Shireen Adenwalla
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310E Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2709
sadenwalla1@unl.edu
Adenwalla's website

Research Areas
Structural characterization of materials, magnetic systems, polymers and the development of solid state neutron detectors

Dennis R. Alexander
Kingery Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
248 Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3091
dalexander1@unl.edu
Alexander's webpage

Research Areas
Ultra fast lasers and their applications, femtosecond lasers, optical switches

Vitaly Alexandrov
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207E Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-5323
valexandrov2@unl.edu
Research group website

Research Areas
Computational materials science and chemistry, redox flow batteries, defect chemistry, electronic structure

Christos Argyropoulos
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
239N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3710
christos.argyropoulos@unl.edu
Argyropoulos's website

Research Areas
Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, metasurfaces, computational electromagnetics

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Eveline Baesu
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W304 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2382
ebaesu2@unl.edu
Baesu's webpage

Research Areas
Solid mechanics, specifically electromechanical effects, fiber networks, and biomechanics.

Caren Barnes
Professor
UNMC College of Dentistry
Room 2108C, 4000 East Campus Loop South, Lincoln NE 68583-0740
Office: 402-472-5168
cbarnes@unmc.edu

Research Areas
Phase I, II and III randomized clinical trials, clinical trials with dental products, devices, pharmaceuticals, effects of dental products/devices, airpolishing, power toothbrushing, remineralization, smokeless tobacco, bisphosphonates, polishing, abrasives, dental materials, protocol development for clinical trials

Shannon L. Bartelt-Hunt
Professor
Civil Engineering
203B Peter Kiewit Institute
Omaha, NE 68182-0178
Office: 402-554-3868
sbartelt2@unl.edu
Bartelt-Hunt's webpage

Research Areas
Physicochemical fate of contaminants in soil and water, contaminant fate and transport in landfills

Herman Batelaan
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
075 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-3579
hbatelaan@unl.edu
Batelaan's website

Research Areas
Coherent electron control, slow light/phononic bands

Kirill Belashchenko
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310D Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2396
belashchenko@unl.edu
Belashchenko's website

Research Areas
Electronic theory of magnetism and magnetotransport

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David Berkowitz
Willa Cather Professor
Chemistry
810 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2738
dberkowitz1@unl.edu
Berkowitz's webpage
Berkowitz group website

Research Areas
Catalyst screening and reaction development, asymmetric synthesis, fluorinated phosphonates , mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors, PLP enzymes, lignan natural products

Christian Binek
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310G Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-5231
cbinek2@unl.edu
Binek's website

Research Areas
Electrically controlled exchange bias, experimental approach to fundamental aspects in statistical physics, magnetic nanoparticles, magnetic nanostructures for energy-efficient cooling

Florin Bobaru
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W307 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-8348
fbobaru2@unl.edu
Bobaru's webpage

Research Areas
Damage and fracture with peridynamics, modeling of corrosion damage and stress corrosion cracking, failure in heterogeneous materials, dynamics of granular materials, optimization of material composition and optimal shape design

Jennifer I. Brand
Professor Emeritus
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
245N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-9320
jbrand@unl.edu

Research Areas
Supercritical processing, solid-state radiation detetectors, and polymers for harsh environments

Martin Centurion
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
079 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-5810
martin.centurion@unl.edu
Centurion's webpage

Research Areas
Molecular imaging, ultrafast molecular dynamics, ultrafast electron diffraction

Google Scholar Page

Barry Cheung
Associate Professor
Chemistry
514A Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5172
ccheung2@unl.edu
Cheung's webpage

Research Areas
Design and synthesis of novel nanomaterials, study of biological macromolecules at the nanoscale, development of new analytical devices via biomimetical approach with nanomaterials

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Ozan N. Ciftci
Assistant Professor
Food Science and Technology
264 Food Innovation Center
1901 North 21st St.
Office: 402-472-5686
ciftci@unl.edu
Ciftci Lab

Research Areas
Lipid particle formation, green extraction of bioactive lipids

Christopher Cornelius
Professor
College of Engineering
207Q Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-4344
ccornelius2@unl.edu
Cornelius' webpage

Research Areas
Fundamental material interrelationships between structure, property, and function of natural and synthetic polymers, ionomers, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, and sol-gel glasses; transport of molecule, ion, and electrons in complex structures and interfaces; structured and functional surfaces and materials

Bai Cui
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W331 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-5740
bcui3@unl.edu
Cui's webpage

Research Areas
Metals, ceramics, nuclear materials, high-temperature materials, corrosion, electron microscopy

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Joshua Darr
Assistant Professor
Chemistry - UNO
DSC 337, 6001 Dodge St.
Omaha, Nebraska 68182
Phone: (402) 554-2653
jdarr@unomaha.edu
Darr's webpage

Research Areas
Scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, aerosol particles

Scott Darveau
Professor and Chair
Chemistry–UNK
417 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8491
darveausa@unk.edu
Darveau's webpage

Research Areas
Development and characterization of novel thin films for use in solar cells, Laser spectroscopy/instrument development

Dennis Diestler
Professor Emeritus
Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
Home office: 402-466-0687
ddiestler1@unl.edu

Research Areas
Stability of multi-valent ligand-receptor complexes, dynamical coupling of electronic and nuclear motions in molecules

Shudipto Konika Dishari
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
214 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-2750
sdishari2@unl.edu
Dishari's webpage

Research Areas
Polymers, conducting oligo/polymers, membranes, thin films, energy, fuel cells, biomaterials, biosensors, bioseparation, fluorescence based techniques

Peter Dowben
Charles Bessey Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310L Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-9838
pdowben1@unl.edu
Dowben's webpage

Research Areas
Changes in electronic (band) structure across electronic phase transitions in reduced dimensionality

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Stephen Ducharme
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310F Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-8590
Lab: 402-472-8644
sducharme1@unl.edu
Ducharme's website

Research Areas
Molecular ferroelectrics from fundamental studies, to materials discovery, to applications

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Patrick Dussault
Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
809B Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-6951
Lab: 402-472-2781
pdussault1@unl.edu
Dussault's webpage

Research Areas
Organic synthesis (natural products as well as functionalized materials), new oxidation methods, chemistry of peroxide explosives, chemical biology

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Diganta Dutta
Assistant Professor
Physics/Mechanical Engineering–UNK
219 Bruner Hall / 2401 11th Avenue
Kearney, NE 68849
Office: 308-865-8910
duttad2@unk.edu
Dutta's webpage

Research Areas
Nano scale characterization of biological cells and tissues, microfluidics

Yuris Dzenis
R. Vernon McBroom Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W315 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0713
ydzenis@unl.edu
Dzenis's webpage

Research Areas
Advanced functional nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing

Craig Eckhardt
Professor
Chemistry
524 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2734
ceckhardt1@unl.edu
Eckhardt's webpage

Research Areas
Organic materials and organic solid-state chemistry

Axel Enders
Adjunct Professor
Physics & Astronomy
083 Jorgensen Hall
axel@unl.edu

Research Areas
Surface-supported self-assembled nanostructures

Jongwan Eun
Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
203C Peter Kiewit Institute, 1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0176
Office: 402-552-3522
jeun2@unl.edu

Research Areas
Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, multiphase mass transport through prorous and nonporous medium, unsaturated behavior of geomaterials, advanced application of sensing technics for geosystem, sustainable geotechnics

Christopher Exstrom
Professor
Department of Chemistry–UNK
417 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8565
exstromc@unk.edu
Exstrom's webpage

Research Areas
Nanocrystalline semiconductor and noble metal materials, photovoltaic materials, biosensor nanostructures

Ruqiang Feng
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W316 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2384
rfeng1@unl.edu
Feng's webpage

Research Areas
Experimental and computational mechanics of materials

Lucia Fernandez-Ballester
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W332 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3994
Fax: 402-472-8292
lucia.fernandez@unl.edu
Fernandez-Ballester's webpage

Research Areas
Conjugated polymers, 3D printing, flow-induced crystallization, nucleation control, biopolymers

Eva Franke-Schubert
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
209N WSEC
Office: 402-472-1697
evaschub@engr.unl.edu
Franke-Schubert's webpage

Research Areas
Ion beam processing and nanostructured thin film fabrication for optical, electromechanical, and magnetic device applications

Timothy Gay
Willa Cather Professor
Physics & Astronomy
073 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2773
tgay@unl.edu
Gay's website

Research Areas
Polarized electron scattering from atoms and molecules, the understanding of chiral and dichroic effects in such targets, the development of novel sources of polarized electrons and electron polarimeters, and investigations of the fundamental nature of the electron

Alexei Gruverman
Charles Bessey Professor
Physics & Astronomy
081 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-4788
Lab: 402-472-8358
agruverman2@unl.edu
Gruverman's webpage

Research Areas
Fundamental studies of nanoscale physical phenomena in electronic and polar materials by means of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques

Linxia Gu
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W317.2 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-7680
lgu2@unl.edu
Gu's website

Research Areas
Experimental/computational mechanics of soft materials (Artery, Brain, Polymers, Composites, etc) with focus on the interface mechanics

Gerard Harbison
Professor
Chemistry
723 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9346
gharbison1@unl.edu
Harbison's webpage

Research Areas
Computational chemistry, NMR spectroscopy

Ashraf Aly Hassan
Research Assistant Professor
Civil Engineering
N121 SLNK
Office: 402-472-8759
ahassan@unl.edu
Hassan's webpage

Research Areas

Fate & transport of engineered nano-particles in the environment (water, soil, and air); emission control technologies; biological treatment of recalcitrant air toxics; use of innovative technology in atmospheric and indoor air pollution control, treatment, fate, transport of emerging contaminants; advanced water/wastewater treatment processes development

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Xia Hong
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310J Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2779
xhong2@unl.edu
Hong's website

Research Areas
Epitaxial growth and fabrication of novel nanostructures and low dimensional systems, creating and imaging their local phase structures, and studying how their properties evolve with system dimensions

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Jiong Hu
Associate Professor
Geotechnical and Materials Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
204C Peter Kiewit Institute
1110 67th Street
Omaha, NE 68182-0178
402-554-4106
jhu5@unl.edu
Hu's website

Research Areas
Eco-efficient infrastructure materials, innovative infrastructure materials development, and advanced materials characterization

Jinsong Huang
Susan J. Rosowski Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W308 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2640
jhuang2@unl.edu
Huang's website

Research Areas
Organic electronics and nanoelectronics

Natale "Ned" Ianno
Milton E. Mohr Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
207N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-1965
nianno@unl.edu
Ianno's webpage

Research Areas
Thin film deposition including sputtering and PECVD, high density plasma processing, nanoscale processing, In-situ optical process monitroing

Nicole M. Iverson
Assistant Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
233 Chase Hall
Office: 402-472-0884
Cell: 732-648-3319
iverson@unl.edu
Iverson's webpage

Research Areas
Carbon nanotubes, biological sensors, reactive oxygen and nitrogen species

Google scholar page

Sitaram Jaswal
Professor Emeritus
Physics & Astronomy
310A Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2787
sjaswal1@unl.edu
Jaswal's webpage

Research Areas
Interfaces and tunnel junctions composed of multiferroic components

Srivatsan Kidambi
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-4443
skidambi2@unl.edu
Kidambi's webpage
Kidambi's lab site

Research Areas
Biological arrays, biological tissue models, biomaterials, nanofabrication, self-assembled monolayers, thin films, thin film preparation and characterization

Forrest Kievit
Associate Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
228 L.W. Chase Hall
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68583-0726
Office: 402-472-2175
fkievit2@unl.edu
Kievit Lab website
Kievit's CV

Research Areas
Biomedical Engineering, Nanomedicine, Nanotheranostics

Seunghee Kim
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
204C Peter Kiewit Institute
1110 S. 67th St.
Omaha, NE 68182
Office: 402-554-3547
seunghee.kim@unl.edu
Kim's website
Kim's CV

Research Areas
CO2 Geologic Storage; Underground Construction and Storage; Energy Efficiency and Conservation; Sustainability and Energy-Geotechnology

Yong-Rak Kim
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
362N Whittier Research Center
Office: 402-472-1727
ykim3@unl.edu
Kim's website

Research Areas
Multiscale modeling and analysis of infrastructure materials-structures, experimental research on infrastructure materials, computational research on infrastructure materials and structures

Roger Kirby
Professor Emeritus
Physics & Astronomy
087 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2784
rkirby1@unl.edu
Kirby's webpage

Research Areas
Magnetism in nanoscale and nanostructured materials, including thin films, multilayer films, and laterally patterned films

Alexey Kovalev
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310K Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2880
alexey.kovalev@unl.edu
Kovalev's website

Research Areas
Theoretical spintronics, comprising various classical and quantum phenomena related to the spin degree of freedom

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Rebecca Lai
Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor
Chemistry
651 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5340
Lab: 402-472-2681
rlai2@unl.edu
Lai's webpage

Research Areas
Fundamental and applied aspects of biosensor research

Marjorie Langell
Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
629 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2702
Lab: 402-472-2618
mlangell1@unl.edu
Langell's webpage

Research Areas
Surface properties of transition metal oxides (TMOs) and TMO nanoparticle systems

Abdelghani Laraoui
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W312 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-7680
alaraoui2@unl.edu
Laraoui's webpage
Google Scholar page
ResearchGate

Research Areas
Quantum sensing, quantum computing, and defect discovery and spectroscopy in 2D materials and wide bandgap semiconductors

Gustavo Larsen
Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-9805
glarsen1@unl.edu
Larsen's webpage

Research Areas
Catalysis, adsorption, materials design, nanostructured materials for biomedical applications

Hui Li
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
508 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-5232
hli4@unl.edu
Li's website

Research Areas
Structural biology, metalloprotein redox chemistry, histidine pKa, intermolecular interaction, continuum solvation model

Yusong Li
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
N114 SEC-LINK
Office: 402-472-5972
yli7@unl.edu
Li's webpage

Research Areas
Fate and transport of contaminants, environmental implication of nanotechnology, ground water remediation, numerical simulation at pore and continuum scales

Sy-Hwang Liou
Professor
Physics & Astronomy
085 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2405
sliou@unl.edu
Liou's website

Research Areas
Magnetic sensors, magnetic force microscopy, microcantilever torgue magnetometer, nanofabrications

Yi Liu
Research Associate Professor
Nebraska Center for Materials & Nanoscience
091 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2682
yliu1@unl.edu

Research Areas
Synthesis of novel nanostructures of magnetic materials; development of new magnetic materials; characterization of materials by TEM, X-ray etc.

Yongfeng Lu
Lott Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
217N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-8323
ylu2@unl.edu
Lu's website

Research Areas
Micro- and nanoscale laser material processing and characterization

Wai Ning Mei
Milo Bail Professor
Physics - UNO
60th & Dodge
Omaha, NE 68182-0266
Office: 402-554-3729
physmei@unomaha.edu

Research Areas
Theoretical studies of the electronic and structural properties of the molecular solids, transition and rare-earth metals, nanostructurally designed materials, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials

Stephen Morin
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
409C Hamilton Hall
402-472-4608
smorin2@unl.edu
Morin Research Group

Research Areas
The discovery of new methods to control (e.g., synthesize, assemble, manipulate, organize, etc.) functional, inorganic materials with soft polymers. Systems include: mechano-chemical surfaces and soft micro-reactors.

Fereydoon Namavar
Professor Emeritus and Director of the Nano-Biotechnology Laboratory
Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
985360 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-1080
Office: 402-559-8558
fnamavar@unmc.edu
UNMC faculty webpage

Research Areas
Understanding how cells attach to a nanostructured surface, development of novel concepts and technologies to maximize the lifetime of orthopaedic implants and minimize the possibility of wear and revision surgery through the development of novel nanostructure materials

Michael Nastasi
Professor and Director of the Center for Energy Sciences Research Mechanical & Materials Engineering
230 Whittier Research Center
Office: 402-472-3852
mnastasi2@unl.edu
Nastasi's webpage

Research Areas
Materials for extreme nuclear environments, irradiation induced phase transformations, ion irradiation and plasma modification of materials, synthesis and properties of high strength nanolayered composites

Sidy Ndao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W317.4C Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1623
sndao2@unl.edu
Ndao's Group website

Research Areas
Thermal-fluid sciences and nanotechnology

Mehrdad Negahban
Professor and Graduate Chair
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W311 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2397
mnegahban1@unl.edu
Negahban's webpage

Research Areas
Theoretical, computational, and experimental studies to characterize large deformation thermo-mechanical response of materials; simulation of the effects of crystallization on polymers; simulation of the manufacturing of thin film extruded polymers; 3D printing with stereo lithography

Siamak Nejati
Assistant Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
207i Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-3232
snejati2@unl.edu
Nejati's webpage
Lab site

Research Areas
Chemical vapor deposition, chemical synthesis of polymers, carbon nanomaterials and nanostructures, conducting and semiconducting polymers, interfaces in solids, self-assembly and self organization processes, thin films, separation processes

Hector Palencia
Associate Professor
Chemistry–UNK
209B Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8479
palenciah2@unk.edu
Palencia's webpage

Research Areas
Organocatalysis, biofuels/biomass, organometallic chemistry, synthetic methodology

Angela Pannier
Associate Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
231 Chase Hall
Office: 402-472-0896
Lab: 402-472-0899
apannier2@unl.edu
Pannier's website

Research Areas
Nonviral gene delivery, tissue engineering, and protein-cell-biomaterial interactions

Google scholar page

Lawrence Parkhurst
Hewett University Professor
Chemistry
737 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3316
Lab: 402-472-1430
lparkhurst1@unl.edu
Parkhurst's webpage

Research Areas
Interactions between DNA, RNA and proteins, particularly the step-wise structural and energetic changes associated with these binding events

Andrzej Rajca
Charles Bessey Professor
Chemistry
818D Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9196
arajca1@unl.edu
Rajca's website

Research Areas
Organic and biomaterials chemistry, specifically the rational design and synthesis of new materials (molecules and polymers) with magnetic and optical properties

Kamlakar Rajurkar
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W303 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0526
krajurkar1@unl.edu
Rajurkar's webpage

Research Areas
Modeling and analysis, control of traditional and nontraditional manufacturing processes

Prahalada Rao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
NH East 303E
Office: 402-472-3458
rao@unl.edu
Rao's webpage

Research Areas
Monitoring of ultraprecision nanomanufacturing and additive manufacturing (AM) processes, sensor-based predictive analytics and quality monitoring of data rich complex systems, surface morphology and dimensional integrity monitoring

Jody Redepenning
Professor and Acting Chair
Chemistry
535 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3533
jredepen@unl.edu
Redepenning's webpage

Research Areas
Electrochemistry, particularly the use of electrochemistry to produce novel materials

Timothy Reece
Assistant Professor
Physics and Physical Science–UNK
218 Bruner Hall, 905 W. 25th St.
Kearney, Nebraska 66849-1150
Office: 308-865-8280
reecetj@unk.edu
Reece’s webpage

Research Areas
Langmuir-Blodgett films and ferroelectric polymers

Brian Robertson
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
342W Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2375
brobertson@unl.edu
Robertson's webpage

Research Areas
Magnetic and electronic thin films, nanoscale wires and devices, electron probe-based characterization and fabrication for materials research and processing

Sangjin Ryu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W307 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-4313
sangjin.ryu@unl.edu or sryu2@unl.edu
Ryu's webpage

Research Areas
Microscale fluid dynamics, interfacial fluid dynamics, biophysics, cell mechanics, microfluidics, atomic force microscopy

Renat Sabirianov
Professor and Chair
Physics Department - UNO
125 Durham Science Center, 60th & Dodge
Omaha, NE 68182-0266
Office: 402-554-3720
rsabirianov@mail.unomaha.edu

Research Areas
Heterostructures of nanoscale size, self-organized magnetic nanostructures, magnetic thin films, surface properties of TM oxides, molecular electronics, magnetic semiconductors

Ravi Saraf
Lowell E. and Betty Anderson Distinguished Professor
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
212 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-8284
rsaraf2@unl.edu
Saraf's webpage

Research Areas
Electronic skin, electronics on bacterium, DNA and protein chip, dance of ions at the electrode, nanomaterials on DNA and polymer scaffold

Mathias Schubert
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
242N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3771
schubert@engr.unl.edu
Schubert's webpage

Research Areas
Characterization of linear and non-linear optical properties of new materials, their heterostructures as well as artificial nanostructures

Google scholar page

Michael Sealy
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W306 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1659
sealy@unl.edu
Sealy's webpage

Research Areas
Laser-based processing, hybrid additive manufacturing, degradable medical devices, surface integrity, corrosion, fatigue, sustainable manufacturing, process signatures in manufacturing

Google scholar page

David Sellmyer
NCMN Director and George Holmes University Distinguished Professor
Physics & Astronomy
855 N 16th Street, N201A NANO
Office: 402-472-2407 or 7886
dsellmyer@unl.edu
Sellmyer's website

Research Areas
Quantum and spin phenomena in nanomagnetic structures

Preferred journals list
Google scholar page
Digital Commons page

Mahmoud Shakouri
Assistant Professor
Industrial Technology at UNK
University of Nebraska-Kearney
132F Otto Olsen
2508 12 Ave.
Kearney, NE 68849
Office: 308-865-8688
shakourim2@unk.edu

Research Areas
Concrete Durability, Sustainable Cementitious Materials, Corrosion

Cement & Concrete Research Lab
LinkedIn Page
ResearchGate
Google Scholar

Jeff Shield
Professor and Chair
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W339 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2378
jshield2@unl.edu
Shield's webpage

Research Areas
Rapid solidification processing, nanostructured functional materials, high energy permanent magnets, interfacial effects in exchange spring and exchange bias systems

Alexander Sinitskii
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
525A Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3543
asinitskiy2@unl.edu
Sinitskii's website

Research Areas
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), three-dimensional graphene nanostructures, graphene-based sensors

Google scholar page

Ralph Skomski
Research Full Professor
Physics & Astronomy
089 Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-0180
rskomski2@unl.edu or rskomski@nebrr.com
Sellmyer Group Lab

Research Areas
Magnetic nanostructures, time-dependent magnetization processes (magnetic viscosity and fast processes), the spin structure of half-metallic ferromagnets as well as topics such as RKKY interactions between nanomagnets embedded in a nonmagnetic metallic matrix

Robert Smith
Professor
Chemistry - UNO
60th & Dodge, DSC 366A
Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0109
Office: 402-554-3592
robertsmith@unomaha.edu
Smith's webpage

Research Areas
Investigating new high-dielectric, ferroelectric, and related materials through the use of reliable and efficient computer simulations

Rodney Soukup
Henson Professor Emeritus
Electrical & Computer Engineering
212N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-3771
rsoukup1@unl.edu
Soukup's webpage

Research Areas
Thin film semiconductors for solar cells and other wide bandgap semiconductor materials (hollow cathode deposition technique), research on non-vacuum deposition of thin semiconducting films

Eli Sutter
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W348 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-2465
esutter@unl.edu
Sutter's webpage

Research Areas
Transmission electron microscopy,
2-dimensional materials, nanostructures

Peter Sutter
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
SLNK 216N
Office: 402-472-6849
psutter@unl.edu
Sutter's webpage

Research Areas
2D materials, nanomaterials, energy conversion & energy efficiency, advanced methods development

James Takacs
Charles Mach University Professor
Chemistry
807B / 551 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-3634
jtakacs1@unl.edu
Takacs's webpage

Research Areas
Asymmetric catalysis, self-assembly, combinatorial catalysis, metal-catalyzed cyclizations, synthetic methods development, natural product total synthesis

Li Tan
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W334 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-4018
ltan4@unl.edu
Tan's webpage

Research Areas
Material design, self-assembly, and nanomanufacturing; mechanics of nanomaterials and nanostructures

Evgeny Tsymbal
Director (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center) and George Holmes University Distinguished Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310B Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-2586
tsymbal@unl.edu
Tsymbal's webpage

Research Areas
Fundamental understanding and the prediction of new functional properties of nanoscale magnetic and ferroelectric materials and structures relevant to device applications such as sensors, memories and storage

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Joseph Turner
Robert W. Brightfelt Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W354 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-8856
jturner3@unl.edu
Turner's webpage

Research Areas
Experimental ultrasonics, nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy, elastic wave propagation

Hendrik Viljoen
Distinguished Professor and Chair
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
211 Othmer Hall
Office: 402-472-9318
hviljoen1@unl.edu
Viljoen's webpage

Research Areas
Development of new methods for the synthesis and processing of materials, analysis of complex engineering systems with the aid of models and simulation, application of chemical reaction engineering principles to interdisciplinary problems

Jian Wang
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W342.B Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1514
jianwang@unl.edu
Wang's webpage

Research Areas
Computer simulation and modeling, defects in solids, interfaces in solids, in-situ mechanical testing in TEM and SEM, magnesium, multilayered structures, nanomechanics, plastic deformation mechanisms of nanostructured materials, solid-solid phase transformation

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David K. Watkins
Professor
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
330 Bessey Hall
Office: 402-472-2648
dwatkins1@unl.edu
Watkins's website

Research Areas
Calcareous nannofossils, the smallest of all skeletal fossils routinely preserved in marine sediments

P. Frazer Williams
Lott Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Electrical & Computer Engineering
206N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-1970
Williams's webpage

Research Areas
High voltage semiconductor devices, electrical breakdown of gases, solid state physics, optics, interaction of light with matter

John A. Woollam
George Holmes Distinguished Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
240N Scott Engineering Center
Office: 402-472-7501
jwoollam@unl.edu
Woollam's webpage
J.A. Woollam Co. Ellipsometry Solutions

Research Areas
Optical, electrical, and microstructural studies of solids, films, interfacial effects and environmental effects on materials; optical coatings, protective coatings, biomaterials and their interfaces

Xiaoshan Xu
Assistant Professor
Physics & Astronomy
310M Jorgensen Hall
Office: 402-472-6134
xiaoshan.xu@unl.edu
Xu's website

Research Areas
Complex oxide thin films and their interfaces to the organic semiconductors

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Jiashi Yang
Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
317.5 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-0712
jyang1@unl.edu
Yang's webpage

Research Areas
Frequency stability of piezoelectric crystal resonators

Yiqi Yang
Charles Bessey Professor
Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design and Biological Systems Engineering
221 Home Economics Building
Office: 402-472-5197
yyang2@unl.edu
Yang's webpage

Research Areas
Green materials including polymers and chemicals for textile, composite, and medical applications

Google scholar page

Ruiguo Yang
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering E303C Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3494
ryang6@unl.edu
Yang's webpage

Research Areas
Biophysics, Nanofibers, Nanomedicine, Cell mechanics, Atomic Force Microscopy

Xiao Cheng Zeng
Chancellor's University & Willa Cather Professor
Chemistry
536 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-9894
xzeng1@unl.edu
Zeng's webpage

Research Areas
Computational and theoretical studies of liquids, solids, thin films, interfaces, nanotubes, and nano-clusters; computational nanotribology and modeling of atomic force microscopy

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Jian Zhang
Associate Professor
Chemistry
604D Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2603
jzhang3@unl.edu
Zhang's webpage

Research Areas
Materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, catalysis, photocatalysis

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Zhaoyan Zhang
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
350W Nebraska Hall
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0526
Office: 402-472-4993
zhaoyan.zhang@unl.edu
Zhang's webpage

Research Areas
Laser material processing, blast wave absorbing structure, diesel engine emissions control

Qin Zhou
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W317 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-3329
zhou@unl.edu
Zhou's webpage

Research Areas
Nanomaterials, low-dimensional materials, graphene, carbon nanotube, two-dimensional materials, MEMS, microelectromechanical system, NEMS, nanoelectromechanical system, atomic force microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy, microfabrication, nanofabrication