Dr. Bryan D. Huey
Associate Professor

University of Connecticut

Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering

and the Institute of Materials Science

with courtesy appointment in Physics Dept.

Office: IMS room 158

Phone: (860) 486-3284

Lab: (860) 486-8820 (IMS 22)

bhuey@ims.uconn.edu

Faculty Web Site

VELUX Visiting Professor

Aarhus University

Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO)

Phone: [+45] 23 82 75 01

bhuey@inano.au.dk

The Huey Research Group is focused on developing and applying novel nanoscale materials property measurements.
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Recent News and Events

· Jan 2013: BDH co-chairing Electronic Materials and Applications conference (EMA).

· Apr 2012: Happy Easter from the Huey AFM Labs (images by V. Palumbo, in collaboration with A. Okholm, E. S. Andersen, iNANO, Aarhus University).

· Apr 2012: High Speed SPM for Ferroelectric Dynamics featured on cover of J. American Ceramic Society.

· Mar 2012: Y. Kutes, L. Ye, and J. Bosse selected as finalists for NanoWorcester student competition.

· Nov 2011: Dr. Varun Vyas joins group from University of Milan.

· Oct 2011: nmLabs wins big at MS&T Ceramographic contest, including Best of Show, 1^st place SEM, 3^rd place SEM, and 1^st place SPM.

· Aug 2011: V. Palumbo receives Koerner Family Fellowship for outstanding leadership and academic performance.

· Dec 2010: BDH represents UConn at the invitational workshop, “Frontiers of Engineering Education,” sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering.

· Nov 2010: BDH chairs symposium on Advances in SPM at MRS annual meeting: 100+ presentations, posters, and panelists.

· Oct 2010: BDH represents the School of Engineering in the 1^st annual UConn Life Raft debate. See from 1:21:31 for his impassioned 7 minute plea to preserve Engineering for rebuilding a new society!

· Jun 2010: BDH directs Advanced Course on SPM at Lehigh Microscopy School.

Teaching

Note: actual course materials are found on HuskyCT: the following are for general information only.

Active

· Microstructural Characterization of Materials (graduate)

· Nanomaterials: Properties, Characterization, and Applications (undergraduate)

· Nanoscience and Society (1^st year honors course, Spring 2013)

Previous

· Nanomaterials: Fabrication (intensive summer course, iNANO, Aarhus University, Denmark)

· Thin Films and Coatings (graduate)

· Introduction to Structure, Properties, and Processing of Materials II (undergraduate)

· Intro to Engineering, Engr 100/1000 (lectures on Materials Science, and separately on Engineering Ethics)

· Outreach Efficacy, 1 unit seminar

Research Group: Huey AFM Labs

Current
· Varun Vyas (postdoc)

· Vincent Palumbo (PhD)

· Gregory Santone (PhD)

· Yasemin Kutes (PhD)

· Linghan Ye (PhD)

· James Bosse (PhD)

· Atif Rakin (undergraduate)

· Joshua Leveliee (undergraduate)

· Alejandro Lluberes (undergraduate)

Alumni
· Nicholas Polomoff (PhD)

· Dr. Sungjun Lee (PostDoc, on leave from the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, ‘KRISS’)

· Dr. Ramesh Nath (PhD, now a post-doc at ANL)

· Kate Bagnoli (M.S., now teaching high school)

· Dr. Minhua Zhao (post-doc, now a NRC post-doc at NIST/NIH)

· David Schuman (graduate)

· Arron Lucas (graduate)

· Ilya Grishin (graduate, visitor from Lancaster University)

· Daniel Underhill (undergraduate)

· Ali Langston (undergraduate)

· Alexander Williams (undergraduate)

· James Bosse (undergraduate)

· Adam Dew (undergraduate)

· Joseph Desmarais (undergraduate)

· Kathryn Czaja (undergraduate)

· Joshua Leveillee (undergraduate)

· Ryan Keech (undergraduate—senior design)

Research Interests

Ongoing Projects

· VILLUM: DNA Origami.

· DOE: Engineering high speed, high reliability data storage devices.

· NSF: High Speed Surface Property Mapping (HSSPM).

· NSF: Phase transitions in chalcogenide films (with O. Kolosov, Lancaster University, UK).

· CT Sea Grant: Environmental Impact of Nanoparticles on Bivalves (with E. Ward, UConn Marine Sciences).

· DHS: Advanced Blast and Fire Resistant Composites for Transportation Infrastructure (with R. Hebert, G. Rossetti, Jeong-Ho Kim, UConn; R. Reiman, Rutgers; A. Shukla, URI).

· NSF: 3d nanomechanical mapping of biological structures (supported through the UPenn NBIC).

· UConn: Opto-mechanical mapping of network materials (with Y. Khan, D. Knecht, L. Shor, M. Wei).

· Various industry sponsored research projects (energy materials, biomaterials, semiconductors, polymers, alloys, MEMS, etc.).

Past efforts

· NSF: Cellular response to nano/chemo/mechanical stimuli (with D. Knecht, UConn Molecular and Cell Biology).

· NSF: Nanoscale measurements of pharmaceuticals (with D. Burgess, UConn College of Pharmacy).

· DOE user facility: Novel microfabricated AFM probes (with S. Hong, DOE ANL).

· UConn: Piezo-Force Microscopy (PFM) to study piezoelectric fibers for vibration sensors, actuators, and energy harvesting (with G. Rossetti and P. Alpay, UConn CMBE).

· DOE: Fuel Cell Electrode Microstructure: Nanoscale Stability and Efficiency (with N. Cipollini, UTC Power; P. Singh, UConn Center for Clean Energy Engineering).

· Ultrasonic Force Microscopy (UFM) for mechanically heterogeneous systems

· Scanning Surface Potential Microscopy (SSPM) and Electric Force Microscopy (EFM) for electrically active devices and structures

· Theory of contrast mechanisms for Atomic Force Microscopy variations

· Nanofabrication and Nanomanipulation

IMS NanoMeasurements Lab

The nm lab features three Asylum Research Atomic Force Microscopes, one designed for further AFM technique development, one for biological and optical studies, and the newest for high speed and high sensitivity measurements. We are also installing an Omicron UHV STM/AFM.

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Outreach

· PLAN Nano, high school science teacher academy: Nanotechnology Theme

· Explore Engineering (E²), high school summer residential program introducing Engineering

· Virtual Reality demonstrations and learning games, including VR-AFM

· CT-NanoMinor, State of Connecticut committee, to establish state-wide minor in Nanotechnology

UConn

· Materials Research Society student chapter advisor

· Video/Soundtrack: Intro to Materials Science and to the program at UConn

Not nano-hot chocolate: FeTi islands [marshmallows] grown on MgO substrate (cocoa), featuring in recent ICC4 (2012) advertising.

Specimen courtesy D. Telesca, UConn Physics

Links

· Stanford University, MS&E Department

· University of Pennsylvania, MS&E Department, Bonnell Group

· Oxford University, Department of Materials, Briggs Group

· Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Laszlo Forro Group and Andrzej Kulik

· National Institute of Standards and Technology, Ceramics Division

· Lancaster University, Dept. of Physics, Kolosov Group

· Aarhus University, iNANO, Besenbacher Group

Professional Organizations

· Materials Research Society
· American Ceramics Society, Basic Science Division

· American Vacuum Society

· American Physics Society
· SPIE Smart Structures and Materials

· IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

· NanoProbe Network

Holiday Cards

· 2004 Ferroelectric domain tree, sled, and snowman

· 2005 AFSM: Atomic Force Snowman Microscopy (Virtual Reality animation of AFM AC-imaging using a snowman’s nose as the tip, in a winter wonderland scene of course). Downloadable as a 1 or 2 player game (play nanoscale king of the snow-covered mountain!)

· 2006 Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (Ferroelectric domain nucleation over a holiday pattern as a function of time, set to music).

· 2007 NanoSleighRide (64 consecutive High Speed PFM images of moving, reindeer-powered, snowman-driven sleigh, to music).

· 2009/10 NanoSnowflake Self Assembly (High Speed PFM movie of 5um images presenting ferroelectric domain switching dynamics from a snowflake lithographic pattern).
· 2012 Happy Easter (AFM images of DNA origami conveniently self-assembled into a hopping rabbit).

Funding

· National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division, Nano-Bio-Mechanics, award 0626231.

· National Science Foundation, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Division of Materials Research, Instrumentation for Materials Research, award 0817263.

· National Science Foundation, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Division of Materials Research, Materials World Network, award 0909091.

· Department of Homeland Security, National Transportation Security Center of Excellence

· Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopies, award DE-SC0005037

· Department of Energy / UConn Center for Clean Energy Engineering.

· UConn Honors Program.

· National Science Foundation, UPenn NSEC, sub-award from 0425780.

· (previous): Army Research Office, UConn Research Foundation

Note: Some material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Energy. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of these agencies.