Research group in June 2021.  Left to right (back) Elijah Thimsen, Dillon Moher, AJ Cendejas, Trey Oldham, Eric Husmann and (front) Qinyi Chen, Necip Uner and Xiaoshuang Chen

Principal Investigator.

Associate Prof. Elijah Thimsen

Bike commuting in the winter!

Ph.D. students.

Eric Husmann (dust nucleation and semiconductor processing control)

AJ Cendejas (mechanical properties of consolidated alumina nanomaterials)

Dillon Moher (optoelectronic properties of III-nitride nanocrystals)

Masters Students

Colin Page (methane conversion for hydrogen production)

Past members

  • Xiaoshuang Chen (2020-2022, postdoc focused on basic experimental methods and basic concepts in chemical engineering)
  • Trey Oldham (Ph.D. 2021, fundamentals of plasma-liquid systems)
  • Qinyi Chen (Ph.D. 2021, transport in assemblies of metal-oxide nanocrystals)
  • Necip B. Uner (Ph.D. 2020, III-nitride nanocrystal synthesis)
  • Miguel Vazquez-Pufleau (Ph.D. 2016, silicon dust nucleation)

Masters students.

Past members

  • Kirby Simon (M.S. 2019, aerospace material processing quality control)
  • John Ephraim (M.Eng. 2016, oxide nanocrystal surface chemistry)
  • Deanna Lanigan (M.S. 2016, electron transport in assemblies of nanocrystals)

Undergraduate students.

Past members

  • Alex Kattan (activity measurements for water-in-salt systems)
  • Kirby Simon (GaAs thin film deposition)
  • Kyle Cepeda (GaAs thin film characterization)