Electronic materials processing, inorganic thermodynamics and
phase
equilibria, chemical vapor deposition, crystal growth,
photovoltaics.
Dynamics of Complex Fluids, Suspension and Multiphase Fluid Mechanics, Polymer Dynamics and Rheology
Advanced process dynamics and control, with applications to photovoltaics and semiconductor manufacturing operations, emulsion polymerization, and pulp and paper production.
Cellular and molecular bioengineering, biomolecular cell mechanics, mathematical biology.
Organometallic Chemistry
Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis,
quantum chemical calculations,
surface characterizations.
kinetic and isotopic experiments with state-of-the-art density functional theory calculations to achieve an atomic level understanding of heterogeneous catalysis.
Nanomaterials, nano-optics, micro-bioanalysis, self-assembly, templated synthesis.
Molecular and multi-scale modeling, nanoscale transport phenomena, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Numerical simulations of statistical mechanical problems, colloidal suspensions, flow in heterogeneous media.
Thermal convection. Fluid mechanics of materials processing, bifurcation phenomena in applied mathematics, transport phenomena, low-gravity process modeling, experiments in instabilities.
Mathematical modeling, photoelectrochemical phenomena, corrosion, impedance spectroscopy.
Interfacial phenomena in
engineering, biomedical systems.
Influence of microdomains on diffusion in biomembranes, transport in porous materials with hierarchy of pore sizes, transport-optimized catalysis and separations.
Gas-surface reactivity and dynamics, heterogeneous catalysis, semiconductor processing.
Nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, integration of nanomaterials into devices, porous structures.