Research Interests
Electronic materials and the associated devices/instruments improved by these materials, especially electrode applications in miniature mass spectrometry, energy conversion and storage and liquid waste disinfection for developing regions. Electrochemical measurements and applications of thin films, including carbon nanotubes, graphene and atomic layer deposited oxides are of particular interest
Selected Grants
Virtual-Slit Cycloidal Mass Spectrometry
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Savannah River National Laboratory · 2022 - 2025Underwater coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer (UW-CAMMS)
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Field Testing in Coimbatore
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · 2019 - 2025Virtual-Slit Cycloidal Mass Spectrometer for portable rapid ultra-trace isotope ratio analysis of actinides
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2022 - 2025Eager: Quantum Manufacturing: Demonstration of a New Scalable Process for NV Center Formation in Diamond
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2024Virtual-Slit Cycloidal Mass Spectrometry
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Savannah River National Laboratory · 2022 - 2025Underwater coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer (UW-CAMMS)
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025Field Testing in Coimbatore
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · 2019 - 2025Virtual-Slit Cycloidal Mass Spectrometer for portable rapid ultra-trace isotope ratio analysis of actinides
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2022 - 2025Eager: Quantum Manufacturing: Demonstration of a New Scalable Process for NV Center Formation in Diamond
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2024Neural Electrodes with Enhanced Charge Injection and Reduced Interfacial Impedance Using Graphenated Carbon Nanotubes Coated With Atomic Layer-Deposited Platinum Nanoparticles
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2024A high-resolution, large mass range cycloidal sector coded aperture miniature mass spectrometer for planetary exploration
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2019 - 2023PFI:BIC - A Smart, Flexible, Large-Scale Sensing and Response Service System (LASSaRESS) for Monitoring and Management of Ground, Air and Waterborne Contaminants
ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2022REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022Graphenated Carbon Nanotube Based MEMS Supercapacitors
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Faraday Technology Corporation · 2021 - 2022Portable Single Particle Analysis Machine (Portable-SPAM)
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity · 2019 - 2021Development of Novel Carbon Nanostructure Support for Increased Lifetime of Platinum Catalysts
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Doosan Corporation · 2018 - 2019Radiation survivability of MEMS microelectronic circuits with carbon nanotube field emitters
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Defense Threat Reduction Agency · 2015 - 2019An Autonomous Coded Aperture Mini Mass Spectrometer (AUTOCAMMS) Based Methane Sensing System
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy · 2015 - 2019Field testing management - STeP
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2018 - 2019Sanitation Technology Accelerator Fund Proposal Development
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · 2017 - 2019SNM / GOALI: Integration of Organic Solar Cells with Engineered Nanostructures for Scalable Manufacturing of Energy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill · 2013 - 2018Characterization of electrode aging mechanism
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2017 - 2018Hybrid Electrochemical-MFC Waste Processing: Functional blocks for low energy disinfection and denitrification of human waste streams
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2017 - 2018High Performance Nanoscale Field Emitter Array Cathodes
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute International · 2016 - 2018Acceleration of further field deployment of the RTI-Duke Beta 2.0 system
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation · 2016 - 2017Electrochemical Disinfection with Integrated Biomass Oven for Solid Waste Processing and Energy Harvesting
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Research Triangle Institute · 2012 - 2017Investigation of anode embodiments for a field emission heat engine
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Modern Electron, Inc. · 2014 - 2016Graduate Student Seminar Exchange Program
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Materials Research Society · 2015 - 2015Graphenated-Carbon Nanotube (g-CNT) Composites for a Miniature, Optical Fiber-Integrated Spectroscopy Light Source
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2015Understanding and Controlling the Growth of Foliated Graphene on Carbon Nanotube Sidewalls
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2011 - 2015Evaluation of Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Neural Stimulation
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2011 - 2014Development of a Microfabricated, Coded Aperture Mass Spectrometer
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2008 - 2012Distributed Learning: Professional Masters Program
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Lord Foundation of North Carolina · 2009 - 2010Computational Spectroscopy of Structured Carbon Nanotube Interfaces for Biochemical Sensing
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 2006 - 2009SST: Development of a Micro Mass Spectrometer and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network-Supplement
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2006 - 2008In Vacuo X-Ray and Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analytical System
EquipmentCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2007 - 2008SST: Development of a Micro Mass Spectrometer and the Design of a Spectrometer-Based Distributed Sensor Network
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2004 - 2007External Relationships
- Advent Diamond
- voxel innovations
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