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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
| Patricia Foland | Melissa Bailey | |||
| Materials Science and Engineering, NCSU Email: pfoland@ncsu.edu cdpfacility@ncsu.edu | Materials Research Institute, PSU Email: mic3@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
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
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
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
Pagan, Darren
Materials Science and Engineering – Penn State
Research Interest: Analysis & Characterization, Metals, Composites, Data Analytics, X-ray Scattering, Micromechanics, Advanced Manufacturing
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