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• Primary contacts: Dev Chidambaram and Charles Coronella
• Major focus: Production of biofuels from waste

• Primary contact: Maryam Raeeszadeh-Sarmazdeh
• Major focus: Engineering proteins to develop novel biotechnology tools and products

• Primary contact: Victor Vasquez
• Major focus: Use of computational methods and applied mathematics on chemical engineering thermodynamics applied to both microscopic and macroscopic systems and the study of properties of new materials and systems.

• Major focus: Phase transformation and deformation mechanisms in lightweight Mg alloys and Ti alloys; Novel lightweight alloys design; Advanced manufacturing of lightweight Ti alloys for aerospace and biomedical application; Texture evolution during thermomechanical processing of Mg alloys; Processing and mechanical properties of ultra-fine grained Mg alloys; Shuffle transformation in Ti alloys

Primary contact: Dev Chidambaram

• Major focus: Our materials characterization facility features more than $6 million in advanced equipment, including a combined X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy-Raman spectroscopy (XPS-Raman), X-ray diffraction-small angle X-ray scattering (XRD-SAXS), and the world’s second laboratory-based extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy (lab-EXAFS) system in an academic setting outside of the institution where the technology was originally developed. The laboratory maintains specialized facilities for amorphous materials and thin film synthesis, alongside distinctive analytical capabilities that include in situ characterization at extreme temperatures reaching 649°C (1200°F), corrosion studies with 10-micron resolution, and supercritical water analysis at 649°C and 30 MPa.

• Primary contacts: Dhanesh Chandra 
• Major focus: Use of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) methods on problems in materials thermodynamics, diffusion, and microstructural evolution, applied to metals, alloys, ceramics, and other materials of interest. Computational tools in use include Thermo Calc, Dictra, FactSage, COMSOL Multiphysics, and other customized or general-purpose packages (MatLab, etc.).

• Major focus: Deformation twinning and deformation induced phase transformation; Interface engineering; Nano- and micro-structured engineering; Atomistic simulation of phase transformation in alloys; Multiscale modeling of deformation of metals

• Major focus: Texture evolution using EBSD; Defect and nanostructure characterization using TEM; 3D FIB serial section tomography; In-situ and ex-situ nano-to-microscale mechanical characterization metals

• Primary contact: Dev Chidambaram
• Major focus: Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels and development of materials for nuclear reactors

• Primary contact: Ravi Subramanian
• Major focus: Synthesis of supramolecular polymers and surface polymerization. Characterization of polymers with thermal, physical and electrochemical techniques

• Primary contact: Ravi Subramanian
• Major focus: Screening and optimizing materials for light-activated reactions with applications in photovoltaics, environmental cleanup, green fuel synthesis, light mediated biological processes and CO2 control

• Primary contact: Dev Chidambaram
• Major focus: Hydrogen generation from water utilizing sunlight

• Primary contact: Dhanesh Chandra
• Major focus: Low and high temperature x-ray diffraction