Fellowship Projects
The following graduate research was supported by Materials Science and Engineering fellowships.
2023-2024
Project: Photoswitchable ionic liquids: Light mediated directional solvent extraction
Student: Greg Durling, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Brandon Ashfeld, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Tengfei Luo, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Controlling oxidation during nanomaterial synthesis using plasma electrolysis
Student: Chiedozie Ogueri, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: David Go, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentor: David Bartels, Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory
Project: Isolation of catalytically relevant sites in 2D extended solids through atom-transfer/exchange reactions
Student: Joshua Morales Campos, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Professor Adam Jaffe, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Jason Hicks, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: Nanoscale characterization and control of strain and defects in two-dimensional materials for optimized quantum emitters
Student: Yucheng Yang, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Matthew Rosenberger, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Anthony Hoffman, Department of Electrical Engineering
2022-2023
Project: Three-dimensional chalcogenide materials for next-generation electronic devices
Student: Sara Bey, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Advisor: Badih Assaf, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Christopher Hinkle, Department of Electrical Engineering
Project: A.I. for predictive modeling of therapeutically useful biomimetic nanostructure followed by scalable synthesis of predicted nanostructure using modular assembly approach
Student: Johanna Olesk, Bioengineering Graduate Program
Advisor: Nosang Myung, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentors:
Prakash Nallathamby, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jian-Xun Wang, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Molecular spatial control over one-dimensional chalcogen polymers
Student: Muhammad Sohail, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Emily Tsui, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Jennifer Schaefer, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2021-2022
Project: Rational design of catalytic polymeric membranes for treating nitrate in drinking water
Student: Angela Abarca-Perez, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Advisor: Kyle Doudrick, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Interdisciplinary Mentor: William Phillip, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Project: High-throughput combinatorial printing for materials integration and scalable manufacturing of perovskite solar cells
Student: Yang Ding, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Masaru Kuno, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary Mentors:
Prashant Kamat, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Yanliang Zhang, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Project: Tunable ionic organic networks fabricated by molecular layer-by-layer
Student: Jizhou Jiang, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Advisor: Jennifer Schaefer, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Bryan Paulsen, Northwestern University
Project: Photoactive surfaces reliant on nanostructure asymmetry, chirality, and plasmonic hot spots
Student: Walker Tuff, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Svetlana Neretina, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Jon Camden, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Project: Materials informatics of liquidous materials for water desalination applications
Student: Hanfeng Zhang, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Advisor: Tengfei Luo, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentors:
Brandon Ashfeld, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Ed Maginn, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2020-2021
Project: Dispersing perovskite quantum dots in water: Enhancing stability by encapsulation in nanoparticles
Student: Xiuyu Jin, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Advisor: Haifeng Gao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Na Wei, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Project: Methacrylate modified nanoparticles for imaging photopolymerized hydrogels and scaffolds
Student: Lan Li, Bioengineering Graduate Program
Advisor: Ryan Roeder, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interdisciplinary Mentor: Vahid Serpooshan, Georgia Institute of Technology