Research Highlights

Breakthroughs in materials science and engineering help improve our technological capabilities to meet human needs, generate clean energy, predict and forestall disasters, cure disease, defend our nation and reveal the basic rules obeyed by the material world, Here we list breakthrough from our labs in the materials science and engineering department at JHU's Whiting school of engineering.

Research Highlights

Membrane proteins fold, assemble and function within the native fluid lipid environment. Structural studies of lipid membranes are thus key to understanding function. A simple approach has been developed to…

Description of Under Potential Deposition and its Applications

Ultrasonic waves interact with materials in interesting nonlinear ways

New excitation regimes are being explored for momentum transfer during ultrafast laser material removal processes in metals for fluxes approaching one terawatt per square millimeter.

We report organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) with the hydrophobic gate dielectric exposed to an electron beam before semiconductor deposition, shifting the threshold voltage toward positive gate bias for a p-channel…

A novel patterning technique for spatially placing positive and negative charges on the same wafer is used to create the first organic FET-based CMOS inverter. A maximum gain is acheived…

Sodium β-alumina (SBA)-based gate dielectric films have been developed for all solution-processed, transparent and low voltage field-effect transistors (FETs). The dielectric and morphological properties of sol–gel-derived SBA films…

Metal matrix films are manufactured with embedded nanooscale oxide particles to achieve unique material properties.

Incorporating both n and p type Bi2Te3 ball milled powders into PEDOT:PSS ehanced the power factor for both p and n polymer composites.

The diffusion of point defects in silicon at high densities can involve complex coordinated motion of dopants and vacancies. We are developing new algorithms to speed the simulation of these…

Stem cells reside in vivo in a highly specialized microenvironment called the stem cell niche. This niche provides a complex array of biochemical and physical signals in a…

Materials Science and Engineering

A Department of Whiting School of Engineering

Research Highlights

Research Highlights

Viewing the bilayer hydrocarbon core using neutron diffraction

Under Potential Deposition

Ultrasonic Waves Probe Phase Changes

Ultrafast Impulse Studies to Determine Momentum Coupling Coefficients in Metallic Systems

Tuning of threshold voltage in organic field-effect transistors

Tuning inverter behavior through threshold voltage adjustment

Transparent low-voltage electronics using a solution-processed high-k gate layer

Thin Film Nanoparticulate Composites

Thermoelectric blends of PEDOT and Bi2Te3

The complex dance of dopant atoms in silicon

Synthetic Stem Cell Niche

Surface heterogeneous nanoparticles