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	10
	Leon Bellan Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Bharat Bhuva Research Focus: Computer aided design tools, radiation effects on integrated circuits, modeling of semiconductor devices and fabrication processes, and VLSI design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Peter Cummings Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Philippe Fauchet Research Focus: Photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, all using silicon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	Kenneth Galloway Research Focus: Solid state devices, microelectronics, reliability, radiation effects Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	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	10
	William Hofmeister Research Focus: Additive Manufacture, Laser/Material Processing, bioMEMS. Nucleation, solidification and diamond microelectronics. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Arto Javanainen Research Focus: Radiation effects and reliability in semiconductor devices Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Kane Jennings Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Weng Poo Kang Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	Michael King Research Focus: cellular engineering, drug delivery, nanotechnology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	Paul Laibinis Research Focus: Chemical sensors, antifouling coatings, responsive interfaces, and nanoparticle dispersions Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Matthew Lang Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	M. Douglas LeVan Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Ethan Lippmann Research Focus: In vitro models, biomaterials, biosensors, microdevices, biomolecular engineering, drug delivery Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Dmitry Markov Research Focus: Cancer microenvironment; microfluidics; bioreactors; long-term 3D tissue culture; Organ-on-a-Chip Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Lloyd Massengill Research Focus: Radiation-hardened circuit design, simulation of radiation effects on microelectronic circuits, soft error analysis, analog circuit design. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	Clare McCabe 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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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 Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Justus Ndukaife Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Reed Omary Research Focus: Image-guided drug delivery for cancer; interventional radiology Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Robert Reed Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronics Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Bridget Rogers Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Sandra Rosenthal Research Focus: Semiconductor nanocrystals Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	Ranjana Sahai Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Brian Sierawski Research Focus: Radiation effects on microelectronics, simulation software development, small satellites, and on-orbit experiments Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Sharon Weiss Research Focus: Light-matter interaction, silicon photonics, porous silicon biosensors, nanotechnology, nanocomposite materials Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10
	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	10
	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	10
	Ryszard Wycisk Research Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites. Intellectual Neighborhoods: Nano Science and Technology	10