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Distinguished Professor • Tisone Professor • Associate Professor of Surgery

Polymers, hydrogels, biomaterials, synthetic extracellular matrices, photopolymers, networks

Associate Professor

Control of the hierarchical structure of multilength-scale materials, chemical and physical properties of materials, manipulating the interface for energy technologies

Assistant Professor

Extreme mechanics of biofilms, spatially programming the stimuli-responsive behaviors of living polymeric composites, engineering the mechanical properties of biohybrid hydrogels

Professor

Biomedical, materials, thermo fluid sciences, micro/nanoscale

Distinguished Professor • Clinical Professor of Restorative Dentistry • Co-Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Fundamentals and Applications and Photopolymerizations

Polymer chemistry, polymer networks, biomaterials, smart/responsive materials, photopolymerizations, optical materials, photolithography

 

Professor • Director, Materials Science & Engineering Program

Biomaterials, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry, photopolymerization, hydrogels

Bowman Endowed Professor

Biomaterials and biofabrication, translational therapeutics, tissue models, hydrogels

Associate Professor

Mechanics of soft biological materials, musculoskeletal development and regeneration, extracellular matrix

Professor

Novel electronic and magnetic materials; single-crystal synthesis; physics of complex oxides; high-field, low-temperature, and high-pressure material properties

 

David Clough Professor

Nanoscience, biomolecular materials, photovoltaic materials, nanoparticle thin films, catalysis, surface science, colloids, polymers and polypeptides, biosensors

Assistant Professor

Atomic, Molecular, and Quantum Energy Transport and Conversion, Ultrahigh Precision Sensing, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Thermal Radiation, and Nano-Optics

Associate Professor • Professor Adjunct, NREL • Institute Fellow, RASEI

Physical chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis/reaction dynamics, material surfaces, renewable energy

 

Tisone Professor • Dean Emeritus of the College of Engineering and Applied Science

Fluid dynamics, biotechnology, membrane filtration

Professor • Adjunct Fellow, JILA

Electronic materials, superconductors,magnetic materials, topological insulators, spintronics, organic photovoltaics, electron spectroscopy, thin films

Assistant Professor

Biomedical, micro/nanoscale, thermo fluid sciences

Professor • MAST Center Director • Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Micro/Nanoscale

Polymer physics, nanofabrication, thin films, nanocomposites, polymer-based membranes, smart materials

Professor • Institute Fellow, RASEI

Nanocrystal synthesis and spectroscopy, photochemistry, solar fuels, catalysis, solar energy conversion, inorganic nanomaterials

Professor • Hudson Moore Professor

Materials characterization, nanomechanics, nanoindentation, scanning electron microscopy, standardization of materials measurements, structure-function relationships, tissue mechanics, biological tissue chemistry, bone, cartilage, materials for tissue engineering, properties of tissues in pregnancy

Professor

Thin films, surface chemistry, nanoscale engineering, atomic layer deposition, molecular layer deposition, hybrid organic-inorganic materials, Li ion batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, protective coatings and barriers, transparent conducting films

Associate Professor

Polymer chemistry, soft materials, self‐assembly, nanostructures, biomedical engineering

Professor • Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Endowed Professor

Semiconductors, Chalcogenides, Nonlinear optical material properties, Lasers, Optofluidics, Electrowetting

Assistant Professor

Hybrid superconducting and semiconducting qubits with the goal to enhance the lifetime of artificial atoms

James and Catherine Patten Endowed Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Assembly of polymer and particle-based nanostructures, mechanics and instabilities of soft active materials, active polymer materials and interfaces

Professor

Biomaterials, alloys,composites, and multi-scale simulation

Associate Professor • RASEI Fellow

Catalysts, electrochemistry, surface chemistry, fuel cells, batteries, spectroscopy, reaction kinetics

Associate Professor • Co-Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Energy and Space Testing (CIEST)

Cementitious materials, micro-structure quantification and design, permeability, fracture mechanics, micro- and meso- scale experimental testing and simulation techniques, failure prediction of construction materials, construction material health risks and toxicity

Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor

Dynamics of materials and structures; dispersive, dissipative and nonlinear dynamics; periodic systems, disordered systems

Assistant Professor

Bioinspired robotics, biomechanics, locomotion robustness, origami-based design and fabrication, distributed sensing

 

Associate Research Professor

Quantum technologies, microfabrication of atomic sensors

Assistant Professor

Physical Inorganic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organometallic, Solar Fuel Conversions

Professor Attendant Rank • PHYS Faculty Mentor

Liquid crystals, electrooptics, thin films

Professor • Director, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

Polymeric, organic, and organometallic materials for both second- and third-order nonlinear (NLO) optical studies and applications; materials for OLED, OFET, OPV and DSSC applications

Assistant Professor

Drinking water treatment, distribution system water quality, and water pipeline corrosion

Professor • Fellow, RASEI

Perovskite solar cells, dynamic windows with adjustable tinting

Richard & Joy Dorf Endowed Professor

Photopolymers, optical materials, optical characterization, organic electronics, photolithography, 3D structuring, biomaterials

Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professor

Catalysts, photocatalysts, surface modification, surface spectroscopy, sensors

Associate Professor

Thin films, polymer processing/device fabrication, nanotechnology for optics/elecgronics, plasmonics

Assistant Professor

Physical Chemistry, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Physics

Robert H. Davis Professor • Associate Dean of Graduate Programs • Fellow, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

Computational materials science, quantum simulations, photovoltaics, photopolymerization, thin films, catalysis, energy storage materials, pseudocapacitor materials

Assistant Professor

Structure-processing-(thermal)property relationships: Crystals, solid-fluid material interfaces, composites, low-dimensional systems, thermoelectric materials; Vibrations: waves (kHz- THz) and heat propagation, dissipative and nonlinear dynamics, nanohonononics; Analytical theory, classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations, muliscale methods

Research Professor

Ionic liquids, external fields for selective separations, liquid crystals

Assistant Professor

Inorganic; Nanotechnology/Materials; Photochemical Reactions & Multi-electron Chemistry; Physical Organic Chemistry; Renewable Energy

Professor • N. Rex Sheppard Faculty Fellow

Luminescent materials, metamaterials, nanostructures, surface plasmons, biophotonic materials, nonlinear optical materials and devices, materials for lighting and photovoltaic devices

Research Professor

Membrane science, polymer materials, characterization

Professor

Ceramics, polymer derived ceramics, Li-ion batteries, additive manufacturing

Professor

Experimental nonlinear and ultrafast nano-optics

Associate Professor • Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optical Physics and Photonics

Engineering and exploring isolated quantum systems for quantum information and quantum optics

Professor

Geomaterials, soft biological tissues, multiscale multiphysics computational mechanics, thin deformable porous materials, particulate materials

Adjoint Professor • Research Fellow, NREL • Associate Director of Research, RASEI

Organic photovoltaics, conjugated polymers, photoinduced electron transfer, transient microwave conductivity

Professor

Organic & hybrid semiconductors for emerging devices: photovoltaics, photonics and neuromorphics

Assistant Professor

Drug delivery, biosensing, soft materials, colloid and interface science, microfluidics

Professor

Nanoscale materials

Professor

Liquid crystals, organic photovoltaics, nanostructured materilas, soft materials, colloids, polymers, grapheme, biomolecular materials, bacterial biofilms, plasmonic nanoparticles, self-assembly, electro-optic materials, nanophotonics

Associate Professor

Biomaterials, fiber-reinforced polymers, cementitious materials, mechanics, transport phenomena, environmental durability, life cycle assessment, service-life prediction

Assistant Professor

Membranes, nanoporous materials, surface coatings, polymeric materials, carbon nanomaterials, superhydrophobicity, transport phenomena.

Professor

Underlying physics and chemistry of materials for sustainable energy

RASEI Fellow • Center Director II-Technical at NREL

Energetics and transport properties of single semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots) and arrays of nanoparticles

Professor

Biological materials, soft tissue, mechanical behavior, plasticity, damage, fracture, hydrogels, soft matter, multiscale methods in materials science, fibrous materials. Numerical methods

Associate Professor

Synthesis, Chemical Biology/Genetics, Physical Organic, Materials Science

Gallogly Professor

Soft Materials

Associate Professor

Printed electronics, organic electronics, transient electronics, large area electronics, additive manufacturing, distributed sensing

Associate Professor

Thin films, soft matter, stretchable/flexible electronics, nanomaterials

FEMM Director • Associate Research Professor, RASEI

Novel electron microscope techniques, characterization of nanostructures at the atomic level, energy related materials

Visiting Professor

Scalable nanomanufacturing, nanophotonics, nanomaterials, graphene, two-dimensional materials, optoelectronic materials, optical metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials, optical and acoustical super-resolution imaging

Professor

Organic functional materials, porous frameworks, organic molecular cage, shape-persistent macrocycle,carbon capture, polymer chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, artificial photosynthesis, organic nanotube

Assistant Professor

Constitutive modeling of geomaterials (soil, rock) interacting with environmental factors (adsorption, dissolution, elevated temperature), micromechanics of granular materials, unsaturated soil behaviors, numerical modeling in geotechnical engineering and energy geotechnics

Research Professor

Mechanics of soft biological materials, musculoskeletal development and regeneration, extracellular matrix