Environmental and water resources engineering, hydropower optimization and management, sustainability engineering, environmental security, and contaminant fate and transport applied to groundwater, soil, and sediment systems
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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M. Douglas LeVan

Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Deyu Li

Research Focus: Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena,. Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics.  
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Shihong Lin

Research Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Ethan Lippmann

Research Focus: In vitro models, biomaterials, biosensors, microdevices, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Dmitry Markov

Research Focus: Cancer microenvironment; microfluidics; bioreactors; long-term 3D tissue culture; Organ-on-a-Chip
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Lloyd Massengill

Research Focus: Radiation-hardened circuit design, simulation of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, soft error analysis, analog circuit design.
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James McBride

Research Focus: Applying advanced electron microscopy techniques towards the understanding of the structure-property relationships of colloidal quantum dots, Aberration-corrected electron microscopy to image the true structure of core/shell nanocrystals, Correlating the atomic structure and the photoluminescence of the same quantum dot, Volume imaging and cryo-electron tomography lamella preparation
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Christina McGahan

Research Focus: manipulating and probing the optical, electronic, and structural properties of nanoscale materials as well as using this precise control of materials and their properties to help researchers solve challenging nanoscale scientific problems in areas ranging from medicine and biology to chemistry, physics, engineering, and beyond
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Justus Ndukaife

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Reed Omary

Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Sokrates Pantelides

Research Focus:  Theoretical/computational -- Nanoscience and nanotechnology, semiconductors and semiconductor devices (defects, defects-mediated device degradation), complex oxides and heterostrutures, ferroelectrics, two-dimensional materials
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Peter Pintauro

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
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Robert Reed

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronics
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Bridget Rogers

Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Sandra Rosenthal

Research Focus: Semiconductor nanocrystals
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Ranjana Sahai

Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Florence Sanchez

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
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Ronald Schrimpf

Research Focus: Semiconductor device physics, radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices, microelectronic test structures, and simulation tools for microelectronics
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Brian Sierawski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on microelectronics, simulation software development, small satellites, and on-orbit experiments
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Carlos Silvera Batista

Research Focus: Colloids and interfacial phenomena, interparticle forces, self- and directed assembly, colloidal crystals, active motion, reconfigurable materials.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Jason Valentine

Research Focus: Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Greg Walker

Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Sharon Weiss

Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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John Wilson

Research Focus: Molecularly engineered materials, intracellular delivery of antigens and molecular adjuvants, engineering vaccine colloids and surfaces, cancer immunotherapy, diabetes and islet transplantation
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Arthur Witulski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronic power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, radiation reliability of complex systems in radiation environments such as satellites and robots in nuclear disasters.
Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology
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Ryszard Wycisk

Research Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites.
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