Many advanced technologies are enabled by materials with various different functions as a result of their magnetic, thermal, optical, electrical, and electronic properties. Examples include semiconducting, ferroelectric, ferroelastic, thermoelectric, and magnetic materials or materials with energy conversion or storage functions. In certain materials, more than one function is in play to convert one form of energy to another, for instance, magnetic to thermal. These materials are usually called multifunctional. Our faculty and students work on designing, synthesizing, and processing functional materials that can adapt their properties based on external stimuli. The goals are to understand the roles of structure and chemistry in determining functional properties under various different external fields (thermal, magnetic, electrical, optical, etc.) and to accurately predict their properties to design functional devices.
Core Faculty
Raymundo Arróyave
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow
- Segers Family Dean's Excellence Professor
- Office: RDMC 216
- Phone: 979-845-5416
- Email: rarroyave@tamu.edu
Sarbajit Banerjee
- Professor, Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering
- Davidson Chair in Science
- Office: Department of Chemistry
- Phone: 979-862-3102
- Email: banerjee@chem.tamu.edu
Ibrahim Karaman
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Department Head, Materials Science & Engineering
- Chevron Professor I
- Office: RDMC 245
- Phone: 979-862-3923
- Email: ikaraman@tamu.edu
Linda Katehi
- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- O'Donnell Foundation Chair II
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Office: WEB 205C
- Phone: 979-458-6556
- Email: katehi@tamu.edu
Dimitris Lagoudas
- Associate Vice Chancellor for Engineering Research
- Senior Associate Dean for Research
- University Distinguished Professor
- Robert C. “Bud” Hagner Chair of Engineering
- Deputy Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 602B
- Phone: 979-458-1378
- Email: d-lagoudas@tamu.edu
Pao-Tai Lin
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Director, Mid-Infrared Integrated Photonics and Remote Sensing (MiPRoS) Laboratory
- Office: WERC 214F
- Phone: 979-458-8223
- Email: paolin@tamu.edu
Emily Pentzer
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering and Chemistry
- Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A&M University
- Affiliated Faculty, Chemical Engineering
- Office: RDMC 228
- Phone: 979-458-6688
- Email: emilypentzer@tamu.edu
Xiaofeng Qian
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- AZZ Inc. Fellow
- Office: RDMC 224
- Phone: 979-458-9843
- Email: feng@tamu.edu
Patrick Shamberger
- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Director of Undergraduate Programs, Materials Science & Engineering
- AZZ Inc. Fellow
- Office: RDMC 227
- Phone: 979-458-1086
- Email: patrick.shamberger@tamu.edu
Svetlana A. Sukhishvili
- Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Director, Soft Matter Facility
- Office: RDMC 219
- Phone: 979-458-9840
- Email: svetlana@tamu.edu
