Integrated Nanostructured Systems

Influence of bacteria in geochemical environments; role of adhered and planktonic bacteria in remediation; aqueous chemistry controls of bacterial adhesion; fate and transport of toxic metals; colloidal stability in aqueous and non-aqueous solution.

Electronic packaging; electromigration; thermomigration; electronics reliability.

Development of new materials based on sol-gel-derived xerogels; investigations into the molecular-level phenomena that govern the material characteristics and behavior.

Ultrafast Optical Properties of materials and devices; Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Hybrid Inorganic:Organic Materials and Devices; Biophotonics: Biological and Chemical Sensors; Optical Non-Destructive Testing; Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics.

Multifunctional materials and devices, material physics, dielectrics, ferroelectrics, and flexoelectric effects in biomaterials.

Nanotechnology; Tumor Angiogenesis; Radiation Therapy; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Design and synthesis of photofunctional materials; molecular design; immobilization techniques; catalysis; solid supported organometallic compounds.

Biomaterials; Interactions between living and non-living materials.

Ligand synthesis including dynamic combinatorial methods; lanthanide luminescence; metal ion binding and metallodrug binding sites in DNA and RNA; lanthanide-based contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging; kinetics and mechanistic studies on synthetic enzymes.

BioMEMS; Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC); Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS); Micro/nanofluidics; nanobiosensors; microactuators.

Protein structure and function; membrane protein dynamics; voltage-sensitive ion channels.

Polymers; photonics; biophotonics; nanomedicine; optics.

Novel synthetic approaches in polymer chemistry; polymer self-assembly in solution and bulk; shape-persistent macromolecules.

Design and characterization of novel, custom integrated circuits for sensing applications system-level integration; integrated optoelectronic devices; artificial neural networks and artificial vision.

Nanoelectronics; single-photon detection; optoelectronics; ultrafast photoluminescence.

Micro/nano-biomedical device fabrication; wireless power transfer using RF/microwave.

Synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles and nanowires; nanoscale magnetism; charge transport in self-assembled nanostructures; biological applications of nanoparticles.