Field: Ph.D. Student in MSE Joined Group: Fall 2008 Research Interests: Nanomanufacturing of 2D Crystals, Low Temperature E-field Induced Kinetic Demixing, Energy Applications of 2D Layered OxidesColloidal synthesis of nanoparticles specifically for sustainable energy applications. Home Town: Denizli, Turkey Prior degree: B.S. Sabanci University Favorite Ceramic: NaxCoO2
Denzel Bridges
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E Joined Group: Summer 2011 Research interests: Nanomaterials and lithium ion battery support materials. Prior position: None Hometown: Riverside, California Favorite Chemical: Liquid Nitrogen
Andrew Calwell
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E Joined Group: Fall 2011 Research interests: Nanoparticle synthesis techniques, nanoparticle films for Li-ion battery electrodes. Prior position: None Hometown: University Place, WA Favorite Bravais Lattice: simple orthorhombic
Cindy Chen
Joined group: Spring 2016 Project: Investigating Polaron Transport in Ternary Spinels Favorite Characterization Technique: Dielectric Spectroscopy
Prior Degree: B.S. in Chemistry, B.A. in Philosophy Johns Hopkins University Joined Group: Fall 2013 Research: Novel nanocrystal materials for energy applications, alternative electrode deposition techniques, large-scale quantum dot synthesis, business start-ups based on university IPs. Hometown: Monroe, CT Favorite Reaction Set-up: Schlenk Line Favorite number: Avagadro’s
Xiaoyue Ding
Prior Degree: B.S. Physics, Tsinghua University, China Joined Group: Summer 2014 Research interests: Synthesis of nanomaterials and fabrication of devices for energy applications. Hometown: Tianjin, China Favorite Element: Molybdenum
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Dallas, 2012, Inorganic Chemistry Research: Synthesis of nanomaterials and nanocomposites for energy applications, Design synthesis protocols for making colloidal nanomaterials from lab scale to large scale, Preparation of high power, high-energy density electrode materials for supercapacitors, Photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation. Joined Group: Fall 2013 Hometown: Kandy, Sri Lanka Favorite Device: An ultimate supercapacitor that can replace Li ion battery
Ph.D.: Binghamton University, Chemistry Joined Group: Summer 2013 Research: Chemical Transformations of Nanomaterials for Fuel Cell Catalysis, Battery Materials, Supercapacitors Hometown: Watertown, NY Favorite Element: Platinum Characterization Technique: STM/AFM
Diana Gooding
Field: Math and Physics at Transylvania University (KY) Joined Group: Summer 2012 Research interests: Nanomaterials and lithium ion battery support materials. Prior position: Whitesides Research Group, Harvard University Hometown: Frankfort, Kentucky Favorite Quark: charm
Joined Group: Fall 2009 Research Interests: high-precision mechanical measurement; phonon transport in nanostructured materials; nanofabrication of MEMS/NEMS mechanical resonators; superconducting circuits; Josephson-junction devices Home Town: Somewhere in New Jersey Professional Background
-B.A. in physics from Amherst College in 1998
-Research engineer at United Technologies Research Center
-PhD in physics from University of Maryland in 2009 Favorite Science Hobby: Phonon Spectrometry to quantitatively characterize low-dimensional heat transfer link to Jared's CV
Field: Ph.D student MSE Joined Group: Summer 2009 Research interests: Synthesis and chemical transformation of nanoparticles, nanoparticles films for Li-ion battery and other energy applications. Prior position: M.S. University of Pennsylvania, B.S. Korea University Hometown: Seoul, Korea Favorite Ion: Li+
Krista Hirsch
Joined Group: Fall 2018 Research: optical characterization of the CdS magic-sized clusters for device and energy applications.
Favorite characterization technique: NMR
Shantanu Kallakuri
Project: the development of multi-scale hierarchical structures starting from a nanocluster mesophase. The goal is to build large scale structures (6 orders of magnitude) with custom attributes starting from individual chemical precursors & subsequently synthesized nanoparticles by engineering the properties of the nanoparticle seeds.
Prior Degree: Integrated B.E. in Chemical engineering with an M.Sc. in Chemistry
Joined group: August, 2018
Research key words: mesophase, multiscale, nanocluster, quantum dots, magic-sized clusters, nanoparticle
Hometown: Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India
Favorite characterization technique: optical diffraction
Ha Kim
Field: B.S. Candidate in Materials Science or Electrical Engineering Joined Group: Winter 2010 Research interests: Thermoelectric metal oxides, Solar Cell Semiconductor Nanomaterials Prior position: None Hometown: Connecticut Favorite 2-D Fractal Shape: Mandelbrot Set
Ariadna Lubinus
Major: B.S in Material Science (expected 2021) Joined group: Fall 2018 Research: Synthesis of novel nanoparticles and investigating their optical and electrochemical properties for energy applications Hometown: Frisco, Texas Favorite characterization technique: Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis)
Field: B.S. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering Joined Group: Fall 2012 Research: Electrophoretic deposition, nanoparticle films for energy applications. Hometown: Rochester, NY Favorite Constant: Boltzmann's constant
Field: B.S. Candidate in MS&E Joined Group: Spring 2012 Research interests: Thermoelectric metal oxides, nanoscale structural studies using XAS Prior position: None Hometown: Highland Park, NJ Favorite Series: Fibonacci
Field: B.S. Candidate in MS&E Joined Group: Winter 2009 Research interests: Nanoparticle transformation, nanoscale structural studies using XAS, galvanic exchange Prior position: None Hometown: Elmhurst, IL Favorite Color: Cobalt Nitrate Favorite surfactant: anything that is not PVP
Prior Degree: B.S. in MSE, 2013, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joined Group: Fall 2013
Research: Synthesis of novel nanoscale materials for energy and catalytic applications and understanding their mechanisms.
Hometown: Aurora, Illinois
Favorite Solvent: o-dichlorobenzene
Christian Ocier
Field: M.S. Student in MS&E Joined Group: Fall 2011 Research interests: Colloidal Synthesis of Nanoparticles. Prior position: Tsinghua University Hometown: Manila, Philippines Favorite Characterization Tool: UV-vis
Field: Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering Joined Group: 2008 Research interests: Micro-Nanofabrication of Phonon Transport Devices. Prior position: B.S. Howard University Hometown: Nigeria Favorite Cleanroom technique: E-beam Lithography
Maia Saito
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E, Rutgers
Joined Group: Summer 2011
Research interests: Colloidal Synthesis of Nanoparticles, Electrophoretic Deposition and Battery Making.
Prior position: East Brunswick High School
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
Favorite Energy Form: Electrochemical Energy
Victoria Savikhin
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E, Purdue
Joined Group: Summer 2011
Research interests: AFM Studies of Nanofabricated Devices.
Prior Degree: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology Joined Group: Fall 2013 Research: Scalable manufacturing of ultra-high purity nanomaterials via high concentration for device implementation and enhanced colloidal characterization. Hometown: Alexandria Bay, New York Favorite Technique: Vacuum Distillation
Joined Group: Summer 2009 Research Interests: Colloidal synthesis of nanoparticles specifically for sustainable energy applications. Home Town: China Professional Background
-B.S. in Polymer Materials & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2000
-M.S. in Polymer Chemistry & Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2003
-Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, University at Albany-SUNY, 2010
Maria Ibáñez i Sabaté
Field: PhD candidate, Physics (University of Barcelona) Joined Group: Summer 2012 Research interests: Synthesis of nanoparticles for energy applications Professional Background: B.S., Physics Hometown: Catalonia Favorite Energy Applications: solar and thermoelectrics
Alumni
Mahmut Aksit
Field: Ph.D. Student in MSE
Joined Group: Fall 2008
Research Interests: Nanomanufacturing of 2D Crystals, Low Temperature E-field Induced Kinetic Demixing, Energy Applications of 2D Layered OxidesColloidal synthesis of nanoparticles specifically for sustainable energy applications.
Home Town: Denizli, Turkey
Prior degree: B.S. Sabanci University
Favorite Ceramic: NaxCoO2
Denzel Bridges
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E
Joined Group: Summer 2011
Research interests: Nanomaterials and lithium ion battery support materials.
Prior position: None
Hometown: Riverside, California
Favorite Chemical: Liquid Nitrogen
Andrew Calwell
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E
Joined Group: Fall 2011
Research interests: Nanoparticle synthesis techniques, nanoparticle films for Li-ion battery electrodes.
Prior position: None
Hometown: University Place, WA
Favorite Bravais Lattice: simple orthorhombic
Cindy Chen
Joined group: Spring 2016Project: Investigating Polaron Transport in Ternary Spinels
Favorite Characterization Technique: Dielectric Spectroscopy
Joseph Caron
Prior Degree: B.S. in Chemistry, B.A. in Philosophy Johns Hopkins University
Joined Group: Fall 2013
Research: Novel nanocrystal materials for energy applications, alternative electrode deposition techniques, large-scale quantum dot synthesis, business start-ups based on university IPs.
Hometown: Monroe, CT
Favorite Reaction Set-up: Schlenk Line
Favorite number: Avagadro’s
Xiaoyue Ding
Prior Degree: B.S. Physics, Tsinghua University, China
Joined Group: Summer 2014
Research interests: Synthesis of nanomaterials and fabrication of devices for energy applications.
Hometown: Tianjin, China
Favorite Element: Molybdenum
Sanjaya Dulip Perera
Ph.D.: University of Texas at Dallas, 2012, Inorganic Chemistry
Research: Synthesis of nanomaterials and nanocomposites for energy applications, Design synthesis protocols for making colloidal nanomaterials from lab scale to large scale, Preparation of high power, high-energy density electrode materials for supercapacitors, Photocatalytic materials for environmental remediation.
Joined Group: Fall 2013
Hometown: Kandy, Sri Lanka
Favorite Device: An ultimate supercapacitor that can replace Li ion battery
Matthew Fayette
Ph.D.: Binghamton University, Chemistry
Joined Group: Summer 2013
Research: Chemical Transformations of Nanomaterials for Fuel Cell Catalysis, Battery Materials, Supercapacitors
Hometown: Watertown, NY
Favorite Element: Platinum
Characterization Technique: STM/AFM
Diana Gooding
Field: Math and Physics at Transylvania University (KY)
Joined Group: Summer 2012
Research interests: Nanomaterials and lithium ion battery support materials.
Prior position: Whitesides Research Group, Harvard University
Hometown: Frankfort, Kentucky
Favorite Quark: charm
Jared Hertzberg
Joined Group: Fall 2009
Research Interests: high-precision mechanical measurement; phonon transport in nanostructured materials; nanofabrication of MEMS/NEMS mechanical resonators; superconducting circuits; Josephson-junction devices
Home Town: Somewhere in New Jersey
Professional Background
-B.A. in physics from Amherst College in 1998
-Research engineer at United Technologies Research Center
-PhD in physics from University of Maryland in 2009
Favorite Science Hobby: Phonon Spectrometry to quantitatively characterize low-dimensional heat transfer
link to Jared's CV
Don-Hyung Ha
Field: Ph.D student MSE
Joined Group: Summer 2009
Research interests: Synthesis and chemical transformation of nanoparticles, nanoparticles films for Li-ion battery and other energy applications.
Prior position: M.S. University of Pennsylvania, B.S. Korea University
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Favorite Ion: Li+
Krista Hirsch
Joined Group: Fall 2018
Research: optical characterization of the CdS magic-sized clusters for device and energy applications. Favorite characterization technique: NMR
Shantanu Kallakuri
Project: the development of multi-scale hierarchical structures starting from a nanocluster mesophase. The goal is to build large scale structures (6 orders of magnitude) with custom attributes starting from individual chemical precursors & subsequently synthesized nanoparticles by engineering the properties of the nanoparticle seeds. Prior Degree: Integrated B.E. in Chemical engineering with an M.Sc. in Chemistry Joined group: August, 2018 Research key words: mesophase, multiscale, nanocluster, quantum dots, magic-sized clusters, nanoparticle Hometown: Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India Favorite characterization technique: optical diffractionHa Kim
Field: B.S. Candidate in Materials Science or Electrical Engineering
Joined Group: Winter 2010
Research interests: Thermoelectric metal oxides, Solar Cell Semiconductor Nanomaterials
Prior position: None
Hometown: Connecticut
Favorite 2-D Fractal Shape: Mandelbrot Set
Ariadna Lubinus
Major: B.S in Material Science (expected 2021)Joined group: Fall 2018
Research: Synthesis of novel nanoparticles and investigating their optical and electrochemical properties for energy applications
Hometown: Frisco, Texas
Favorite characterization technique: Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis)
Tiffany Ly
Field: B.S. Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering
Joined Group: Fall 2012
Research: Electrophoretic deposition, nanoparticle films for energy applications.
Hometown: Rochester, NY
Favorite Constant: Boltzmann's constant
Alexander Montelione
Field: B.S. Candidate in MS&E
Joined Group: Spring 2012
Research interests: Thermoelectric metal oxides, nanoscale structural studies using XAS
Prior position: None
Hometown: Highland Park, NJ
Favorite Series: Fibonacci
Liane Moreau
Field: B.S. Candidate in MS&E
Joined Group: Winter 2009
Research interests: Nanoparticle transformation, nanoscale structural studies using XAS, galvanic exchange
Prior position: None
Hometown: Elmhurst, IL
Favorite Color: Cobalt Nitrate
Favorite surfactant: anything that is not PVP
Andrew Nelson
Prior Degree: B.S. in MSE, 2013, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joined Group: Fall 2013 Research: Synthesis of novel nanoscale materials for energy and catalytic applications and understanding their mechanisms. Hometown: Aurora, Illinois Favorite Solvent: o-dichlorobenzeneChristian Ocier
Field: M.S. Student in MS&E
Joined Group: Fall 2011
Research interests: Colloidal Synthesis of Nanoparticles.
Prior position: Tsinghua University
Hometown: Manila, Philippines
Favorite Characterization Tool: UV-vis
Obafemi Otelaja
Field: Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering
Joined Group: 2008
Research interests: Micro-Nanofabrication of Phonon Transport Devices.
Prior position: B.S. Howard University
Hometown: Nigeria
Favorite Cleanroom technique: E-beam Lithography
Maia Saito
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E, Rutgers
Joined Group: Summer 2011
Research interests: Colloidal Synthesis of Nanoparticles, Electrophoretic Deposition and Battery Making.
Prior position: East Brunswick High School
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
Favorite Energy Form: Electrochemical Energy
Victoria Savikhin
Field: B.S. Student in MS&E, Purdue
Joined Group: Summer 2011
Research interests: AFM Studies of Nanofabricated Devices.
Prior position: High School
Hometown: Unclear
Favorite Microscopy: AFM
Curtis Williamson
Prior Degree: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology
Joined Group: Fall 2013
Research: Scalable manufacturing of ultra-high purity nanomaterials via high concentration for device implementation and enhanced colloidal characterization.
Hometown: Alexandria Bay, New York
Favorite Technique: Vacuum Distillation
Haitao Zhang
Joined Group: Summer 2009
Research Interests: Colloidal synthesis of nanoparticles specifically for sustainable energy applications.
Home Town: China
Professional Background
-B.S. in Polymer Materials & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2000
-M.S. in Polymer Chemistry & Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2003
-Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, University at Albany-SUNY, 2010
Maria Ibáñez i Sabaté
Field: PhD candidate, Physics (University of Barcelona)
Joined Group: Summer 2012
Research interests: Synthesis of nanoparticles for energy applications
Professional Background: B.S., Physics
Hometown: Catalonia
Favorite Energy Applications: solar and thermoelectrics
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