Principal Investigator

Anne Co

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

Email: co.5@osu.edu

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 September 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: Investigate heterogeneous catalysts for CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) and its mechanistic pathway.

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

Ariel Mendoza

BS in Chemistry from The Ohio State University

ACS Bridge Student

Project: Smart fluids for detecting internal corrosion locations in oil and gas pipelines

Email: mendoza.720@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

Graduate Students
Catalysis team

Melissa Marx

Sixth Year Student

BA in Chemistry from Alfred University with minors in Mathematics and Economics (2018)

Major Projects:

1.Determining the mechanistic pathway of CO2 reduction using spectroscopic techniques

2. NAP-XPS (Near Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy) Teaching Assistant (2020-present)

Email: marx.82@osu.edu

Zhihao Cui

Fifth Year Student

BS in Material Chemistry from Lanzhou University, China

MS in Material Physics and Chemistry from Wuhan University, China

Major projects:

Using rotating ring-disc electrode (RRDE) to study kinetics of electroreduction
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

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