Group Members

Principle Investigator:

  • Dr. Haitao Zhang

Current Students:

  • Soheil Razmyar (PhD Student)

Alumni:
Graduate Students:

  • Padmanabha Pradeep Chavvakula (MS 2011)
  • Tao Sheng (PhD 2015)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Nathan Brady, (2015–2016 EPIC Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2016 Charlotte Research Scholars Student) 
  • Benjamin S. Kantner (2015 ME-SREU Student)
  • Fernando Sanchez Santiago (2014 NanoSURE Student, University of Puerto Rico)
  • Joseph Huson (2014 NSF-REU, 2014 ME-SREU Student)
  • Ezekiel Ogle (2013 NSF-REU Student)
  • Alexander Scott (2012 ME-SREU Student, Tennessee Technological University)
  • Grace Yook (2012 NanoSURE Student, rising freshman)
  • Maria Cannizzo ( 2011-2012 Senior Design)
  • John Troutman (2011 NSF-REU, 2011-2012 Senior Design, 2012 NanoSURE Student)
  • Taylor Garrick (2011 NanoSURE Student, University of South Carolina)

High School Students:

  • Jenny Gosney (2016 ME-SREU Student, rising senior, Charlotte Country Day School)
  • Austin Anderson (2015 ME-SREU Student, rising senior, Charlotte Country Day School)
  • Walker Poole (2014 ME-SREU Student, rising senior, Charlotte Country Day School)
  • Alexander Owen (2013 ME-SREU Student, rising senior, Charlotte Country Day School)

Student Awards and Achievements:

  • Soheil Razmyar, won Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) Student Research Grant Award from American Public Power Association, Student Research Grant: CS-2086 “Controlled Growth and Property Study of Two-dimensional Molybdenum Oxide Nanostructures”, Dec. 2016. 
  • Soheil Razmyar, won Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Developments (DEED) Student Research Grant Award from American Public Power Association, Student Research Grant CS-2016 “Nano-cable Heterostructures for Enhanced Solar Energy Harvesting”, Jun. 2015. 
  • Nathan Brady, EPIC Undergraduate Research Assistant Award, “One-dimensional Nano-cable Heterostructures for Enhanced Solar Energy Harvesting”, Fall 2015 – Spring 2016.
  • Benjamin S. Kantner, “One-dimensional Nano-cable Heterostructures for Enhanced Solar Energy Harvesting”,(poster), won Honorable Mention in Fourth Annual Summer Research Symposium, July 2015, UNC Charlotte.
  • Joseph Huson, “Intermediate Product Induced VLS Growth for 1D Nanostructures”, (oral), won 1st Place Department Award in Undergraduate Research Conference 2015, Apr. 2015, UNC Charlotte.
  • John Troutman, “Nanoscale Deposition and Measurement in Scanning Electron Microscope”, (oral), won 1st Place Department Award in Undergraduate Research Conference 2012, Apr. 2012, UNC Charlotte.