URI-30 research groups:
Arijit Bose (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM, XRD, CRM. Battery materials, SERS nanoparticles, bacteria for oil degradation, soft and composite materials
Geoffrey Bothun (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM, XRD, CRM, HCS. Theranostic nanoparticles, bacteria for oil degradation, SERS substrates for analyte detection, lipid layer interactions
Daniel Roxbury (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, CRM, HCS. Carbon nanotubes for live-cell imaging and sensing.
Otto Gregory (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, XRD. Thin film sensors, sputtering
Stephen Kennedy (Chemical Engineering/ Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM. Electrically, magnetically, and ultrasonically responsive biomaterials, orthopedic implant materials, electrostatic gene transfection
Samantha Meenach (Chemical Engineering/ Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences ): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, XRD, CRM, HCS. Tumor penetrating micro- and nanoparticles for lung cancer, 3D air-grown lung cancer spheroids assay platforms
Jie Shen (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences/ Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM, XRD. Brain and ophthalmic drug delivery, complex dosage forms.
Jyothi Menon (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM. Polymer and lipid-based nanoparticle drug delivery systems, nanocomposite systems for regenerative medicine
Xinyuan Chen (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): TEM, cryoTEM. Laser-based approaches to facilitate transdermal drug/vaccine delivery, improve vaccine safety
David Rowley (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): cryoSEM. Marine natural products chemistry, antibiotics drug discovery, marine microbial chemical ecology
Jodi Camberg (Cell and Molecular Biology): TEM. Molecular Mechanisms of Energy-Dependent Proteins during Essential Cell Processes, Cell division in bacteria, regulated proteolysis
Ying Zhang (Cell and Molecular Biology): CRM. Genomic and functional diversity of proteobacteria
Bethany Jenkins (Cell and Molecular Biology/ Biological oceanography): TEM. Influence of nitrogen cycling on the structure of microbial communities, Application of genomic methods to study nitrogen fixation in the marine environment, Fe redox chemistry in seawater, algal blooms
Jacqueline Webb (Biological Sciences): FE-SEM. Development and evolution of cranial sensory systems in fishes
Mindy Levine (Chemistry): SEM, TEM. Supramolecular organic chemistry, detection of small molecule toxicants
Jason Dwyer (Chemistry): SEM, TEM, CRM. Development of SERS substrates for analyte detection, nanopores
Brett Lucht (Chemistry): SEM, TEM, cryoTEM. Li-ion battery materials
Brenton DeBoef (Chemistry): FE-SEM, TEM, cryoTEM, CRM. Organic and organometallic chemistry for therapeutic applications
Yana Reshetnyak (Physics): TEM, cryoTEM. pH sensitive peptides, lipid-based nanomaterials
Feruz Ganikhanov (Physics): FE-SEM, CRM. Ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics of two-dimensional structures, Nonlinear optical and spectroscopic imaging for bio-medical and biophysics applications, Few-optical-cycle pulses and arbitrary waveforms
Vinka Craver-Oyanedel (Civil and Environmental Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, CRM, HCS. Nano-enabled water treatment technologies, bacteria response to biocide agents
K. Wayne Lee (Civil and Environmental Engineering): SEM. Transportation infrastructure, construction materials, pavement recycling, asphalt design
Yi Zheng (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): SEM. micro/nanoscale thermal transport phenomena and cooling technology, nanofibers, photonic crystals
Arun Shukla (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): TEM, SEM. Fracture mechanics, composite materials, undersea vehicle technologies, experimental and theoretical mechanics, blast mitigation, wave propagation, impact mechanics and elasticity
Constantine Anagnostopoulos (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): FE-SEM. Biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, CCD image sensors, microfluidics.
Mohammad Faghri (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): FE-SEM. Experiments and Modeling of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Characteristics in Micro Channels and development of research and technology for lab-on-a-chip devices for various microfluidic applications, Heat and fluid flow in microscale and nanoscale structures
Manbir Sodhi (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): TEM. Driver Safety, based on eye movement detection for focus tracking; Highly automated manufacturing systems, and Increasing sustainability of consumer products by enhancing redesign, recovery, reuse and recycling
Thomas Boving (Geosciences/ Civil and environmental Engineering): FE-SEM. Fate and transport of inorganic and organic contaminants, innovative remediation technologies, water treatment and filtration technologies
Dawn Cardace (Geosciences): CRM. Geobiology, microbe-mineral interactions, ultramafic rocks
Simon Engelhart (Geosciences): FE-SEM. Relative sea-level changes, Glacial isostatic adjustment modeling, Coastal paleoseismology and paleogeodesy, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using micropaleontology
Academic external:
Reid Cooper (Brown University-Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences): cryoSEM. Eutectic mixtures.
Bernard Munge (Salve Regina-Chemistry): FE-SEM. Platforms for analyte sensing
Industrial users:
EaglePicher Technologies
Technic, Inc
Xilectric, Inc
Nanosoft, LLC
Dryvit Systems, Inc
NGS Detectors, LLC
Last updated: December 05, 2018