Laboratory for Surface Modification

  • Amatucci, Glenn G.

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Material Science and Engineering, Center for Advanced Solid State Ionics, Advanced Power Prototype Laboratories and Energy Storage Research.
    • Email: gamatucc@rci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-0921
    • Detailed Profile: http://mse.rutgers.edu/fac/glenn-amatucci
    • Research Areas: Energy Storage
    • Energy Research Focus: Research, development and advancement of new energy storage device chemistries enabled by advancements in materials science.

  • Asefa, Tewodros (Teddy)

    • Title: Associate Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
    • Email: tasefa@rci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2970
    • Detailed Profile: https://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/116-asefa-teddy
    • Research Areas: Catalysis, nanomaterials synthesis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, water splitting and hydrogen production, fuel cells, solar PV.
    • Energy Research Focus: Development of novel, sustainable nanomaterials that allow the production of ‘clean’ and renewable energy (such as hydrogen) from sustainable sources (such as water). Development of new synthetic methods for various novel multifunctional nanomaterials for catalysis, electrocatalysis, and photocatalysis and investigation of their properties. Synthesis of novel nanostructured and nanoporous semiconductor thin films for solar cells.

  • Birnie, Dunbar P., III

    • Title: Professor and Corning Saint-Gobain Malcolm G. McLaren Chair
    • Department / Research Program: Materials Science and Engineering
    • Email: dunbar.birnie@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-5605
    • Detailed Profile: https://mse.rutgers.edu/fac/dunbar-birnie
    • Research Areas: Photovoltaic devices, Solar power systems, Solar+battery systems for energy resilience, Future electric transportation, Renewable energy storage in vehicle batteries.
    • Energy Research Focus: Chemical growth of thin film solar cells to enable low-cost future solar technology. Looking at earth-abundant compositions and environmentally friendly chemistries. Interested in the logistical, social, and technological aspects of our transformation from gasoline to electricity for regular commuter transportation in our densely populated state. This is embodied in the "Solar-2-Vehicle" project that emphasizes work-place solar generation and vehicle plug-in to supply reasonable local commuting on green power. Interested in strategically adding battery capacity to solar array sites to provide energy resiliency in future storm/mishap scenarios. We have focused on solar availability and the relative match in size of battery with the size of the solar array.

  • Castner, Edward Jr.

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    • Email: ed.castner@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2564
    • Detailed Profile: http://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/132-castner-jr-edward-w
    • Research Areas: Light harvesting for charge separation; ionic liquids for energy applications
    • Energy Research Focus: Study of light-harvesting molecules for capture of solar energy for stored chemical or electrical energy; design of novel ionic liquids for energy applications such as enhanced battery and supercapacitor materials and solvents for pre-treatment of biomass.

  • Feldman, Leonard C.

    • Title: Distinguished Professor & Vice President of Physical Sciences Partnerships
    • Department / Research Program: Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
    • Email: l.c.feldman@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-4524
    • Detailed Profile: https://mse.rutgers.edu/fac/leonard-feldman
    • Research Areas: Electronic Materials, Surface and Interface Science, Condensed Matter Physics; Thin Films, Epitaxy, Materials Science, Nanostructures; Materials Modification and Analysis Using Ion Beams; Organization and administration of academic research; Science education.
    • Energy Research Focus: Research into high power, high temperature semiconductor devices for energy conversion and transmission. Semiconductor interface science as applied to photovoltaics and other semiconductor devices

  • Garfunkel, Eric

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology; Laboratory for Surface Modification
    • Email: egarf@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2747
    • Detailed Profile: http://chem.rutgers.edu/eric-garfunkel-home
    • Research Areas: PV, catalysis, energy storage, solar fuels
    • Energy Research Focus: Understanding and controlling surface and interfacial chemistry. Development of new materials and processes for next generation low-cost solar cells, fuel cells, energy storage and catalysts. Low power electronics.

  • Li, Jing

    • Title: Distinguished Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
    • Email: jingl@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-3758
    • Detailed Profile: http://chem.rutgers.edu/jinglilab
    • Research Areas: Energy Conversion and Storage, CO2 Capture, LEDs, Catalysis, Solar PV
    • Energy Research Focus: Our recent work focuses largely on the design, synthesis, characterization, modification and understanding the chemistry of new materials with improved and enhanced functionality that are potentially important for clean and renewable energy storage and conversion, including photovoltaics, solid-state lighting, H2/CH4 storage and CO2 capture, catalysis and sensing. http://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/177-li-jing

    Personal Profile: http://chem.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-bio/177-li-jing

  • Riman, Richard E.

    • Title: Distinguished Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Materials Science and Engineering
    • Email: riman@rci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848 445-5036
    • Detailed Profile: http://riman.rutgers.edu/
    • Research Areas: Green Manufacturing Methods, CO2 Sequestration
    • Energy Research Focus: Discovery and development of green manufacturing methods for the production of ceramics in order to provide sustainable solutions to significant technological and environmental problems. Use hydrothermal technology and low temperature solidification methods that utilize CO2 as a reactant to make strong, durable, carbonate cement for infrastructure.