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Visiting Graduate students

Dongyu Xu

Fundamental investigations into 1st row transition metal oxide(hydroxide) OER catalysis.

Radhakrishnan Venkatharthick

Radhakrishnan was a visiting graduate student from Central Electrochemical Research Institute in India.

Shihui Zou

Shihui Zou was a visiting Ph.D. student from Prof. Jie Fan’s group in Zhejiang China. He is now a PostDoctoral Scholar in Prof. Jie Fan’s group.

He also maintains a chemistry blog (in Chinese): http://www.weidu8.net/author/rationalscience

Research: Shihui studied OER catalysts as well as integration of OER catalysts with semiconductor photoelectrodes in the Boettcher lab during the 2014-2015 academic year.

Zou, S.; Burke, M.; Kast, M.; Fan, J.; Danilovic, N.; Boettcher, S. Fe (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysis: intrinsic activity and the roles of electrical conductivity, substrate, and dissolution. Submitted2015.

Burke, M. S.; Zou, S.; Enman, L. J.; Kellon, J. E.; Gabor, C. A.; Pledger, E.; Boettcher, S. W. Revised oxygen-evolution-reaction activity trends for first-row transition metal (oxy)hydroxides in alkaline media. J. Phys. Chem Lett. 2015http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650

Burke, M. S.; Enman, L. J.; Batchellor, A.; Zou, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Oxygen-evolution-reaction electrocatalysis on transition metal oxides and (oxy)hydroxides: Activity trends and design principles. Chem. Mater. 2015, Invited ‘Up and Coming’ Perspective, Submitted.

Skye Rios

Skye Rios was a visiting PhD student working with Dr. Todd Deutsch and Dr. John Turner at NREL / University of Colorado. He is NSF Graduate Research Fellow.

Research: Characterizing electronic and junction properties of passivization and protection layers for high-efficiency tandem photo-electrodes using non-aqueous electrolytes.

 

Hyo Sang Jeon

Hyo Sang was a visiting graduate student from Korea Institute of Science and Technology and spent the summer of 2015 in the Boettcher lab.

UO Undergraduate Students

Erica Pledger

Research: UV-vis and FTIR of mixed-metal oxide thin films; OER catalysis

Mini Bio: currently working in McKnight lab at UO (Biology)

Ben Bachman

Research: growth of InGaP using CSVT; dual-working electrode photoelectrochemistry

Mini Bio: starting PhD program at U of Wisconsin- Madison

Monty Cosby

Research: 1st-row transition metal oxide nanoparticles for OER catalysis in AEM electrolyzer

Mini Bio: starting PhD program at SUNY Stonybrook

Johnny Archer

Research: Fundamentals of 1st-row OER catalysts

Jesse Harris

Research: Amorphous thin film synthesis

Richard C. Cramer

Mini Bio: An undergraduate from Bend, OR. Richard is a 2009 Presidential Scholar at the University of Oregon where he is a Chemistry/Physics double major and is a part of the Robert D. Clark Honors College. He joined the Boettcher lab in the summer of 2011.  In 2012 he was awarded the Beckman Scholarship which provided funding for his work in the Boettcher lab.  Richard finished his undergraduate studies in June of 2014. Please view his LinkedIn account to see his current whereabouts and research.

www.linkedin.com/pub/richard-c-cramer/5a/2a3/9a7

Research:  Close spaced vapor transport growth of GaAs crystals and GaAs-conductive polymer heterojunctions

Ritenour, A. J.; Cramer, R. C.; Levinrad, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Efficient n-GaAs Photoelectrodes Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from a Solid Source. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces2012, 4, 69-73. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am201631ppdf

Ritenour, A. J.; Levinrad, S.; Bradley, C.; Cramer, R. C.; Boettcher, S. W. Electrochemical Nanostructuring of n-GaAs Photoanodes. ACS Nano20137 (8), pp 6840–6849, http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4020104pdf

Mahkah Wu

Mini Bio: Honors College student that completed his undergraduate studies in June 2014

Research: Solution precursors for conducting and semiconducting thin film deposition

Nadarajah, A.; Wu, M. Z. B.; Archila, K.; Kast, M. G.; Smith, A. M.; Chiang, T. H.; Keszler, D. A.; Wager, J. F.; Boettcher, S. W. Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-oxide semiconducting thin films with high mobility from electrochemically-generated aqueous nanocluster inks. ASAP, Chemistry of Materials. 2015http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01813pdf

Alex (Guangyuan) Liang

Research: Thin film perovskite and spinel oxygen-evolution electrocatalysts

Robert DeLancey

Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after his undergraduate degree

Research: III-V materials via CSVT for photovoltaics

Ritenour, A. J.; Boucher, J. W.; DeLancey, R.; Greenaway, A. L.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Doping and Electronic Properties of GaAs Grown by Close-Spaced Vapor Transport from Powder Sources for Scalable III-V Photovoltaics. ASAP, Energy Environ. Sci. 2014. (cover) DOI: http://doi.org/10.1039/C4EE01943ASource data and Editable Figures

James Ranney

Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after his undergraduate degree

Research: Catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

Trotochaud, L.; Young, S.; Ranney, J.; Boettcher, S. Nickel-Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Electrocatalysts: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Iron Incorporation. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6744. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja502379cpdf

Trotochaud, L.; Ranney, J. K.; Williams, K. N.; Boettcher, S. W. Solution-Cast Metal Oxide Thin Film Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 17253-17261. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja307507apdf

Gina Macy

Mini Bio: Continued to UO Master’s Industiral Internship program after her undergraduate degree

Research: Catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction

 Ben Nail

Mini Bio: McNair Scholar and continued to graduate school at UC Davis

Research: Tungstan oxide nanowires

Thomas Dannenhoffer

Research:  Catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction and mixed metal oxide thin films

Erik Jensen

Research: III-IV materials via CSVT for photovoltaics

Summer Undergraduate Students

Lyndi Strange

Program: MSI REU (2015)
Research: III-V by CSVT for photovoltaics

Allison Davis

Program: MSI REU (2014)
Research: GaAsP by CSVT for photovoltaics
Home university: Park UniversityGreenaway, A. L.; Davis, A.; Boucher, J. W.; Ritenour, A. J.; Aloni, S.; Boettcher, S. W. Gallium arsenide phosphide grown by close-spaced vapor transport from mixed powder sources for low-cost III-V photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices. Submitted2015.

Kevin Alegria-Valenzuela

Program: NSF CSMC REU

Research: Doped oxides

 Chris Siefe

Program: NSF CSMC REU

Research: Metal oxide for nanolaminates

Home university: UC Santa Barbara

Marta Sulima

Program: NSF CSMC REU
Research: Mixed oxide oxygen electrocatalyst films for use in acidic electrolyte
Home university: Cornell University

Julija Vinckeviciute

Program: NSF CSMC REU (2013)
Research: Multi-component solution processing of thin films with tunable dielectric constants for advanced anti-reflective coatings (for solar applications)Home university: Northwestern University

Alejandro Negrete

Program: MSI REU program (2013)

Research: Defect analysis in GaAs deposited by close-space vapor transport

Home university: California State University, San Bernardino

Solomon Levinrad

Program: Johnson Scholar (2012)

Home university: Oregon State University

Nazmuhl Sarker

Program: NSF REU (2012)

Bri Gordon

Program: NSF Solid State REU (2012)

Mitsue Szczepanski

Program: UCORE

Tre Buchanan

Program: Scholarships for Oregon Scientists Program

Kerisha Williams

Program: UCORE

Matthew D Robertson

High School Students

James Asbury

South Eugene High; Spring and Summer 2015; Catalysis project

Chris Gabor

South Eugene High; Spring and Summer 2014; Catalysis project

Burke, M. S.; Zou, S.; Enman, L. J.; Kellon, J. E.; Gabor, C. A.; Pledger, E.; Boettcher, S. W. Revised oxygen-evolution-reaction activity trends for first-row transition metal (oxy)hydroxides in alkaline media. J. Phys. Chem Lett. 2015http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650

Erica Pledger

South Eugene High; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2014

Burke, M. S.; Zou, S.; Enman, L. J.; Kellon, J. E.; Gabor, C. A.; Pledger, E.; Boettcher, S. W. Revised oxygen-evolution-reaction activity trends for first-row transition metal (oxy)hydroxides in alkaline media. J. Phys. Chem Lett. 2015http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01650

Sarah Hovet

Springfield High School; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2013

Micaela Holt

Springfield High School; Saturday Academy ASE, Summer 2012