Materials Science and Engineering > People

Name	Advisor	Research	Telephone/Email
David Berry	Viehland		dwberry@vt.edu
Tianle Cheng	Yu Wang		tianle08@vt.edu
Tim Ciarkowski	Guido		taciarko@vt.edu
Chris DeVreugd	Viehland		O: 231-6928 cpdevreu@vt.edu
Patrick Dykema	Kampe		dykema@vt.edu
Ben (Davis) Eichelberger	Corcoran	The Ag-Au Dealloying Critical Potential Further Insights into the Dealloying Critical Potential: Effect of Electrolyte Composition Evaluation of Nanostructured Corrosion Resistant Coatings for Aging Aircraft	bend@vt.edu
Eric Faierson	Logan	In-situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) for Lunar Engineering Materials: A Multi-Component SHS Reaction Study	faierson@vt.edu
Carlos Folgar	Clark	Microstructural Evolution in Silica Aerogel Drying Silica-Gel Using Variable Frequency Microwaves	O: 540 231-3875 L: 231-2356 cfolgar@vt.edu
Junqi Gao	Viehland		junqi08@vt.edu
David (Dave) Gray	Schultz/Kampe	Thermal Modeling of the Friction Stir Fabrication Process	O: 231-1613 dagray3@vt.edu
Dae-Soeb Han	Asryan	Characteristic temperature of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser: effect of out-tunneling from quantum dots Output power and the light-current characteristic of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser diode	O: 231-3617 dshan@vt.edu
Susan Holt	Logan	A Possbile Eutecitc in the Binary Al2O3-TiB2 System	O: 231-3875 sholt@vt.edu
Tyler Horseman	Morgan		tylermh8@vt.edu
Li Jiang	K. Lu		jl1103@vt.edu
Tongan (Tony) Jin	K. Lu		tajin@vt.edu
HyunUk Kim	Priya		hyunuk@vt.edu
Guangyin (Thomas) Lei	G-Q Lu	Nanoscale silver paste for electronic packaging Synthesis of Nano-Silver Colloids and Their Anti-Microbial Effects	O: 231-8423 guangyin@vt.edu
Liang Luo	Viehland		luoliang@vt.edu
Manoj Mahapatra	K Lu / Reynolds	Stability study of glass/glass-ceramics for solid oxide fuel cell	mkmanoj@vt.edu
Deepam Maurya	Priya		mauryad@vt.edu
Niven Monsegue	Aning	Amorphization of Equimolar Ti-Ni Alloy by Mechanical Alloying and Heat Treatment	O: 231-3617 nmonsegu@vt.edu
Reza Montazami	Heflin	Encapsulated Electrochromic ISAM Devices	rezam@vt.edu
Munusamy Prabhakaran	Pickrell	Investigation of the in vivo release of drug from a sol-gel processed silica particles. Experimental Model in Mice	prabhu_shanu@vt.edu
Neal Pfeiffenberger	Pickrell		ntp112@vt.edu
Weifeng Rao	Wang	Phase Field Modeling of Morphotropic Phase Boundary Ferroelectrics Computational Study of Large Electric-Field-Induced, Hysteresis-Free Strain in Ferroelectric Single Crystals	wfrao@vt.edu
Katia Rodriguez	Gatenholm		katigeya@vt.edu
Andrea Rojas	Aning		arojas14@vt.edu
Brian Scott	Pickrell	A novel chemical and biological fiber optic sensor	bscott05@vt.edu
Brian Stewart	Logan	Development and Design of a Mach 5 High Dynamic Pressure Hypersonic Nozzle for the Langley 8’ High-Temperature Structures Tunnel
Raghu Thridandapani	Clark	Microwave Sintering of an Inert Matrix Material for Nuclear Fuel Applications	O: 231-2456 traghu@vt.edu
Ruijia (Ray) Wang	Yoon	Stability of foams and single foam films in the presence of n-alkyl polyoxyethylene homologues	wangr@vt.edu
Zhiguang Wang	Viehland		zgwang@vt.edu
Chun-hsien (William) Wu	K. Lu/Reynolds		will172@vt.edu
Kewei (Craig) Xiao	Yu Wang		kwxiao@vt.edu
Li Yan	Viehland	Nano Growth Twins and Abnormal Magnetic Behavior in CoFe2O4 Epitaxial Thin Films Deposition and Characterization of Pb(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 Thin Film by Pulsed Laser Deposition	O: 231-6928 lyan@vt.edu
Su Chul Yang	Priya		scyang@vt.edu
Yaodong Yang	Viehland	O: 231-6928 yaodongy@vt.edu
Jianjun Yao	Viehland		jjyao@vt.edu
Yiying Yao	GQ Lu/K. Ngo		yiyingy@vt.edu
Andrew Zeagler	Aning	The Effect of Aspect Ratio on the Strengthening of Amorphous Ni-W Reinforced Crystalline Nickel Matrix Composites	O: 231-3617 zeagler@vt.edu
Chenlin Zhao	Abiade		chenlin7@vt.edu
Xin (ZX) Zhao	Corcoran / Kelley	The Effect of Electropolishing of Niobium in Sulfuric Acid-methanol Electrolyte	O: 231-3617 zhaox@vt.edu

Recently Graduated/Departed

Name	Advisor	VT Research	E-Mail
Name	Advisor	Thesis	Graduation Term
Bassam Alfeeli	Pickrell	Ionizing Radiation Resistance of Random Hole Optical Fiber for Nuclear Instrumentation and Control Applications	Spring 2009
Gabrielle (Gabby) Farrar	Kampe	Creation of Ovalbumin Based Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration	Spring 2009
Zengping Xing	Viehland	Magnetoelectric Device and the Measurement Unit	Spring 2009
Junyi Zhai	Viehland	Magnetoelectric Laminated Composites and Devices	Spring 2009
Michael Hunt	Logan	Pressureless Densification of Alumina - Titanium Diboride Ceramic Matrix Composites	Spring 2009
Jairaj Payyapilly	Logan	Formation And Growth Mechanisms of a High Temperature Interfacial Layer Between Al and TiO2	Fall 2008
Naili Yue	GQ Lu & Khai Ngo	Planar Packaging and Electrical Characterization of High Temperature SiC Power Electronic Devices	Fall 2008
Satenik Harutyunyan	Reynolds	Influence of External Magnetic Field on Magnon-Phonon Interactions in a Cracked Ferromagnetic Body	Fall 2008
Jialin Wang	Yoon	AFM surface force measurements between hydrophobized gold surfaces	Fall 2008
Li Jiang	Asryan	Theoretical study of performance characteristics of semiconductor quantum dot lasers	Fall 2008
Xiaojing Zhu	K Lu	Processability of Nickel-Boron Nanolayer Coated Boron Carbide	Summer 2008
Jennifer (Jenny) Mueller	Kampe	Determining the Role of Porosity on the Thermal Properties of Graphite Foam	Summer 2008
Hu (Tiger) Cao	Viehland	Phase transformations in highly electrostrictive and magnetostrictive crystals: structural heterogeneity and history dependent phase stability	Fall 2008
Steven (Steve) Kyriakides	Case	Durability of Composite Joints for Navy Structures	skyrides@vt.edu
Joshua (Josh) Monk	Farkas	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Multiple Twinned Ag Nanowires Tension compression asymmetry and size effects in nanocrystalline Ni nanowires	monkj@vt.edu
Christelle (Cris) Jullian	Claus	Preliminary Data on Matching Molecular Weight Linear and Star-shaped PEG Self-Assembled Monolayers	cjullian@vt.edu
Ted Asare	Kampe	Ferroelastic damping behaviour of barium titanate and nickel-barium titanate composites	asare@vt.edu
Ben Poquette	Kampe	Near Room-Temperature Consolidation of Ferroelectric Ceramic Reinforced Multifunctional Metal Matrix Composites by Electroforming Understanding Ferroelastic Domain Reorientation as a Damping Mechanism in Ferroelectric Reinforced Metal Matrix Composites	O: 231-3617 L: 231-2105 bpoquett@vt.edu
Kai Zhang	Aning	Solid state amorphization of Zr-Ni alloy by mechanical alloying and annealing	O: 231-3617 kzhang@vt.edu
Michael Wooddell	Pickrell	Porous Optical Fibers and Related Devices	miwoodde@vt.edu
Chris Story	K. Lu / Reynolds	Shape Memory Allow / Glass Composite Gas Seal for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells	O: 231-9652 mailto:cstory@vt.edu
Michael Willemann	Guido	Polymer Supported Bridges for Mulit-finer AlGaN/GaN Heterojunction Field Effect Transistors (HFETs)	miwille@vt.edu
Morsi Mahmoud	Clark	Crystallization of Lithium Disilicate Glass by Variable Frequency Microwave (VFM) Processing	momahmou@vt.edu
Megan Enzinna	G-Q Lu	Temperature dependence of breakdown voltage in encapsulant materials
Feiming Bai	Viehland	Study on domain structure of Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-x%PbTiO3 (PMN-x%PT) single crystal by scanning force microcopy (SFM)	fbai@vt.edu
Joseph (Joe) Butler	Kampe	In-situ Fiber Strength Distribution in Nextel 610 Reinforced Aluminum Composites	jeb@vt.edu
Douglas (Doug) Crowson	Corcoran	Influence of Surface Relaxation on the Elastic behavior of Nanoporous Metals	dcrowson@vt.edu
Elizabeth (Liz) Jeffers	Kampe	Reaction Synthesis of Titanium Aluminide / Titanium Boride in Situ Composites	ejeffers@vt.edu
Christopher (Chris) Kessler	K Lu	Optimization of Nanophase Suspension for Freeze Casting	chkessle@vt.edu
Jonathon Lok	Logan	Electric Response of TiB2 Particles in a Polyimide Polymer Matrix	jlok@vt.edu
Matthew (Matt) Lynch	Clark	The Effect of Microwaves on Aqueous Corrosion of Lithium Disilicate (Li2O-2SiO2) Glass	malynch1@vt.edu
Navin Manjooran	Pickrel	Novel Methods to Fabricate Porous Materials and Carbon Nanotubes as Intracellular Antibiotic Transporters Nano Sized Silicon Carbide Based Liquid Toner for Electro-Photographic Solid Freeform Fabrication Applications	jose@vt.edu