BalsaraResearch Group
Members and Resumes
    Principal Investigator:


Nitash P. Balsara
Professor of Chemical Engineering

Graduate Students:


Nicholas Young

Project: Block copolymer blends as templates for nanoporous water filtration membranes

Alexander Teran

Project: Lithium sulfur batteries using solid polymer electrolytes

Jacob Thelen

Project: How grain structure affects ion conductivity in block copolymers


Katherine Harry

Project: Dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries

Mahati Chintapalli

Project: Effect of block copolymer electrolyte grain structure on lithium ion conductivity

Kevin Wujcik

Project: Study of lithium-sulfur battery reaction intermediates in polymer electrolytes


Chae-Young Shin

Project: Block copolymer membranes for continuous fermentation-pervaporation process

Alex Wang

Project: Pervaporation membranes for dehydration of sugars to furanics

Adriana Rojas

Project: Single-ion polymer electrolytes


Doug Greer

Project: Membranes for the selective separation of Biofuels


Postdoctoral Researchers:

Chelsea Chen

Anna Javier

Project: Development of polymeric materials with high electronic and ionic conduction for use in lithium-polymer batteries

Inna Gurevitch

Project: PS-PEO Block Copolymer-Ceramic Hybrid materials


Sebnem Inceoglu

Project: Single-ion-conducting block copolymers for lithium-ion batteries

Pepa Cotanda

Project: Study of diblock copolymer anion exchange membranes

Irune Villaluenga Arranz

Project: Block copolymer-coated nanoparticles for battery applications


Nikos Petzetakis

Project: Block copolymer pervaporation membranes for biofuel production.

Didier Devaux

Project: Physico-chemical characterization of solid polymer electrolytes

Undergraduate Students:



Rodger Yuan


Naveen Venkatesan

Project: Charge Transport Properties of Electronic and Ionic Conducting Polymers


Raymond Yang

Alumni:

Shrayesh Patel

Project: Mixed ionic and electronic conducting block copolymers

Keith Beers

Project: Block copolymer polyelectrolytes for fuel cell applications

Daniel Hallinan

Project: Lithium air batteries using solid polymer electrolytes


Guillaume Sudre

Project: Characterization of Block Copolymers for Selectibe Hydroxyl Ion Transport

Ching-Chen Wu

David Wong

Project: Block copolymers for battery separator applications


Scott Mullin

Project: Ion transport in block copolymer electrolytes

Greg Stone

Project: Dendrite growth in lithium metal rechargeable batteries

Evren Ozcam

Project: Optimized Membranes for Selective Alcohol Transport


Nisita Wanakule

Project: Thermodynamics and
electrochemical characterization of block copolymer electrolytes

Venson (Wensheng) Chang

Project: Designing Cathodes for Lithium-Air Cells

Sun Yun Yang

Project: Nano-porous polymer preparation and application


Xin Wang

Project: Property relationship of PEMs for hydrogen fuel cell application

Alisyn J. Nedoma

Project: Tuning the design parameters of the constituent block copolymers

Liang Chen

Project: Synthesizing new block copolymer membranes for separation of alcohol from aqueous alcohol solution


Justin Virgili

Project: Thermodynamics of block copolymers and ionic liquids

Ashish Jha

Project: Block copolymer membranes for alcohol pervaporation

Moon Jeong Park

Project: Direct imaging of synthetic polymer membranes


Jeffrey D. Wilbur

Project: Characterizing the grain structure of block copolymer thin films

Enrique D. Gomez

Project: Block copolymer networks and block copolymers aggregation in dilute solution

Amish J. Patel

Project: Equilibrium dynamics of block copolymer systems using X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy


Megan Robertson

Project: Polymer Surfactants for Organizing Immiscible Polymers

David A. Durkee

Project: Polymer bound catalysts for chiral synthesis & block copolymers for nanostructured catalysts

Gregg M. Wilmes

Project: Conjuction of nanofabrication and polymer science


Mohit Singh

Project: Block Copolymer Electrolytes

Tim Rappl

Project: Nucleation

Hany Eitouni

Project: Electrochemical Self-Assembly


Hyeok Hahn

Project: Crosslinked Block Copolymers

Joon Lee

Project: Polymer Blends

Amy Lefebvre


Arvind Krishnan

Ben Reynolds

Chen Chy Lin


Chandru Eswaran

Feredin Demir

Hao Wang


James Dai

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Mei Chang


Praveen Kesani

SV Jonnalagadda

Hyun Sik Jeon

Ashoutosh Panday

Project: Ion transport in block copolymer electrolytes