Collaborations

Collaboration, Supports, and Students

Our research is supported by the US National Science Foundation, Air Force Office for Scientific Research, Army, DOE, DARPA, and private industry.

Currently, about 20 graduate students, post-doctoral associates, visitors, and undergraduate students participate in eight research projects.

Current major projects are:

National Science Foundation-CBET, Cell Surface Engineering With Biopolymer Lbl Shells For Biosesning

National Science Foundation-CBET, Nanostructured Biosenseing Surfaces With Selective Biotraps For Sensing

National Science Foundation-DMR, Highly Branched Nanostructures And Their Assemblies

National Science Foundation-DMR, Materials World Network: Structural Design And Micromechanical Properties Of Mechanotransducing Biological Materials

Department of Energy-BES, Guided Assembly Of Anisotropic Micro-Structures Into Mesoscale Heirarchies

Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Ultrastrong And Conductive Bionanocomposites

Air Force Office of Scientific Research-MURI, Pt-Symmetric Optical Materials and Structures

Air Force Research Laboratory-UES, Graduate Student Support

Our Collaborators are:

J. Ankner (ORNL); F. Barth (Vienna U.); T. Bunning (AFRL); E. Chaikof (Harvard); P. Cebe (Tufts); A. Dobrynin (UC), M. El-Sayed (GT); A. Fedorov (GT);. Fery A. (U Bayreuth), P. Fratzl (MPIG); W. Heller (ORNL); D. Kaplan (Tufts), N. Kelley-Loughnane (AFRL), K. Matyjaszewski (CMU), Yu. Melnichenko (ORNL), A. Muller (Mainz), R. Naik (AFRL); M. Rubinstein (UNC), S. Sheiko (UNC), A. Sidorenko (UPST); M. Stone (AFRL), E. Thomas (Rice); R. Vaia (AFRL).