Green fuels, advanced propulsion, and electrified manufacturing
- Group news
- Job and Postdoc positions may be available in combustion, energy materials, and plasma chemistry areas: check here.
- Combustion Webinar YouTube Channel (2020-202x)
- New release: ChemRC 3.1 is available for Download with PLOG function
- New release: HP-Mech (A high-pressure mechanism for C0-C2 hydrocarbons and ammonia)
- 2023 Distinguished paper award of 39th Int. Symp. on Combustion
- 2023 Non-Thermal Plasma for Sustainable Chemistry Workshop (Apr. 23- Apr. 27, 2023)
Research Areas and Interests
I) Combustion, Green Fuels, Electrified Low Carbon Chemical Manufacturing
- Development of low carbon green fuels and chemicals: H2, NH3, and CO2 to E-fuels
- Plasma assisted combustion and low carbon chemical manufacturing
- Supercritical combustion and non-equilibrium chemical kinetics
- UV-midIR and high speed fs/ps laser diagnostics
- Multi-timescale modeling and ab initio machine learning molecule dynamics simulation (aML-MD)
- Cool flame and warm flame dynamics and chemistry
- Microscale combustion and detonation
II) Electrified Non-equilibrium Manufacturing of Energy Materials
- Synthesis of energy storage materials
- Lithium ion battery electrode materials, thermal-chemical energy storage materials, and extreme materials
- Synthesis of down/up-conversion nanophosphors for thermal and bioimaging
- Low temperature plasma catalysts
Current Research Funds
- National Science Foundation: Nanomaterials synthesis for imaging; mid-IR multi-species laser diagnostics
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion for propulsion
- Army Research Office: Multi-scale modeling of low temperature combustion
- DOE: Predictive tools for next generation of transportation fuels; Plasma Science Center; Energy storage materials, and H2/NH3 synthesis
- ONR: Plasma assisted ignition
- American Chemistry Society (ACS): High Pressure combustion
- NASA: Cool flames and warm flames
- NETL: Chemical looping kinetics
- MRSEC seed project. Colloidal upconversion nanophosphors
- Exxon-Mobil: Low carbon engine fuels
Lab Information
- Telephone: 609-258-1411
- Postal address: D115, E-Quad, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 08544