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NMMR Group
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The MURI
Team
The MURI team is comprised of leading researchers from the
Nanostructured Magnetic Materials Laboratory
and
Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Group at University of Texas at Arlington
as well as
High Strain-rate Impact Laboratory and
Center for Nanostructure
Characterization & Fabrication at
Georgia Institute of Technology,
Brown University,
University of
Maryland, and Argonne National Laboratory.
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Team and Group Leaders: |
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(Principal
Investigator)
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Texas at Arlington
502 Yates Street, Science Hall 202D
Arlington, TX 76016 |
Tel: 817-272-2815
Fax: 817-272-3637
pliu@uta.edu
Research interests
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Fabricate fully dense bulk magnets
with controlled nanostructure and improved magnetic properties.
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Synthesize
various hard and soft magnetic nanoparticles (including rare-earth
compounds) by chemical methods for biological and medical
applications.
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Deposit ultra-thin hard magnetic
films with desired morphology to achieve optimal magnetic hardening
by a variety of processing techniques including rapid thermal
processing. These materials have potential applications in MEMS, spintronics and magnetic
recording media.
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Prepare and
characterize magnetic nanorods and nanowires.
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Associate Physicist
Materials Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
Bldg. 223 Room B-137
9700 South Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439 |
Tel: 630-252-7738
Fax: 630-252-9595
jiang@anl.gov
Research interests
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Nanostructured
magnetic materials and spintronic devices.
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Controlling
microstructure and magnetic anisotropy through epitaxy, and on
synthesizing model structures to systematically examine the
magnetization reversal and energy product enhancement in
exchange-spring magnets.
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Exchange
anisotropy in magnetic superlattices, magnetic coupling and
magnetotransport in magnetic heterostructures, and granular magnetic
nanocomposites.
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Associate Professor
Chemistry
Department
Box H, Brown University,
324 Brook Street
Providence, RI 02912 |
Tel: 401-863-3329
ssun@brown.edu
Research interests
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Chemical synthesis and
self-assembly of nanoparticles.
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Construction and
elaboration of functional nanoparticles and their assemblies for
applications in bio-detection, catalysis, information storage and
composite nanostructures.
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Associate Professor
2130 Chem & Nuclear Eng.
Materials Science
and Engineering
University of
Maryland
College Park, MD
20742-4111 |
Tel: 301-405-6809
Fax: 301-405-3779
takeuchi@squid.umd.edu
Research interests
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Combinatorial synthesis
and characterization of novel electronic and smart materials.
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Fabrication and
characterization of novel thin-film multilayer devices.
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Scanning probe
microscopes.
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Professor and
Associate Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology
Materials Science and Engineering
771 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0245 |
Tel: 404-894-2651 Fax:
404-894-9140
naresh.thadhani@mse.gatech.edu
Research interests
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Synthesis
and processing of nanocrystalline intermetallics and non-equilibrium
alloys with unique structural, energetic, magnetic, and
thermoelectric properties.
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Design,
high-strain-rate testing, and analysis of energy- absorbing and
energy-releasing materials based on intermetallic, ceramic, and
thermite systems.
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Shock-induced phase transformations and
chemical reaction.
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Regents’ Professor
Director, Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNN)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Materials Science and Engineering
771 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0245 |
Tel: 404-894-8008
Fax: 404-894-9140
zhong.wang@mse.gatech.edu
Research interests
Current Research Interests:
science and applications of nanoparticles, nanowires and nanobelts;
functional oxide and smart materials for sensing and actuating;
nanomaterials for biomedical applications and nanodevices.
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Nanowires
and nanobelts of semiconducting oxide: from materials, to properties
and to devices.
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In-situ
nanomeasurements on the mechanical, electrical and field emission
properties of nanostructures.
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Dynamics
of shape controlled nanocrystals and nanocrystals self-assembly.
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Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Texas at Arlington
502 Yates Street, Science Hall 202D
Arlington, TX 76016 |
Tel: 817-272-2020
Fax: 817-272-3637
zhang@uta.edu
Research interests
- Atomic and
electronic structures of surfaces and interfaces.
- Nucleation and growth
of carbon nanotubes.
- Modeling and
simulation of magnetic materials.
- Defects formation and
diffusion in semiconductor materials.
- Molecular dynamics
simulation of liquid and amorphous materials.
- Scientific computing on
scalable parallel processors.
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