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People Current participants in the Nano PhD program draw from the departments of: Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. A list of faculty currently active in the Nano SE PhD program and nanotechnology research is given below: Dr. S. P. Ahrenkiel, Assistant Professor of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, high resoltution TEM microscopy and diffraction methods, energy and nano materials. Dr. Dimitrios E. Anagnostou, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Reconfigurable, planar and flexible antennas and RF devices. Synthesis of EM structures using Neural Network techniques. Dr. D. Boyles, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., Purdue University; Synthetic organic chemistry, isolation, synthesis, modification of natural products, medicinal chemistry, synthesis of plant growth regulators, synthesis of conjugated polymers, supramolecular assembly, monomer and polymer synthesis. Dr. R. Corey, Chair and Associate Professor of Physics, Ph.D. Washington University, St. Louis Experimental condensed matter physics, solid State NMR, characterization of electronic and magnetic materials. Dr. Hao Fong, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. University of Akron, Nano-scaled polymer, ceramic and carbon/graphite fibers and their applications. Dr. A. Petukhov, Professor of Physics, Ph.D. St. Petersburg Technical University, Condensed matter theory, semiconductors and spintronic devices. Dr. S. P. Decker, Director of CAAN, PhD. Kansas State University Dr. J. Kellar, Professor of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Utah; Nano- materials, characterization of composite materials. Dr. Lidvin Kjerentgroen, Professor of Mechanical Eng; Ph.D., University of Arizona. Dr. J. A. Puszynski, Professor of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague; Synthesis and processing of ceramics, combustion synthesis, reaction engineering, kinetics of heterogeneous reactions, mathematical modeling. Dr. S. Smith, Associate Professor of Nano Science and Engineering; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Energy and time-resolved nanoscale optical spectroscopy, electronic and photonic properties of nano- and energy-materials. Group website Dr. Vladimir Sobolev, Professor of Physics; Ph.D., The Kharkov State University, Ukraine; Properties of ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconducting, and high-temperature superconducting materials (bulk, thin films, and nanosize particles), magnetic resonance, magneto-optic investigations of magnetic films, acoustic measurements. Dr. K. Whites, Steven P. Miller Endowed Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. Artificial electromagnetic materials; high impedance surfaces; ultra-wideband antennas and wireless communications; space-based gossamer antennas; solar sails and electromagnetic sailcraft; RF and microwave circuits; computational electromagnetics. Dr. Zhengtao Zhu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. SUNY Binghamton. Nano imprinting and lithography.
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