Research Group
Mubeen Group - Summer 2019
Research Interests
Sattar focuses on technologies related to water treatment and energy storage. He develops electrodeposition techniques to control the size and dispersion of nanoparticles and nanowires for these applications.
Awards and Honors
- Graduate College Summer Fellowship, 2019
- Vetter Service Award from University of Iowa CBD 2019
- Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship 2018.
- Travel Grant from Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) 2016, 2018
- Travel Grant from Graduate Student Senate (GSS) 2016, 2018
Education and Background
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Technology - Baghdad, 2006
Publications
Ghanim AH, Koonce JG, Hasa B, Rassoolkhani AM, Cheng W, Peate DW, Lee J and Mubeen S (2018) Low-Loading of Pt Nanoparticles on 3D Carbon Foam Support for Highly Active and Stable Hydrogen Production. Front. Chem. 6:523. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00523
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Blake's research focuses on developing machine learning techniques to identify promising catalyst materials for electrochemical applications like water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen production, and carbon dioxide reduction.
Awards
- Kammermeyer Graduate Fellowship
- Dean's Graduate Engineering Fellowship
Education and Background
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Washington State University, 2019
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Rachel is exploring novel materials for the fabrication of conductive polymer films.
Education and Background
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Duluth, 2018
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Marisol is interested in combating climate change and mitigating environmental damage. To this end, she conducts techno-economic analyses on emerging technologies related to chemical synthesis, energy conversion, and energy storage. The analyses she performs serve to identify a system's key parameters which must be optimized to advance their profitability and viability.
Education and Background
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Washington State University, 2017
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Jacob's overall goal is to limit damages to the climate and environment by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide not only contributes to the greenhouse effect, it will also enter the oceans where it damages important marinelife that generates 70% of the oxygen we breathe. He works to develop catalysts and electrochemical reactors for large-scale chemical conversion of carbon dioxide into valuable, commercially relevant products.
Education and Background
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2018
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Jonathan focuses on strategies to increase the durability and efficiency of direct solar-to-chemical conversion units. He designs coatings to protect embedded PV devices submerged in caustic electrolytes which can be applied using scalable techniques.
Awards and Honors
- Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, Spring 2019
- Graduate College Iowa Recruitment Fellowship, ‘15-‘16, ‘16-‘17, ‘17-‘18
- Graduate Student Senate Travel Funds Award, 01/17 and 10/17
- Graduate & Professional Student Government Travel Grant Award, 11/16
Education and Background
B.S. Chemistry, Trinity Christian College, 2015
Publications
Ghanim, A.H.; Koonce, J.G.; Hasa, B.; Rassoolkhani, A.M.; Cheng, W.; Peate, D.W.; Lee, J.; Mubeen, S. Low-Loading of Pt Nanoparticles on 3D Carbon Foam Support for Highly Active and Stable Hydrogen Production. Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018. 6, (523)
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Austin studies plasmonically active materials for their potential to access novel reaction pathways and to reduce input energy in electrocatalytic applications.
Awards
- GSS Travel Grant
- GSPC Travel Fellowship
Education and Background
B.S.E. Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, The University of Iowa, 2017
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Wei develops novel solar conversion devices for solar-to-fuels and solar-to-chemical applications. He explores new device architectures and synthetic pathways to increase solar-to-product efficiencies.
Education and Background
B.S. Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006
Ph.D. Materials Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2014
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Dr. Alan Rassoolkhani was a member of The Mubeen Group from 2014-2019 where his worked focused on chlorine production using embedded PV devices for direct solar-to-chemical synthesis.
(Left to Right)
Front: Jacob Fields, Richard, Laura Sanford, Collin Sindt, Marisol Contreras
Rear: Syed Mubeen, Jonathan Koonce, Sattar Al-Saedi, Wei Cheng, Austin Mckee
Not Pictured: Rachel Buck
Graduate Students
Sattar Al Saedi
Blake Bryson
Rachel Buck
Marisol Contreras
Jacob Fields
Jonathan Koonce
Austin McKee
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Wei Cheng
Alumni
Dr. Alan Rassoolkhani