Faculty
UNT professors, students and research staff from the departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Biology, Physics and Chemistry are among the researchers who use the more than two dozen instruments at CART to analyze materials from the micro to atomic level. UNT researchers include:
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Oliver Chyan |
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Teresa Golden Associate Professor, Chemistry Group: Golden Group Site Research: Research interests include the areas of materials and bio analytical chemistry: 1) Production of artificial bone/biodegradable polymer materials with incorporation of drug delivery mechanisms, 2) Production of nanoclay/ceramic nanocomposite powders and films for enhanced mechanical properties and corrosion protection, 3) Characterization and deposition of diamond-like carbon films for corrosion protection and sensor development. |
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Mohammad Omary Professor, Chemistry Cluster: Bio/Nano-Photonics Group: Omary Group Site Research: The Omary group research conducts research in three major areas: (1) fundamental spectroscopic and structural studies of luminescent transition metal and lanthanide complexes, (2) molecular electronic devices, and (3) metal-organic framework for adsorption of hydrogen and other gases. |
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Rob Petros Assistant Professor, Chemistry Group: Petros Group Site Research: Our research is geared toward understanding the impact of nano-topography and surface chemistry at the biotic/abiotic interface. The primary goal is translational research that leads to the design of new materials/carriers for targeted drug delivery and new tools to dictate events occurring at the surface of circulating/implantable biomaterials. |
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Justin Youngblood Assistant Professor, Chemistry Cluster: Renewable Bioproducts Research: We are engaged in the design and synthesis of new organic semiconductors. These new compounds will be assembled into materials for electronic devices by methods of templated-assembly and self-assembly. We are particularly interested in the development of plastic solar cells. |
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Raj Banerjee Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Group: Advanced Metallic Materials Research: View additional research information |
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Witold Brostow Regents Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Cluster: Renewable BioProducts Group: LAPOM Research: Polymer and Composite systems and Materials Science Education |
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Wonbong Choi Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (Joint appointment to MEE) Cluster: Bio/Nano-Photonics Group: Nanomaterials and Devices Laboratory Research: View additional research information |
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Rick Reidy Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Group: Materials Synthesis and Processing Laboratory Research:
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Tom Scharf Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Group: Laboratory for Moving Mechanical Assemblies Research:
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Nigel Shepherd Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Group: Optoelectronics and Thin Films Laboratory Research: View additional research information |
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Tae-Youl Choi Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Energy Engineering Group: Laboratory of Small-Scale Instrumentation Research: View additional research information |
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Nandika D’Souza Professor, Mechanical and Energy Engineering (Joint appointment to MTSE) Cluster: Renewable BioProducts Group: Polymer Mechanical and Rheology Laboratory Research: Professor D’Souza’s main research interests are in the bulk and interfacial properties of heterogeneous materials. Recent and current research areas include: multifunctional composites, environmental friendly packaging, sensor textiles, biocomposites and magnetorheological fluid rheology. The use of functional nanoparticles coupled with functional matrices enables gains in properties that may, on first glance, appear incongruent. Thus comes the laboratory focus in "having one's cake". View additional research information |
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Jose Perez Professor, Physics Research: Dr. Perez's areas of expertise are nanostructures, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, carbon and diamond films, ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy, nonlinear dynamics and chaos. |
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Usha Philipose Assistant Professor, Physics Research: By controlling matter on the nanometer length scale, we can realize our goal of tuning material properties to specific applications. My research focus is on the synthesis of wide and narrow band gap semiconductor nanowires. These one dimensional structures exhibit novel properties on account of their large surface area, reduced dimensionality and possible quantum confinement effects. Detailed strutural, optical and electronic characterization of these nanostructures provides information on their intrinsic properties and their suitablity in potential nanoscale device applications. We aim to synthesize alloyed and heterostructured semiconductor nanostructures and study the effect of structure on their optical and electronic properties. Potential applications of such nanostructures include sensors, photovoltaics, lasers, opto-electronic and spintronic devices. |
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Bibhudutta Rout Assistant Professor, Physics Research: Dr. Rout is actively pursuing research in several experimental areas involving condensed matter physics, materials science, nano-science and technology. His current research interests include materials analysis and modification using high energy focused ion beams; Growth and analysis of micro-nanostructures using UHV techniques involving MBE, E-beam, Ion beam. |
