To Contact Us:
Center for Functional
Nanoscale Materials
Clark Atlanta University
223 James Brawley Dr., S.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30314
Phone: (404) 880-6784
E-mail: cfnm@cau.edu
Web site: www.cfnm.cau.edu

CENTER ADMINISTRATION

Ishrat Khan
Professor and Director, CFNM
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6847
ikhan@cau.edu

James L. Reed
Associate Professor and
Associate Director, CFNM
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6852
jreed@cau.edu
Joyce Lockhart
Program Manager
(404) 880-6784
jlockhart@cau.edu

SENIOR INVESTIGATORS

Godwin Ananaba
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences Department
(404) 880-6803
gananaba@cau.edu
Xiu-ren Bu
Professor
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6897
xbu@cau.edu

Issifu Harruna
Associate Professor
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6883
iharruna@cau.edu
Conrad Ingram
Assistant Professor
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6898
cingram@cau.edu

Ishrat Khan
Professor and Director, CFNM
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6847
ikhan@cau.edu

Eric Mintz
Professor
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6886
emintz@cau.edu

Alfred Msezane
Professor
Physics Department
(404) 880-8663
amsezane@cau.edu
James L. Reed
Associate Professor and
Associate Director, CFNM
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6852
jreed@cau.edu

Xiao-Qian Wang
Associate Professor
Physics Department
(404) 880-8649
xwang@cau.edu
Michael D. Williams
Associate Professor
Physics Department
(404) 880-6902
mdwms@cau.edu

Myron Williams
Associate Professor
Chemistry Department
(404) 880-6856
mnwill@cau.edu

DOMESTIC PARTNERS

Cornell University
Barbara Baird
Horace White Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University
(607) 255-4095
bab13@cornell.edu
Harold Craighead
Charles W. Lake Professor
Applied Engineering Physics
Cornell University
(607) 255-8707
hgc1@cornell.edu
http://www.nbtc.cornell.edu

Emory University
Tianquan Lian
Professor
Physical Chemistry
Emory University
(404) 727-6649
tlian@emory.edu
Pat Marsteller
Director, Emory College Center for
Science Education (ECCSE)
Director, Hughes Science Initiative
Emory University
(404) 727-9696
pmars@learnlink.emory.edu
http://www.cse.emory.edu/prism/
http://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/

Gainesville State College Georgia Perimeter College
J. B. Sharma
Physics Department
Gainesville State College
(678) 717-3812
jsharma@gsc.edu
Maher Atteya
Assistant Professor
and Interim Chair
Department of Chemistry
Georgia Perimeter College
(404) 244-5066
matteya@gpc.edu

University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Virginia Institute of Technology
Mark Shannon
James W. Bayne Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(217) 244-1545
mshannon@uiuc.edu
http://www.mechse.uiuc.edu/research/shannon/

Timothy Long
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Virginia Tech
(540) 231-2480
telong@vt.edu
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

Malik Maaza
iTHEMBA Labs
Somerset West
Western Cape Province
South Africa
+27 21 8431149
maaza@tlabs.ac.za

Aboubaker Chedikh Beye
Groupe de Laboratoires de Physique des Solides et Sciences des Materiaux (GLPSSM)
Physics Department
University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar / Senegal
221 33 825 7726
acbeye@refer.sn
Ramaz Katsarava
Center for Medical Polymers Biomaterials-CRDF/RESCenter,
Technical University of Georgia
69, Kostava str., Bldg. 2
0175 Tbilisi, Georgia
Tel/Fax: +995 32 33 75 94
kats@caucasus.net

CENTER STAFF

Mohamed Abdalla
Postdoctoral
(404) 880-6806
mabdalla@cau.edu

Zineb Felfli
Research Associate
(404) 880-6970
zfelfli@cau.edu
Ivan Hawk
Laboratory Technician
(404) 880-6975
ihawk@cau.edu

Liang Liao
Research Associate
(404) 880-3166
lliao@cau.edu

REFERENCE LINKS

CAU Links:

Clark Atlanta University (CAU)

CAU Admission Office
Chemistry Department

CTSPS
Biological Sciences Department

Physics Department
HBCU-UP Program

MBRS SCORE/RISE Programs
The Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD)

Student Forms
External Links:

NSF (National Science Foundation) CREST-CFNM (Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials)

Cornell/NBTC

Emory University
Georgia Perimeter College University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


This is a National Science Foundation (NSF)/Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)/
Center for Functional Nanoscale Materials (CFNM) supported grant (GRANT #HRD-0630456).