| TAMU Materials Science & Engineering Faculty Research Interests |
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Ductile fracture and brittle-ductile transition; computational dislocation dynamics; nonlocal elasticity and plasticity; micromechanics of defects in solids |
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Micro electromechanical systems; smart structures, sensors, and actuators; modeling and experimentation of non-linear microstructural evolution |
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Solid mechanics, wave propagation, damping, ultrasonic NDE, experimental methods |
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Micromechanics of composite materials, damage mechanics, active materials and structure. Director of Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS) |
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Smart materials, electroactive polymers and composites; carbon nanotube-based polymer composites; Experimental characterization of the constitutive behavior of ferroelectric materials including PZT and PVDF. Experimental investigation of the hysteretic behavior of ferroeletric materials; Actuations and sensing for aerospace applications; Transducers processing and characterization for biomedical applications |
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| John D. Whitcomb |
Composites and fracture mechanics, solid mechanics, computational methods |
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Microscopy and imaging. |
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Biomaterials, biopolyers for medical devices and drug delivery systems. |
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Micro/nano biomedical devices, miniature analytical tools (biosensors) for medical research and clinical applications. |
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Catalysis, quantum and classical molecular simulations; thermodynamic and transport properties of materials. |
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Multi-body & multi-dimensional interfacial colloidal interactions; Colloidal self assembly on chemically & physically patterned substrates; Colloidal directed assembly using applied fields; Phase behavior of polymer coated colloids; Direct measurement of single protein interactions |
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| Tahir Cagin |
Computational materials science and nanotechnology; functional and active materials for devices and sensors; surface and interface properties of materials; nano-mechanics,nano-tribology; process modelling for nanostructured materials; energy, mass and momentum bal nanoscale; development and application of multiscale simulation methods for metals, alloys, polymers, biopolymers, dendrimers, and composites |
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Complex fluids: colloids, polymers, biomaterials, cell encapsulation, biologically inspired physics, fabrication of photonic crystals. |
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Thin film nano and microelectronics materials, processes, and devices; thin film transistors (TFTs); advanced VLSI tchnology; plasma processing; biochips |
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Molecular electronics; nanoelectronics; nanobiotronics; spintronics; sensing; electrocatalysis; process control |
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Nanoscale materials and devices, nanotribology, biological surfaces and interfacs, development of custom-engineered surfaces and interfaces through a fundamental understanding of the underlying chemistry and physics of the system. |
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Synthesis and characterization of transition metal compounds and molecule-based materials with unusual physical properties. Nucleic acid binding of metal complexes in synthetic and structural inorganic chemistry with a focus on problems at the interface of materials and biological chemistry. The combined use of various spectroscopies, X-ray crystallography, magnetometry, scanning and transmission electron microscopy, mass spectrometry and electrochemistry reflect the breadth of problems under investigation. Our aim is to define important synthetic challenges and tackle their solution with an arsenal of physical, chemical and spectroscopic data. |
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Cu, Ag, Au and related metal chemistry. |
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Polyfunctional Lewis acids in supramolecular sciences and catalysis.
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Inorganic solid state and cluster chemistry, metal chalcogenide chemistry, reduces zirconium halide clusters. |
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Solid-state chemistry; self-assembly; nanomaterials and nanostructured surfaces; new low-temperature synthetic routes to solid-state materials; intermetallic and alloy nanomaterials; structures and properties of nanocrystalline solids; superconductivity; colloidal crystals; catalysis. |
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Expansive clay theory and design; soil mechanics; soil-structure interaction; soil dynamics; continuum mechanics; fracture mechanics; pavement analysis, design, and management; non-destructive testing |
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Construction materials development, microstructural design of steels for improved corrosion resistance, mechanisms of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures, mechanisms of degradation in concrete, performance of cementitious/concrete materials |
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Solid materials for quantum optics, Materials and techniques for resonant nonlinear optics, phase-conjugate-based turbulence aberration and compensation, spectral holeburning materials and techniques for ultra-dense memories and high temperature operation, quantum computing in solid materials, quantum communication and teleportation in trapped atoms, holographic optical memory materials, smart pixels devices, optical correlators, photorefractive applications, atomic clocks, laser trapping and cooling |
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Bio-nanotechnology, with goal to manipulate the single molecule; bio-nano machining, nanosensors and molecular manipulation, micro and nanofluidics, bio-nano hybrid devices for medical applications |
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Thin film processing by pulsed laser deposition and solution-based processes; thin film characterization; structure property correlations |
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Radiation effects in nuclear and electronic materials; ion beam technology for fabriation and characterization of materials. |
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Nuclear fuel cycle, including materials and chemical processing, advanced fuels and materials, and waste immobilization. |
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Computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, multi-phase flow and mixing, Rayleigh-Taylor instability, heat exchangers, nanoscale magnetic storage |
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Computational thermodynamics and kinetics of materials; integration of atomic-scale materials simulations; prediction of thermo-mechanical properties of materials through atomic-scale methods. thin film thermodynamics. |
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Biomedical applications of materials; rapid manufacturing of composite materials for cost reduction; experimental methods in material characterization and processing; solid and fluid mechanics aspects of processing methods; material science issues in material behavior and application; machine augmented composites for advanced structures |
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Pure aluminum, applied superconductivity, deformation processing and electrical resistivity measurements |
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Processing-microstructure-mechanical property relationships in metallic materials (nanomaterials, shape memory alloys, bulk amorphous metals, high-strength steels); micro-mechanical constitutive modeling; twinning and martensitic phase transformation in metallic materials. |
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Polymeric materials, electron beam cured composite cryogenic fuel containment structures, protocol and fast test methodology for insertion of new materials based on synergistic multi-mode damage growth knowledge matrices, structure- processing- property relations of polyimides and their carbon fiber composites, development of light weight multifunctional fabrics based on single bicomponent fibers and nanostructures that include dendrimers and carbon flakes, spheres and fibrils |
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Ceramics; high-temperature materials for energy applications; characterization and modeling of mechanical properties of ceramic and metallic materials, resonant ultrasound spectroscopy. |
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Molecular design of thermoset network for structural and electronic applications, micromechanical modeling of failure process in multi-phase polymeric systems, food packaging materials for combat ration applications, equal channel angular extrusion process for morphology control of polymers, structure-property relationship in polyolefins films and blends, low temperature impact fracture behavior of multi-phase thermoplastic blends |
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Aqueous corrosion and the effect of grain size on corrosion rates of severely deformed materials; prediction of pipeline lifetimes; project based learning and the ability of students to improve their understanding and design abilities. |
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Research interests: Layer-by-layer assembly of polyelectrolytes and other charged species to create functional thin films for drug delivery, electrochronic, optical, and flame retardant applications; Synthesis of film forming inverse polymer emulsions for segregated networks of solvent-soluble nanotubes (e.g. SWNT) or nanowires (e.g. CdS); Segregated network polymer composites with very low percolation to combine excellent transport (mass, thermal, and/or electrical) with optical transparency; High-throughput screening methodologies for development of polymers and composites with unique mass, thermal, or electrical transport; Polymer composites for barrier/separations. |
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Research interests: Innovative processes to generate nano-coatings, and mechanisms of tribochemical interactions on metal and oxide surfaces. Investigation focusing on new phenomena and non-equilibrium surfaces, including surface forces and wear at atomic-to-centimeter scales, new surface bonds, non-equilibrium crystal structures, non-stoichiometric products, and kinetics of growth. Surface characterization via atomic force microscopy (AFM) and many other high-resolution spectroscopic techniques; Development of nanofabrication processes using simple mechanical manipulation in designed chemical environments. Nanomachining, assembly, nanosensors, and development of MEMS and NEMS; tribological testing related to artificial hip and knee joints, including study of tribological performance of implant materials, and synthesis new class of biomaterials combining live cells and conventional biocompatible materials. |
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Experimental low-temperature physics with an emphasis on the study of the solid-liquid interface in4 He and the properties of quantum films |
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High energy physics, cosmology and astrophysics, condensed matter physics, computational physics, and related areas in chemistry, biology, and engineering |
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Applied Physics, high energy experimental |
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Applied physics, condensed matter experimental |
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Electrical properties of voltaic cells for slow steady processes; electrical manifestations of chemical reactions and biological growth; electrical properties of small systems (e.g., quantum dots, buckyballs, thin wires, nanotubes); electrical screening at semiconductor surfaces; magnetism in thin films; random magnetic systems (spin glasses, disordered ferromagnets, and re-entrant spin glasses); superfluidity in 3He and 4He; transport processes at low temperatures |
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Research interests: Laser spectroscopy: on-line spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes, measurement of nuclear moments, spins and charge distributions, cross-sections for spin dependent atomic collisions, ion storage spectroscopy and laser cooling, low energy ion and atom collisions, highly charged ion spectroscopy and Wigner crystals. |
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Applied physics and quantum optics. |
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Research interests: Semiconductor nano-spintronics and strongly correlated systems in reduced dimensionalities. |
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Applied physics and condensed matter experimentation. The NanoLab in the Physics Department of Texas A&M University is working on various projects in the general areas of molecular nanomagnets, spintronics, nanophysics and highly correlated systems. The goal is to further the understanding of physical properties at the size or temperature scale where quantum mechanics governs the dominant processes. A particular emphasis is currently on those properties that are driven by spin processes
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