Ceramics

• Ceramic stereolithography and rapid prototyping
• Ceramic dispersion techniques: dry blending, spray drying, and rapid acoustical mixing
• Ceramic powder processing
• Debinding and sintering of ceramic oxides and nitrides
• UV cure materials selection and testing
• Ceramic to metal joining
• Nitride Ceramic Sintering
• Colloidal processing of ceramic powders
• Ceramic inkjet printing
• Ceramic injection molding
• Aqueous gel casting
• Glaze formulation and eutectics
• Glaze firing scheduling and troubleshooting
• Slip-casting process and slip formulation/mixing
• Clay body formulation and processing
• Vacuum hot pressing of components from 2" up to 15" x 20"
• Pressureless Sintering Dilatometer Experiments

Thermal

• Materials selection for microelectronics packaging
• Electronics cooling
• Loop heat pipe technology
  • Design, assembly, and testing
• Microchannel heat exchanger technology
• Thermal Management of Power Electronics Components
• Metal oxide nanoparticles

Advanced Coatings

• Magnetron Sputtered Ceramics, Metals, Polymers, and Composite Coatings
• Chemical Vapor Deposited (CVD) Carbides and Refractory Metallic Coatings
• Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI)
• Electrophoretic deposition

Advanced Materials and Processes

• Shape memory alloy material and device development
• Formulation and dispersion of resins for transparent, conductive coatings
• Gas separation technology
• Embedded conductors in ceramics
• Nuclear waste disposal related materials
• EMI shielding and metamaterials

Nanomaterials

• Nanocrystalline magnetic material design and fabrication
• Incorporation of nanomaterials into composite structure and devices
• Sensors and composites for gas sensing and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
• Nanoparticle surface functionalization
• Synthesis of clay minerals and nanoparticles

Material Testing

• Ceramic powder characterization
  • Laser particle size
  • Surface charge
  • BET surface area
  • Bulk and tap densities
  • Water and gas adsorption
• Sample polishing
• Grain size measurement
• Viscosity measurement
• UV spectroscopy
• Simultaneous Friction and Wear Measurement
• Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)
• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
• Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
• Raman Spectroscopy
• X-Ray Powder Diffraction (XRD)

Design and Research

• Kiln process control, data acquisition, and troubleshooting
• Design of Experiments
• Mechanical, Industrial, and Product Design
• Ethnographic and Contextual Research
• CAD (SolidWorks and Rhino 3D)
• 3-Dimensional structural design for Hand-built Ceramics
• Photography of 3-Dimensional objects
• Polymer chemistry
• Microfabrication and soft lithography