Principal Investigator

Cafer T. Yavuz

Professor of Chemical Science Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering

Research Interests: CO2 capture and conversion, Water treatment, Nanocatalysis, Methane storage, Water capture and splitting, Porous polymers, Nanometals and oxides

Research Scientist

Thien S. Nguyen

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Porous Organic materials synthesis and characterization, Gas Capture, CO2 conversion, Organic Synthesis

Javeed Mahmood

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Covalent Organic Frameworks, Hydrogen evolution reactions, Oxygen evolution reactions, Electrochemical Water splitting, Porous polymers

Postdoctoral Fellows

Pravin Tukaram Babar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: electrocatalysis, carbon nanomaterials, energy conversion and storage

Sujan Mondal

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: Nanoporous materials, Gas storage, CO2 capture and conversion, environmental remediation, Heterogenous Catalysis

Muhammad B. Asif

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Water treatment, environmental remediation, membrane technology, Nanocatalysis, Heterogenous Catalysis

Kairui Liu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, DFT, Hydrogenation, Single atom catalyst, Hydrosilylation, Oxidation

Mohitosh Bhadra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Porous Crystalline Polymers, Covalent Organic Frameworks, Heterogenous Catalysis, Metal Nanoparticles

Raghu Vamsy Maligal Ganesh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogenous Catalysis, Intermetallic Nanoparticles

Zhonghua Xue

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: Inorganic material, catalysis

Seokjin Kim

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Networks Polymer, Functionalized carbon materials, Catalyst, Hydrogen energy

Administrative Staff

Chengcheng Xu

Lab Startup Operations and Professional

Research Support

Thi Phuong Nga Nguyen

Laboratory Equipment Coordinator

Hange Zhang

Research Assistant

PhD Students

Eziz Naryyev

PhD student

Research Interests: Water treatment, Organic Synthesis, Catalyst, Porous Materials

Yuxuan Shang

MS/Ph.D. Student

Mona Almaghrabi

PhD Student

Glenda G. Teran Cuadrado

MS/PhD Student

Research Interests: Clean Fuels, catalysis, Hydrogen Economy, Chemical Kinetics