Members
Principle Investigator
Zhenmeng Peng, Ph.D.
Department of Chemical Engineering140 Horizon IThe University of South CarolinaColumbia, SC 29201E-Mail: zmpeng@sc.eduOffice: (803) 777-7959 Education and Appointment:Professor, The University of South Carolina, 2023-presentAdjunct Professor, The University of Akron, 2023-presentProfessor, The University of Akron, 2021-2022Associate Professor, The University of Akron, 2018-2021Assistant Professor, The University of Akron, 2012-2018Postdoc, University of California at Berkeley, 2010-2012Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2010M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2005B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, USTC, 2002Visiting and Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Jialu Li
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2019E-Mail: jl248 at zips.uakron.edu Education:M.S.,The University of Akron, 2019B. S., Sichuan University, 2018Rongxuan Xie
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2020E-Mail: rrx1 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., Boston University, 2020B. S., Wuhan University of Technology, 2018Khaled Alsaikhan
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2020E-Mail: ksa27 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., The University of Akron, 2020B. S., The University of Akron, 2018Abdullah Alsultan
Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2021E-Mail: aa588 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., The University of Akron, 2020Abdulrahman Alkhaldi
Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2021E-Mail: aa589 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., The University of Akron, 2020Jinyao Tang
Ph.D. Candidate, Fall 2021E-Mail: jt228 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., University of Twente, 2021B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 2019Parsa Pishva
Ph.D. Candidate, Spring 2022E-Mail: pp114 at uakron.edu Education:M.S., Isfahan University of Technology, 2017B.S., University of Tabriz, 2013Undergraduate Students
Former Group Members
Name
Duration at Lab
Next Stop Affiliation
Dr. Dezhen Wu
(Ph.D. student)
09/2018 - 05/2022 (Ph.D. awarded: 05/2022)
Argonne National Laboratory
Dr. Libo Yao
(Ph.D. student)
09/2017 - 08/2021 (Ph.D. awarded: 08/2021)
University of Michigan
Dr. Abdulaziz Bentalib
(Ph.D. student)
09/2017 - 12/2020 (Ph.D. awarded: 12/2020)
King Saud University
Dr. Yanbo Pan
(Ph.D. student)
09/2016 - 08/2020 (Ph.D. awarded: 08/2020)
Brewer Science, Inc.
Prof. Yang Li
(visiting scholar)
09/2019 - 08/2020
Anhui University of Science and Technology
Dr. Xiaochen Shen
(Ph.D. student)
09/2015 - 08/2019 (Ph.D. awarded: 18/2019)
Case Western Reserve University
Prof. Wanchun Zhu
(visiting scholar)
09/2018 - 03/2019
Jilin University
Prof. Li Zhang
(visiting scholar)
08/2017 - 08/2018
Zhenzhou University
Prof. Fei Hu
(visiting scholar)
12/2016 - 12/2017
Foshan University
Dr. Changlin Zhang
(Ph.D. student)
09/2012 - 12/2016 (Ph.D. awarded: 12/2016)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dr. Sang Youp Hwang
(Ph.D. student)
01/2013 - 12/2016 (Ph.D. awarded: 12/2016)
Institute for Advanced Engineering, Korea
Prof. Jiafu Chen
(visiting scholar)
09/2015 - 09/2016
Zhenzhou University
Dana Woychik
(M.S. student)
09/2016 - 12/2016(M.S. awarded: 12/2016)
Dr. Shirin Norooz Oliaee
(Ph.D. student; Co-advisor: Prof. Harry M. Cheung)
09/2014-07/2016 (Ph.D. awarded: 08/2016)
Dr. Xiangkai Kong
(research scholar)
03/2015-11/2015
Huaibei Normal University
Prof. Lixia Sun
(visiting scholar)
06/2014-09/2014
China Jiliang University
Prof. Li Jiang
(visiting scholar)
06/2014-09/2014
China Jiliang University
Prof. Chunju Lv
(visiting scholar)
06/2014-09/2014
China Jiliang University
Michael Ricci
(B.S. student)
01/2020 - 05/2021
(Honor project)
Purdue University
Michael Holly
(B.S. student)
01/2018 - 05/2019
(Honor project)
The University of Akron
Stephen Sharkey
(B.S. student)
01/2016 - 05/2018
(Honor project)
Washington University in St. Louis
Eric Yurchekfrodl
(B.S. student)
09/2013 - 05/2016
Airgas Company
Benjamin Kitson
(B.S. student)
01/2016 - 05/2016
(Honor project)
The University of Akron
William Sandorf
(B.S. student)
01/2014 - 12/2016
(Honor project)
The University of Akron
Alexis Trout
(B.S. student)
10/2013-05/2014 & 09/2017-05/2018
(Honor project)
The University of Akron
Matthew George
(B.S. student)
10/2013-05/2014 & 09/2017-05/2018
(Honor project)
The University of Akron