Former Visiting & Undergrads

Former Undergrads (2024 onwards)

Jonathan Schimmels

	Graduated/Visited in 2020/2021:
Visiting Scholar:	Undergraduate Student:	Undergraduate Student:
Chih-Jung Chen	Daniel Kim	Atilla Veyssal
Chih-Jung worked on solar energy conversion to chemical fuels.	Daniel worked on the nanoproteomics project.	Atilla is a double majored in materials science & engineering and chemistry. He worked on the solar flow battery project with Wenjie.
	Undergraduate Student:	Undergraduate Student
	Andrew DeRuiter	Jonathan Schimmels
	Andrew worked with Nitish on the skyrmions project.	Jonathan Schimmels worked with Willa on the synthesis of halide perovskites.
	Graduated/Visited in 2019:
	Visiting Scholar:
	Jinzhen Huang
	Jinzhen’s research focused on developing nanocomposites for electrocatalytic reactions.
Visiting Graduate Student:	Visiting Scholar:	Visiting Scholar:
Huawei Liu	Tianqi Guo	Yuliang Yuan
Huawei worked on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides.	Tianqi worked on electrocatalysis.	Yuliang worked on electrochemical energy storage and electrochemical catalysis.
Visiting Graduate Student:	Visiting Graduate Student:	Visiting Scholar:
Ming-Yu Kuo	Jing Li	Fengmei Wang
Ming-Yu focuses on perovskite project.	Jing cooperates with Wright group on the perovskite spectral study.	My major research interests include synthesis and development of novel 2D materials, such as transition metal chalcogenides, meal phosphorous trichalcogenides, etc., for electrocatalysis or photocatalysis.
Graduated / visited in 2018:
Visiting Graduate Student：		Visiting Scholar：
Liang Cai	Xiaotong Han	Ying Yang
Liang focused on synthesis and application of layered metal dichalcogenides beyond 2D	Xiaotong focused on two-dimensional transition metal hydroxides and their derivatives for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction.	Ying worked on the eletrochemical synthesis of thin film materials for solar energy conversion and storage.
Meiying Leng
Meiying focused on lead-free perovskite nanomaterials for optical applications.
Undergrads:
Kunal Dani	Richard Costello
Kunal worked on the bionanotechnology project.	Richard worked with Lianna on Electrocatalysis.
– Graduated / visited in 2017:
	Visiting Graduate Student：
Yifan Dong	Jie Chen	Yang Yang
Yifan worked on molten salt electrodeposition of battery materials	Jie worked perovskite.	Yang worked on electrocatalytic water splitting for oxygen production.
	Visiting Scholars
Poulomi Roy	Bo Song
Poulomi is focused on synthesizing nanostructured and single crystal materials and their applications in energy field – energy conversion to energy storage.	Bo focused on the growth of nanostructures by the screw dislocation.
	Undergraduate Students
Yi (Johnny) Zhang
Yi worked with Melinda on synthesis of Metal Dichalcogenide nanostructures
– Graduated / visited in 2016:
	Undergraduate Students
Mickey Stone	Jianyuan (Jackie) Zhai
Mickey worked on pyrite structured CoS2 for HER	Jackie worked with Qi on amorphous MoSe1-xClx for HER, and with Yongping on perovskite solar cells.
	Visiting Scholars
Xiaohua Yang	Jun Dai
Xuaohua worked on ORR catalysis	Jun worked on spectroscopic properties of perovskite
– Graduated / visited in 2015:
	Undergraduate Students
Tyler Slade
Tyler worked on molten salt synthesis of silicides
	Visiting Scholars
Junqiao Zhuo
Junqiao worked on MX₂ compounds for HER photocatalysis.
– Graduated / visited in 2014:
	Undergraduate Students
Hong-En Chen	Rafal Dziedzic
Hong-En project dealt with pyrite related compounds.	Rafal worked on solar related applications.

Andrew Daniels	Praveen Sankrithi
Andy synthesized MoS2-like compounds for photocatalysis	Praveen focused on pyrite-related compounds

	Visiting Scholars
Xingwang Zhang	Qun Wang
Prof. Xingwang worked on metal chalcogenides synthesis.	Prof. Qun studied thermoelectric materials.
Hanfeng Liang	Dewei Ma
Hanfeng is exploring ternary metal oxides for their potential application in solar energy	Dewei is working on nanomaterials synthesis and devices for numerous applications.
Diwen Ying
Diwen is working on nanomaterials for photocatalytic waste water treatment and water splitting.
	Undergraduate students
Cade Federspill (1 semester)
Cade worked with Leekyoung on the bionanotechnology project.

– Graduated / visited in 2013:
Zachary Degregorio (2 years)
Zach is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Minnesota.
Seth Berger

– Graduated / visited in 2012:
Felix Alfonso (REU)	Sanghun Shin	Kit Shawn Chew (1 year)

– Graduated / visited in 2011:
Matt O’Brien (4 years)	Ding Ruihua (3 years)	Rob Johns (REU)
Matt is currently a PhD student at Northwestern.	Ding is now a PhD student at Harvard.	Rob is about to start at Berkeley!