Buldum, Alper, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Phone: (330) 972-8087 Office: AYER 230 email: buldum Home page Interest Areas: •Mechanical and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes •Multi-scale modeling and simulation of nanofibers coatings and hollow nanowires •Computer simulations of proteins in different environments

Chen, Ang, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Phone: (330)-972-6657 Office: AYER 229 email: ang Home page Interest areas: •Experimental Condensed Matter Physics •Theory and Modeling •Materials Science and Electronic Devices

Dordevic, Sasha V., Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Phone: (330)-972 - 8512 Office: AYER 207 email: dsasa Home page Interest Areas: •Infrared and optical spectroscopy •Superconductivity •Vortex Dynamics

Gujrati, Purushottam D., Ph.D. Professor

Phone: (330)-972-7136 Office: AYER 248 email: pgujrati Home page Interest Areas: •Phase transitions and critical phenomena •Polymer physics •Combinatorics and graph theory

Hu, Ben Yu-Kuang, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Phone: (330)-972-8093 Office: AYER 200 email: byhu Home page Interest Areas: •Electronic Properties of Graphene •Frictional Drag in Coupled Quantum Wells

Luettmer-Strathmann, Jutta, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Phone: (330)-972-8029 Office: AYER 201 email: jutta Home page Interest Areas: •Combination of small-scale simulations with coarse-grained theories •Monomeric friction coefficients of polyolefins •Phase separation in polymer blends and solutions

Lyuksyutov, Sergei, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Phone: (330)-972-8356 Office: AYER 105 email: sfl Home page Interest Areas: •Nanotechnology •Photorefractive Optics •Atomic Force Microscopy-assisted Electrostatic Nanolithography and its application for polymers, biomaterials, and alternative medicine

Mallik, Robert R., Ph.D. Professor, Department Chair

Phone: (330)-972-7145 Office: AYER 247 email: mallik Home page Interest Areas: •Surface physics, condensed matter physics •Electronic and structural characterization of nanoscale thin-films •Amorphous semiconductors including photovoltaic materials

Ramsier, Rex D., Ph.D., Professor, Associate Provost

Phone: (330)-972-8584 Office: Buchtel Hall 106 email: rex@uakron.edu Home page Interest Areas: •Surface and materials science •Metal oxide nanofibers •Biomedical and nuclear materials •Energy conversion technologies

von Meerwall, Ernst D., Ph.D., Associate Dean, College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, Distinguished Professor

Phone: (330)-972-5904 Office: Goodyear 329 email: evonmee Home page Interest Areas: •Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR): spectroscopy and relaxation •Diffusion via NMR: molecular motions in polymeric systems; fluid flow; NMR imaging •Structure-property relations in polymer systems

Paramonov, Pavlo, Ph.D. Visiting Assistant Professor

Phone: (330)-972-6513 Office: AYER 240 email: pbp Home page Interest Areas: •Multiscale modeling of biological and chemical self-assembly •Structural and electronic properties of organic/inorganic interfaces •Theoretical/Computational studies of nanoscale systems