Emery Brown
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Chemistry
Kansas State University
Email: emerybrown@ksu.edu
Personal Email: jeb3422@gmail.com
Phone: (816)-810-7640
Education Background
Aug. 2008 – May 2012 B.S. in Chemistry and Biology at Truman State University
Aug. 2012 – May 2018 PhD Candidate in Analytical Chemistry at Kansas State University
Research Experience
| May 2008 – Aug 2008 |
Solved crystal structures of various pesticides in the solid state form Using x-ray crystallography under Dr. Russell Baughman in the Next Step Program at Truman State University. |
| May 2009 – Aug 2009 | Developed and validated a method for the atomic absorption Determination of mercury in freshwater fish using a home-built cold vapor generator and microwave digestion under Dr. David McCurdy at Truman State University. |
| May 2010 – Aug 2010 | Helped develop the Uniform Federal Policy Quality Assurance Project Plan Template for Soils Assessment of Dioxin Sites for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C. under Stephen Dyment |
| May 2012 – Aug 2012 | Optimized the synthesis of CdTe quantum dots (QDs) for thin film photovoltaics under Dr. Viktor Chikan at Kansas State University. |
Publications
Gaind P. Pandey, Kobi Jones, Emery Brown, Jun Li, Lamartine Meda, High Performance Tin-Coated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Array Anode for Lithium-Ion Batteries, MRS Advances (Under Review)
Emery Brown, Jagaran Acharya, Ayyappan Elangovan, Judy Wu, Jun Li, Enabling Stable Sodium Ion Battery Cathodes with a Hybrid Structure of Disordered Bilayered V2O5.nH2O Shells Deposited on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays, Energy Technology (Under Revew)
Emery Brown, Seok-Hwan Park, Ayyappan Elangovan, Yue Yuan, Jooyoun Kim, Xiuzhi Susan Sun, Xiaoming Zhang, Guohong Wang, Jun Li, Facilitating High-Capacity V2O5 Cathodes with Stable Two and Three Li+ Insertion Using a Hybrid Membrane Structure Consisting of Amorphous V2O5 Shells Coaxially Deposited on Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers, Electrochimica Acta , 2018, 269, 144-154
Pengli Yan, Emery Brown, Qing Su, Jun Li, Jian Wang, Changxue Xu, Chi Zhou, Dong Lin, 3D Printing Hierarchical Silver Nanowire Aerogel with Highly Compressive Resilience and Tensile Elongation Through Tunable Poisson’s Ratio, Small , 2017, 1701756
Emery Brown, Jagaran Acharya, Gaind P. Pandey, Judy Wu, Jun Li, Highly Stable Three Lithium Insertion in Thin V2O5 Shells on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays for Ultrahigh-Capacity Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes, Advanced Materials Interfaces , 2016, 3, 16000824
Gaind P. Pandey, Tao Liu, Emery Brown, Yiqun Yang, Yonghui Li, Xiuzhi Susan Sun, Yueping Fang, Jun Li, Mesoporous Hybrids of Reduced Graphene Oxide and Vanadium Pentoxide for Enhanced Performance in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Electrochemical Capacitors, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2016, 8, 9200–9210
Jagaran Acharya, Chunrui Ma, Emery Brown, Jun Li, Judy Wu, Probing Effect of Temperature on Energy Storage Properties of Relaxor-Ferroelectric Epitaxial Pb0.92La0.08Zr0.52Ti0.48O3 Thin Film Capacitors, Thin Solid Films , 2016, 616, 711-716
Chunrui Ma, Youpin Gong, Rongtao Lu, Emery Brown, Beihai Ma, Jun Li, Judy Wu, Detangling Extrinsic and Intrinsic Hysteresis for Detecting Dynamic Switch of Electric Dipoles Using Graphene Field-Effect Transistors on Ferroelectric Gates, Nanoscale , 2015, 44, 18347 to 18828
Xunfu Zhou, Weijian Liu, Xiaoyuan Yu, Yingiu Liu, Yueping Fang, Steven Klankowski, Yiqun Yang, Emery Brown, Jun Li, Tin Dioxide@Carbon Core-Shell Nanoarchitectures Anchored on Wrinkled Graphene for Ultrafast and Stable Lithium Storage, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2014, 7434-7443
Emery Brown, Chunrui Ma, Jagaran Acharya, Beihai Ma, Judy Wu, Jun Li, Controlling Dielectric and Relaxor-Ferroelectric Properties for Energy Storage by Tuning Pb0.92La0.08Zr0.52Ti0.48O3 Film Thickness , ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2014, 6, 22417–22422
Gary Malek, Emery Brown, Steven Klankowski, Jianwei Liu, Alan Elliot, Rongtao Lu, Jun Li, Judy Wu, Atomic Layer Deposition of Al-doped ZnO/Al2O3 Double Layers on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2014, 6, 6865–6871
Emery Brown, Russell Baughman, 2-Methyl-4,4-dioxo-N-phenyl-5,6-dihydro-1,4-oxathiine-3-carboxamide (Oxycarboxin), Acta Crystallographica Section E , 2010, E66, o2654
Emery Brown, Russell Baughman, N-Ethyl-6-ethylamino-4-oxo-1,3,5-triazin-2-aminium chloride (Oxysimazine·HCl), Acta Crystallographica Section E , 2010, E66, o2418
Conferences and Presentations
Emery Brown, Jun Li, “Highly stable two and three lithium insertion in amorphous V2O5 shells coaxially deposited on electrospun carbon nanofibers: A self-supported membrane for high-capacity lithium ion battery cathodes”, The 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition (New Orleans, LA) – Oral Presentation
Emery Brown, Jun Li, “Highly Stable Two and Three Lithium Insertion in Conformal Amorphous V2O5 Shells Electrodeposited on Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Network as a Flexible Lithium Ion Battery Cathode”, The 52nd Annual ACS Midwest Regional Meeting Fall 2017 (Lawrence KS) – Oral Presentation
Emery Brown, Jun Li, “Highly Stable Three Lithium Insertion in Thin V2O5 Shells on Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays for Ultrahigh-Capacity Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes” The 51st Annual ACS Midwest Regional Meeting Fall 2016 (Manhattan KS) – Oral Presentation
Emery Brown, Emily Champion, Jun Li, “Carbon Electrode Materials for Electrochemical Capacitors”, The Kansas EPSCOR meeting 2013 (Lawrence KS) – Poster Presentation
Emery Brown, Viktor Chikan, “Formation of Ag Doped CdTe Quantum Dots for Thin Film Photovoltaics”, The Kansas EPSCOR meeting 2012 (Wichita KS) – Poster Presentation
Emery Brown, Minh Ho, Rick Knopick, David McCurdy, “Atomic Absorption Determination of Mercury in Local Freshwater Fish using a Home-Built Cold Vapor Generator” The 24th National Conference on Undergraduate Research in 2010 (Missoula MT) – Oral Presentation
Emery Brown, Minh Ho, Rick Knopick, David McCurdy, “Atomic Absorption Determination of Mercury in Local Freshwater Fish using a Home-Built Cold Vapor Generator” Truman State University Student Research Conference 2010 (Kirksville MO) – Oral Presentation
Emery Brown, Russell Baughman, “Crystal and Molecular Structures of Pesticides”, Truman State University Student Research Conference 2009 (Kirksville MO) – Poster Presentation
Emery Brown, Russell Baughman, “Crystal and Molecular Structures of Pesticides”, The 43rd Annual ACS Midwest Regional Meeting Fall 2008 (Kearny NE) – Poster Presentation
Awards and Scholarships
The 2017 Second Objective Award in Recognition of Outstanding Services in Alpha Chi Sigma-Beta Rho Chapter, Kansas State University
The 2017 Ohno Award in Recognition of Exceptional Graduate Research, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University
The 2016 Meloan Award from the Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University in Recognition of Outstanding Graduate Research in Analytical Chemistry
The 2014 Dane G. Hansen Graduate Summer Fellowship in Chemistry for Excellence in Research and Outreach
The 2013 Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship for top graduate recruits
The 2012 Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship for top graduate recruits