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 ZhongYang (Z.-Y.) Cheng
Assistant Professor
3M Grant Researcher
Office: 279 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4913
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Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, 1995
Smart materials preparation and characterization; materials physics; application
of smart materials in actuators, transducers, sensors and MEMS/NEMS; design, fabrication
and characterization of electromechanical actuators and sensors;
Smart Materials: dielectrics; ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramics, crystals
and thin film; electroactive polymers (artificial muscle); nonlinear optical polymers;
nanocomposites and magnetostriction (metal glass); Electromechanical actuators,
sensors and transducers for robots, artificial muscle and organs, vibration and
noise control; MEMS for switch, fluid pump and valves; Biosensors for detecting
biological/chemical threat agents under
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 Bryan Allen Chin
Professor
Office: 277 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3322
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Ph.D., Stanford University with distinction, Materials Science and Engineering,
1976
Research and development of biosensors for the detection of bacteria, spores
and toxins that may contaminant our food system; materials and methods to improve
food safety, medical and health applications; chemical sensors for detection of
toxic gas compounds; Radio Frequency Identification Sensor Tags for automatic
inventory and quality of food products; Sensors for manufacturing process control,
welding and joining; and Fabrication and manufacture of adaptive materials |
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 Jeffrey Fergus
Associate Professor
Office: 281 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3405
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Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1990 High temperature and solid-state materials chemistry; high-temperature oxidation
and materials compatibility; chemical sensors; solid electrolytes; materials for
solid oxide fuel cells; sensors for PEM fuel cells |
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 William Gale
Professor
Office: 284 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3406
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Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK, 1991
Sensing and decontamination of the airliner cabin environment, with an emphasis
on biological hazards, under the FAA Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research (ACER); Materials Science and associated cross-disciplinary topics: processing - structure
- property relationships in a wide range of metallic materials and diverse applications
(space propulsion to food processing); Interfaces between dissimilar materials,
especially in reactive systems; Joining and coating of materials; Nanomaterials;
Adaptive materials; Electron microscopy; Unconventional approaches to munitions
systems; Cross-disciplinary:web and team-based education |
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 Jong Wook Hong
Assistant Professor
Office: 278 Wilmore Labs
Phone:(334) 844-7385
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Ph.D., Chemistry and Biotechnology (Chemical Engineering), the University of
Tokyo, 2000 Integrated micro/nanofluidic systems for nanobiotechnology; bioMEMB; biomaterials;
automated high-throughput systems for systems biology; microarray; biomolecular
engineering |
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 Dong-Joo (Daniel) Kim
Assistant Professor
Office: 276 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4864
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 Ruel A. (Tony) Overfelt
Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Professor
Office: 282 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-5940
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Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University,1984 Metal casting and related materials processes; thermophysical property measurement
technology; biomaterials and biomechanical engineering |
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 Bart Prorok
Assistant Professor
Office: 283 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4733
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 Aleksandr Simonian
Associate Professor
Office: 274 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4485
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Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics, USSR Academy of Science, 1973 Doctor of Science, Bioengineering, Moscow Institute of Applied Biochemistry,
Russia, 1993
Development and fabrication of biosensors for environmental analysis (CW and
BW agents, phenols, mercury), food safety (pathogens), medicine (glucose, uric
acid, amino acids) agriculture (pesticides), veterinary (express monitoring of
animals health status), industrial process control (amino acids and alcohol);Application
of Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy for biomolecules/surface interaction analysis
and biosensing; Nanocomposite films and nanoparticles for sensing applications;
Optical imaging and fluorescence spectroscopy; Biomaterials and bio-surfaces |
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 Richard Williams
Associate Research Professor
Office: 259 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-5901
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Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University, 2002
Thermal sciences and two phase phenomena to include boiling heat transfer and
solid-gas systems; Behavior of cohesive powders including classification, fluidization,
and modifications to enhance processing; Rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing
processes |
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 Ralph Zee
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Office: 1301 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-2301
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