Faculty in this area primarily focus on bottom-up synthesis methodologies guided by robust first principles. Department faculty synergize with faculty in civil engineering focused on fundamental properties of building materials and with faculty of mechanical engineering focused on developing new materials for batteries and energy storage. Research is also being developed in the molecular design of materials and in the molecular analysis of nanostructured materials. This focus area draws upon the expertise available from some of the aerosol science and technology faculty, and those in biomaterial synthesis in BME, the CAS Department of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics, and expertise available in the science departments of the MSOM.
