Funded Researchers
Svetlana Boriskina, PhD, conducts multi-disciplinary research that blends photonics, opto-electronics, polymer physics, thermodynamics, and mechanics. Her Multifunctional Metamaterials (META) Research Lab develops new materials and technologies to harvest and manipulate light, heat, and acoustic waves. The lab makes smart stain-resistant fabrics that provide thermal comfort indoors and outdoors, new meta-materials that bend light in unusual ways and exhibit tunable color without any dyes or pigments, polymer-based solid-state cooling technologies to replace conventional HVACs, and optothermo-mechanical technologies to provide clean energy and fresh water to off-electrical-grid and disaster-stricken communities. Boriskina authored over 130 peer-reviewed papers, taught several award-winning courses, and received multiple patents.