Director of Materials Research Center: Matthew J. O'Keefe,   mjokeefe@mst.edu   Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
Thin film deposition by plasma-assisted and physical vapor deposition processes; characterization of coatings, thin films, surfaces and interfaces; electroless and electrolytic deposition processes; electron microscopy; microelectronic packaging materials and processes.

Frank D. Blum,   fblum@mst.edu    Curators' Professor of Chemistry
Polymer-solvent/polymer-surface interactions; polymer characterization; colloid chemistry; microemulsions, liquid crystals, micelles and vesicles; NMR spectroscopy and diffusion.

Richard K. Brow,  brow@mst.edu    Curators' Professor of Ceramic Engineering
Physics and chemistry of inorganic glasses; spectroscopic characterization of glass structure; preparation and properties of novel glasses for sealing and packaging applications; characterization of material surfaces and interfaces.

Lokesh R. Dharani,   dharani@mst.edu    Curators' Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Failure analysis and micromechanics of high temperature and structural composites; environmental effects on composites; mechanics of ceramic/metal/ceramic joints.

James Drewniak,   drewniak@mst.edu    Curators' Professor of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Fundamental experimental investigations, product development, and numerical modeling of electromagnetic compatibility in printed and integrated circuits, power electronics and electric machinery; electromagnetic packaging effects; MEMS; numerical electromagnetic analysis; RF and microwave measurements; and antennas.

William G. Fahrenholtz,  billf@mst.edu   Professor of Ceramic Engineering
Reactive forming of ceramic-metal composites; solution and collodial sol-gel processing of ceramics, composites, and thin-films; ceramic-metal interfaces and interfacial reactions; thermodynamic calculations in ceramic-metal systems; nanocomposites.

Greg Hilmas,  ghilmas@mst.edu   Professor of Ceramic Engineering
Coextrusion processing of engineered, ceramic-and metal-matrix composites; Processing-microstructure-mechanical property relationships in structural materials; ultra-high temperature ceramics; and measurement of thermomechanical properties of materials.

Jay A. Switzer,   jswitzer@mst.edu    Curators' and Castleman / FCR Endowed Professor of Chemistry
Electrochemical architecture of ceramic thin films; nanomodulated ceramic superlattices; epitaxial growth; optical and electrical properties of nonstoichiometric metal oxides.
To view Jay A. Switzer's webpage:  http://web.mst.edu/~jswitzer/

George D. Waddill,   waddill@mst.edu    Professor and Chair of Physics
Synthesis and characterization of nanoscale materials using electron spectroscopies. Structure-property investigations of low dimensional magnetic materials using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, x-ray photoelectron diffraction, and spin-dependent photoemission. 

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