Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
Current
Teaching experience: • Instructed (1) Project Managemenet and Teamwork Lab and (2) Chemical Reaction Engineering, evaluating 100+ students' experimental performance and lab reports, giving lectures.Individual work: • Developed a mild, cost-effective, energy-efficient process that mechanochemically degrades polystyrene and produces value-added products.• Designed and synthesized mechanophore containing polymer and studied the mechanochemical reactivity. Collaborative work: • Synthesized conjugated oligomer as additive for high-performance perovskite solar cells. • Synthesized different crosslinked polymeric materials to study rupture and fracture mechanics.• Synthesized water soluble polymer/injectable hydrogel for biocompatible sonication. Lab responsibility: • In charge of managing and maintaining $10k+ worth of laboratory instruments and procurement of chemicals.• Mentored one undergraduate student, and two REU students (Research Experience for Undergraduates) one graduate student.