Meet The Team

B.S. Shanghai Jiao Tong University/ BSE in Materials Science & Engineering

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2022 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Grad Student Instructor

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Research Interest: Developing novel semiconductor nanocomposites via cation exchange strategy, and modifying their structures as well as optical & electrical properties. Energy storage materials. 2D materials synthesized by exfoliation. 

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Hobbies: hiking, fishing, planting, outdoor sports.

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston.

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Research Interests: Designing materials for renewable energy using earth-abundant elements, predicting material properties and synthesizability, materials upcycling

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Favorite Things to Do: Powerlifting, reading, volunteering

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Favorite Things to Do in Lab: Putting crystals to sleep in the furnace!

B.S. Sichuan University, Physics 

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Research interests:

In situ-formed inclusion phases within the Cu2Se matrix and the various transport properties of these two phases compounds. 

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Favorite thing to do in lab: mastering all equipments in our lab,Van Vlack, MC2 !

Heather secured a summer internship at Argonne National Labs!

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Research interests: Batteries, energy storage, solar cell efficiency.

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Favorite thing to do in the lab: Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) on newly grown crystals! 

Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering Department

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Research Interests: Materials Processing, Molecular Biology

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Favorite things to do in lab: making a full series of compounds in the time others take to make merely one! 

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B.S. + M.S.  Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. Michigan

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Favorite thing to do in lab: making the cleanest phase of metastable compounds!

B.S. + M.S.  Materials Science & Engineering, Univ. Michigan

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Favorite thing to do in lab: using laser flash to measure thermal conductivities for all different samples!