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Duluth, Ga, Us

Riverside, Ca, Us

California, United States

• Manage and lead four unique projects concurrently, contributing to the procurement of $500k+ in total of two grants.• Design innovative silicon and organic compounds to identify and develop fundamental concepts of quantum effects, applying insights to build proof of concept for compact and powerful nanoscale electronics. • Execute and troubleshoot synthetic methods to discover new materials for electronic applications, ranging from small molecules to polymers, resulting in successful syntheses of 10+ organosilicon materials.• Operate Linux Bash, Python and computational chemical analysis tools such as Gaussian and Igor to compute and predict chemical properties including orbital delocalization and molecular transmission, validating experimental results.Projects: • Design and synthesize polysilanes with extended π-stacking to make highly efficient and robust charge transport materials.• Synthesize and characterize rhodamines as novel single molecular switches for electronic miniaturization and quantum transport studies.• Apply σ-destructive quantum interference in silicon chains to make cis-trans switchable molecular wires with high ON/OFF ratio.• Synthesize oligostaffanes as conformational rigid wire models to study molecular conductance difference between flexible and rigid carbon wires.

Queens, Ny

Advisor: Dr. Carlos Chavez• Applied electrochemistry in glycosylation synthesis to build novel sugars that are applicable for receptor-targeted drug delivery systems.

United States

• Guided students one-on-one and hosted review sessions in large groups of 50+ students to help facilitate the understanding and applying of general and organic chemistry theories.

Queens, Ny

• Built a model to treat lead in water using inexpensive and non-toxic materials, removing 90% of lead in the contaminated water sample.

Queens, Ny

Advisor: Dr. Enju Wang• Conducted experiments to analyze binding activities of metal compounds to various substances and to develop a chemical sensor for biological systems, environmental situations and chemical processes. • Utilized UV-vis absorbance and emission spectrophotometry to assess the reactivity of coordination compounds.• Analyzed UV-Vis properties by transforming data from Excel into visual absorbance and emission graphs.

Japan

• Assisted in a research project concentrating on optimizing perovskite solar cells to exceed the energy conversion limitations of contemporary state-of-the-art solar cells.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry, 3.97

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd