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Solar FuelsInvestigation of high-temperature thermochemical and low-temperature photoelectrochemical pathways for solar energy driven water and carbon dioxide splitting to produce hydrogen and syngas
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Thermal Energy StorageFundamental understanding and evaluation of heat transfer performance of materials for thermal energy storage applications. We are specifically seeking to understand radiative transport for thermal energy storage applications and also thermochemical energy storage by exploiting energy changes in chemical reactions
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Wastewater Resource RecoveryExploration of photoelectrochemical approaches for wastewater nutrient and energy recovery. Specifically investigating the viability of solar-driven tertiary pathways for nitrogen-recovery from wastewater sources
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Additive manufacturing of metals and metal alloys can profoundly alter the production and time-to-market of various components and products. We are especially interested in the evaluation of the multimode heat-transfer processes involved in this process and how additively manufactured metals and metal alloys behave in supercritical carbon dioxide environments at high-temperatures (1100 C).
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LUISA BARRERA |
MIKE MAYER |
Mechanical Engineering, Doctoral Candidate |
Mechanical Engineering, Doctoral Candidate |
Luisa obtained her Bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. She is currently working on photoelectrochemical approaches for water splitting and wastewater treatment applications.
BINGJIA LIMechanical Engineering, Doctoral CandidateBingjia earned his Bachelor's degree in Building Environment & Energy Application Engineering from China University of Mining and Technology (2018). Currently he is working on modeling radiative heat transfer for particulate media.
BRYAN KINZER
Mechanical Engineering, Doctoral Candidate
Bryan earned his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in 2017 and then headed off to Lesotho for a year helping electrify rural villages. He is currently working on modeling high temperature alloys for next generation power plants and working on modeling and measurements for thermochemical energy storage
ADITYA SUNDAR
Materials Science & Eng., Doctoral Candidate
Aditya earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) in India and Cornell University respectively. He is working on modeling the thermodynamics and kinetics of corrosion for high-temperature materials and is co-advised by Prof. Liang Qi in the Materials Science & Eng. department.
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Mike received his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory for one year before coming to Michigan to begin his PhD. He is working on experimental techniques to study high temperature radiative heat transfer in systems with flowing particles
ZIJIE CHENMechanical Engineering, Doctoral CandidateZijie obtained her Bachelor's degree in Building Environment & Energy Application Engineering from Shandong Jianzhu University in 2018. She is currently working on developing physics-based and data-driven models for radiative transport in participating media.
RACHEL SILCOXMechanical Engineering, Doctoral Pre-CandidateRachel earned her Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Valparaiso University in 2019. She worked one year at a green hydrogen start-up company and as a statistics/environmental science teaching assistant at Pannasastra University of Cambodia - Siem Reap. She is currently a PhD student working on electrochemical methods for carbon dioxide concentration.
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Rohini Bala Chandran
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