Jon Ihlefeld Earns Young Faculty Award to Design Insulators for High-Temperature Electronics
Ihlefeld's research group specializes in electronic oxide materials; their thin films increase the efficiency of computer chips...
A cross-cutting initiative at UVA Engineering
The Mutlifunctional Materials Integration Initiative aims to reduce, reuse and recycle heat and energy and create new functionalities in many technologies that form the backbone of modern society. Researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Science collaborate to develop new, advanced and complex materials and devices with a built-in level of energy efficiency and functionality that does not exist today.
The initiative maximizes UVA Engineering's unique, interdisciplinary expertise in building advanced materials, controlling energy and heat, fabricating sensors, reducing corrosion, building biomedical systems and developing advanced manufacturing approaches.
Latest News
Researchers Help Keep Pace with Moore’s Law by Exploring a New Material Class
UVA Engineering and Northwestern scientists combine disciplines to tackle the heat problem inherent in making tiny circuits and chips.
University of Virginia and Penn State Researchers Launch Program to Develop New Hardware System
$1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s ASCENT program supports their research.
UVA Joins Multi-University Team to Design New Class of Semiconductor Materials
Avik Ghosh joins multi-university initiative to model the physics of materials for infrared opto-electronic systems.
Our Faculty
Liheng Cai
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy)
Research Areas
- Soft (bio)Materials
- Polymers
- Biophysics
Osman E. Ozbulut
Associate Professor
Research Areas
- Smart Buildings/Cities
- Structural Dynamics and Control
- Innovative Materials for Civil Infrastructure
Sean R. Agnew
William G. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Areas
- Surface and Interface Science and Engineering
- Metallurgy
- Materials Characterization
Mona Zebarjadi
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Areas
- Microscale Heat Transfer
- Nanoelectronics and 2-D Materials
- Computational Materials Science
