At the UGA New Materials Institute, we believe that a material’s useful end-of-life should be considered at the design stage and that Green Engineering principles should be part of this process.
Georgia Athletic Association Professor of Fibers and Textiles
Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Interiors
Website
gbhat@uga.edu
Fiber science, nonwovens, melt-blowing, cotton nonwovens, plastic recycling, multifunctional nonwovens
Professor
College of Engineering
Website
xqwang@uga.edu
Computational mechanics, soft matters, mechanics of biopolymer composites, bio-inorganic interfaces
Professor
College of Engineering
Website | Google Scholar
yajunyan@uga.edu
Metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, natural products, bioenergy, biotechnology
Associate Director, New Materials Institute
Lead, Circular Materials Management; and, Circularity Informatics Lab
Regents’ Professor, University System of Georgia
Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
Website | Twitter | jjambeck@uga.edu
Marine Debris Tracker Facebook/Twitter/Website
Global materials management, waste, plastic, biodegradation, recycling
Professor
College of Engineering
Website
kdas@uga.edu
Materials management, agricultural materials, biomass cycling, anaerobic digestion
Associate Professor
College of Engineering
Website
lukeli@uga.edu
Materials flow, life cycle assessment
Professor
Environmental Health Science, Microbiology
Website
elipp@uga.edu
Public health, microbiology
Hitesh Handa researches nitric oxide releasing materials, antibacterial coatings, hemocompatible materials, medical devices, animal models, wound healings, translational research.
Georgia Power Professor of Fiber and Polymer Science
Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors and Department of Chemistry
Website | Lab
sminko@uga.edu
Nanofibers, bio-based coatings, nanostructured materials, responsive materials, biomaterials, biointerfaces, functional fibers and textiles
Co-Director, New Materials Institute
Director, Technology Development & Implementation, New Materials Institute
Distinguished Research Professor
Director, UGA Infectious Diseases Laboratory
britchie@uga.edu
Animal health, emerging diseases, infectious diseases, technology development and implementation