• subject matter expert on batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, grid-scale energy storage, lithium-ion battery supply chain and associated mineral resources, and synthetic biology for energy applications• developed intellectual property based on multifunctional battery/supercapacitor components and cells• experimental research on structural energy storage devices and textile batteries• technical management of internal R&D projects• materials characterization: XRD, XRF spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy• mentored three undergraduate student interns in experimental research, laboratory safety, literature review, and presentation skills

• project and budget management for two internally funded research projects and one project funded by the Department of Energy’s Energy Storage Systems program• subject matter expert on grid-scale batteries and nanomaterials for batteries• responsible for daily operations in an electrochemical testing/analysis laboratory• single-cell fabrication and electrochemical testing/cycling of lithium batteries, aluminum batteries, sodium batteries, thermally activated batteries, and flow batteries• dry-room fabrication of electrode coatings and tapes for lab-scale battery cell testing• in situ analysis of electropolymerization/electrodeposition using electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM)• developed characterization methods for electrolyte/separator combinations and ionomer membranes for non-aqueous flow batteries• research on the electrochemistry of chloroaluminate ionic liquids for aluminum batteries• measurement of thermodynamic quantities for lithium-ion batteries and flow batteries• LabVIEW programming for laboratory testing and data acquisition

research in nanomaterials for energy storageCenter for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT)

Energy Storage Research GroupDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering

research in electrochemistry and fuel cellsDepartment of Chemical Engineering

fuel cell research in Energy Technologies group