RE3workshop

The scientific poster session is open to all undergrad and grad students, postdocs, and faculty with energy-food-water nexus-related research projects. To submit a poster for consideration, send the title, author list, and 250-word abstract to Delaina Amos, workshop coordinator, at RE3Workshop "at" gmail.com before Friday, May 12.
 

Accepted posters are to be hung and discussed from 5:30 - 8:00 pm on Monday, May 22 in the Muhammad Ali Center. The poster session final judging will take place at that time, 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.

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• Synthesis of Graphene Oxide Membranes and their behavior in Water and Isopropanol
  Ashish Aher, Yuguang Cai, Mainak Majumder, and Dibakar Bhattacharyy
  University of Kentucky
   

• Biomass Conversion to Functionalized Carbon
  Masoudeh Ahmadi, Jacek Jasinski, Jagannadh Stayavolu, Mahendra Sunkara
  University of Louisville
   

• A Combinatorial Synthesis Technique for Mixed Metal Oxides for Accelerated Materials Discovery - 1st PLACE
  Babajiide Patrick Ajayi, Sudesh Kumari, Daniel Jaramillo-Cabanzo, Joshua Spurgeon, Jacek Jasinski, Mahendra K. Sunkara
  University of Louisville
   

• Controlled Growth of 1-D Tungsten Oxide Nanostructures via Chemical Vapor Deposition Route
  Muhammad Zain Akramv, Yasir Abbas, Mahendra Sunkara, Jian Ru Gong
  National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, People's Republic of China; University of Louisville
   

• Novel Band-Gap Engineered III-V Alloys for Unassisted Water Photoelectrolysis
  Sonia Calero-Barney, Alejandro Martinez-Garcia, Harry B. Russell, William Paxton, Srikanth Ravipati, Madhu Menon, Ernst Richter, James Young, Todd Deutsch, Mahendra K. Sunkara
  University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, Daimler AG, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
   

• Sun Bleach
  Emily Braun, Andrew Callahan, Blake Morris, Gavin Gleeson
  Sun Bleach; Bellarmine University
   

• Graphene-family Nanomaterials Assembled with Cobalt oxides and Cobalt Nanoparticles As Hybrid Supercapacitive Electrodes and Enzymeless Glucose Detection Platforms
  S. B. Carrizosa, N. Dimakis and S. Gupta, 
  Western Kentucky University
   

• Production of Biocontrol Agents for Treating Asian Rust Disease Using Soybean Processing Wastes
  Ulalo Chirwa
  University of Kentucky
   

• Will Hemp Become the Next Big Kentucky Crop?
  Lalitendu Das, Enshi Liu, Areej Saeed, David W. Williams, Hongqiang Hu, Chenlin Li, Allison E. Ray, Jian Shi
  Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Plant and Soils Science Department, University of Kentucky; Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability (RCARS); Energy and Environment Science and Technology, Idaho National Laboratory
   

• Catalytic oxidation and depolymerization of lignin in ionic liquids
  Lalitendu Das, Siquan Xu, Jian Shi
  Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky; College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forest University
   

• Nanoporous Metals as Layers in Composite Reactive Membranes
  Michael J Detisch, T. John Balk, Dibakar Bhattacharyya
  University of Kentucky, Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
   

• Electrochemical study of TiO2 coated sulfur electrode for Li-S batteries
  Ruchira Dharmasena, Arjun K.Thapa, Jacek Jasinski,Mahendra Sunkara, Gamini U. Sumanasekera 
  University of Louisville
   

• Building a co-creation community of entrepreneurs in emerging markets around access to safe water
  Thad Druffel, Mark Hogg, Erin Yenney
  University of Louisville, Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research; WaterStep
   

• De-agglomeration of Detonation Nanodiamond via Salt-assisted Ultrasonication and Surface Redox Chemistry for Sensing Applications - 2nd PLACE
  B. Evans, A. Henson, S. B. Carrizosa and S. Gupta
  Western Kentucky University
   

• A Scalable, Carbon Free, Energy Efficient Method of Ammonia Production
  Shelby Foster, Julie N. Renner, Kathy Ayers, Andrew M. Herring, Lauren F. Greenlee
  University of Arkansas; Proton OnSite; Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
   

• Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction using Intense Pulsed Light - 3rd PLACE
  Alexander Gupta, Jianchao Zhao, Blake Martin, Theodore Kalbfleisch, Thad Druffel, and Gautam Gupta
  University of Louisville Energy Sustainability Lab
   

• In-Situ Raman Spectroscopy Characterization of Graphene-Inorganic 'hybrids' with Cobalt Oxides Polymorphs: Investigating Charge Transfer Dynamics
  S. Gupta, S. B. Carrizosa and N. Dimakis
  Western Kentucky University
   

• Nanowires based Hydro-desulfurization Catalysts for Hydrocarbon Fuels
  Juan He, Sivakumar Vasireddy, Tu Nguyen, Vivekanand Kumar and Mahendra K. Sunkara
  Advanced Energy Materials, LLC., Louisville, KY
   

• Manufacturing Onsite Medical Strength Disinfectant With Low Voltage, In Large Volume and Quickly
  Mark Hogg
  WaterStep
   

• Effect of Ca incorporation on crystal structure, magnetism and electrical properties of Sr2-xCaxFe2O6-?
  Ram Krishna Hona, Asfia Huq, Suresh Mulmi and Farshid Ramezanipour
  University of Louisville
   

• Breaking recalcitrance of softwoods by an integrated thermochemical and biological pathway
  Md Anwar Hossain, Thanh Khoa Phung, Sarttrawut Tulaphol, Teerawit Prasomsri, and Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh
  University of Louisville
   

• Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires: The Synergetic Catalytic Effect of Molten Gallium in the Presence of Plasma
  Daniel F. Jaramillo-Cabanzo, Maria L. Carreon, Indira Chaudhuri, Madhu Menon and Mahendra K. Sunkara
  Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville
   

• High Surface Area Carbon supports for Hydrogen Evolution using Standard Pencils
  Ted Kalbfleisch, Dhruv Patel, Charles Zhao, Alex Gupta, Gautam Gupta
  University of Louisville Energy Sustainability Lab
   

• Pencils as Porous Carbon Support Materials for Catalyst Testing in Hydrogen Evolution
  Ted Kalbfleisch, Charles Zhao, Dhruv Patel, Alex Gupta, Gautam Gupta
  University of Louisville Energy Sustainability Lab
   

• Enhancing the Photovoltaic Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Rare-Earth Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
  Pom Lal Kharel, Francis P. Zamborini, and Bruce W. Alphenaar 
  University of Louisville
   

• Tin oxide Porous Nano wires with a High Density of Grain Boundaries as Catalysts for Electro chemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid conversion
  Kumar, Bijandra; Atla, Veerendra; Brian, J. Patrick; Kumari, Sudesh; Nguyen, Tu Quang; Sunkara, Mahendra; Spurgeon, Joshua M.
  University of Louisville
   

• In-situ binding recognition of phospholipid-guanidinium interactions at the air/water interface
  Jennifer Kurtz, Wei Zhao, Amar Flood, Heather Allen
  Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University 
   

• Effects of Structure and Composition of Lignin on the Derived Activated Carbon Materials for Supercapacitor Application
  Wenqi Li, Jian Shi
  University of Kentucky
   

• Impact of dilute sulfuric acid, ammonia hydroxide and ionic liquid pretreatment on the fractionation and characterization of engineered switchgrass
  Enshi Liu, Lalitendu Das, Bingyu Zhao, Mark Crocker, Jian Shi
  Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
  University of Kentucky; Department of Horticulture, Virginia Tech; Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky; & Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
   

• Exploring Catalysts Bound with Nitrogenase-based and non-Nitrogenase-based Peptides as an Approach toward Electrochemical Ammonia Production
  Charles Loney, Ashley Graybill, Cheyan Xu, Prashant Acharya, David Suttmiller, Luke Wiles, Lauren F. Greenlee, Wayne Gellett, and Julie N. Renner
  Case Western Reserve University
   

• Tuning of composition and reaction conditions of inorganic-organic hybrid perovskites to model crystal growth
  Blake Martin, Brandon Lavery, Venkata Vasiraju, Gautam Gupta, Thad Druffel
  University of Louisville
   

• Gallium Phosphide as a passivation layer for p-type Silicon photocathodes
  Alejandro Martinez-Garcia, Sonia Calero-Barney, Mahendra K. Sunkara
  University of Louisville
   

• Energy-Food: The rise of vertical farming
  Miller, Mark; Uddenberg, Signo; Nagengast, Amy; Pietras, Matt
  MKThink
   

• Ultrafast carbon dioxide sorption kinetics using lithium silicate nanowires
  Apolo Nambo, Juan He, Tu Quang Nguyen, Veerendra Atla, Thad Druffel, and Mahendra Sunkara
  University of Louisville
   

• Selective isosorbide production from sorbitol using selective silica-aluminas in aqueous media
  Thanh Khoa Phung, Md Anwar Hossain, Teerawit Prasomsri, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh
  Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville
   

• Oxygen vacancy defects on La1-x CaXMnO3±? for electrocatalysis
  K. Ramachandra Rao, Babajide Patrick Ajayi, Hugo Apolo Nambo Salgado, Dominika A. Ziolkowska, Mahendra Sunkara, Jacek B. Jasinski
  Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research & Department of Chemical Engineering University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
   

• Plasma jet deposition of nanoparticle and nanowire network thin films conveyed through plasmas via gas-solid fluidization
  Srikanth Ravipati, W. F. Paxton and M. K. Sunkara
  Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville
   

• Development of an Automated Combinatorial Plasma Synthesis Device for Catalyst Evaluation
  Chris Robinson
  University of Louisville
   

• Building Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal (BIPV/T) Systems Applications, Enhancement and Modeling
  Efstratios Dimitrios Rounis, Andreas Athienitis, Theodore Stathopoulos
  Concordia University Montreal
   

• Exploring Biocatalysis in Ionic Liquid for Selective Lignin Depolymerization
  Joseph Stevens, Ryan Kalinoski, Lalitendu Das and Jian Shi
  University of Kentucky, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
   

• Fabrication of Lithium-ion Conducting Solid Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for High-Performance Lithium Metal Batteries
  Bishnu P. Thapaliya, Xiaoguang Sun, Nanqing Chen, Chi-Linh Do-Thanh, Sheng Dai
  Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee; Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
   

• Industrial hemp: from waste to fuels
  Sarttrawut Tulaphol, Thanh Khoa Phung, Md Anwar Hossain, Teerawit Prasomsri, and Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh
  University of Louisville
   

• Determining Viscoplastic Properties of Lithium Metal by Nanoindentation
  Yikai Wang and Yang-Tse Cheng
  University of Kentucky
   

• Determination of carbonyl inhibitors in biomass hydrolysates using 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazine (DNPH) and GC-MS/MS
  Yu Zhang, Changlei Xia, Maobing Tu
  Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati
   

• Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysts via Plasma Treatment of MoS2 on Disposable Graphitic Pencils
  Jianchao Zhao, Alexander Gupta, Theodore Kalbfleisch, Dhruv Patel, Mahendra Sunkara, Gautam Gupta
  Department of Chemical Engineering, Conn Center, University of Louisville
   

• Towards a Real-Time Data-Driven Approach for Proactive Injury Prevention in Agriculture
  Junqi Zhao and Esther Obonyo
  Pennsylvania State University
   

• Discovery of Design Principles for Phosphate Recognition at Water Interfaces
  Wei Zhao, Jennifer Kurtz, Bo Qiao, Heather C. Allen, and Amar H. Flood
  Department of Chemistry, Indiana University; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University
   

• The Study of the Carbon Nanocage Growth Mechanism
  Dominika A. Ziolkowska, John S. Dilip Jangam, Madhu Menon, Gamini U. Sumanasekera,and Jacek B. Jasinski
  University of Warsaw; University of Louisville; University of Kentucky