School of Engineering
98 Brett Road, Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Telephone: 732-445-2888; Fax: 732-445-2873
http://nanomaterials.rutgers.edu
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.
