AMRI Faculty
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Faculty of AMRI
John Wiley, Ph.D.
President's Research Professor Charles J. O'Connor Ph.D. Endowed Professor in Chemistry
Director of Advanced Materials Research Institute
Department of Chemistry
SC 2064/CSB218
504-280-6840 504-280-6849
Inorganic, Materials Chemistry
Theoretical and computational approaches to the study of liquid water, interfaces, aqueous solutions, proteins, and ion transport through various materials.
Phase development in metastable binary alloys; Characterization of automobile exhaust particulates; Materials problems related to microfabrication techniques based on x-ray lithography; NDE of composite materials; Development of Al-Sc-X alloys
Damon Smith
Associate Professor
Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
504-280-6167
Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, Fabrications
Leonard Spinu, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Physics & Materials Science (Currently on staff at NSF)
Department of Physics
SC 2007
504-280-3218
Magnetic nanoparticles, radio frequency and microwave properties of materials.
See Dr. Spinu's research group website
Matthew A. Tarr, PhD
University Research Professor
Eurofins Professor of Analytical Chemistry
CSB 344
504-280-6323
Analytical, biochemistry, materials chemistry
Research in our group focuses on 2 areas: 1) the development of novel molecular probes to explore the molecular mechanisms of psychostimulant reward; 2) the development of new methods for C-N bond formation.
Synthesis of semiconductor nanowires for chemical sensor, biological sensor and photovoltaic applications. Nanomaterials characterization using electron microscopy.
See Dr. Zhou's research group website
Phoebe Zito, Ph.D.
University of Louisiana System Foundation & Michael and Judith Russell Professor in Environmental Chemistry
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Early Career Gulf Research Fellow
Director of Chemical Analysis & Mass Spectrometry Facility
Associate Professor
504-280-7336
Environmental Chemistry, Photochemistry, Nanomaterials, Aquatic Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry