Faculty - Materials Science & Engineering

Mei Wei - Research Group
Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering

University of Connecticut

Tel: 1-860-486-9253

Email: m.wei@ims.uconn.edu

Biomaterial Laboratory:

• Material processing lab
• Cell culture lab

Research Group:

• Fei Peng (Ph.D. candidate)
• Xiaohua Yu (Ph.D. candidate)
• Lyndon Charles (M.S. candidate)
• Erica Kramer (undergraduate)
• Katherine Etter (undergraduate)
• Timothy Morin (undergraduate)
• Patric Keating (undergraduate)
• Gregory Whitehouse (undergraduate)

Teaching:

• Phase transformation, kinetics & applications (MMAT 265)
• Corrosion and materials protection (MMAT 234)
• Biomaterials (BME 271)
• Advanced biomaterials (BME 272)
• MS&E Departmental seminars (MMAT 401)

Research Interests

Dr. Wei's main teaching and research interests lie in biomaterials and related areas. Areas of particular interest include:

• Synthesis and characterization of hydroxyapatite and ion substituted apatites
• Biomimetic apatite coatings
• Preparation and characterization of scaffold materials for tissue engineering applications
• Preparation of ceramic/polymer composites for bone repair
• Surface modification
• Mechanisms of apatite nucleation and growth on biomaterials
• Interactions between cell and different biomaterials
• Modeling of cell behavior on biomaterial surfaces
• Protein delivery and release kinetics
• Stem cell research
• In vivo animal tests