Principal Investigator:
Nicola H. Perry
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Materials Research Laboratory
112 MRL / (217) 300-6335
Read Prof. Perry’s profile on the department website here.
nhperry [at] illinois [dot] edu
Post-doctoral Researchers:
Jongmin Lee
Joined 8/2021
PhD, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (2020)
ljm [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Thin film triple-conducting electrodes for intermediate-temperature H2 production
Students:
Emily Skiba
PhD Student
Joined 1/2018
skiba4 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Crystallization of mixed conducting films and their oxygen exchange kinetics (& I-MRSEC seed project)
Yu-Ying (Steven) Lin
PhD Student, co-advised with Prof. Jessica Krogstad (50%)
Joined 9/2018
yylin3 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Descriptor-based solid state electrolyte development for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries
Lawrence Anderson
PhD Student
Joined 9/2018
loa3 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Crystal chemical design rules for tailored chemical expansivity
Haley Buckner
PhD Student
Joined 9/2018
hbb2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Chemo-mechanically driven in situ hierarchical structure formation in mixed conductors (& MRSEC seed)
Adrian Xiao Bin Yong
PhD Student
Co-advised; primary advisor: Elif Ertekin
axyong2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Electronic structure and chemical expansivity of perovskites
Micah Armstrong
PhD Student
Joined 8/2020
micahda2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Combinatorial synthesis and high temperature characterization of defect-mediated properties
Kai-Wei Lan
PhD Student
Joined 1/2021
kwlan2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Solid electrolytes for high energy density Li-ion batteries
En Ju Cho
PhD Student
Joined 9/2021
enjucho2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: 1) Recyclable batteries (thin film electrolytes); 2) Thin film electrodes for low temperature green H2 production
Guha Keshav Mohan
MS Student in MatSE
Joined 2/2022
Project: Crystallization of mixed conducting films and in situ characterization
Joshua Simpson-Gomez
BS Student in MatSE
Joined 1/2020
Project: Crystallization and electrical conductivity studies of mixed conducting films
Katrina Arsky
BS Student in MatSE
Joined 8/2021
Project: Combinatorial films
Michael Sun
BS Student in MatSE
Joined 1/2022
Project: Thin film electrodes for green H2
Alumni:
MS / PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers:
Dr. Dino Klotz
Post-doctoral Researcher; Co-advised with Prof. Harry Tuller (MIT)
Working at I2CNER, Kyushu University
Dr. Ting Chen
PhD student then post-doctoral researcher in the group at I2CNER (2015-2019)
Now working at Toyota (China) on fuel cells
Dr. Sophie Ju
Post-doctoral researcher in the group at I2CNER
Now working as researcher at Charles University (Prague)
Colin Reedy
PhD student 2019-2020
Now working at Elemental Scientific, Inc., Nebraska
Yiwen Guo
3+2 ZJU-UIUC BS+MS student 2019-2021
Now PhD student at Penn State
Undergraduate researchers:
Sankhya Hirani
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (2/2020-5/2020)
Jo Kubota
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (9/2019-5/2020)
Kotaro Yamamoto
Visiting undergraduate researcher from Kyushu U. at UIUC (2-3/2020)
Karen Yang
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (9/2018-8/2019)
Yuki Abe
Visiting undergraduate researcher from Kyushu University (spring 2019)
Kimberly Garza
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (fall 2018)
Takaya Fujisaki
3-month intern in the group at I2CNER
Juveria Masood
Summer PIRE X-fusion exchange student at I2CNER