Materials and Manufacturing

Expertise: Nanostructured materials and nanocomposites synthesis and characterization using X-ray, neutron, and electron scattering, electrochemical and thermochemical energy conversion and storage processes, chemical and biobased molecular manufacturing, separations and sensing, post-consumer waste plastics depolymerization, water and energy processing for global development and sustainability.

Expertise: MEMS, Sensors, Liquid metals, Biomedical devices

Expertise: Finite element analysis, Solid mechanics, Mechanics of materials, Mechanical properties, Stress analysis, Mechanical behavior of materials, Mechanical testing, Failure analysis, Materials, Materials testing

Expertise: Additive manufacturing (AM) process including novel materials development, In situ process monitoring and process enhancement capabilities, AM component qualification

Expertise: Composite material Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT/NDE), Robotics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control

Expertise: Specialty Optical fibers, High-power fiber lasers, Metamaterials, Nonlinear optics, Nanophotonics, Simulation and modeling

Expertise: Constitutive modeling of contemporary composite processes, Rigid and flexible suspension dynamics, mechanics based modeling of contemporary composite products, conductivity analysis of carbon nanotube networks for high current applications, Non-destructive evaluation of composites using ultrasonic techniques, Large-scale simulations of oil well casings

Expertise: Design of Thermo-fluids Systems, Combustion and Propulsion, Advanced Atomization and Sprays, Laser Diagnostics for Flow Measurements, Multiphase Flow, Renewable Energy

Expertise: Advanced manufacturing processes, Developing new materials with enhanced mechanical properties and tailored microstructures, Microstructure and bulk material response using state-of-the-art characterization tools and process simulations, Additive friction stir deposition, fatigue, joining, mechanical behavior

Expertise: Photonic Biosensors, Micro- and nano- devices and systems, point-of-care diagnostics, and Integrated optics

Expertise: Photonics, Optoelectronics, Semiconductor lasers, Materials and Devices, Thermal management

Expertise: Ceramic matrix composites, Emerging materials for hypersonic applications, Hybrid multifunctional composite structures, damage mechanics

Expertise: Simulation based design, Inverse analyses and computational biomechanics, multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, reliability-based design, polymer and composites processing, fiber orientation modeling, structural optimization, biomechanics, thermo-mechanical response of lasers and railguns

Expertise: Aerospace engineering, multi-agent autonomy, electrified aviation, airborne robotic systems dynamics and control, and advanced air mobility

Expertise: Photonic integrated circuits, nanophotonic devices, silicon photonics, high-speed/RF photonics, optical spectroscopy, optical interconnects and optical computing for high-performance computers and artificial intelligence. Semiconductor materials including transparent conductive oxides, silicon photonics and plasmonics, biological materials with focus on diatom photonic crystals, micro- and nano-scale fabrication using e-beam lithography, atomic layer deposition, dry etching, and sputtering etc. Biological photonic crystal materials, optical biosensors based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering and fluorescence imaging, applications in drug screening and disease biomarkers detection, and machine-learning for optical sensing.

Expertise: Powder metallurgy, manufacturing methods based on friction stir and severe plastic deformation, materials characterization and deformation mechanisms, materials for extreme environment applications (including nuclear and fusion energy), sustainable metallurgy

Expertise: Multiscale computational modeling, Machine learning, Materials design, Biomaterials, Medium/high entropy alloys, Green polymer composites