Researchers

Moshe Eizenberg
Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies, Head of Materials Science and Engineering Program
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Electronic Materials
- Thin Films and Semiconductors

Daniel Tan
Professor, Deputy Head of Materials Science and Engineering Program
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Nanodielectric composites and interface phenomena
- Energy storage and electrochemical supercapacitors
- Polymer film and membrane
- Piezoelectric conversion materials

Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Nanotechnology
- nanoparticles
- coalescence
- atomistic simulations
- radiation damage
- cluster beam deposition

Elissaios Stavrou
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- High pressure and temperature
- Chemistry under Extreme
- Novel synthesis approaches and materials
- Ultrafast chemical dynamics

Haijin Zhu
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- OIPC
- electrolyte
- lithium battery
- NMR
- solid oxide electrolysis
- fuel cell
- polymer materials

Woo Jin Hyun
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Solution processing of 2D materials
- Electrochemical energy storage
- Printed electronics

Yuanshen Qi
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Nanostructured Materials
- Nanowhiskers, Nanoparticles
- Ferroelectric Materials
- Interphase and Intergranular Boundaries
- Solid State Dewetting of Thin Films
- Electroplasticity & Electromigration

Nan Wang
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Understanding confinement effect in phase transformation
- Developing semi-quantitative and quantitative meso-scale materials modeling methods
- Investigating growth and stability issues in nano materials
- Computational optimization of materials microstructure
- Developing commercial software for simulation of solidification process

Aleksandra Baron-Wiechec
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Metal Surface Engineering
- Nanoporous Anodic Oxides
- Surface Analysis
- Nuclear Fusion Technology
- Hydrogen Retention in Materials

Zuoti Xie
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- The transport properties of materials in the molecular scale
- Relationship between charge transport properties and electronic structures of molecular junctions
- Spin transport in molecular junctions
- Electronic properties organic thin film and crystals2
- Bioelectronics, electronic detection of nucleic acids

Cheng Zhu
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Carbon quantum dot
- Nanocatalysts
- Clean energy production
- Multifunctional coatings
- Molecular dynamics simulations

Limei Cha
Senior Research Scientist, Director of the Electron Microscopy Center of Materials Science and Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- Interface and Surface
- Intermetallics
- Energy Materials
- Electron Microscopy
- Materials Characterization

Vijaykumar Jadhav
Research Scientist
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Research Interests
- 3D printed Nickel-Zinc and lithium-ion battery
- Energy storage and electrochemical supercapacitors
- Chemical gas sensor
- Materials Characterization