Principal Investigator

Pedro Da Costa, PhD

Laboratory for Carbon Nanostructures (LCN)
Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Geetanjali Deokar

Chemical vapor deposition, Carbon nanostructures, Carbon nanotubes, Graphene, Nanomaterials

Milan Zunic

Solar Energy, Nanomaterials

Palanisamy Tamilarasan, PhD

Carbon nanostructures, Electrochemistry

Prasantha Mudimela

Carbon nanostructures, Sensors, Nano-fabrication

Rajesh Thomas, PhD

Chemical vapor deposition, Carbon nanostructures, Energy storage

PhD Students

Ahmed Abdelkader

Carbon nanostructures, Transmission electron microscopy

Amira Alazmi

Characterization, Atomic layer deposition (ALD), Supercapacitors

Filipa Simoes

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), Microwave-assisted acid digestion, Carbon nanostructures

Jasmin Smajic

Carbon nanotubes, Energy storage, Energy conversion, Transmission electron microscopy

Nitin Batra

Transmission electron microscopy, Electron microscopy based fabrication and manipulation, Carbon nanostructures, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Nano-fabrication

Masters Students

Areej Al-Zahrani

Graphene, Characterization, Carbon nanostructures, Intercalation, Exfoliation

Jorge Holguin

Nanomaterials, Carbon nanostructures

Mariam Hakami

Chemical vapor deposition

Research Group Staff

Arnab Kanti Giri, PhD

Research Consultant​​​​​​​​

Synthesis and separation of graphene, Technology transfer

Visiting Student

Axel Loredo

Research Intern​​​​​

Bashir Hasanov

Carbon nanostructures, Synthesis and separation of graphene, Exfoliation, Electrochemistry, Supercapacitors

Kevin Jaouen

​Research Intern​​​​​​​​​​

Marwa Itani

Research Intern​

Sandra Lopez

Research Intern​​​​​​

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