{"id":45,"date":"2012-03-20T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:58:08","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanostructured Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research is primarily focused on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for structural and functional applications. We develop new synthesis techniques for thin films and investigate their synthesis-structure-property relationships. The overarching goal is to engineer the microstructure of thin films to enhance their mechanical properties and functionality. Our lab also has an interest in creating soft, polymer-based micro platforms that can be used as scaffolds for biohybrid devices or for studying cellular mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent News<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/2020\/03\/2018-year-in-review\/\">2018 Year in Review<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-03-03T22:53:15+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 3, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Our paper on a new method to synthesize thin films with precise microstructural control is published in Materials Research Letters&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/2020\/03\/lab-news-archive\/\">Lab News Archive<\/a><time datetime=\"2020-03-02T22:53:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">March 2, 2020<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The following news items were entered into the log for the lab beginning in 2015.They are preserved here for historical&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Related Research Groups: <\/strong><\/span><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/multiphysics.lab.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Multiphysics Lab, <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/compmech.lab.asu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Computational Mechanics Lab, <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/pperalta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Peralta Research Group, <\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/chawla.engineering.asu.edu\/wordpress\/?p=901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chawla Research Group<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">Our research is primarily focused on the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials for structural and functional applications. We develop new synthesis techniques for thin films and investigate their synthesis-structure-property relationships. The overarching goal is to engineer the microstructure of thin films to enhance their mechanical properties and functionality. Our lab also has an interest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-home.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/jagan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}