Results for "advanced materials"

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Evaluation of Bioderived Ionic Liquids as Novel Lubricant Additives

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The need to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, ensure energy security, and improve industrial output and competitiveness, have created a growing demand for engineering systems and functional materials with improved…

Synthesis of Graphene and 2D Materials for Opto-Electronics and Energy Applications

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Project Summary: Graphene and other 2D materials have unique properties that span from metal, semiconducting to insulator. They are ultrathin and can be grown in large area sheets that are ideal for assembling…

URAs in Nanomanufacturing and Nanostructured Materials

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Multiple openings for funded undergraduate research assistant (URA) position in manufacturing of 3D nanostructures. Recent progress in nanotechnology have resulted in novel materials that can not be found in…

computer simulations of materials for electronic and energy applications

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The project will use supercomputers to model materials (especially two-dimensional nanomaterials) for electronic and energy applications. For more information, pls check our group website and contact Dr. Liu. We…

Faculty

Chih-Hao Chang

Affiliated Departments:
Cockrell School of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Nanomanufacturing, nanostructures, multifunctional materials.

Michael Arthur Cullinan

Affiliated Departments:
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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Development of novel nanomanufacturing systems Finding ways to exploit nanoscale physical phenomena in order to improve existing macroscale devices Create novel micro- and nanoscale devices for energy and sensing…

Joaquin Resasco

Affiliated Departments:
Cockrell School of Engineering, Chemical Engineering
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Understanding the structure and properties of catalysts to enable next-generation sustainable technologies

Donald Jason Siegel

Affiliated Departments:
College of Natural Sciences, Cockrell School of Engineering
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Computational materials science

Energy storage 

High-performance computing (HPC)

Machine learning

Materials discovery

Guihua Yu

Affiliated Departments:
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Yu's research has been broadly centered on creative design and synthesis of functional nanomaterials, fundamental understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly…