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The School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Materials science and engineering faculty

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Creating materials for sustainable technologies and products

ASU’s materials science and engineering faculty are developing new materials with properties capable of combating critical issues like climate change.

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James Adams

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Adams’ areas of expertise include computational materials, materials toxicity and autism research.

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Terry Alford

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Alford’s teaching interests include X-ray and electron diffraction, introduction to physical materials science and laboratory, structure and properties of materials and advanced materials issues in semiconductor processing.

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Kumar Ankit

Associate Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Ankit’s group specializes in the development and application of mesoscopic modeling approaches and their integration with continuum approaches for fundamental and applied research in microstructure science and engineering.

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Hamed Arami

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Arami’s research is highly collaborative and links different disciplines including bioengineering, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, imaging and neuroscience.

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Candace Chan

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Chan’s research group works on synthesis and evaluation of engineered nanomaterials to address critical issues in lithium batteries, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, photocatalysis and water treatment.

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Peter Crozier

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Crozier has 20 years of experience in developing and applying the technique of advanced transmission electron microscopy to problems in catalytic materials and oxide electrolytes.

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Sandwip Dey

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

A central theme in the Dey lab is on the understanding and control of the inter-relationships between processing-nanostructure-property-reliability. Education

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Cody Friesen

Associate Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Friesen is also the founder and CEO of Zero Mass Water, which makes SOURCE hydropanels.

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Qijun Hong

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Hong’s research focuses on materials design and discovery based on density functional theory calculations, machine learning and automation.

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Yang Jiao

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Jiao has developed analytical and computational models for complex materials which can deepen fundamental understanding of the nature of such materials.

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Stephen Krause

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Krause teaches courses in engineering education, materials engineering, polymer science, materials characterization and engineering design. His research explores innovation engineering education and K-12 outreach.

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Jian Li

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Li’s areas of expertise include design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials, and the study of the structure and electrical and optical properties of organic and inorganic molecules.

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Linqin Mu

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Mu is developing critical materials and high-energy devices for energy storage and understanding failure mechanisms in next-generation batteries.

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Alexandra Navrotsky

Regents’ Professor

School of Molecular Sciences

Alexandra Navrotsky is a Regents Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the SEMTE and Affiliated Faculty Member of the SESE. She is also the Director of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe.

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Nathan Newman

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Newman served as the Lawrence Professor of Solid State Sciences and is an emeritus faculty member in the materials program at ASU. His research interests focus on novel solid-state materials.

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Karl Sieradzki

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

The Sieradzki research group examines fundamental issues in electrochemical surface science and fracture of solids.

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Sandhya Susarla

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Susarla joined ASU in fall 2022. She has expertise in the area of electron microscopy where explores the structure-property relationship in quantum and semiconducting materials.

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Seth Ariel Tongay

Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Tongay’s research focuses on the materials discovery, synthesis and application of the next-generation quantum materials and their related technologies

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Feng Yan

Associate Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Yan has extensive experience in new materials design, thin-film solar cells, and nanoscale characterization of ferroelectric/multiferroics/photovoltaics using scanning probe microscopy.

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Sui Yang

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Sui Yang is an assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at Arizona State University. He obtained his PhD in Applied Science and Engineering (Major: Materials Science and Engineering) at the University of California, Berkeley working with Professor Xiang Zhang where he also completed his postdoctoral study. Prior to his appointment at ASU, he worked as a senior research scientist and manager at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research centers on light-matter interactions bridging materials science, nanoscience, optical physics…