On this page, you’ll find brief descriptions of my publications, the people who worked on them, and a discussion of the science. For a list format, I suggest going to my Google Scholar. This is more in-depth, and written at a level intended for graduate students and above in chemical engineering.
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A nanoporous polymer network for highly selective heterogeneous catalytic oxidation of alcohols
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…
A Fast Potassium Ion Conductor from Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
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…
Anion Transport in Self-Assembled Nanoporous Membranes: Hydration vs. Morphology.
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…