IPrime Students

Visit the IPrime Faculty research group websites below for information on current students and search University Microfilms (UMI/ProQuest) or search the University's Digital Conservancy website or search the University's Doctoral Register for PhD theses and research areas since 1981 and to identify faculty working in technologies of interest to you.

Biocatalysis and Biosynthesis Program

• Sadowsky Group
  Enzymes for bioremediation and bioenergy, enzyme discovery, functional and meta genomics
• Distefano Group Organic and Biochem, Protein conjugates for therapeutic and biotechnology applications
  
• Kazlauskas Group
  Biocatalytic synthesis of chemical intermediates and biofuels. Enzymes modification for new reactions
• Schmidt-Dannert Group
  Biosynthetic pathway engineering, metabolic engineering, gene discovery and enzyme engineering
• Srienc Group
  Cell population dynamics, metabolic engineering, synthesis of polymers
• Wackett Group
  Microbial catabolic enzymology, functional genomics, enzyme development for bioremediation and bioenergy
• Wang Group
  Enzyme engineering and nanotechnology, membrane and interfacial catalysis, bioactive materials and coatings, CO2 conversion to methanol, biofuel cells, biosensors.

Biomaterials and Phamaceutical Materials Program

• Siegel Group
  Drug and hormone delivery, biosensing, hydrogels, microfabrication
• Tranquillo Group
  Biopolymers as tissue scaffolds; cell-matrix interactions
• Hillmyer Group
  Biocompatible block copolymers for polymersomes/drug delivery and worm-like micelle/tissue scaffolds
• Kokkoli Group
  Bioadhesion and Drug Targeting
• Suryanarayanan Group
  Solid state properties of drugs, stability of drug/biomaterial formulations
• Wang Group
  Biomaterial/tissue interactions, gene delivery, immunotherapy
• Shen Group
  Bioactive materials



Coating Process Fundamentals Program

Coating Process Fundamentals Website

• Francis Group
  Ceramics, Polymer/Ceramic Composites, Microstructure, Stress and Properties of Coatings
• Kumar Group
  Stability, Dynamics, Manipulation of Interfaces, Transport Processes in Microscale Systems
• Carvalho Group
  Fluid Mechanics, Rheology, Transport Phenomena, Drying
• McCormick Group
  Curing, Thermodynamics and Kinetics, NMR
• Norris Group
  Colloidal Crystal Coatings, Confocal microscopy
• Tsapatsis Group
  Zeoilite and Membrane Coatings, Particulate Coatings
• Macosko Group
  Processing, Compatibilization, Rheology
• Davis Group
  CEMS Colloid and Interface Science; Statistical Mechanics; Cryo-Electron Microscopy 
• Gerberich Group
  Mechanical Properties of Materials



Magnetic Heterostructures Program

• Crowell Group
  Spin dynamics, transport, and magneto-optics
• Dahlberg Group
  Magnetic force microscopy and spin transport at interfaces
  
• Superconductivity Research Group (Allen Goldman)
  Electron tunneling/transport, MBE
• Leighton Group
  Ceramics and Metals, Crystal Growth and Design Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Materials
  
• Hybrid Materials Epitaxy Center (Palmstrom Group)
  Heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures
• Advancing the Integration of Materials and Devices (Bethanie J. Hill Stadler Group)) Integration of magnetic and photonic materials for novel spintronic devices
• Victora Group
  Theory and modeling of magnetic materials, primarily for information storage
• Wentzcovitch Group Theory of materials at high pressures and temperatures
  
  
  

Microstructured Polymers Program

• Bates Group Synthesis, Thermodynamics, Morphology, and Transport
• Lodge Group Polymer Structure and Dynamics Polymer Characterization
  
• Hillmyer Group Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Polymers
  
• Macosko Group Multiphase polymer microstructures via melt blending
• Morse Group Theory of Complex Fluids



Nanostructured Materials and Processes Program

Nanostructured Materials and Processes Webpage

• Davis Group CEMS Colloid and Interface Science; Statistical Mechanics; Cryo-Electron Microscopy
• Frisbie Group Organic Electonics, OFETs, AFM
• Gladfelter Group Combinatorial Thin Film Synthesis
• Haugstad Group Scanning Probe Microscopy
  
• McCormick Group CEMS Materials Synthesis from Solution; Spectroscopy; Molecular Simulation; Cryo-Electron Microscopy 
• Norris Group Photonic crystals, nanocrystals, and colloids
• Stein Group Solid state chemistry of porous materials



Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces Program

• C. Daniel Frisbie Group Organic Electonics, OFETs, AFM
• David Blank Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy
• Jean-Luc Bredas Computational Quantum Chemistry
• Chris Douglas Organic Synthesis
• Russell Holmes OLEDs, Solar Cells, Thin Film Growth
  
• Paul Ruden
  Device Modeling
  
• Zhu Group Ultrafast Photoemission Spectroscopy
  

Renewable Energy Materials Program

• Kortshagen Group Si nanoparticle based solar cells & thermoelectrics
  
• Aydil Group Solar cells, batteries & photocatalysis
• Bhan group Catalysis, biofuels, biomass conversion & photocatalysis
• Frisbie Group Organic solar cells
• Holmes Group Small molecule organic solar cells
• Norris Group Photonic crystals, nanocrystals, and colloids