Richard E. Riman

Professor
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office Location: CCR 106
Office Phone: 732.445.4946
Fax: 732.445.6264
Email: riman@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Solution synthesis of ceramic coatings and bulk materials, green ceramic manufacturing, solution crystallization fundamentals, powder characterization and powder processing, biomaterials, photonics, electronic and structural ceramics.

Janet Pescinski

Administrative Assistant
Office Location: CCR 105
Office Phone: 732.445.5036
Fax: 732.445.6264
Email: jpescins@rci.rutgers.edu

Surojit Gupta

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.5754
Email: gsurojit@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Environmental and sustainable materials, nanomaterials, high temperature structural materials, solid mechanics and sintering, automobile, and aerospace materials and tribology, oxidation and surface studies.

Qinghua Li

Research Associate
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.5754
Email: qhli@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Hydrothermal/microwave/high temperature synthesis. Mineral/industrial waste carbonation, monitoring kinetic processes using realtime diagnostic systems, such as in-situ FTIR and XRD, thermodynamic modeling.

Mei Chee Tan

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office Location: A245
Office Phone: 732.445.7092
Email: mctan@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Interfacial interactions and properties of nanomaterials, optical materials for energy efficient lighting, photocatalysis and imaging implants.

Ling Tang

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.7092
Email: lingtang@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Hydrothermal synthesis, reactive sol-gel synthesis of nonoxides, mixedness modulated solid state reactivity, mixedness simulation and determination, powder characterization, thermodynamic and kinetic process modeling.

Cekdar Vakifahmetoglu

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.5754
Email: cekdar@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Green manufacturing techinques for monolithic ceramics, sequestration of greenhouse gases by minerals and waste materials, hydrothermal and solid state synthesis of ceramic particles and parts, porous materials, preceramic polymers and polymer derived ceramics, 1D nanostructures and bioceramics.

Sean Quinn

Laboratory Researcher
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.5754
Email: sean.q@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Ceramics processing, characterization, reaction kinetics and imaging.

Joshua Tan

Laboratory Researcher
Office Location: A249
Office Phone: 732.445.5754
Email: joshtan@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Ceramic forming methods, rheological manipulation, hydrothermal synthesis, ceramic batch tailoring, powder characterization.

Berra Beyoglu

Graduate Student
Office Location: CCR137
Email: bbeyoglu@eden.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Ceramic powder synthesis and processing, bioceramics.

Mary Anne Bitetto

Graduate Student
Office Location: CCR137
Email: bitetto2@eden.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Chemical reactor design, life cycle analysis, and green manufacturing technology for ceramics.

Terence Whalen

Graduate Student
Office Location: CCR137
Email: tewhalen@rci.rutgers.edu

Research Interests:

Low temperature ceramic/steel bonding, mechanical properties of high performance ceramics, magnetically guided macro-structure formation.