Biomolecular Engineering
Systems biology, metabolic engineering, biomaterials and tissue engineering, nanotechnology, sensors, bio/nano materials, biomimetic materials, drug delivery, regenerative medicine, microfluidics, microbial assay systems
Energy
Forward osmosis/osmotic power, biodiesel power generation, proton exchange membrane fuel cells, aerobic biocathodes for oxygen reduction, electrochemical kinetics and ionic transport
Environmental Engineering
Remediation, air pollution modeling and impacts to human health, emissions reduction, water purification and desalination
Polymers and Composite Materials
Ionomers, sol-gel glasses, biodegradable polymers, rheology and complex fluids, membrane separations, processing and electrospinning, polymer gels and filled polymers, structural characterization of soft materials, organic-inorganic materials.
Process Modeling and Control
Modeling and simulation, models development, process optimization and control
Nanotechnology
Nanomaterials, molecular electronics, heterogeneous catalysis, kinetic modeling, nano-structural characterization, self-assembly, semiconductor devices and fuel cells.
Journal of the American Chemical
Society March 6, 2024 issue
featuring research from Yao Lin,
Challa V. Kumar, and colleagues
Sotzing Research Group
"Materials for Optical, Magnetic,
and Electronic Devices"
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
May 2020
Lin Research Group
"Expression of Cellulolytic
Enzyme as a Fusion Protein
That Reacts Specifically With
a Polymeric Scaffold"
Nature Chemistry, 2017
Sun Research Group research "Role of Impurities in Kaolinite Intercalation and Subsequent Formation of Nanoscrolls" garners cover of "Inorganic Chemistry" August 21, 2023
Sotzing Research Group
"Molecular Engineering: Flexible
Temperature-Invariant Polymer
Dielectrics with Large Bandgap"
Advanced Materials, May 2020
Nieh Research Group
"The role of TEOS‐TIP within a
pentablock ionomer: Morphology,
physical properties, and ion transport"
Polymer Physics, February 2017
Sotzing Research Group with
the EIRC Center (Prof. Yang Cao)
"All-Organic Flexible Ferroelectret
Nanogenerator with Fabric-Based
Electrodes for Self-Powered Body
Area Networks" Small, August 2021
Nieh Research Group
"A universal discoidal nanoplatform
for the intracellular delivery of PNAs"
Nanoscale, 2019
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