CCST Faculty
Dionisios G. Vlachos — Director
Research Interests:
Multiscale simulation, reacting flows, reaction mechanism development, microreactors, portable power, energy, crystal growth, nanomaterials, zeolites, membranes, separations, cellular engineering and cancer
Mark A. Barteau
Research Interests:
Surface science and catalysis by metal oxides and metals; acid-base catalysis; application of density functional theory to surface reactions; self-assembly of inorganic materials, scanning probe microcopies
Douglas J. Buttrey
Research Interests:
Synthesis of complex oxides and alloys, composition-structure-property relationships in catalytic and electronic materials; high-resolution electron microscopy
Jingguang G. Chen
Research Interests:
Synthesis and characterization of metal carbides and bimetallic alloys as novel catalytic/electrocatalytic materials for applications in environmental catalysis and fuel cells; determination of structure-property relationship on single crystal surfaces, PVD/CVD films, nanoparticles, and supported catalysts
Douglas J. Doren
Research Interests:
Theoretical and computational methods with applications to materials science, surface science, and catalysis
Jochen A. Lauterbach
Research Interests:
High-throughput catalysis, fabrication of conducting polymer nanofilms, non-linear dynamics of catalytic reactions, and time-resolved IR spectroscopy of supported catalysts
Raul F. Lobo
Research Interests:
Synthesis and characterization of zeolites and other microporous materials, structure-property relationships in porous adsorbents and catalysts
S. Ismat Shah
Research Interests:
Nanostructured materials synthesis via PVD and CVD processes with applications to environmental catalysis and energy generation
Douglass F. Taber
Research Interests:
Stereoselective synthesis of natural products, enantioselective catalysis, computational organometallic chemistry
Andrew V. Teplyakov
Research Interests:
Experimental and computational surface and thin film chemistry, diffusion barriers, nucleation, growth, self-assembly, surface modification
Klaus H. Theopold
Research Interests:
Homogeneous catalysis, coordination polymerization of olefins, activation of dioxygen by novel oxidation catalysis
Brian G. Willis
Research Interests:
Surface chemistry and reaction pathways for metal oxide growth on silicon, atomic layer engineering of nanoelectrodes for molecular electronics, chemical mechanisms of copper transport for copper barrier layer engineering