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

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

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.

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

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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Christian Binek
Director of NNF, Interim Director of NCMN, 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

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

Eric Carnes
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health
984388 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198
eric.carnes@unmc.edu

Research Areas
Combining inorganic nanomaterials with biological materials and living cells to create novel solutions to problems in public health, agriculture, and the environment

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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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

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

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

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

Google scholar page

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

Google scholar page

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

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

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

David Hage
James Hewett University Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
704 Hamilton Hall
Office: 402-472-2744
dhage1@unl.edu
Hage Research Group

Research Areas
The design and use of affinity-based separations in LC and miniaturized systems for clinical and pharmaceutical analysis

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

Research Areas
Computational chemistry, NMR spectroscopy

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

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

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

Alexey V. Krasnoslobodtsev
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
University of Nebraska-Omaha
119 Durham Science Center
Omaha, NE 68182
Office: 402-554-3723
akrasnos@unomaha.edu

Research Areas
Single molecule studies of molecular mechanisms of protein misfolding phenomenon and protein-protein interactions; combination of nanoimaging and nanomanipulation with spectroscopic techniques and development of hybrid biosensing nano-platforms with high sensitivit

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Markvicka
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Materials Engineering
W335 Nebraska Hall
Office: 402-472-1617
eric.markvicka@unl.edu
Smart Materials & Robotics Lab

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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David Sellmyer
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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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

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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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