About Us

Principal Investigator

Anne Co
STEAM Member Anne Co wins an NSF CAREER Award for "Control of surface  reactivity for catalyzing hydrocarbon formation from CO₂" | The STEAM  Factory at The Ohio State University

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 

Associate Fellow, Center for Automotive Research 

Associate Editor, ACS Applied Energy Materials 

 
Office: MP 3033E
Office Phone: (614) 688-8333
 

Background

Anne Co obtained her B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry and Ph.D. in Chemistry with a specialization in Electrochemistry under Professor Viola Birss from the University of Calgary, Canada. She then joined National Research Council Canada in Ottawa with an NSERC Visiting Fellowship and later served as a Research Associate. In 2008, she continued her postdoctoral studies with Cynthia Friend at Harvard University with a Mary Fieser Fellowship Award. Anne Co’s current research interest is in investigating the properties of electrocatalytic materials and processes for energy conversion and storage. She joined the Ohio State Chemistry Department in August of 2010.

 
 
 

Current Lab Members (as of December 2023)

Post Docs

Dr. José L. Lorié López

Battery Team

Project: Energy Storage (battery, perovskite) and corrosion

PhD: The Ohio State University 2018

Email: lorielopez.1@osu.edu

Dr. Sung Gu Cho

BS at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea in 2017

Ph.D The Ohio State University May 2023

Project: Battery

Email: cho.945@osu.edu

Graduate Students

Battery Team

Modeste Tegomoh

Fifth Year Student

B.Sc. (Chemistry) with a minor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry 2011, University of Buea (UB), Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon

M.Sc. (Chemistry) 2015, East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City, TN

Current project motivation: The call to switch the energy source from fossil to renewable to avoid an environmental calamity is clearly outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement, and in other to achieve such stringent international agreement, significant advancement in the field of material engineering and analysis is required. Energy harvesting from the sun and wind have proven very significant, but these sources of energy are not always available 24/7, which means we need some kind of energy storage device to complement these energy production farms. This is where the battery team of our lab comes in.

Current Project: I am currently working on making and characterizing high entropy materials for high-power lithium-ion batteries. Characterization techniques might include XRD, SEM/TEM, electrochemical methods, etc.

One of the other important aspects in our battery team which I am also working on involves the understanding of the lithiation mechanism of the materials I make, or existing materials in other to improve their performance. I use Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (ssNMR) for mechanistic studies.

Email: tegomoh.1@osu.edu

Dave Wood

Fourth Year Student

Undergrad: The Ohio State University BS in Chemistry

Project: NDP of sulfide based solid state electrolytes for lithium ion batteries

Email: wood.1153@osu.edu

Jiseon Hwang

Fourth Year Student

BS in Chemistry from Sungshin Women’s University, South Korea in 2017

MS in Chemistry from Hanyang University, South Korea in 2019

Major Project: Making Si-based Anode for fast charging Lithium-ion batteries

Email: hwang.599@osu-edu

Sam Mendez

Fourth Year Student

GEM Fellow

BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin

Projects:
Nanostructured materials for high-energy density batteries
Binder investigation for high-capacity Si-based anodes

Email: mendez.144@osu.edu

Ariel Mendoza

BS in Chemistry from The Ohio State University

Third Year Student, ACS Bridge Student

Project: Solid State Electrolytes

Email: mendoza.720@osu.edu

Chris Mangold

First Year Student

Double Major (Chemistry and Mathematics) from Kentucky Wesleyan College

Project: TBD

Fun Fact: I am a caffeine connoisseur.

Email: mangold.30@osu.edu

Scott Mitchell

First Year Student

BS in Chemistry and Mathematics-Interdisciplinary from Taylor University

Project: TBD (Battery Team)

Email: mitchell.2370@osu.edu

Graduate Students

Catalysis team

Dr. Zhihao Cui

Ph.D in Chemistry (The Ohio State University November 2023)

BS in Material Chemistry from Lanzhou University, China

MS in Material Physics and Chemistry from Wuhan University, China

Major projects:

  1. Using rotating ring-disc electrode (RRDE) to study kinetics of electroreduction
  2. Grand-canonical Density Functional Theory (GC-DFT) based computational methods in electrochemistry

Email: cui.591@osu.edu

Maddie Palardy

Third Year Student

BS in Chemistry from University of Maryland, College Park 2020.

Project: CO2 Reduction on various Cu based catalysts

Fun Facts: I spent my first two years of undergrad at a community college, I was an ORISE Fellow at the FDA, and I enjoy baking and reading in my spare time. 

Email: palardy.8@osu.edu

Kassidy Aztergo

First Year Student

BS in Chemistry from Regis University, Denver CO

Project: CO2 Reduction, TBD

Email: aztergo.1@osu.edu

Undergraduates

Battery Team

Dustin Pigg

Project: NMR

Email: pigg.23@osu.edu

Albert Wang

Project:

Email: wang.16503@osu.edu

Kate Ko

Major: Chemistry

Project: Synthesizing hybrid and individual halide perovskites for solar cell efficiency

Fun Facts: Originally from Korea and a senior at OSU

Email: ko.352@osu.edu

Fanqi Meng

Major: MSE (Material Science and Engineering)

Project: Battery Team

Fun Facts: I love skiing and I am in the OSU skiing and snowboarding group. Sophomore at OSU

Email: meng.657@osu.edu

Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

Dr. Melissa Marx

Dr. Daniel Lyons

Dr. Fen Zhang

Chamathka Dehiwala Liyanage MS

Chris Bernard MS

Julen Bascaran MS

Dr. Pam Smecellat – Postdoc

Dr. Danny Liu

Dr. Eric Coleman

Katie Muhlenkamp MS

Dr. Josh Billy

Dr. Jennifer Black- Postdoc (2011-2013)

Heewon Choi MS

Raffeal Bennett MS

Jared Steed

Former Lab Members

Undergraduates

Anna Lisa

Ben Charnay

David Raufman

Nick Mrachek

Joey Palazzo

Veronica Feng

Sean Byrne

Undergraduate student (2014)

Nicholas Bashian

Undergraduate student (2014 )

Alyssa Sherry

Undergraduate Researcher (2013-2014)

Bryan Rosales

Undergraduate Researcher (2013)

Ann Li

Undergraduate Researcher (2012-2013)

Rakay Kin

Research Assistant (2013-2014)

Kristina Corcoran

Research Assistant (2013-2014)

Jamesha Ford

Undergraduate Researcher (2013)

Adam Pridgen

Undergraduate Researcher (2012-2014)

Chibuokem Amuneke-Nze

Undergraduate Researcher (2011-2013)

Amy Casaday

Research Assistant (2012-2013)

 Alexander Gibson

Undergraduate Researcher (2011-2012)

Haneul Lee

Undergraduate Researcher (2011-2012)

Kwan Leung

Undergraduate student (2011)