
Benjamin Boesl
Associate Professor

Zhe Cheng
Associate Professor
Research interests: advanced ceramic electrode and electrolyte materials for solid-state electrochemical energy conversion including solid oxide fuel cells, advanced ceramic materials and processing for electronic applications including photovoltaics (solar cells), and continued development of advanced high-temperature in situ characterizations tools for materials research.

Bilal El-Zahab
Associate Professor
Research interests: lithium-ion batteries, electrolyte and electrolyte additives, gel-polymer electrolytes, electrolytes fillers, solid-state electrolyte glasses, reaction battery catalysis, lithium-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, all-solid-state batteries, and development of in situ analytical tools for the determination of the source of capacity fade and the capacity fade mechanism in various battery systems.

Cheng-Yu Lai
Associate Professor
Research interests: Functionalized mesostructured materials (mesoporous and hierarchical silica nanomaterials) engineered for the following applications: Bionanotechnology
Website: https://lai-afm.fiu.edu/

Cheng-Xian (Charlie) Lin
Associate Professor
Research interests: Heat and Mass Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Management, Multiphase Flows, and Energy Simulation, and their applications in HVAC, Built Environment, Data Centers, Electronic Cooling, Aerospace, Advanced Manufacturing, Power Plants, and Solar Energy Technologies.
Website: https://mme.fiu.edu/faculty-staff-members/cheng-xian-lin

Dwayne McDaniel
Associate Professor
Research interests: Robotics with applications to infrastructure inspection, autonomous systems, sensor systems, nondestructive evaluation, multi-body dynamics and structural mechanics.
Website: http://web.eng.fiu.edu/mcdaniel/

Daniela Radu
Associate Professor
Research interests: Nanostructured materials for solution-processed solar photovoltaics: Gen 2 PV (thin film crystalline absorbers). Advanced functional materials for optoelectronic applications: 2D nanostructures and lasing materials. Chalcogenide nanoparticles for photothermal cancer therapy: CuxS. Sensor design: detecting heavy metals, nitrates and phosphates in water. Engineered nanoparticles: toxicity evaluation.
Nanomaterials Lab