Dan Slanac

E-mail: dslanac@che.utexas.edu
Department: Chemical Engineering
Advisors: Prof. Keith P. Johnston
Thesis Title: Design of Nanocomposites for Electrocatalysis and Energy Storage: Metal/Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Carbon Supports
Research Summary: I use the fundamentals of colloidal and interfacial science to design and synthesize alloy nanoparticles and metal-on-metal oxide nanocomposites for high energy density redox supercapacitors and high activity oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts.