Research Interests
My research focuses on pursuing more efficient synthetic methods and achieving higher level perfection in the design of polymer architectures via novel polymerization methods; and the study of applications of polymeric materials with well-defined structures in energy conversion and storage devices, detection of chemicals at low concentrations and removal of harmful chemicals from the environment, etc.
- 07/2022 – 06/2025 Improving inductive reasoning in polymer science education through open virtual experiment simulator education tools (OVESET), NSF IUSE, NSF-2142043.
- 06/2021 – 05/2024 Modular Reactors for the Capture and Electro-conversion of $\ce{CO2}$ in Various Industrial Processes to Value-Added Chemicals, DOE EERE, DE-EE0009421.
- 09/2020 – 08/2022 High-Efficiency Electrochemical Conversion of $\ce{CO2}$ to Ethylene, DOE NETL, DE-FE0031919.
- 06/2017 – 06/2020 Controlled Polymer Synthesis Towards the Precision of Biomacromolecules, Board of Regents of the State of Louisiana Research Competitiveness Subprogram, LEQSF(2017-20)-RD-A-23.
