School of Engineering
98 Brett Road, Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Telephone: 732-445-2888; Fax: 732-445-2873
Thomas Tsakalakos, Director
E. Koray Akdogan, Codirector
The Nanomaterials Laboratory (NML) is supported through federally funded research
programs such as the Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, and by
industry such as Exxon Mobil, among others. The mission of the NML is to
conduct research at the forefront of materials science and engineering on
advanced materials areas and to promote industry-university collaborative
efforts. NML's research activities make extensive use of ultrahigh energy X-ray
synchrotron probes in the study of nanostructured materials with special
emphasis on 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, behavior of
nanomaterials under high pressure and temperatures, and electric field assisted
processing of ceramics. The NML has made substantial and world-recognized
contributions to materials characterization by developing a unique
energy-dispersive synchrotron X-ray diffraction method and metrology, which
enabled it to assume a commanding position in the field of in situ
characterization of advanced materials at the nano- and microscale phenomena
with unprecedented 3-D space and time resolution.
