Research
The UD Nanofabrication Facility (UDNF) enables cutting-edge research in fields ranging from biomedical diagnostics to photonic devices. Collaboration across disciplines is a hallmark of research at UD and the UDNF enables critical connections between fundamental science and real-world applications. The list below provides a brief summary of UD research in the broad area of nanotechnology. We encourage you to follow the links to learn more about specific researchers and their interests.
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Research Areas
Device Fabrication Nanoscale Biomaterials Nanoscale Soft and Composite Materials Nanotechnology and the Environment Nanoscale Solid-State Materials
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Jason Gleghorn
Associate Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Email: gleghorn@udel.edu
Research: The Gleghorn Lab develops and uses microfluidic and microfabrication technologies to determine how cells behave and communicate within multicellular populations to form complex 3D tissues and organs.
Nathan Lazarus
Associate Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: nlazarus@udel.edu
Research: Advanced packaging and design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for microscale power devices.
Jamie Phillips
Professor
Email: jphilli@udel.edu
Research: Optoelectronic device science and technology for the next generation of infrared systems, solar photovoltaics, and energy harvesting devices for the Internet of Things.
Dennis Prather
Engineering Alumni Professor
Email: dprather@udel.edu
Research: Design and fabrication of RF-photonic elements and their integration into systems for imaging, communications and radar.
Yuping Zeng
Assistant Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: yzeng@udel.edu
Research: Prof. Zeng’s research focuses on developing semiconductor devices for high performance applications and low power applications by using innovative materials, device design and fabrication techniques. Her research interests include (1) high speed transistors (heterojunction bipolar transistors and high electron mobility transistors); (2) novel transistors (tunneling field effect transistors and III-V metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors); and (3) light emitting diodes, laser diodes, photodetectors, etc.
Emily Day
Associate Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Email: emilyday@udel.edu
Research: Our group uses a multidisciplinary approach to engineer nanoscale materials with unique physical and chemical properties so that they can be used to transform the study, detection, and treatment of cancer.
Xinqiao Jia
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: xjia@udel.edu
Research: Synthetic extracellular matrices, peptide/polymer hybrids, bioorthogonal chemistry, cell signaling in engineered microenvironment, drug delivery, tissue engineering.
Kristi Kiick
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: kiick@udel.edu
Research: Design and synthesis of biologically active, multicomponent materials for regenerative medicine applications.
April M. Kloxin
Professor
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: akloxin@udel.edu
Research: We create dynamic, biomimetic materials with controlled nanostructures utilizing combinations of responsive, self-assembling, and orthogonal chemistries and use these materials to understand temporally regulated biological processes.
David Martin
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: milty@udel.edu
Research: Conjugated Polymers for Interfacing Electronic Biomedical Devices with Living Tissue
Anja Nohe
Associate Professor
Department: Biological Sciences
Email: anjanohe@udel.edu
Research: Nanoparticle synthesis and use for imaging and targeting.
John Slater
Associate Professor
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Email: jhslater@udel.edu
Research: Nano- and micropatterned biomaterials for cell engineering applications.
Eric M. Furst
Professor
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: furst@udel.edu
Research: Research in the Furst Group focuses on the physics and chemistry of colloidal, polymeric, biomolecular, and other soft materials.
Lars Gundlach
Professor
Department: Chemistry
Email: larsg@udel.edu
Research: Electronic and optical characterization of nanomaterials by femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy.
Christopher Kloxin
Associate Professor
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: cjk@udel.edu
Research: Dr. Kloxin synthesizes polymeric materials from the ground up through the design of unique monomers to precisely tune macromolecular structure and function for wide range of applications, with a particular interest in novel photopolymerization schematics.
Norman J. Wagner
Professor
Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Email: wagnernj@udel.edu
Research: Colloid and polymer science. Nanocomposites nanoscale metrology using neutrons.
Pei Chiu
Professor
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: pei@udel.edu
Research: Fate of Pollutants in Environmental Systems
C.P. Huang
Donald C. Phillips Professor
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: huang@udel.edu
Research: My research expertise is the chemistry at the solid-water interfaces and my current research interests are on the application of nanotechnology for the remediation of impaired water and the environmental impacts of nanomaterials.
Yan Jin
Professor
Department: Plant and Soil Sciences
Email: yjin@udel.edu
Research: Soil and environmental physics. Fate and transport of colloids (including microorganism and nanoparticles) and colloid-associated contaminants or nutrients in porous media.
Chitraleema Chakraborty
Assistant Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering and Physics
Email: cchakrab@udel.edu
Research: Quantum Emitters, 2D Materials, Quantum Photonics.
Matthew Doty
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: doty@udel.edu
Research: We explore quantum dots and other nanostructured semiconductor materials that can provide the foundation for future optoelectronic device technologies.
Joseph P Feser
Associate Professor
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Email: jpfeser@udel.edu
Research: Nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric materials/devices.
Tingyi Gu
Assistant Professor
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: tingyigu@udel.edu
Research: Integrated photonic devices.
Yi Ji
Associate Professor
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Email: yji@physics.udel.edu
Research: Spin-dependent transport in nanoscale structures
M. Benjamin Jungfleisch
Assistant Professor
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Email: mbj@udel.edu
Research: Spintronics and spin dynamics in nanoscale materials.
Branislav Nikolic
Professor
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Email: bnikolic@udel.edu
Research: Spintronics, nanoelectronics, thermoelectrics, nano-biosensing, quantum transport theory, high performance scientific computing.
S. Ismat Shah
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: ismat@udel.edu
Research: Nanomaterials for energy and environment applications.
Xi Wang
Assistant Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: wangxi@udel.edu
Research: Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials, Phase-transition materials, MEMS.
Bingqing Wei
Professor
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Email: weib@udel.edu
Research: Dr. Wei’s research interests lie in controllable synthesis of carbon nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes and graphene assembly of macroscale architectures with 1-, 2-, and 3-dimension physical, chemical, electrochemical, and mechanical property characteristics.
John Q. Xiao
Unidel Professor
Department: Physics and Astronomy
Email: jqx@udel.edu
Research: Spintronics, magnetism, and nanostructured materials
Joshua Zide
Professor
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Email: zide@udel.edu
Research: Our primary focus is on the growth by Molecular Beam Epitaxy of novel III-V semiconductors and nano composites for applications ranging from thermoelectrics to solar cells to optoelectronics to terahertz devices.