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Faculty
- Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Adhesion of fine particles
- Characterization of materials’ surfaces
- Biodegradable implant materials
- Wetting of solids and liquids
- Colloidal properties of particles
- Recycling of materials
- Minerals and oil sands processing
- Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Electron microscopy
- Materials characterization
- Thermodynamics and kinetics
- Electronic materials
- Senior design
Research Interests
- Lithium ion batteries, ceramic battery materials
- Surface and interface dynamics
- Thin films and nanostructures
- Thermodynamics
- Magnetic materials
- Diffusional instabilities and applications of electron microscopy
- Director, Health Research Institute
- James and Lorna Mack Chair in Bioengineering
- Associate
Professor, Chemical Engineering
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Research Interests
- Bioseparations
- Virus removal and detection
- Biosensors
- Interim Department Chair, Chemistry and Professor, Physics
- Affiliated Professor, Materials
Science and Engineering, and Cognitive and Learning Sciences
- Adjunct Curator, A. E.
Seaman Mineral Museum
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Research Interests
- Theoretical condensed matter physics
- Theory and modeling of single-electron transport devices
- Modeling and simulation of properties of interfaces and interface materials
- Atomistic computational physics of surface phases and surface dynamics
- Crystal growth
- Mineralogy of natural graphite
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Lorna and James Mack Professorship of Continuous Processing
Research Interests
- Thermally and electrically conductive resins/composites
- Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Surfaces and interfaces
- Surface functionalization, thin films, photovoltaics and catalytic surfaces
- Material characterization by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS (ESCA)), SEM, Auger
and Raman spectroscopy
- Professor, Physics and Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Photonics
- Nonreciprocal Phenomena
Specialties
- Atmospheric Science
- Aerosol properties (optical, physical and morphological) and effects on clouds and
climate
- Instrument development and environmental optics
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests
- Surface chemistry and interfacial science
- Bridging reactions at the gas/solid and liquid/solid interfaces under model (ultra-high
vacuum) and real (near ambient pressure) conditions
- Designing metal-oxide architectures and nanostructures on various substrates; Atomic
Layer Deposition and tailored growth approaches
- Growth, properties, and reactions on heterogeneous structures for energy and environmental
applications
Professional Staff
Chito Kendrick
- Managing Director, Microfabrication Facility/Instructor
- Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- Staff, Materials Science and Engineering
- Engineer/Scientist, Applied Chemical and
Morphological Analysis Laboratory
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Research Interests
- Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Composition X-ray Mapping using Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
- Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
Graduate Students
Areas of Interest
- Micro and Nano-Electronics
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
- Solar Cells
