Electrochemical Material & Energy Lab

Professor E. Eric Kalu  ·  FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Research Group

Meet the people driving discovery in the Electrochemical Material & Energy Lab

Current Lab Members
Prof. E.E. Kalu
Principal Investigator Prof. E.E. Kalu

Electrochemical Material & Energy Lab  ·  FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Chidiogo Akunne
Chidiogo Akunne Comparative Performance Analysis of Iridium-Based and Nicomo-Based Electrocatalysts in Seawater and Alkaline Electrolyzers — Ph.D. expected 2028
Obinwanne Bosah
Obinwanne Bosah Investigating the Durability of Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers — Ph.D. expected 2028
Johnbosco Umeh
Johnbosco Umeh Synthesis of Transition-Metal-Based High-Entropy Alloys for Corrosion Resistance and Electrocatalysis — Ph.D. expected 2029
Thesis & Dissertation Directed
  • Aruna Kuraganti — “Feasibility Study of One-step…”
  • Renata Itoe — “Analysis of Simultaneous Oxygen Reduction…”
  • Huei-Hsin Chen — “Nanostructure Analysis of Electrodeposited CuInSe2”
  • Leelarani Katam — “Hydrogen Generation from Sodium Borohydride using Polymer-stabilized Catalyst”, 2007
  • Shamalee Whitelocke — “Electrocatalysis of Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cells: Tungsten Oxide Substrate Stability”, 2009
  • Tiffany Long — “Electroless Deposited Composite Zero-Valent Metal Nanoparticles for Thermotherapy Applications”, 2012
  • Shannon Anderson — “Synthesis of co-deposited Electroless Pd-Cu Catalyst for Nitrate Reduction”, 2013
  • Joel Sankar — “Oxidation of glycerol with unactivated electroless CuNiMoP catalyst”, 2017
  • Naveen Prasad Mendi — “Catalytic degradation of ibuprofen contaminated aqueous solution using MnFe/Al2O3 Catalyst”, 2018
Postdoctoral Fellows & Scholars Supervised
  • M.D. Reyes-Tolosa — “Corrosion of Metalized Ceramics”
  • Rakap Murat — “Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane”
Directed Undergraduate Research Program & Projects
  1. Terry Ake — “Transport Parameters of Diatomic Oxygen…”
  2. Tochi Nwoga — “Thermal Treatment of Electrodeposited Nickel Film”
  3. Yolanda Stokes — “Electroextraction of Citric Acid”
  4. Arlissa Lee — “Liquid-Liquid Extraction of Nickel Metal: A Modeling Approach”, 1996
  5. Francesco Whittenberger — “Heart Defibrillation”, 1996
  6. Corey Hayes — “Mechanisms of Heart Fibrillation”, 1996
  7. Robert Bell — “Influence of Phosphorus on the Corrosion Properties of Electrodeposited CoFeCu Soft Magnetic Thin Films”, 2000
  8. Gretchen Achenbach — “Structural and Compositional Studies of Electrochemically Deposited and Thermally Optimized Nickel Hydroxide Thin Films”, 2000
  9. Tanya Hicks — “Numerical Simulations of Calcium Current in a Single Cardiac Cell”, 2001
  10. Monique Dupree — “Electrodeposition and Characterization of CuInSe Thin Films for Solar Cell Applications”, 2003
  11. Abdulsomad Shaba — “Electroless Synthesis and Characterization of Zero-Valent Metal-Alloy Composites”, 2004
  12. Paul Chin-Fook — “Numerical Simulations of Calcium Current in Cardiac Cell”, 2004
  13. Celina Dozier — “Synthesis and Characterization of Polymer-Stabilized Zero Valent Metal Nanoparticles for TCE Dechlorination”, 2007
  14. D. Foxx — “Fabrication and Characterization of Glucose Biosensor based on Polymer-Stabilized Transition Metal Nanoparticles”, 2007
  15. Diana Gomez — “A Study of Glucose Oxidase Biofuel Cell”, 2008
  16. Kristine Ramos — “Synthesis and Characterization of Methanol-Tolerant Oxygen Electrocatalyst”, 2008
  17. A. C. Aofolaju — “Deposition of CuIn(SeGa)2 for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation”, 2006
  18. Mimi Daniel — “Cyclic Voltammetry Study of the Role of Glucose in MPTP Induced Mimic of Parkinson’s Disease”, 2008
  19. Mario Jean-Rejouis — “Synthesis of Biodiesel from Soybean Oil Using Polymer-Immobilized Heterogeneous Acid Catalyst”, 2008
  20. Latia Deravil — “Synthesis of TiO2-Co-Mo Nanoparticles Catalyst for Cost-Effective Generation of Portable Hydrogen from Sodium Borohydride”, 2008–2009
  21. Lauren Wilson — “FeCo Plated Carbon Nanotubes for RF Applications”, 2007–2009
  22. Hanna Mochona — “Spectral Finger-prints of Bacteria Samples Using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy”, 2008–2009
  23. Lauren Martin — “Thermal Behavior of Electroless CNT-FeCo Composite in Simulated Body Fluid under Applied RF Magnetic Field”, 2009
  24. Shannon Anderson — “Hydrogen Generation by the Hydrolysis of NaBH4 Using Electroless Ni-Mo Catalyst”, 2008–2010
  25. Adisu Samuel — “Effect of Annealing on the Electroless Ni Catalysis of the Hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride”, 2008–2009
  26. Marline Daceus — “Use of Zero-Valent Metal Nanoparticles for Waste Treatment”, 2008–2010
  27. Britney Thompson — “Bio-Hydrogen Generation from Simple Sugar”, 2009
  28. Velencia Witherspoon — “Ultracapacitor Modeling”, 2009
  29. Omitope Taylor — “Methanol-Tolerant Oxygen Electrocatalysts”, 2009–2010
  30. Janika Shannon — “Synthesis and Characterization of Fuel Cell Catalyst”, 2011
  31. Jasmine Alexander — “Biomedical Applications of Metal Nanoparticles: Dopamine Electrochemistry”, 2010
  32. Shakira N. El-Hout — “The Enhancement Effects of Ethanol in Alkaline Solution on the Oxidation of Electroless Co and Ni-Mo Metal Catalysts”, 2011
  33. Omitope Taylor — “Effect of Ethanol Concentration on the Oxidation of Two-Metal Catalysts”, 2012
  34. Jamal Stephens — “Analysis of Electroless Co-Mn Oxide-Based Supercapacitor”, Summer 2012
  35. Adedokun Adedoji Adedoyin — “Electroless deposition of Iron-Gadolinium alloy onto carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications” (URP) 2013
  36. J. Kosivi — “Impedance Behavior of Binderless Ni-Mo Composite Oxide Cathode for a Li-O2 Battery”, 2013
  37. Wete Telama — “Electroless Sn-Cu alloy for Li-ion batteries”, 2013
  38. Jeffrey Ethier — “Effect of Copper Particle Size on the Product Distribution from the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide”, (URP) 2013 – 2014
  39. Ever Velasquez — “Kinetics of Liquid-liquid extraction of Dysprosium from Nuclear Wastes”, 2015 – 2016
  40. Zion Haynes — “Electroless synthesis of Sn-Cu alloys and oxides on C-Felt for energy storage applications”, 2018
  41. M. Weetom — “Mott-Schottky (MS) and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) Characterization of Electrolessly Deposited Composite Metals on Carbon Fiber Surfaces”, 2018
  42. Nathaniel Stanley — “The effect of Phosphorous Doping Level on a CoMo Electrocatalyst’s Partial Oxidation of Ethanol”, Fall (2018)
  43. Markus F. Kittendorf — “Core-shell Sn-Cu/C Electrode for CO₂ Electroreduction to Formate”, 2021
  44. Camilo Ramirez — “Deposition/dissolution chemistry of MnO₂ in the presence of an organic acid chelating agent”, 2023 – 2024
  45. Emmanuel Scott — “Electrodeposition/Stripping of MnO₂ in a mixture of chelating agents”, 2023 – 2024
  46. Cameron Connor — “Electroless plating of Ni-Mo Electrocatalyst”, 2025
  47. Zeb Gray Saunders — “EIS analysis of electrocatalyst”, 2025