Gary Firestone
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Gary Firestone
Kyriakos Komvopoulos
contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials
Robert Tjian
eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry, cellular differentiation, chromatin function, RNA synthesis, single cell imaging, single molecule imaging, disease mechanisms and translational drug therapy strategies including targeting, transcription factor activities with small molecule Glues via induced proximity and LockTac modalities
Raluca O. Scarlat
molten salt, graphite, advanced nuclear reactors, tritium, fusion blankets, electrochemistry, corrosion, thermodynamics, nuclear reactor safety, nuclear reactor design, nuclear reactor licensing, nuclear energy, advanced reactors, high temperature rheology, high temperature tribology, engineering ethics, ethics
