Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocomposites Expert in Design and Fabrication

Technical Consultant #1976

Engineering, fabrication and commercialization of high-performance nanomaterials and composites.
Growth, processing and utilization of carbon nanotube and graphene materials.
Grapheme growth architecture, tailored structure and characterization.
Design, fabrication modeling and testing of nanodevices.
Physics and applications of low-dimensional devices and nanomaterials.
Surface chemistry, self-assembly and process chemistry for nanomaterials.
Micro and nano-structural characterization of materials.
Materials electrodynamics including plasmonic and photonic effects.
Consulting and technical analysis for commercial nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology: Touch screens, electronic transparent electrodes, develop transistor for super capacitors.

Research Highlights

Design and fabrication of CNT-based optical materials and optical films.
Inception and demonstration of high-performance, all-solid-state supercapacitor.
Catalyst-free, chemical vapor deposition growth of graphene sheet.
Exploration of parameters affecting the nanoparticle-catalyzed CVD growth of single-walled nanotubes on substrates.
Demonstration of substrate-directed 'continued growth' of chirality selected single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Nanolithography for fabrication of magnetic memory (MRAM) elements.

Undisclosed Company, Senior Nanotechnologist, 2012 - Present

Method development for high precision techniques for carbon nanotube synthesis.
Design and optimization of ultra-black surface coatings for high performance optics.
PI for investigation of non-linear optics effects based on carbon nanotube structures.
Successful proposal writing for federal and private capital funding.

Undisclosed University - Chemistry Department, Adjunct Professor, 2012 - Present

Synthesis and study of novel graphenic carbon material for high-performance electrochemistry.

Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research & Innovation Center, South Charleston, WV, 2008 - Present

Research Scientist at the Research and Innovation Center.
PI for grant exploring high performance materials derived from carbon nanotube architectures.
Functionalization chemistry development for carbon nanotubes.
Electrochemical synthesis of nanomaterials.
Ultra-sensitive surface chemistry characterization of carbon nanotubes.

Quantum Wired LLC, Katy, TX, Technical Consultant, 2007 - 2008

Technological analysis of commercial potential for carbon nanotube energy storage device.

Smalley Group, Rice University, Houston, TX, 2004 - 2008

University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Materials Science Department, 2000 - 2004

Publications and Patents

Author and Co-Author of numerous publications in peer reviewed journals, abstracts, articles and invited national and international speaker.