Ruth Iris Bahar

Nanoscale computing, noise analysis of nanoscale circuits, reliable computing under high defect and highly noisy conditions, self-assembly.
Ruth_Bahar@brown.edu

Amit Basu

Glycobiology and materials science.  Dendritic, polymer and nanoparticle probes for cell surface carbohydrate recognition; Nanoscale polymer architectures.
Amit_Basu@brown.edu

J. Roderic Beresford

Semiconductor nanostructures and epitaxy, pattern-driven quantum dot growth; direct nanoelectronic detection of redox reactions; nanoscale sensing and control of biological processes.
J_Beresford@brown.edu

Janet Blume

Educational outreach developing ways to bring nanoscale engineering into pre-college biology, chemistry, and physics curricula
Janet_Blume@brown.edu

Allan Bower

Computer simulation of the mechanical behavior of structural, electronic and biological materials
Allan_Bower@brown.edu

Kenneth Breuer

Nanoscale fluid mechanics and transport processes, fluid-surface interactions, behavior of nanoscale particles and flexible filaments in fluids, diffusion and heat transfer, mechanics of biological motion and adhesion, experimental techniques for nanoscale fluid measurements.
Kenneth_Breuer@brown.edu

Eric Chason

Evolution of surfaces and thin film structures, non-equilibrium processing (growth, ion bombardment); self-assembled nanostructures; real-time diagnostics (stress, roughness, surface and interface morphology, defect formation); simulation and modeling
Eric_Chason_PhD@brown.edu

William Curtin

Computational materials science and nano- and micro-mechanics of materials; multiscale modeling of deformation, fracture and fatigue with applications to metals, alloys, nanomaterials, fiber-reinforced composites, and nanocomposites
William_Curtin@brown.edu

Eric Darling

Micro/nano-mechanical characterization of biological samples; beacon-based, gene expression imaging for cellular diagnostics
Eric_Darling@brown.edu

Sarah Delaney

Biological consequences of DNA damage. Using the tools of chemistry and biology to probe the effects of DNA modification at the molecular level. Particular interested in the role of oxidative DNA damage and its contributions to cancer and neurological disorders such as Huntington's disease.
Sarah_Delaney@brown.edu

Dmitri Feldman

Quantum Hall effect and its applications in quantum information science, quantum wires, nanomagnets, spintronics, soft matter in random porous media
Dmitri_Feldman@brown.edu

Christian Franck

Nano and micro mechanics of soft matter, cell-material interactions, and cell adhesion. Molecular mechanisms of mechanosensing in cells.
Christian_Franck@brown.edu

Huajian Gao

Semiconductor nanostructures and epitaxy, pattern-driven quantum dot growth; direct nanoelectronic detection of redox reactions; nanoscale sensing and control of biological processes.
Huajian_Gao@brown.edu

Pradeep Guduru

Experimental mechanics at nano and micro-scales; biologically inspired contact mechanics, adhesion and friction; guided assembly and surface engineering
Pradeep_Guduru@brown.edu

Karen Haberstroh

Nano-structured polymers for soft tissue engineering. novel methods in science education, nanotechnology classroom outreach
Karen_Marie_Haberstroh@brown.edu

Diane Hoffman-Kim

Nanomaterials for nerve growth: biomimetic and 3D materials; in vitro platforms for studying nerve development and nerve regeneration at the nanoscale.
Diane_Hoffman-Kim@brown.edu

Robert Hurt

Nanomaterials and their biological and environmental applications/implications; carbon nanomaterials, nanotoxicology, interfacial phenomena, liquid crystals and supramolecular assembly, material chemistry approaches for safe nanomaterial formulation, nanoparticle cell delivery
Robert_Hurt@brown.edu

Agnes Kane

Nanotoxicology, cellular interactions with nanomaterials, nanomaterials for targeted cancer therapy, biocompatibility of nanomaterials 
Agnes_Kane@brown.edu

Kyung-Suk Kim

Nanomechanics, AFM nanometrology, Nanotribology
Kyung-Suk_Kim@brown.edu

Angus Kingon

Electronic materials; processing and properties of electronic films at the nanoscale; nanoscale characterization by scanning probe techniques; oxide thermoelectrics; scaling flexoelectric and piezoelectric materials to nanodimensions; flexible electronics; electronic properties of nanoscale heterostructures; physics of nanoscale electrical contacts 
Angus_Kingon@brown.edu   

Sharvan Kumar

Defects in crystalline solids, their motion, interaction and consequences on deformation; mechanical behavior of nanocrystalline materials; experimental techniques for defect characterization
Sharvan_Kumar@brown.edu

Xinsheng Sean Ling

Nanopore DNA sequencing, nanofabrication, optical and magnetic tweezers, nanomechanical measurements on single biomolecules, nanobiology
Xinsheng_Ling@brown.edu

Diane Lipscombe

Nanomaterial interactions with ion channels and effects on neuronal signaling 
Diane_Lipscombe@brown.edu

Humphrey Maris

Acoustic measurements on thin films and nanostructures, development of an ultra-high resolution acoustic microscope, imaging the motion of single electrons in liquid helium
Humphrey_Maris@brown.edu

John Bradley Marston

Quantum chemistry of actinide nano-complexes with application to the problem of high level nuclear waste disposal; physics of quantum many-body systems driven far from equilibrium
John_Marston@brown.edu

Edith Mathiowitz

The polymer/medicine interface; nanoparticles as novel therapeutic delivery systems, small-diameter vascular grafts with better compliance; novel bioadhesive polymers for oral delivery, liquid crystals as smart sensors
Edith_Mathiowitz@brown.edu

Vesna Mitrovic

Nuclear magnetic resonance of nanoscale inhomogeneity, magnetic nanoparticles, and molecules 
Vesna_Mitrovic@brown.edu

Jeffrey Morgan

3D cell culture and in vitro micro-tissues for testing the toxicity and therapeutic potential of nano-materials
Jeffrey_Morgan@brown.edu

Arto Nurmikko

Nanophotonics, active electronic nanomaterials, and neuroenginering and neurotechnology including new approaches to interfacing the brain by nanoscale implantable devices
Arto_Nurmikko@brown.edu

Domenico Pacifici

Silicon-based nanophotonics; optical and electrical properties of semiconductor quantum dots; metamaterials; periodic and quasiperiodic nanostructures in metal films; nanoengineered materials and devices for optical communications, biochemical sensing and energy harvesting solutions
Domenico_Pacifici@brown.edu

David Paine

Imaging and structure analysis at the nanoscale using electron microscopy, amorphous and nano-structured metal oxides for transparent, flexible, and large area electronics, transparent conducting oxide applications, (transparent) thin film transistors
David_Paine@brown.edu

Tayhas Palmore

Nanomaterial components in biofuel cells, photovoltaics, batteries; cellular scaffolds; genetically engineered machines; self-assembly of molecular solids
Tayhas_Palmore@brown.edu

Robert Pelcovits

Theory and simulation of soft matter including liquid crystals and liquid crystalline elastomers, confinement of nanoscale systems, topological defects, lipid membranes and vesicles
Robert_Pelcovits@brown.edu

Andrew Peterson

Catalysis design, electronic structure, and sustainable fuels
Andrew_Peterson@brown.edu

Thomas Powers

Soft condensed matter physics: lipid bilayer membranes, biological filaments, liquid crystals, rheology, interfacial physics, and swimming motility
Thomas_Powers@brown.edu

David Rand

Nanomaterial effects in evolutionary, ecological and environmental genomics; Drosophila population genetics, ecotoxicology; mitochondrial genetics and aging; oxidative stress
David_Rand@brown.edu

Sherief Reda

Design and analysis of sub-100 nanometer integrated circuits, models of variations in nanoscale device performance, variation-tolerant designs and circuit fabrics
Sherief_Reda@brown.edu

William Risen

Aerogels including gold and magnetic nanoparticles, photochemistry and catalysis related to nanoparticles, carbon nanoparticles 
William_Risen_Jr@brown.edu

Christoph Rose-Petruck

Nanomaterialsf or bio-medical imaging applications and x-ray. Nano-microscopy using laboratory plasma x-ray sources
Christoph_Rose-Petruck@brown.edu

John Savage

Nanowire decoders, nanowire encoding, nanoscale memory and logic, coded computation at the nanoscale
John_Savage@brown.edu

Jason Sello

Functional nanoparticles for catalysis and for separation of low molecular weight compounds
Jason_Sello@brown.edu

Surendra Sharma

Nanomaterial distribution in tissue and effects on pregnancy outcomes. 
Surendra_Sharma@brown.edu

Brian Sheldon

Nanomaterials synthesis, especially vapor phase methods, nanomechanical behavior of materials, nanocrystalline diamond films, nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces, and nanocrystalline oxides for electrochemical applications
Brian_Sheldon@brown.edu

Derek Stein

Nano-biophysics, nanopores and novel DNA sequencing strategies, nanofluidics and medical diagnostic applications, DNA-protein interactions, single-molecule biophysics, single-molecule polymer physics
Derek_Stein@brown.edu

Richard Stratt

Ultrafast spectroscopy; dynamics of liquids, supercooled liquids, and glassy systems; disordered materials and clusters; energy relaxation and the molecular origins of friction
Richard_Stratt@brown.edu

Shouheng Sun

Nanomaterials synthesis, self-assembly, magnetic nanoparticles, nanocrystal arrays for information storage and fuel cell catalysts, functional nanoparticles for target-specific diagnostics/therapeutics
Shouheng_Sun@brown.edu

Jay Tang

Nanoscale assembly and dynamics of the cytoskeletal protein filaments F-actin and microtubules, integrin mediated adhesion and migration of neutrophils and T-cells, molecular mechanisms of bacterial adhesion
Jay_Tang@brown.edu

Anubhav Tripathi

Nanoparticle-based technologies for biomarker/protein identification and separation, biocompatible nanoparticles for bacterial lysis, new encapsulation procedures for drugs and chemical agents, transport through soft matter, disease diagnostics applications using microfluids and nanofluidics platform
Anubhav_Tripathi@brown.edu

James Valles, Jr.

Nano-structured superconductors, nano-crystal array formation, magnetic manipulation of bio-molecular assemblies
James_Valles_Jr@brown.edu

Petia Vlahovska

Petia_Vlahovska@brown.edu

Edward Walsh

Composite nanoscale structures for use as medical imaging contrast and therapy agents. Implementation of image acquisition and processing schemes to detect the presence of such agents.
Edward_Walsh@brown.edu

Li-Qiong Wang

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials in batteries;  Solid-state NMR  investigation of self-assembled nanostructural materials, nanoporosity and ion diffusion in batteries and super-capacitors
Li_Qiong_Wang@brown.edu

Lai-Sheng Wang

Experimental and theoretical studies of the size-dependent electronic, chemical, and structural properties of isolated nanoclusters; Nanomaterials and nanocatalysis; spectroscopic characterization of solution molecules and multiply-charged anions in the gas phase
Lai-Sheng_Wang@brown.edu

Gang Xiao

Electron transport and magnetism in low dimensional systems such as metallic thin films, superlattices and ultrafine particles, physics of novel superconducting and magnetic nanostructures, high temperature superconductivity
Gang_Xiao@brown.edu

Jingming (Jimmy) Xu

Quantum photonics, aperiodic optics, semiconductor lasers, molecular electro-optics, collective behavior of large coupled systems; carbon nanotube structures, synthesis of quantum-arrays, DNA conductivity, physics of redox processes in proteins and cells
Jingming_Xu@brown.edu

See-Chen Ying

Dynamics of polymers and DNA through nanoscale restrictions, free energy landscapes of complex systems at nanoscale, nanotribology, dislocation generation and motion in heteroepitaxial systems
See-Chen_Ying@brown.edu

Alexander Zaslavsky

Semiconductor nanowires and nanodots, tunneling nanodevices, nanolayered semiconductor-on-insulator materials, epitaxial nanowire heterojunctions
Alexander_Zaslavsky@brown.edu

Anatoly Zhitkovich

Toxic effects of nanomaterials and catalytic metals, cancer cell-targeting application
Anatoly_Zhitkovich@brown.edu

Rashid Zia

Near-field optics and nanophotonics, optical properties of nanostructured materials, metallic nanoparticles, atomic emission process and novel nanoscale light emitters
Rashid_Zia@brown.edu

Matthew Zimmt

Matthew_Zimmt@brown.edu