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MSE Faculty Research Concentration

Research Topics

Biomaterials

Biomaterials

A false-colored SEM image of a juvenille cat's tooth enamel, photo by Ellen Keene (Estroff)

Ceramics

Ceramics

Organized structure in a non-oxide ceramic system (Wiesner)

Colloids

Colloids

Hollow FITC-dyed silica peanut-shaped particles (Liddell)

Composites

Composites

Bioorganic-metal-silica composites (Wiesner)

Energy

Energy

NIMS for water desalination and filtration (Wiesner)

Ferromagnetics

Ferromagnetics

SEM image of an electrochemically active region (van Dover)

Metals

Metals

Cracks in highly stressed copper film (Baker)

Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials

The structural evolution and diffusion during the chemical transformation from cobalt to cobalt phosphide nanoparticles (Robinson and Hennig)

Optoelectronics

Optoelectronics

Ring oscillator layout

Polymers

Polymers

Tecnai Electron Microscope used to study the structure of polymers (Ober)

Semiconductors

Semiconductors

Organic photovoltaic cells (Malliaras)

Theory

Theory

Ab-initio prediction of defect formation and kinetics (Hennig)

Thin films

Thin films

Evolution of etched craters upon UHV high T annealing (Blakely)