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Faculty & Staff

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Leadership Team

Greg Parsons
NC State Site Director
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering – NC State
Atomic Layer Deposition, Molecular Electronics, Nanotube Structures, Low Temperature Processing and Bio-Mimetic Molecular Photovoltaics.

Susan Trolier-McKinstry
Director
Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Thin- film integrated piezoelectrics and capacitors, pyroelectrics, transducers, ultrasound spectroscopy and imaging, tunable microwave dielectrics, non-linear dielectric and piezoelectric properties, reliability in thin films, low temperature processing

Clive Randall
Technical Director
Material Science and Engineering – Penn State
High temperature, and high voltage capacitors, reliability, multilayer and bulk piezoelectrics, supercapacitors, thermoelectrics, non-linear dielectrics, LTCC, microwave dielectrics, low partial pressure co-firing, interfaces

Ian Reaney
European Site Director
Materials Science and Engineering – USheffield
Solid State Chemistry of Perovskites

Administrative Staff

Bernadine PremachandraJoanne Aller
Materials Science and Engineering, NCSU
Email: bcpremac@ncsu.edu
cdpfacility@ncsu.edu
Materials Research Institute, PSU
Email: jam4@psu.edu

 


Faculty

Arguelles, Andrea

Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests:  Wave propagation, Microstructure characterization, Energy Infrastructure, Nondestructive evaluation

Augustyn, Veronica

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests:  Electrochemical interfaces, energy storage, electrocatalysis, transition metal oxides

Balke, Nina
Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Atomic Force Microscopy

Boston, Rebecca
Materials Science & Engineering – UoS
Research Interests: Functional ceramics for capacitors, thermoelectrics and batteries

Chen, Long-Qing

Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Phase field modeling of piezoelectrics, dielectrics, and electrochemical systems

Choi, Sukwon
Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Energy Systems, Thermal/Fluid Sciences

Dabo, Ismaila
Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interest: Energy conversion and storage, Computational materials science, Quantum and multi-scale simulations, Novel computational methods, Materials for electrochemistry, Materials for photochemistry, Spectroscopy of materials.

Dean, Julian

Materials Science and Engineering – UoS
Research Interest: Functional Materials, FE simulation, Impedance spectroscopy

Dickey, Elizabeth

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State/Carnegie Mellon
Research Interest: Point-defect equilibrium and transport in metal oxides; grain boundary and interfacial phenomena; nanomaterials; ceramic composites; and electron microscopy.

Dickey, Michael

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – NC State
Research Interest: High-K polymer capacitors, Flexible rf devices, Materials for flexible electronics

Freeman, Colin

Materials Science and Engineering – UoS
Research Interest: Computational Simulation, Atomic scale simulations, functional ceramics

Gao, Wei

Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science – NC State
Research Interest: Two-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications in batteries and fuel cells, thin-film electrochemical capacitors and their integration with textiles

Hopkins, Doug

Electrical and Computer Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Power electronics and power systems

Irving, Doug

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Multiscale, atomistic and first principles simulation

Jiang, Xiaoning

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Energy storage, materials development, and electrochemistry

Jones, Jacob
Materials Science & Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: ferroelectricity, domain dynamics, x-ray diffraction and crystallography

Jur, Jesse

Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science – NC State
Research Interests: Atomic layer deposition, capacitive sensing in textiles

Koh, Lenny

Operations Management, Director of Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre and Director of the Centre for Energy, Environment & Sustainability  – UoS
Research Interests: Supply Chain Management

Lanagan, Michael
Engineering Science and Mechanics – Penn State
Research Interests: Glass substrates, glass capacitors, microwave materials, meta-material patch antennas, dielectric metamaterials for MRI imaging

Maria, Jon-Paul

Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Thin-film dielectrics; microwave devices; thin-film integration science; electrodes and contacts; embedded dielectrics; physical vapor deposition

Narayanan, Ramakrishnan

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science – Penn State
Research Interests: Electromagnetics, microwave engineering, radar systems, communication systems, remote sensing.

Ounaies, Zoubeida

Mechanical Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Electro-active polymer composites

Priya, Shashank
Associate Vice president for Research, Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of Vice President for Research – Penn State
Research Interest: Multifunctional materials, energy and bio-inspired systems

Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan

Electrical and Computer Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Microwave device modeling, Tunable RF devices, Microwave theory

Sinclair, Derek
Materials Chemistry – UoS
Research Interests: Impedance Spectroscopy, Elucidating the structure/electrical property relationships of functional oxides

Wang, Qing

Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Electro-active polymer chemistry

Xu, Cheryl

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Advanced manufacturing of multifunctional materials, sensor design and manufacturing in harsh environments, process optimization, sensor-based health monitoring and control through artificial intelligence (AI)

Xu, Ruijuan

Materials Science and Engineering – NC State
Research Interests: Advanced thin-film synthesis and characterization techniques

Zhang, Xiangwu

Textile Engineering, Chemistry & Science – NC State
Research Interests: Multifunctional polymer, composite, fiber, and textile materials; Supercapacitors; Energy system design and fabrication

Zhang, Qiming

Electrical Engineering – Penn State
Research Interests: Electro-active polymers and ferroelectrics

 

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