Research Group - Current Members

Postdoctoral Associates

Snigdha Praharaj Postdoctoral Associate, (May 2007 - ) Ph. D., Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2006 M. S., Chemistry, Utkal University, India, 2001 B. S., Chemistry, Utkal University, India, 1999 Office: 2B40, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.7282 E-mail: praharaj at engr dot sc dot edu Research Area: Synthesis and Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts

Graduate Students

	Sivagaminathan Balasubramanian Ph. D., (January 2005 - ) B. Tech., Chemical & Electrochemical Engg. Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India, 2002 Office: 2B36, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.7282 E-mail: balasubr at engr dot sc dot edu | Webpage Research Area: PEM Fuel Cells, CO Poisoning
	Roderick Fuentes Ph. D., (August 2005 - ) B. S., Chemical Engg., Univ. Puerto Rico - Mayaguez, 2005 Office: 3B51, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.1905 E-mail: fuentesr at engr dot sc dot edu Research Area: Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
	Jennifer R. Patterson Ph. D., (August 2007 - ) B. S., Chemical Engg., Florida Institute of Technology, 2007 Office: 3B51, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.1905 E-mail: patterjr at engr dot sc dot edu Research Area: Ionic liquids
	John Staser Ph. D., (August 2005 - ) B. S., Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve Univ., 2005 Office: 2B40, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.7282 E-mail: staser at engr dot sc dot edu Research Area: PEM Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production, SO2 Electrolyzers
	Ray Zhang Ph. D., (August 2006 - ) M. S., Catalysis Science and Technology, Tianjin Univ., China, 2006 B. S., Chemical Engineering, Sichuan Univ., China, 2003 Office: 2B40, Swearingen Engineering Center Phone: 803.777.7282 E-mail: zhang7 at engr dot sc dot edu Research Area: Fuel Cells, Electrocatalysis

• Christopher C. Streinz, “Determination of Kinetic Parameters in Nickel-Hydroxide and Metal-Hydride Electrodes,” August 1993 - May 1995.
• Haraldo A. Duarte, “Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrates and Nitrites in the Presence of Chromates,” March 1997 - September 1997.
• Duan Tianping, “Mathematical Model of CO Poisoning in PEM Fuel Cells,” September 2000 - September 2001.
• Parthasarathy M. Gomadam, “Development of an Electrochemical Model for Simulating the Performance Behavior of a Prismatic Li/SOCl₂ Cell,” March 2004 - May 2005.
• Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, “Hydrogen Production via SO₂ Electrolysis,” January 2005 - June 2005.

Doctoral Students

• Sathya Motupally, “A Study of Water Transport in PEM Anhydrous HCl Electrolyzers,” graduation, August, 1998. Current Employer: UTC Power, South Windsor, CT.
• Mukul Jain, “Analysis of Lithium/Thionyl-Chloride Batteries,” graduation, August, 1998. Current Employer: Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN.
• Kamal Jha, “Design and Operation of Electrochemical Flow Reactors,” graduation, August, 1998. Current Employer: Unilever, Mumbai, India.
• Venkat Srinivasan, “Synthesis and Characterization of Materials for Electrochemical Supercapacitors,” graduation, August, 2000. Current Employer: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
• Andrew T. Haug, “Development of CO Tolerant Anodes for PEM Fuel Cells,” (co-advisor R. E. White) graduation, August, 2002. Current Employer: 3M, Minneapolis, MN.
• Parthasarathy M. Gomadam, “Heat Generation in Lithium-Ion Batteries,” (co-advisor R. E. White) graduation, May, 2003. Current Employer: Medtronic Inc, Minneapolis, MN.
• Balasubramanian Lakshmanan, “Electrochemical Removal of CO from Fuel-Cell Reformate,” graduation, December, 2003. Current Employer: GM Fuel Cells Alternatives, Rochester, NY.
• Inas Al-Nashef, “Electrochemistry of Superoxide Ions in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Its Application to Green Engineering,” (co-advisor M. A. Matthews). graduation, August, 2004. Current Employer: King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• Lingyun Liu, “Non-Precious Metal Oxygen Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells”, (co-advised with B. N. Popov). graduation, August, 2006.
• Vijay A. Sethuraman, "Durability Aspects of PEM Fuel Cells", graduation, December 2006. Current Employer: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA.
• Brenda L. Garcia, "Direct Methanol Fuel Cells", graduation May 2007. Current Employer: Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC.

Masters Students

• Suzanne L. Keller, “Evaluation of a Microarray Electrochemical Sensor,” (co-advisor John Van Zee) graduation, May, 1994.
• Sathya Motupally, “Determination of Proton Diffusion Coefficients in Nickel Hydroxide using Impedance Spectroscopy,” graduation, December, 1994.
• Shannon Baxter, “Electrochemical Removal of Chromium from Dilute Waste Streams,” graduation, May, 1995.
• Anand Srikumar, “Linear-Sweep Voltammetry in Porous Electrodes,” graduation, May, 1998.
• Charles E. Holland, “Experimental Characterization of Hybrid Power Systems Under Pulse Current Loads,” graduation, May, 2003.
• Vasudevan Suryanarayanan, “Water Management in PEM Fuel Cells during Transient Loads,” graduation, May, 2005.

Other Research Supervised

• Thirteen (13) High-School Students.
• Twenty seven (35) Undergraduate Students.
• Mahmoud Saleh, Peace Fellow, “The Effect of Gas Evolution on the Recovery of Zinc at Flow-Through Porous Electrodes,” February 1993-February 1995.