Whether the focus is sustainable energy generation, conversion, or storage, including electrical energy generation via solar and other renewable sources, or how to transfer and store energy between its generation and use, materials science and engineering play a key role.
Our research includes selecting, designing, and manufacturing advanced materials for these energy applications, such as organic and inorganic photovoltaics, and energy conversion and storage in batteries, fuel cells, and capacitors. We also evaluate and develop processes and materials for the safe disposal of energy materials (e.g., nuclear fuels, lithium, rare earth) and their circular economy.
Faculty
Education: Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials
Lab Website: Butala Research Group
Education: Ph.D. 2014, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interest: Computational materials, CALPHAD, Phase-field method, Machine learning, Ferroelectric materials, Physical metallurgy, Recycling aluminum, Additive manufacturing, Microstructure evolution, Rapid solidification, Phase transformation
Education: Ph.D., 2000, Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests: AI-driven and ab-initio materials science; deep learning and generative models for materials prediction and inverse design; interpretable machine-learning force fields; quantum and superconducting materials; molecular magnetic qubits and spin coherence; electronic-structure and phonon-based modeling of electron–phonon coupling; electrochemical and solid–liquid interfaces; and open computational frameworks linking predictive AI, first-principles simulation, and experiment.…
Education: Ph.D., 1987, University of California-Berkeley
Research Interests: Electronic materials, semiconductor processing and characterization, ion implantation, transmission electron microscopy.
Lab Website: Swamp Group
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Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at UF.…
Education: Ph. D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: sustainable material synthesis; advanced functional ceramics; nuclear energy; applied and explainable AI in materials science, neuromorphic memory, connectomics and graph theory, single crystal growth, materials under extreme environments; radiation effects on electronics; plant-derived materials; bioceramics.
Lab Website: Nino Research Group (NRG)
Ph.D., 2016,
Research Interests: High-temperature Materials; Metastability and Interface Engineering; Electron Microscopy; In-situ Microscopy; Microstructure Evolution; Deformation Behavior and Mechanical Performance in Extremes; Green Processing & Energy
Ph.D., 1993, University of Paris, XI
Research Interests: Radiochemistry, Nuclear Wastes, Nuclear Forensics, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Environmental Behavior of Radionuclides
Lab Website: Wall Research
Ph.D., 2005, Princeton University
Research Interests: Nanostructured electronic materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, surfaces and interfaces, energy materials, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes and other optoelectronic devices
Lab Website: Xue Research Group