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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Device Fabrication

Jason Gleghorn

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.

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Nathan Lazarus

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.

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Jamie Phillips

Jamie Phillips

Professor

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

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.

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Dennis Prather

Dennis Prather

Engineering Alumni Professor

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Email: dprather@udel.edu

 

Research: Design and fabrication of RF-photonic elements and their integration into systems for imaging, communications and radar.

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Yuping Zeng

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.

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Nanoscale Biomaterials

Emily Day

Emily Day

Associate Professor

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Emailemilyday@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.

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Xinqiao Jia

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.

 

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Kristi Kiick

Kristi Kiick

Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Emailkiick@udel.edu

 

Research: Design and synthesis of biologically active, multicomponent materials for regenerative medicine applications.

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April M. Kloxin

April M. Kloxin

Professor

Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Emailakloxin@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.

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David Martin

David Martin

Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Email: milty@udel.edu

 

Research: Conjugated Polymers for Interfacing Electronic Biomedical Devices with Living Tissue

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Anja Nohe

Anja Nohe

Associate Professor

Department: Biological Sciences

Emailanjanohe@udel.edu

 

Research: Nanoparticle synthesis and use for imaging and targeting.

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John Slater

John Slater

Associate Professor

Department: Biomedical Engineering

Email: jhslater@udel.edu

 

Research: Nano- and micropatterned biomaterials for cell engineering applications.

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Nanoscale Soft and Composite Materials

Eric M. Furst

Eric M. Furst

Professor

Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Emailfurst@udel.edu

 

Research: Research in the Furst Group focuses on the physics and chemistry of colloidal, polymeric, biomolecular, and other soft materials.

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Lars Gundlach

Lars Gundlach

Professor

Department: Chemistry

Emaillarsg@udel.edu

 

Research: Electronic and optical characterization of nanomaterials by femtosecond time-resolved spectroscopy and microscopy.

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Christopher Kloxin

Christopher Kloxin

Associate Professor

Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Emailcjk@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.

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Norman J. Wagner

Norman J. Wagner

Professor

Department: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Emailwagnernj@udel.edu

 

Research: Colloid and polymer science. Nanocomposites nanoscale metrology using neutrons.

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Nanotechnology and the Environment

Pei Chiu

Pei Chiu

Professor

Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Emailpei@udel.edu

 

Research: Fate of Pollutants in Environmental Systems

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C.P. Huang

C.P. Huang

Donald C. Phillips Professor

Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Emailhuang@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.

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Yan Jin

Yan Jin

Professor

Department: Plant and Soil Sciences

Emailyjin@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.

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Nanoscale Solid-State Materials

Chitraleema Chakraborty

Chitraleema Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering and Physics

Emailcchakrab@udel.edu

 

Research: Quantum Emitters, 2D Materials, Quantum Photonics.

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Matthew Doty

Matthew Doty

Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Emaildoty@udel.edu

 

Research: We explore quantum dots and other nanostructured semiconductor materials that can provide the foundation for future optoelectronic device technologies.

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Joseph P Feser

Joseph P Feser

Associate Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Emailjpfeser@udel.edu

 

Research: Nanoscale thermal transport and thermoelectric materials/devices.

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Tingyi Gu

Tingyi Gu

Assistant Professor

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emailtingyigu@udel.edu

 

Research: Integrated photonic devices.

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Yi Ji

Yi Ji

Associate Professor

Department: Physics and Astronomy

Email: yji@physics.udel.edu

 

Research: Spin-dependent transport in nanoscale structures

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M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

M. Benjamin Jungfleisch

Assistant Professor

Department: Physics and Astronomy

Email: mbj@udel.edu

 

Research: Spintronics and spin dynamics in nanoscale materials.

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Branislav Nikolic

Branislav Nikolic

Professor

Department: Physics and Astronomy

Emailbnikolic@udel.edu

 

Research: Spintronics, nanoelectronics, thermoelectrics, nano-biosensing, quantum transport theory, high performance scientific computing.

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S. Ismat Shah

S. Ismat Shah

Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Emailismat@udel.edu

 

Research: Nanomaterials for energy and environment applications.

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Xi Wang

Xi Wang

Assistant Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Emailwangxi@udel.edu

 

Research: Nanophotonics, Nanomaterials, Phase-transition materials, MEMS.

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Bingqing Wei

Bingqing Wei

Professor

Department: Mechanical Engineering

Emailweib@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.

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John Q. Xiao

John Q. Xiao

Unidel Professor

Department: Physics and Astronomy

Email: jqx@udel.edu

 

Research: Spintronics, magnetism, and nanostructured materials

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Joshua Zide

Joshua Zide

Professor

Department: Materials Science and Engineering

Emailzide@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.

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