Faculty
Associate Teaching Professor & Undergraduate Program Director
Phone: 848-445-4513
Office: CCR-114
Interests Include: Chemical and solid-state thermodynamics; In Situ synchrotron x-ray diffraction; Electric field & pressure assisted materials processing; Mechanical, thermal & electric properties
Professor & Director of Energy Storage Research Group
Phone: 848-932-0921
Office: 671 Route 1 South, North Brunswick, NJ
Professor & Corning/Saint Gobain/Malcolm G. McLaren Chair
Phone: 848-445-5605
Office: CCR-129
Interests Include: All manners of renewable energy generation and storage -- and the materials innovations required to implement these technologies.
Distinguished Professor
Phone: 848-445-2216
Office: ENG A-217
Interests Include: Molecular dynamics simulations, glass surfaces, nanoconfined materials, water/glass interactions.
Professor
Phone: 848-445-4512
Office: CCR-103
Interests Include: Structure-Property relationships in glasses
Professor & Director, Ceramic, Composite & Optical Materials Center
Phone: 848-445-4931
Office: CCR-204
Interests Include: Relationships among powder characteristics & processing parameters, microstructural develop & properties of ceramic materials, non-destructive evaluation of materials, armor ceramics, sintering of nanoscaled materials, colloidal & mineral processing.
Distinguished Professor & Department Chair
Phone: 848-445-2096
Office: CCR-206
Interests Include: Synthesis and processing of ceramics and glasses using the sol-gel process. Emphasis on processing the conditions for forming gels for optical applications, porous membranes, electrochemical devices, such as fuel cells, smart windows and hermetic seals.
Professor & Director, Rutgers Advanced Polymer Center
Phone: 609-203-2501 (mobile)
Office: CCR-102
Interests Include: Oxide glasses and the glass transition, thermoplastic polymers, inorganic thermoplastic ionomers prepared using ionic liquids. Polymers and composites for aviation and aerospace.
Professor
Phone: 848-445-8421
Office: CCR-214
Interests Include: Nanomechanics of materials, contact mechanics, structure-chemistry-property relationship for hard ceramics, nanomaterial synthesis, mechanical properties of teeth and bones.
Professor
Phone: 848-445-5933
Office: CCR-222
Interests Include: Mechanical properties, reliability and fatigue, particularly of glass and optical fibers. Fractography and failure analysis of glasses. Computational modeling of processing and material behavior, including finite element methods.
Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director
Phone: 848-445-1496
Office: CCR-218
Interests Include: Light generating and light harvesting processes in organic polymer semiconductor materials and plasmonic nanostructures.
Distinguished Professor
Phone: 848-445-4946
Office: CCR-106
Interests Include: Processing (low temperature hydrothermal methods, dispersion, particulate mixed-ness, and solution crystallization of ceramics) and functional materials (structural ceramics, electro-ceramics, optics, and biomaterials).
Distinguished Professor
Phone: 848-445-4367
Office: CCR-118
Interests Include: Structural-property relationship in ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, Pb-Free piezoelectric ceramics and composites for transducers, and energy harvesting/storage applications, ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin films, and 3-D printing.
Assistant Professor
Phone: 848-445-4942
Office: CCR-108
Interests Include: Mechanical behaviors of materials, esp. metals and composites; Multiscale modeling, incl. atomistic, mesoscale, and continuum methods; Micromechanics of deformation, dislocation-mediated plasticity, and brittle/ductile fracture.
