2015 Chemistry Graduate Research Fellowships
11/14/2014
Congratulations to 2015 Chemistry Graduate Research Fellowship recipients:
David Bock is doing research in Prof. Esther Takeuchi's lab and his research project
seeks to characterize and eliminate the life limiting problem of cathode solubility
in batteries used to power implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) through
investigation of the silver vanadium phosphorous oxide family of cathode materials.
Katarzyna Hojczak is part of Prof. Ming-Yu Ngai's group and the goal of her research
has been to develop easily-handled and bench stable trifluoromethoxylation reagents
for direct introduction of the OCF3 group into organic molecules. Recently, she has
successfully developed the first O-trifluoromethylation reaction of a wide range of protected N-aryl-N-hydroxylamines and the first OCF3-migration reaction to afford various ortho-OCF3 aniline derivatives.
Waldemar Nieweglowksi is part of Prof. Andreas Mayr's group. His research is focusing
on synthesis of binuclear metal complexes for
the activation of small molecules, such as carbon dioxide.
Lei Wang is doing research in Prof Stanislaus Wong lab. She has synthesized a variety
of nanomaterials with different morphologies, such as zero-dimensional (0D) CdSe/CdTe/CdS
quantum dot nanocrystals, one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes and three-dimensional
(3D) metal oxide nanocomposites. 0D-1D and 0D-3D heterostructures, combining the merits
of each component, have been generated by both covalent and non-covalent attachment
strategies with the goal of achieving better performance in energy applications, such
as quantum dot sensitized solar cells and lithium-ion batteries.