Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Assembly, characterization, and application of biologically inspired and biomolecular material systems for engineered devices: biomimetic membranes for sensing, energy conversion, and actuation; uncovering membrane-nanomaterial interactions; soft, reconfigurable materials for neuromorphic computing
Chemical engineering, forestry sciences, environmental science and management, materials engineering, analytical chemistry, macromolecular and materials chemistry, organic chemistry, industrial biotechnology, food sciences
Structure, dynamics and rheology of complex fluids and soft matte biohybrid energy harvesting materials; biohybrid materials for next generation quantum simulation and computing; single macromolecular dynamics and biophysics; multiscale modeling and simulation of complex systems; processing science of micro- and nano-structured material; renewable energy and additive manufacturing
Infrastructural materials, engineering characterization and multi-scale modeling of asphalt cement, pavement engineering, geotechnical engineering, slope stability, soil improvement
Analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design for extreme environments across multiple semiconductor technologies, ultra-low power analog IC design for signal processing and computation, multi-channel monolithic instrumentation systems
Magnetic studies of exciton-exciton and exciton-charge interactions in organic light-emitting and photovoltaic devices, magnetic control of constructive and non-constructive excited state and charge transport processes in organic semiconducting materials, singlet and triplet photovoltaic channels in organic solar cells
