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Research
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Deformation
and facture: |
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Polymer
and metal matrix composites, intermetallic compounds, fracto-emission,
creep, super plasticity, plastic instability, wear, toughness (including
ceramics), strained layer structures, constitutive relations, and
radiation induced fracture. |
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Thin
film materials: |
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Ion
beam and electron beam synthesis, Langmuir-Blodgett films, self assembled
mono layers, and functionalized surfaces. |
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Environmental
degradation: |
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Creep/oxidation
(hot corrosion), liquid metal embrittlement, hydrogen embrittlement,
environmentally induced crack growth in polymers, and laser damage
in optical materials. |
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Surface
& interfacial phenomena: |
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Coatings,
adhesion, thin films, metallo-organic chemical vapor deposition, adsorption,
etching, laser ablation, laser surface melting, liquid surface structure,
electro-optical properties, spectroscopy, microscopy, chemisorption,
surface redox reactions, and solid-state chemical sensors. |
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Defects
in materials: |
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Dislocations,
grain boundaries, point defects, defect interactions, polymer structure,
and electronic defects in compound semiconductors. |
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Atomic
structure of solids: |
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Disordered
systems, electronic structure of alloys, local atom environments,
and magnetic/electrostatic/elastic strain interactions. |
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Theory
and modeling: |
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Embedded
atom and molecular dynamics calculations for defects in metals, abinitio
calculations for organic and inorganic compounds, studies of surfaces,
adhesion, cracking, and dislocation motion. |
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Phase
transformations & kinetics: |
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Oxidation,
spinodal decomposition, gas phase kinetics, synthesis of high-critical-temperature
superconductors, precipitation in solids, and recovery. |
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Fractals
and chaos: |
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Nonlinear
excitations in solids, stability and dynamics of nonlinear oscillators,
fracture as a chaotic process, amorphous systems, and fluctuations
and noise. |
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Layered
structures & compounds: |
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Magnetic
materials, low-dimensional magnetism, intercalation, strained layer
structures, and electronic materials. |
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Organic
and metalorganics: |
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Synthesis,
structure, spectroscopy, and chemical vapor deposition. |
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Materials
and structures for bone implants: |
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Development
of novel implants using porous materials. Nanoparticles of calcium
phosphate based ceramics for in vivo and in vitro degradation, and
LENS based rapid prototyping for structures with low effective modulus
and density. |
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Micromachined
Transducers: |
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Develop
micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) for medical imaging applications. |
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Ceramic
sensors: |
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Development
of high temperature industrial gas sensors using oxide based nano-ceramics. |
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Nanoscale
imaging and spectroscopy: |
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Transmission
electron microscopy (TEM); scanning tunneling microsocpy (STM) both
in vacuum and under environmental conditions; atomic force microscopy
(AFM); STM based spectroscopy. Nanoscale tribology. |
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