**William Bailey, Materials Science and Engineering**
Nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
**Simon J. L. Billinge, Materials Science and Engineering**
Amorphous and nanostructured pharmaceuticals and molecular materials, methods for solving the nanostructure problem, nanoscale fluctuations in exotic electronic materials, nanostructured materials for energy and environmental remediation, software for complex modeling and nanostructure determination
**Oleg Gang, Applied Physics**
Soft matter physics; programmable self-assembly of nanoscale systems; soft and biomaterials with tailored functions
**I. Cevdet Noyan, Materials Science and Engineering**
Characterization and modeling of mechanical and micromechanical deformation; residual stress analysis and nondestructive testing; x-ray and neutron diffraction, microdiffraction analysis
**Yuan Yang, Materials Science and Engineering**
Characterizing energy materials by Synchrotron-based techniques