RE3workshop

Poster Session

The scientific poster session is open to all high school, undergrad, and grad students, postdocs, and faculty with renewable energy and energy efficiency-related research projects. To submit a poster for consideration, send the title, author list, and 250-word abstract to Andrew Marsh, workshop coordinator, at RE3Workshop "at" gmail.com before Friday, March 20.

Accepted posters are to be hung and discussed from 4 - 6 pm on Sunday 3/22 in the Medallion Ballroom of the Seelbach Hotel at 500 S. 4th Street. The poster session final judging will take place on Monday 3/23 from 4:30 - 7:00 pm, which also includes discussion. Awards will be given on Tuesday morning at the start of the lecture session from 8:30 - 9:00 am. Poster authors should attend these 3 functions. See AGENDA.

Poster sizes are 36" high or 44" high x 56" inch wide, horizontal alignment only. The bulletin boards on which posters will hang are 4' high x 8' wide on 3' legs.

The poster session is free and open to the public.

Featured posters are listed in alphabetic order by submitting author's last name and grouped by institution.

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Dupont Manual High School

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• How to make the use of supercapacitors useful by testing different electrodes and activated carbon fiber samples from renewable resources
  Simran Khiani

• Impact of Shading on Energy Production by a Solar Panel
  Vishal Polepalli

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Kentucky Country Day High School

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• Evaluation of Agricultural Seed Fibers as a C5 Sugar Source for Biofuels
  Sriram Satyavolu

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University of Kentucky

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• Computational Pre-Screening of Organic Materials for Energy Storage Systems
  Corrine Elliott, Aman Preet Kaur, Selin Ergun, Matthew D. Casselman, Chad Risko, Susan A. Odom

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• Nanoparticle-Catalyzed Membrane for Water Detoxification 2nd Place Winner
  Sebastián Hernández, Lindell Ormsbee, and Dibakar Bhattacharyya

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• Defect and ionic transport in lithium ion batteries 3rd Place Winner
  Jie Pan, Yue Qi, Yang-Tse Cheng

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• Plasma Treated TiO2 for Photocatalytic and Supercapacitor Applications
  Allen D. Reed and Syed Z. Islam

• Biomolecule immobilized electrode system towards energy generation
  Rupam Sarma and Anne-Frances Miller
   

• Novel Techniques to Determine Mechanical Properties of Thin Films for Lithium Ion Batteries
  Qinglin Zhang and Yang-Tse Cheng

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University of Louisville

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• Plasma-assisted solution synthesis of metal oxide alloys 
  Babajide Patrick Ajayi, Sudesh Kumari, Daniel Jaramillo, Jacek Jasinski, Josh Spurgeon and Mahendra Sunkara

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• Solvo-Plasma Synthesis of Porous Tin Oxide Nano wires
  Veerendra Atla, Tu Nguyen, and M.Sunkara

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• Synthesis of C5 Bio-chemicals and Bio-fuels Utilizing D-xylose Obtained from Biomass
  Madeline R. Beatty, Kari E. Oigarden, Dania A. Fonseca and Christopher T. Burns

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• First principle material simulation using VASP code
  Indira Chaudhuri, Madhu Menon and Mahendra K Sunkara

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• Fabrication of sulfur cathode electrode for Lithium Sulfur batteries
  Ruchira Dharmasena, Gamini Sumanasekera, Mahendra Sunkara, Arjun Thapa, Jacek Jasinski

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• Alternative Creation of Elemental Copper for Printed Electronics by Intense Pulsed Light treatment of Copper Nitrate Hydroxide 3rd Place Winner
  Gabriel L. Draper, Ruvini Dharmadasa, Meghan Staats, Brandon Lavery, and Thad Druffel

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• Application of Post-Hydrolysis Carbons: Carbon Electrodes in Monolithic Perovskite-based Solar Cells
  Zachary Herde, Jagannadh Satyavolu, Gamini Sumanasekera, Ruchira Dharmasena, Azadeh Celaymanian

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• Towards Integrated Bio-refinery: Carbonization of Post-Hydrolysis Agricultural Fibers
  Zachary Herde, Jagannadh Satyavolu, Gamini Sumanasekera, Azadeh Celaymanian

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• Spectroscopic investigation of charge carrier dynamics in novel solar cell materials
  Abdelqader Jamhawi, Hamzeh Telfah, Mahendra Sunkara, and Jinjun Liu
   

• Large Single Crystal Growth of Gallium Nitride
  Daniel F. Jaramillo-Cabanzo and Mahendra K. Sunkara
   

• Self-oriented gallium nitride growth on melt gallium layer by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD)
  Daniel F. Jaramillo-Cabanzo and Mahendra K. Sunkara

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• New Approaches Towards Selective Hemicellulose Hydrolysis to Lower Costs for a More Cost-Effective Integrated Bio-Refinery
  Eurick S. Kim and Jagannadh Satyavolu

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• Electrochemical Hydrocarbon Fuel Production from CO­2 3rd Place Winner
  Bijandra Kumar, Sudesh Kumari, Robert T. White, Mahendra Sunkara, Joshua Spurgeon

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• Creating Larger Grain Sizes In Perovskite Solar Cells Using Intense Pulsed Light 1st Place Winner
  Brandon W. Lavery, Venkat Vendra, Thad Druffel, Mahendra Sunkara

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• Building a better lithium battery anode with nanostructured composite electrodes
  Alejandro Martinez-Garcia, Arjun Kumar Thapa, Ruvini Dharmadasa, Tu Q. Nguyen, Jacek Jasinski, Theodore L. Druffel & Mahendra K Sunkara

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• Vehicle to Grid Utilizing a Backstepping Controller for DC/DC Full Bridge Converter and Five Level Active Neutral Point Clamped DC/AC Inverter
  Mohammad Mohebbi, Michael L. McIntyre, Joseph Latham

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• A Novel Two Stage DC/AC Power Converter Optimized for Energy Efficiency
  Mohammad Mohebbi, Michael L. McIntyre, Joseph Latham

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• A study of a novel Na ion battery and its anodic degradation using sodium rich Prussian blue cathode coupled with different titanium based oxide anodes
  Santanu Mukherjee, Nicholas Schuppert, Byungrak Son, Joogon Kim, Osung Kwon, and Sam Park

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• High temperature CO2 capture using Solvo-plasma™ synthesized Li4SiO4 nanomaterials
  Apolo Nambo, Juan He, Tu Quang Nguyen, Thad Druffel, Mahendra Sunkara

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• Scalable Production of Metal Oxide Nanowires Using a Solvo-PlasmaTM Technique
  Tu Nguyen, Venkat Vendra, Jacek Jasinski, and Mahendra Sunkara

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• Kenaf – a potential energy crop for Kentucky
  Nathan Prince and Jagannadh Satyavolu

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• Using Mean Age for Simulating Reaction Progress in Enzymatic Hydrolysis Reactors
  David C. Russ, Zhuoliang Ye, R. Eric Berson

• Strain Capacitor as an Energy Storage Device
  Pranoy Deb Shuvra and Shamus McNamara

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• New Visible Light Absorbing Materials for Solar Fuels, GaSbxN1-x Alloys
  Swathi Sunkara, Alejandro Martinez Garcia, Venkat Vendra, Jacek Jasinski, Madhu Menon, Mahendra Sunkara

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• High Capacity and High Energy Density Lithium-ion Battery
  A.K. Thapa, A. Martinez-Garcia, V. Vendra, M. Carreon, J. B. Jasinski, T. Paronyan, G. U. Sumanasekera, and M. K. Sunkara
   

• Partial Shading Abatement through Cell Level Inverter System Topology
  Steven Tidwell, Mark Elliott, Joseph Latham, Michael McIntyre

• CdSe Semiconductor Nanoclusters Passivated with Strongly Interacting PDTC Ligands: Energy Level Alignment and Photoinduced Ultrafast Charge Transfer Processes 
  Yizhou Xie, Meghan B. Teunis, Bill Pandit, Rajesh Sardar, and Jinjun Liu

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Western Kentucky University

• ‘Hybrid’ Graphene / Conducting Polymer Multilayers as High-performance Supercapacitors: Layer-by-Layer Assembly via Electropolymerization and Property Characterization
  Carson Price and Sanju Gupta
   

• Electrostatic Self-assembled Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Multilayers as Efficient Energy Storage “All Carbon” Supercapacitors
  S. Gupta, E. Heintzman, and C. Price
   

• Graphene-based Hybrids with Electrochemical Synthesized Manganese Oxides Polymorphs as Tailored Interfaces for Renewable Energy Sources
  S. Gupta, M. Van Meveren, J. Jasinski
   

• Graphene-Inorganic ‘hybrids’ with Cobalt Oxide Polymorphs for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Electrocatalysis Applications 2nd Place Winner
  S. Botero, B. McDonald and S. Gupta
   

• Cracking the Silicon Case: Graphene and Mesoporous Silicon Composite Nanoarchitectures as Stable, High-performance Li-Ion Batteries Anodes
  J. Walden and S. Gupta
   

• Donor-Acceptor Core-Shell Nanoparticles for Organic-based Solar Cells
  Aubrey Penn, Anna Braun, Kelly McKenna, John Ferguson, and Hemali Rathnayake
   

• Cost effective carbon based solar cells for renewable energy sources
  Swapnil Sahare, Jacob Strain, Manda Venkata Ramana, John Ferguson, and Hemali Rathnayake
   

• Fused Arenes-based molecular systems as additives for organic photovoltaics
  Ananthakrishnan Jeevarathinum Soundaram, Jacob Strain, Rachana Neesu, Dharmesh Patel, and Hemali Rathnayake
   

• Multifluorescent core-shell silsesquioxane particles for Energy Harvesting
  Niharika Neerudu Sreeramulu and Hemali Rathnayake

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Judges

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Mona Shirpour, PhD, Chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
University of Kentucky

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Sanju Gupta, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Western Kentucky University

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H. Sam Park, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Louisville

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