Resources For

• Prospective Students and Visitors
• Current Students
• Faculty and Staff

Department Affiliations

• Engineering
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biological Chemistry

Other Links

• Professional Organizations
• Apply to Macro

Faculty

Ellen M. Arruda,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - elastomers,mechanical behavior,solid mechanics,thermoplastics

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Banaszak Holl,
Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - hydridosilsesquioxanand resin films, microelectronic devices, model structures, reactivity of Si /SiO2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zhan Chen,
Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - biological molecules, biomaterial surfaces, vibrational spectroscopy, polymer surfaces

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nikos Chronis,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - Bio-MicroElectroMechanical Systems (Bio-MEMS), Lab-On-A-Chip Systems, Microfluidics and Micro-optics, Polymer Micromachining, Bio-imaging and Neural Networks.

 

 

 

 

Mohamed E.H. El-Sayed,
Assitant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - design and synthesis of novel polymeric carriers for drug delivery

 

 

 

 

 

Sharon C. Glotzer, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - computational nanoscience, soft matter and complex fluids; self-assembly and materials design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theodore Goodson III, Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - macromolecular structures, fluorescence anisotropy decay measurements

 

 

 

 

 

Peter F. Green, Professor and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering; Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - structure, phase behavior and dynamics of bulk and think film polymer and polymer-based nanocomposite systems, thin films

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.Jay Guo, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - nanoelectronics research,nanofabrication technology development, nanoimprint lithography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jinsang Kim, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - biopolymers, molecular biosensors, protein/DNA microarrays, artificial actuators

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas Kotov, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - Applications of nanostructured materials to biology and medicine, self-organization of nanocolloidal systems

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katsuo Kurabayashi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Research Areas - Microelectromechanical systems; microscale thermal engineering and design; heat transfer in micro/nano structures; semiconductor processing for micromechanical structure fabrication; microfluidic device; sensors and actuators.

 

 

 

 

 

• 

Kenichi Kuroda, Assistant Professor of Biologic & Materials Science and Macromolecular Science & Engineering

 

Research Areas - Polymer design and synthesis towards biomaterials, antimicrobials & polymer-membrane interactions

 

 

 

 

Joerg Lahann, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - designer surfaces, advanced polymers, biomimetic materials, microfluidic devices, engineered microenvironments, nano-scale self-assembly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard M. Laine, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry; Professor and Director of Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - synthesis and processing of inorganic/organic hybrids,metalloorganic and organometallic polymers, and the production of mixed-metal oxide nanopowders from them

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ronald G. Larson, Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - biopolymers, complex fluids, liquid crystals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter X. Ma, Professor of Biologic and Materials Sciences and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - biodegradable polymers, biomaterials, composites, tissue engineering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Istvan Majoros, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Macromolecular Science & Engineering

 

Research Areas - Nanoscale macromolecular synthesis, characterization and properties. Dendrimer structures and applications to medicine, including drug delivery, apoptosis sensing and MRI.

 

 

 

 

 

Adam J. Matzger, Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - conjugated polymers, controlling crystal polymorphism, physisorbed monolayers, synthesis

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne J. McNeil, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - functional supramolecular assemblies, new polymers and synthetic methods

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jennifer Ogilvie, Assistant Professor of Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - Ultrafast and single molecule spectroscopy and nonlinear microscopy to explore the diverse length and time scales of biology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard E. Robertson, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - adhesive analysis, fiber composites analysis, molecular dynamics, nonlinear mechanical behavior

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timothy Scott, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - Photopolymers, Membranes, Biomaterials, Biomimetics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max Shtein, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - structure property relationships of organic semicondductors and their application to electronic and optoelectronic devices(e.g. transistors,LEDs, solar cells, memories)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael J. Solomon, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - colloidal particulate materials polymer blends, polymer dynamics, polymer rheology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shuichi Takayama, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - biological macromolecules, biomedical devices, microtubules, synthesis of biocompatible materials

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anish Tuteja, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - understanding and engineering functional nanoparticle – polymeric systems. Particular areas of interest include Soft Materials, Surface Wettability, Polymer Nanocomposites and Liquid-liquid separations.

 

 

 

 

 

Angela Violi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - chemical kinetics for real fuels. The study of nanoparticle growth and self-assembly and nanoparticle interactions with biomolecular systems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan S. Wineman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

 

Research Areas - constitutive equations, electrorheological polymers, polymer solid mechanics

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Zand, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Research Scientist (Biophysics)

 

Research Areas - polymer synthesis, polyimides, polyisocyanates, polymer solution behavior, biopolymers, electrorheological polymers, electrooptic polymers

 

 

 

 

 

Emeritus Faculty

A. Ziya Akcasu, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Arthur J. Ashe, III,
Professor of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering
Research Areas - aromatic heterocyclic chemistry, heteroaromatics,olefin polymerization

M. David Curtis, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Samuel Krimm, Professor Emeritus of Physics and Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Research Scientist (Biophysics)

Paul G. Rasmussen, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Macromolecular Science and Engineering

3062C H. H. Dow Building
2300 Hayward Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136
(734) 763-2316

google map

 

Take a look at some of the cool research going on in the macro program.