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Principal Investigator

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Ayman M. Karim

 

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering
239 Goodwin Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Email: amkarim@vt.edu
Telephone: 540-231-9138
FAX: 540-231-5022

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Wenhui Li

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis and characterizations, nucleation and growth kinetics, ligand-organometallic thermodynamics.

Email: whli@vt.edu  

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Graduate and Undergraduate  Researchers

Yubing Lu

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Single atom catalysts, synthesis and in-situ characterization of heterogeneous catalysts, reaction kinetics, x-ray adsorption fine structure.  

Email: yubinglu@vt.edu  

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Saeed Mozaffari

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Nucleation and growth modeling, nanoparticle synthesis, complex fluids rheology, micro/nanofluidics, and asphaltenes.

 

Email: saeedm6@vt.edu 

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Chun-Te Kuo

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Single atom catalysts, heterogeneous catalysts, reaction kinetics and mechanism, x-ray adsorption fine structure.  

Email: chunte20@vt.edu 

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Xiwen Zhang

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Synthesis and characterization of supported metal catalysts; atomic scale design of catalysts; kinetic study of alkane/alkene reactions

 

Email: xwzhang@vt.edu

Eric Husmann

MS.c Student​

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Research interests: Catalyst synthesis, ATR-IR spectroscopy, reaction kinetics, and surface chemistry.

 

Email: ehus@vt.edu  

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Malik Albrahim

Ph.D. Student​

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Research interests: Single atom catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, reaction kinetics and modeling. 
 

Email: albrahim@vt.edu 

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Andrew Wenzel

B.S. Student​

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Research interests:  Catalysis, reaction kinetics and mechanism

 
 

Email: ahwenzel@vt.edu

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Christoper Wooten

B.S. Student​

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Research interests: Nanoparticle Synthesis and Characterization

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Email: ctw16@vt.edu  

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