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URI<\/strong>-30 research groups:<\/p>\n

Arijit Bose (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM, XRD, CRM. Battery materials, SERS nanoparticles, bacteria for oil degradation, soft and composite materials<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Daniel Roxbury (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, CRM, HCS. Carbon nanotubes for live-cell imaging and sensing.<\/p>\n

Otto Gregory (Chemical Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, XRD. Thin film sensors, sputtering<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Jyothi Menon (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM. Polymer and lipid-based nanoparticle drug delivery systems, nanocomposite systems for regenerative medicine<\/p>\n

Xinyuan Chen (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): TEM, cryoTEM. Laser-based approaches to facilitate transdermal drug\/vaccine delivery, improve vaccine safety<\/p>\n

David Rowley (Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences): cryoSEM, TEM. Marine natural products chemistry, antibiotics drug discovery, marine microbial chemical ecology<\/p>\n

William Van Nostrand (College of Pharmacy): XRM. Vascular-mediated aspects of cognitive impairment and dementia, causes of abnormal accumulation of A-beta in AD and a related condition called cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA).<\/p>\n

Jodi Camberg (Cell and Molecular Biology): TEM. Molecular Mechanisms of Energy-Dependent Proteins during Essential Cell Processes, Cell division in bacteria, regulated proteolysis<\/p>\n

Ying Zhang (Cell and Molecular Biology): CRM. Genomic and functional diversity of proteobacteria<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Webb (Biological Sciences): FE-SEM. Development and evolution of cranial sensory systems in fishes<\/p>\n

Mindy Levine (Chemistry): SEM, TEM. Supramolecular organic chemistry, detection of small molecule toxicants<\/p>\n

Jason Dwyer (Chemistry): SEM, TEM, CRM. Development of SERS substrates for analyte detection, nanopores<\/p>\n

Brett Lucht (Chemistry): SEM, TEM, cryoTEM. Li-ion battery materials<\/p>\n

Brenton DeBoef (Chemistry): FE-SEM, TEM, cryoTEM, CRM. Organic and organometallic chemistry for therapeutic applications <\/p>\n

Yana Reshetnyak (Physics): TEM, cryoTEM. pH sensitive peptides, lipid-based nanomaterials<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Vinka Craver-Oyanedel (Civil and Environmental Engineering): TEM, FE-SEM, CRM, HCS. Nano-enabled water treatment technologies, bacteria response to biocide agents<\/p>\n

K. Wayne Lee (Civil and Environmental Engineering): SEM. Transportation infrastructure, construction materials, pavement recycling, asphalt design<\/p>\n

Yi Zheng (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): SEM. micro\/nanoscale thermal transport phenomena and cooling technology, nanofibers, photonic crystals<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Constantine Anagnostopoulos (Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering): FE-SEM. Biosensors, lab-on-a-chip, CCD image sensors, microfluidics.<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Dawn Cardace (Geosciences): CRM. Geobiology, microbe-mineral interactions, ultramafic rocks<\/p>\n

Simon Engelhart (Geosciences): FE-SEM. Relative sea-level changes, Glacial isostatic adjustment modeling, Coastal paleoseismology and paleogeodesy, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction using micropaleontology<\/p>\n

Academic external<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Reid Cooper (Brown University-Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences): cryoSEM. Eutectic mixtures.<\/p>\n

Bernard Munge (Salve Regina-Chemistry): FE-SEM. Platforms for analyte sensing<\/p>\n

Jie Shen (Northeastern University-Pharmaceutical Sciences ): TEM, FE-SEM, cryoTEM, cryoSEM, XRD XRM. Brain and ophthalmic drug delivery, complex dosage forms.<\/p>\n

Ryan Beemer (Virginia Tech-Civil and Environmental Engineering): XRM, SEM. Offshore geotechnical engineering, Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines,
\nCalcareous Sediments.<\/p>\n

Industrial users<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

EaglePicher Technologies<\/p>\n

Technic, Inc<\/p>\n

Xilectric, Inc<\/p>\n

Nanosoft, LLC<\/p>\n

Dryvit Systems, Inc<\/p>\n

NGS Detectors, LLC<\/p>\n

Clean Water Ventures<\/p>\n

DigiM Solution, LLC<\/p>\n

ACS Industries, Inc<\/p>\n

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Last updated: April 25, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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