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Postdocs and Students

Einaga Visit

Professor Yasuaki Einaga and students during a visit in June 2023

 

Summer Students 2023

Summer REU Group and Mentors 2023....Well done Kolton and Marissa!!

Research Group Summer 2023

Summer 2023

Spring 2022

Group photo August 2018.

Mid-SURE, July 2018
 

Group photo July 2018.

Summer 2017

Group photo Summer 2017.

Summer 2016

Students in the group conduct cutting-edge research and develop strong skills in the areas of critical thinking, problem solving, interdisciplinary research and team work, written and oral communication, safety, and ethics. Recent graduates are now employed as a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (NM), a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kansas, staff scientists (coating technologies and electrochemistry) for Chemeon Ltd. (Minden, NV) and Henkel Technologies (Madison Heights, MI), two staff scientists (corrosion and material science) for Rivian Electric Vehicles (Irvine, CA), an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, and a staff scientist for General Motors-Global Battery Systems Laboratory (Warren, MI).

Currrent Research Group

Fatemehsadat Parvis

Fatemehsadat Parvis - Fatemeh is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry, who  defended her doctoral dissertation in December of 2022. She recently began a position at Genentech (CA). She studied the electrode capacitance, molecular adsorption, and heterogeneous electron-transfer kinetics of soluble redox systems (ferrocene and ferrocene derivatives) in room temperature ionic liquids of different compositions and physical properties at unmodified and chemically-modified glassy carbon and boron-doped diamond nanocrystalline electrodes.  parvisfa@chemistry.msu.edu

 

Jack Walton

Jack Walton - Jack is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry, who just defended his doctoral dissertation in August 2023. He is presently a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He  investigated the physical, mechanical, and electrochemical properties of aluminum and titanium alloys produced by additive manufacturing. The alloys under study included aluminum A360 and titanium Ti-5553, and they were prepared by selective laser melting. He also studied the formation and performance of non-chromate conversion coatings at mitigating corrosion on these 3D printed alloys. Finally, he investigated how chemical milling and anodization in sulfuric acid affects the microstructure, surface chemistry, and electrochemical properties of the alloys.   walton29@chemistry.msu.edu

 

Skye Henderson - Skye is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry, who just defended her doctoral dissertation in August 2023. She investigated the preparation and electrochemical characterization of Nafion/Pt-coated diamond microelectrodes for detecting nitric oxide (NO) and the preparation and characterization of amperometric biosensors for ATP and acetylcholine (ACh) that she applied ex vivo in the gastrointestinal tract of animal models. The goal is to better understand the neurogenic roles of NO and ATP at inhibitory and ACh at excitatory neuromuscular signaling in the gut and how these signaling pathways might become disrupted in neurodegenerative disease states. She also completed a two-year fellowship in the Integrative Pharmacological Sciences Training Program (T32) at MSU. russe500@chemistry.msu.edu

 

Isuri Dammulla - Isuri is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry. She is studying methods to inhibit galvanic corrosion on aerospace aluminum alloys when joined with carbon fiber epoxy composites. One approach being studied is the chemical modification of exposed composite edges with various substituted diazonium adlayers to reduce the electron-transfer kinetics for dissolved oxygen reduction. The diazonium admolecules are attached by electrochemically-assisted derivatization or form spontaneously. The effectiveness of the surface modification on the oxygen reduction reaction kinetics is being assessed by various electrochemical methods. Various material characterization techniques are being applied to study the materials before and after various accelerated degradation tests. Isuri is also studying the material, mechanical and electrochemical properties of titanium alloys prepared by selective laser melting and fused filament fabrication. dammulla@msu.edu.

 

Shashika Sabaragamuwejayasundara. Shashika is a 4th year Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Chemistry. He is investigating the electrochemical and material properties of nitrogen-incorporated tetrahedral amorphous carbon and boron-doped diamond thin-film electrodes. He is the studying electrode the interfacial capacitance, working potential window, and heterogeneous electron-transfer kinetics of soluble redox systems (anthracene and anthracene derivatives) in organic electrolyte solutions and room temperature ionic liquids of different compositions and physical properties. sabaraga@msu.edu

 

Aaron Jacobs. Aaron is a 3rd year Ph.D. graduate student in the Department of Chemistry. He is working on the chemical analysis of biomarkers of infection in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) biospecimens obtained from human and animal subjects. Specifically, he is fabricating and testing electrochemical sensors  (inkjet-printed and screen-printed carbon electrodes) for measuring biomarkers of oxidative and nitrosative stress in EBC biospecimens obtained from healthy human and animal subjects and subjects ill with respiratory disease. Key biomarkers being targeted are pH, NO, H2O2, peroxynitrite and 4-nitrotyrosine. jacob417@msu.edu

Rosemary Augustine

Rosmary Augustine. Rosemary is a 2nd year graduate student investigating the chemical modification of carbon material surfaces and the impact surface chemistry has on the electrochemical properties. Carbon fibers and boron-doped diamond thin film electrodes are the carbon materials under study. august81@msu.edu

 

Maral Rahim Soroush

Maral Rahim Soroush. Maral is a 2nd year graduate student investigating the electrochemical  properties of conducting diamond powders and tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin-film electrodes. rahimma1@msu.edu

Alice Njue

Dr. Alice Njue. Dr. Njue is a visiting professor from Egerton University (Njoro, Kenya). She is a fellow in the Alliance for African Partnership program. Her research involves the development and application of electrochemical sensors and immunosensors for the detection of biomarkers of bovine respiratory disease in exhaled breath condensate. njuealic@msu.edu

 

Dr. Serban Peteu. Dr. Peteu is a research scientist working on the preparation  of an electrochemical sensor for peroxynitrite and its application as part of an electrochemical platform (inkjet-printed carbon electrodes) for measuring biomarkers of oxidative and nitrosative stress in EBC biospecimens obtained from human and animal subjects who are healthy and ill with respiratory disease. peteu@msu.edu

 

Simphiwe Zwane. Simphiwe was a recent visiting Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar from the University of South Africa in 2021-2022. She researched the electrochemical detection and degradation of two pharmaceutical agents: diclofenac and carbamazepine. The electrochemical detection and degradation are being performed using boron-doped diamond thin films deposited on silicon and titanium, respectively. She returned home in May of 2022. zwanesim@msu.edu

 

Maiyara Prete. Maiyara was a recent visiting Ph.D. CAPES Fellow from the State University of Londrina-UEL (BRAZIL). She studied the basic electrochemical properties of boron-doped ultrananocrystalline diamond and the use of these electrodes for the detection of ibuprofen. The electrochemical detection was being performed using ultrananocrystalline diamond thin films deposited on silicon. She  also researched the preparation of pH-sensing electrodes on screen-printed and inkjet-printed carbon electrodes modified with polyaniline. She returned home in February 2022.  pretemai@msu.edu

 

Victoria Robinson. Victoria is a postbaccalaureate student from MSU in the REPID Scholars Program (Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health Researchers - NIH). She is researching the electrochemical behavior of various anti-oxidant vitamins (C, B2, B6 and B12) at glassy carbon and boron-doped diamond thin-film electrodes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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