Faculty
Duke University
Patrick Charbonneau - Specializes in polymer, protein and particle soft matter, phase transitions, and dimensionality.
Ashutosh Chilkoti - Specializes in genetically encoded synthesis, in situ DNA polymers, and light scattering.
Gabriel Lopez - Specializes in bionanomaterials, silica nanocontainers, microporous and functional films.
Joshua Socolar - Specializes in quasiperiodic lattices critical dynamics in self-organizing systems.
Benjamin Wiley - Specializes in rod-like particles, open structures, nanoparticle films and nanomaterials.
Benjamin Yellen - Specializes in programmable magnetic field assembly, and ferrofluids particle manipulation.
Stefan Zauscher - Specializes in polymer brushes, in situ DNA polumerization, AFM, SPR and QCM.
Xuanhe Zhao - Specializes in deformation of soft materials and active materials.
North Carolina State University
Michael Dickey - Specializes in thin-films, interfaces, soft materials, and micro- and nanofabrication.
Carol Hall - Specializes in molecular dynamics simulations--particle and molecule assembly and phases.
Jan Genzer - Specializes in controlled polymerization, ellipsometry, NEXAFS, and Kerr effect.
Joseph Tracy - Specializes in magnetic/anisotropic nanoparticle synthesis and assembly.
Orlin Velev - Specializes in directed and programmed e-field assembly, Janus and patchy particles.
Yara Yingling - Specializes in MD simulations of DNA & syntactomers, structure-function of biomolecules.
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Michael Rubinstein - Specializes in scaling theory of polymer self-assembly and computer simulation.
Richard Superfine - Specializes in magnetic field micromanipulation, multiscale mechanics, and materials characterization.
North Carolina Central University
Darlene Taylor - Specializes in programmed thin film casting and polymer synthesis.
Liju Yang - Specializes in biosensors, biochips, and nanomaterials interfacing with biological cells.
