General Information

James Evans has taught metallurgy and conducted research on materials production at Berkeley since 1972, serving as department chairman from 1986-1990. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

This group’s main research now revolves around printable energy storage materials and wireless instrumentation of industrial environments and public infrastructure.

In the past we have covered such topics as:

  • Production of materials (particularly aluminum, copper and titanium)
  • Solidification dynamics and fluid flow
  • Reaction kinetics
  • Mass transport
  • Electrochemical processing of materials
  • Electromagnetic processing of materials
  • Fabrication of novel electrochemical energy cells
  • Implementation of wireless sensor technology within industrial environments