Announcement: Post-doc, Graduate, and Undergraduate Student Openings Are Available. Email Your CV to klu@vt.edu
Contact Information

Dr. Kathy Lu
Email: klu@vt.edu
Tel: (540) 231-3225
Fax: (540) 231-8919

Virginia Tech
​117 Surge Building
400 Stanger St.
​Blacksburg, VA 24061

Welcome

Our passion is the endless pursuit of fundamental materials understanding and solutions to the most challenging materials problems. We rely on the confluent intelligence and hard work from all our group members to deliver high quality research, training, and outreach results.
Our Activities Focus On:
  • Fundamental science, processing, and applications of polymer derived materials, materials in challenging environments, high temperature materials, hybrid materials, and nanomaterials
  • Systems involving polymer derived materials, particulate materials, coatings/thin films, and interfaces with an  emphasis for energy and harsh environment applications
  • Simulation, computation, and 3D characterization of materials
  • Active research in patterning, processing, 3D microstructure reconstruction, and characterization of all different materials. 
  • Composites, hybrid materials, and porous materials
  • Polymer-derived high temperature materials and solid state materials chemistry
News

Post-doc, graduate student and undergraduate openings are available. Apply today!

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