Category: Scientific Publications
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I am excited to share that a work that was officially published in Nature Communications. If you want to read it, give it a look at this link. In this study, my colleagues Ranadeb Ball, Lizhu Zhang and I probed how ions move in sub-nm hydrated spaces. It was a really fun work that showed…
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Nanoporous polymer networks can help advance the next generation of catalytic technologies. In a paper authored by Dr. Keira Culley, in which I assisted with X-ray scattering experiments, we see the realm of possibilities offered by highly ordered lyotropic networks. Cubic networks made of lyotropic materials, as evidenced by previous work, can exhibit size-discrimination. If…
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The next generation of batteries and energy generation devices require both precise, size-controlled engineering and renewable materials sources. My good colleague Dr. Ruiqi Dong and I aimed to accomplish both of these goals in a study published in ACS Materials Letters. The article, linked here, showed that we can rapidly conduct potassium through a polymer…
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The Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania gave me the opportunity to meet some of the most talented scientists I have had the pleasure of working with. Myself, Dr. Ranadeb Ball, and Lizhu Zhang explored the fundamentals of ion transport in nanopores, using the lyotropic mesophase system that had…
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The Osuji group (where I did my Ph.D.) had a very strong and fruitful relationship with the former Gin group of the University of Colorado-Boulder. One collaboration that was particularly fun was a mechanical analysis study performed with Dr. Lauren Bodkin. The paper, entitled “Effect of localized control of cross-link density on mechanical properties of…
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During the early days of my Ph.D., I worked in tandem with Dr. Keira Culley at the University of Colorado-Boulder, as part of her thesis work in the Gin group. She was interested in creating complex polymer structures that could aid in catalysis. I was quite skilled in identifying the order those polymer structures contained,…
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The following is the abstract of work published in Advanced Materials Interfaces, which I performed as a co-first author with Dr. Patrick Li. This was my first scientific paper, and I had a lot of fun during it. We made films that were resilient to acid, and were the first example to our knowledge of…