Jeremy Essner
3rd Year Graduate Student
Office: CB443
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (785)532-6979
Educational Background: Jeremy received his B.S. in chemistry from Benedictine College in 2008. While at Benedictine he conducted research in four areas.
Awards: Jeremy received the Discovery Scholar Award for the research he conducted while at Benedictine.
Research Interests: Jeremy’s research interests are in materials chemistry, nanotechnology and alternative sources of energy/renewable energy.
Current Research: Currently Jeremy is working on the design, construction, and characterization of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). He is in the process of optimizing Grätzel cells to push the efficiency as high as possible. At the same time, Jeremy is working on constructing and characterizing a DSSC based on a vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (VACNF) array coated in TiO2 nanoneedles. Jeremy plans to use the optimizations of the Grätzel cells to hopefully drive the efficiency of the VACNF based cell past the current efficiency of ~1% which was achieved by Dr. Jianwei Lui.
Publications:
Hybrid Supercapacitor Based on Coaxially Coated Manganese Oxide on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays, J. Liu, J. Essner, J. Li, Chem. Mater. 22 (17), 5022-30 (2010).
3rd Year Graduate Student
Office: CB443
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (785)532-6979
Educational Background: Jeremy received his B.S. in chemistry from Benedictine College in 2008. While at Benedictine he conducted research in four areas.
- Synthesis of Rocketene, August 2004 to May 2005, Synthesized strained aromatic organic molecules.
- Analysis of Mercury levels in ponds, streams, and rivers surrounding Atchison, Kansas, August to December 2005, Used AA instrument to test water samples for mercury content.
- Synthesis of segmented Nickel-Bismuth nano-wires, September 2006 to May 2007, Constructed segmented Nickel-Bismuth nanowires.
- Electroplating of bismuth, September 2007 to May 2008, Attempted to find ideal conditions for bismuth to be electroplated with the goal of creating a thermoelectric generator using bismuth.
Awards: Jeremy received the Discovery Scholar Award for the research he conducted while at Benedictine.
Research Interests: Jeremy’s research interests are in materials chemistry, nanotechnology and alternative sources of energy/renewable energy.
Current Research: Currently Jeremy is working on the design, construction, and characterization of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). He is in the process of optimizing Grätzel cells to push the efficiency as high as possible. At the same time, Jeremy is working on constructing and characterizing a DSSC based on a vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (VACNF) array coated in TiO2 nanoneedles. Jeremy plans to use the optimizations of the Grätzel cells to hopefully drive the efficiency of the VACNF based cell past the current efficiency of ~1% which was achieved by Dr. Jianwei Lui.
Publications:
Hybrid Supercapacitor Based on Coaxially Coated Manganese Oxide on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays, J. Liu, J. Essner, J. Li, Chem. Mater. 22 (17), 5022-30 (2010).