Poltavets Lab: Inorganic Materials (Solid State) Chemistry: Energy Materials

PEOPLE

Postdocs

Graduate students

Undergraduate students

Viktor V. Poltavets

Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

Office/Lab: 433/432 Chemistry
Phone: 517-355-9715 ext. 388
Fax: 517 353 1793
Email: poltavets(at)chemistry.msu.edu

Postdoctoral Scholars

		Dr. Jai Prakash I have joined the Poltavets group in August, 2011. Currently I am involved in the exploratory synthesis of novel materials for battery, thermoelectric and superconducting applications. I did my PhD in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi under the supervision of Prof. Ashok K Ganguli.
		Dr. Jahangeer Ahmed Hey myself is Dr. Jahangeer Ahmed and recently I have joined the research group of Dr. Poltavets (April 2011). I will be involved in several projects like battery materials, dye sensitized solar cells, nanochemistry etc. I have done my Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi under the supervision of Professor Ashok K. Ganguli in 2011.

Graduate Students

		Shannon Kraemer Undergraduate Institution: The University of Toledo Undergraduate Research Advisor: Prof. Cora Lind I joined the Poltavets lab in Fall of 2012. I am currently working on developing new methods for synthesizing thermoelectric materials along with making new thermoelectric materials. I received a B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Toledo in 2011.

		Hamed Hajibabaei Najafabadi

		Joshua Davis I joined the Poltavets Group in December 2011. I recently graduated from Grand Valley State University with a B.S. in Chemistry in the Winter of 2011. While in undergrad, I briefly worked with organometallics, but since then I have switch gears. Currently, I am working on learning to predict the structure and properties of battery and strongly correlated electron materials with the aid of DFT calculations.

		Colin Blakely I am currently developing new techniques for manipulating the perovskite structure via removal and replacement of choice atoms to change the properties of the material. I received a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 2009.

		Shaun Bruno Hey my name is Shaun, I joined the Poltavets lab in Fall of 2009. I will be doing research on a few projects with goals of making new battery materials and compounds using the hydrothermal method and the ceramic method and analysis using X-Ray Diffraction. I will also be working on making new thermoelectric materials. I received the Outstanding Student Award in Chemistry from the ACS in 2007. I graduated from Michigan State University with my B.S. in Chemistry in the spring of 2009.

Undergraduate students

Chad Tenbusch
Spring 2011 (CEM 186H) -

John Suddard-Bangsund
Spring 2012 (CEM 186H) -

Andrew Bundas
Spring 2013 (CEM 186H) -

Jonathon Clapham
Fall 2012 -

Group Alumni

Zach Baum Fall 2009 - Spring 2012	Nick Rowland Fall 2009 - Fall 2011
Max Braun Fall 2009 - Spring 2011	Korey Carter Spring 2010 - Fall 2011
Michelle Ford Spring 2010	Mollie Pertuso Spring 2010 (CEM 186H) - Spring 2011
Kyle Anderson Spring 2010 (CEM 186H)	Jake Hoppert Spring 2010 (CEM 186H) - Spring 2011