Surfaces and Interfaces
Surfaces and interfaces are the key for designing and controlling materials for use in what might be called the emerging age of integrated technologies. The increasing drive to design in more complex functionality in all kinds of devices requires greater complexity in the materials from which they are made. This means that technology can no longer rely on the properties of one principal material (e.g, silicon, glass, concrete, etc) but require many materials of diverse physical and chemical properties that are combined and work together in ways that are beyond the functionality of simply an assemblage of materials. That is, the new frontier is the design and control of surfaces and interfaces between substances and which add physical properties that are quite different than the materials themselves.
Arizona State University has been a leader in the core fields of nanoscience, microstructural and microchemical imaging, and materials interfacial design and fabrication, which are at the center of interfacial design and control. It’s research and development activities influence both broadly and deeply a range of technologies and missions including electronics, computers, quantum devices, medical and biological sensors and diagnostics, complex smart catalysts for fuel and chemicals production, chemical sensors, water purification and monitoring, and energy transduction and storage. Like most ASU motivations, it focuses on research that leads to societal and technological impact.
Faculty
| Candace Chan Candace.Chan@asu.edu | Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | synthesis and evaluation of engineered nanomaterials to address critical issues in lithium batteries, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photocatalysis and water treatment. |
| Shery Chang Shery.Chang@asu.edu | Asst Research Professor, Eyring Materials Center | aberration-corrected electron microscopy |
| Nikhilesh Chawla Nikhilesh.Chawla@asu.edu | Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | encompass the mechanical behavior and modeling of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales. |
| Andrew Chizmeshya chizmesh@asu.edu | Associate Professor, School of Molecular Sciences | Simulation of semiconductor properties using quantum chemistry methods, Theory and simulation of low-temperature surface phenomena such physisorption, Wetting transitions and quantum reflection. |
| Peter Crozier CROZIER@asu.edu | Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | developing and applying the technique of advanced transmission electron microscopy to problems in catalytic materials and oxide electrolytes |
| Erica Forzani, Erica.Forzani@asu.edu | Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | development of novel hybrid chemical and biosensors and the integration of sensors into wireless, non-invasive and inexpensive sensor devices. |
| Jerry Lin Jerry.Lin@asu.edu | Regents Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | solid membranes for molecule separation in gases, sustainability and energy applications |
| Jingyue Liu Jingyue.Liu@asu.edu | Professor, Department of Physics | single atom catalysis on solid surfaces, design and high resolution imaging of surfaces |
| Vladimiro Mujica vmujica@asu.edu | Professor, School of Molecular Sciences | electronics, magnetics and optics of molecules on surfaces, quantum science of molecules |
| Robert Nemanich Robert.Nemanich@asu.edu | Regents Professor, Department of Physics | Advanced microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to characterize the growth and properties of thin film interfaces and nanostructures. Nanoscience and Material Physics, Nanotechnology Surface Science |
| Scott Sayres Scott.Sayres@asu.edu | Assistant Professor, School of Molecular Sciences | physical chemistry of metal clusters on surfaces, spectroscopic characterization, catalyst design |
| Karl Sieradzki KARL.SIERADZKI@asu.edu | Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | metal alloy surfaces, electrochemical surface science, fracture of solids http://karlsieradzki.faculty.asu.edu/ |
| David Smith DAVID.SMITH@asu.edu | Regents Professor, Department of Physics | development, applications, and advancement of atomic-resolution electron microscopy |
| Marylaura Lind Thomas mllind@asu.edu | Assoc Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | advanced membrane materials for applications in water purification, energy production and energy storage. |
| Sefaattin Tongay sefaattin.tongay@asu.edu | Associate Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | Synthesis of next generation low-dimensional materials and understanding their optical, electrical, mechanical, and magnetic properties using state-of-art experimental and theoretical techniques |
| Qing Hua Wang qhwang@asu.edu | Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | synthesis, characterization, and application of 2D nanomaterials, materials with molecules and materials for applications in electronics and energy, scanning probe microscopy, optical spectroscopy, self-assembly and nanofabrication. |
| Paul Westerhof | Regent Professor, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment | interdisciplinary approaches to water purification and reclamation, materials for water purification |
| Yong-Hang Zhang yhzhang@asu.edu | Professor, School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering; Founding Director, Center for Photonics Innovation; Director, NanoFab | Semiconductor optoelectronic devices and materials, including semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, solar cells, and their integration for various applications. Molecular beam epitaxy growth of semiconductor quantum structures |
| Houlong Zhuang zhuanghl@asu.edu | Asst Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy | machine learning in materials science, computational design of metal alloys, two-dimensional materials. |