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Infrastructure Materials
Research Topics
Cementitious composites • geopolymer cement • recycled materials • timber & CLT • rocks • composite laminates • soil • granular materials
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Reactive Materials
Research Topics
Geochemical rock-fluid reactions • soil minerals • microplastics & nanoplastics • photocatalytic TiO2-based nanocomposites • plasmonic materials • antibacterial thin films • self-cleaning surfaces • polyelectrolyte complex membranes • reactive absorbents
Faculty
Theory & Computation
Research Topics
Multiphysics & multiscale computation • fracture mechanics • molecular simulation of soft materials • strain localization • statistics of material strength • rheology • plasticity & limit analysis • sensing & parameter identification
Faculty
- Ludmilla Aristilde
- Zdeněk Bažant
- Oluwaseyi Balogun
- Giuseppe Buscarnera
- Gianluca Cusatis
- Jean-François Gaillard
- Yonggang Huang
- Sinan Keten
- Alessandro Rotta-Loria
Advanced Materials Testing
Research Topics
X-ray spectroscopy • XAS, XANES, EXAFS • nanoscale X-ray tomography • solid state NMR • nondestructive materials characterization • nanoindentation • scratch test • mercury intrusion porosimetry • mechanical testing with environmental controls • dynamic testing
Faculty
- Oluwaseyi Balogun
- Jean-François Gaillard
- Yonggang Huang
- Sinan Keten
- Alessandro Rotta-Loria
- Aaron Packman
Biomaterials
Research Topics
Biomacromolecular compositions & design• cortical bone • bone scaffolds • biofilms • periphyton • human artery • mechanics of tissues • whiskers & follicles • biosensors
Faculty
- Zdeněk Bažant
- Neal Blair
- Jean-François Gaillard
- Kimberly Gray
- Erica Hartmann
- Yonggang Huang
- Sinan Keten
- John Rudnicki
- George Wells
Nanomaterials
Research Topics
Carbon nanotubes & nanofibers • functionalized graphene, GO, rGO • metal & metal oxides (n-ZnO, n-Ag, n-TiO2) • multifunctional catalytic, plasmonic & photoactive nanocomposites • lignin & cellulose nanoparticles • clay minerals • hydrodynamics in mineral nanopores • mixed-dimensional electronic heterostructures • nanomodification of cement-based materials • nanotoxicity
Faculty
- Ludmilla Aristilde
- Zdeněk Bažant
- Oluwaseyi Balogun
- Jean-François Gaillard
- Kimberly Gray
- Erica Hartmann
- Yonggang Huang
- Sinan Keten
- John Rudnicki
Geomaterials
Research Topics
Sand liquefaction • cyclic behavior of soils • organic geomaterials • geochemical fluid-rock interaction • rock compaction & fracture • unsaturated soils • clay minerals • iron-oxide minerals • fluid-infiltrated rock • mineralized crystals