Jacob Cox Email & Phone Number

Port Arthur, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Providing metallurgical, welding, and polymer materials selection expertise to oil and gas construction projects• Responsible for reviewing and accepting welding procedures for Bechtel's projects worldwide• Authoring, reviewing, and approving project and corporate specifications• Responsible for developing anti-corrosion technologies in coatings and material properties

• Providing spectroscopy and microscopy services, experimentation, data collection, and analysis to mission objectives• Modernization of laboratory and production equipment for improved efficiency and cost• Conceived, planned, and launched plant directed research and development projects between the company and academic institutions• Developing new technologies relevant to the nuclear security enterprise

• Developed technologies and chemistries to modulate surface wetting and mechanical properties of membrane materials for hydrocarbon and water separation• Fabricated two-dimensional materials for applications in separation processes such as azeotrope breaking, water desalination, and oil-water emulsion separation• Lead laboratory cleaning teams, trained new lab members on laboratory safety and OSHA regulations, and maintained laboratory equipment• Classes taught: Intermolecular and Surface Forces, Mechanical Engineering course 2.57

• Created graphene nanoribbon polyamide nanofibers by polymer electrospinning• Developed CNT-hydrogel device for the uptake and release of drug molecules by electric fields• Layer by Layer (LbL) assembly of graphene polymer nanocomposite thin films and evaluation of mechanical, electrical, and gas barrier properties• Led a multi-disciplinary team between Rice and Lamar University to measure wetting properties and lateral adhesion forces of liquid drops on single and few layer graphene layers• Team member between Rice University and MD Anderson Cancer Center investigating fluorine doped graphene quantum dots for possible use for drug delivery and bio-sensing devices• Classes taught: Nanoscale Energy Transport and Conversion, MSNE 412• Interned at NASA Glenn Research Center for testing viscoelastic properties of graphene ribbon polymernanocomposite thin films using Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA) for barrier applications

• Collaborated in a team of chemists and physicists to map the electro-optical properties of individualnanoparticles• Investigated low temperature photoluminescence of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) at bycontinuous wave frequency double Nd:YAG laser and uncovered numerous subspecies within singlechirality specimens• Built an experimental platform to measure CdSe nanocrystal ultra-fast carrier relaxation times that werenot obscured by ensemble averaging unlike other test designs

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Science

B.S., Materials Engineering