Central Michigan University

Research Areas

CMU faculty work in a variety of materials-related areas. Click on the links below to find out more about these research programs and identify faculty experts in these areas:

Biobased materials and energy – design, analysis, and process development of green chemicals and fuels

Electret Polymers - Design and characterization of novel materials for electromechanical sensors and actuators

Electronic Properties of Nanomaterials - Molecular modeling of nanoscale materials based on density functional theory for applications in hydrogen storage, molecular magnetism, electronic devices, and characterization methods.

Electroporation - Molecular modeling and simulation of pore formation on membrane under ultra-high intensity, nanosecond electrical pulses

Inorganic Materials Synthesis - High-k Dielectric Thin Films

Magnetic properties from first-principles - Development and exploration of novel theoretical and computational methods and their use to gain chemical and physical insight into magnetic properties of new materials.

Microscopy - Light, SEM and TEM imaging

Molecular simulation and Rheology - Experimental and computational characterization of fluids and molecules under stress

NMR spectroscopy - Determining the atomic environment in organic and bio nanomaterials

Nano devices - Nanodevices for Biomedical Applications and Environmental Remediation

Organic catalysts - Functional catalytic materials for organic synthesis

Polymers for energy applications - Design, synthesis and characterization of fluorinated polymers for fuel cell membranes

Polymers for environmental applications - Synthesis and characterization of imprinted resins and membranes for wastewater treatment

Polymers for medical applications - Synthesis and characterization of polysaccharides

Raman Spectroscopy - Characterization of local structure and dynamics of materials using inelastic light scattering

Theory of Clusters - Structure and electronic properties of small clusters

Theory of Functional Materials - Electronic, vibrational, and functional properties of complex extended systems studied by first principles methods

X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) - Phase analysis, crystallite size, strain and 3D (atomic-scale) structure determination of glasses, liquids, nanocrystals and crystals with intrinsic disorder