Gogotsi is the director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and leads research in the Nanomaterials Research Group in the College of Engineering. He is a foremost expert on carbon-based nanomaterials and is pioneering the use of new materials for energy storage.

Knight has an extensive background in materials science with a focus on thermal plasma processes, plasma melting, high-velocity oxy-fuel flame spray process, thermal spray deposition and materials diagnostics.

Li is a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and director of Drexel's Soft Materials Lab. His lab's research focuses on materials whose properties fall between solid crystals and fluids, such as polymers, gels, colloids, foams and liquid crystals. Li's group is able to engineer these soft materials for use in biomedical applications like drug treatment delivery, as well as for energy storage.