School of Engineering
98 Brett Road, Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Telephone: 732-445-2888; Fax: 732-445-3229
Thomas Tsakalakos, Director
E. Koray Akdogan, Codirector
The Laboratory for
Nanostructured Materials Research (LNMR) is supported through federally funded research
programs such as the Office of Naval Research and by industry such as Exxon
Mobil, among others. The LNMR's mission is to support forefront research in advanced
materials areas and to promote industry-university interactions. Research areas
include advanced analysis of nanostructured materials by synchrotron X-ray
probes. Active research areas of interest include, but are not limited to,
multiscale 3-D strain and phase mapping of engineering materials,
stress-corrosion cracking phenomena, mechanical behavior of multiphase
nanostructured coatings, fatigue fracture in engineering alloys, and behavior of
nanomaterials under high pressure and temperatures. The laboratory's research
endeavors also have a strong theoretical component. The members of the LNMR
have developed a unique energy dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction method
and metrology, and they have a commanding position in the field of multiscale 3-D
phase and strain mapping in advanced engineering materials.
