Curriculum Vitae, Dr. Majid Beidaghi

Majid Beidaghi Research associate 3141 Chestnut Street, LeBow 332D, Philadelphia, PA 19104 A. J. Drexel nanomaterials Institute Phone: (305) 607-7974 Department Materials Science and Engineering Email: [email protected] Drexel University

Education

2008-2012 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering Florida International University (Miami, FL)

2003-2006 M.Sc., Materials Science and Engineering K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran)

1999-2003 B.Sc., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Isfahan University of Technology (Isfahan, Iran)

Professional Experience

8/ 2012– Post Doctoral Research Associate-Department of Materials Science and Engineering Present Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; Supervisor: Prof. Yury Gogotsi

1- Directing “Electrochemical Energy Storage” research group: (15 graduate and undergraduate students) o Advising PhD students on their research projects related to materials synthesis for electrochemical energy storage applications. o Serving as the lab and safety supervisor for the Drexel Nanomaterials Group. o Writing research proposals and applying for research grants.

2- Directing group’s collaborative work as a part of Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) managed by Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL).

3- Leading several independent and collaborative research projects including: o Synthesis of 3D structures of graphene/Nb2O5 composites for high power Li ion capacitor applications. o Studying the electrochemical performance of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) and their oxides. o Development of materials for electrochemical flow capacitors (EFC) (collaboration with the group of Prof. Caglan Kumbur, Drexel University). o Development of composites of porous carbon materials and metal oxides for supercapacitor applications (collaboration with the group of Prof. Bruce Dunn, UCLA).

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o Studying the structure of 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) (collaboration with the group of Prof. Simon Billinge, Columbia University). o Studying the dynamics of the intercalation of ions into MXene (collaboration with Prof. Mikhael Levi, Bar-Ilan University). o In-situ electrochemical atomic force microscopy (AFM) study of porous carbon materials and MXenes (collaboration with the group of Dr Nina Balke, Oak Ridge National Lab). o Synthesis and characterisation of transition metal oxides for intercalation pseudo- capacitors (collaboration with the group of Prof. Jun Zhou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

2008-2012 Research Assistant - Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Advanced Materials Research Institute (AMERI), Florida International University, Miami, FL, Supervisor: Prof. Chunlei Wang

o Synthesizing nanomaterials for application as supercapacitor electrodes. o Design and fabrication of micro-supercapacitors using microelectromechanical (MEMS) techniques. o Fabrication of 3D carbon microstructures using Carbon-MEMS (C-MEMS) technology and development of methods for their activation. o Deposition of active materials such as transition metal oxides and conducting polymers on 3D carbon microstructures. o Electrostatic Spray Deposition (ESD) and electro-spinning of nanomaterials for supercapacitor and battery applications. o Development of micro-patterned structures of graphene and graphene/CNT hybrid films through a combination of photolithography and Electrostatic Spray Deposition (ESD) for micro-supercapacitor applications. o Super user of microfabrication facilities and SEM equipment at AMERI (in charge of training students for several equipment).

2003- 2007 Materials Selection Expert - Materials Research Center, Supplying Automotive Parts Company (SAPCO), Tehran, Iran.

o Overseeing production of automotive parts in several affiliated companies. o Development of manufacturing methods for several automotive parts based on powder metallurgy.

Teaching o Guest lecturer for the course “Materials For Energy Storage” (MATE 582), Spring 2014, Drexel University o Worked as a Teaching Assistant (including classroom teaching and recitation) for courses such as Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering, Materials Characterization Methods, Materials Thermodynamics, Statics, and Dynamics, Florida International University (FIU) o Classroom teaching for undergraduate course Materials Engineering (EGN 3365) course, FIU, USA (on behalf of Prof. Chunlei Wang).

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o Offered free tutorship (for Material Advantage chapter at FIU) to undergraduate students in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, FIU, USA. o Worked as laboratory instructor for the Materials Science Lab and Transport Phenomena Lab, Khaje Nasir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Honors and Awards

2014 First Prize and People Choice Award, 2014 NSF Visualization Challenge 2013 Best Poster Award, 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) spring meeting 2013 Best Poster Award, 224th Electrochemical Society (ECS) meeting 2012 Worlds Ahead Graduate Award, Florida International University 2011 Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), Florida International University 2010 Doctoral Evidence Acquisition (DEA) Fellowship, Florida International University

Membership

2008-P Materials Research Society (MRS), Electrochemical Society (ECS), The Minerals, Metals, and Materials society (TMS)

Professional Activities and Services

Reviewer/ Referee Services: Journals: ACS Nano, Carbon, ACS applied Materials & Interfaces, Electrochemistry Communications, Electrochimica Acta, Materials Express (over 30 papers are reviewed for various journals). Funding Agencies: Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF) Other professional activities: o Vice Chair (2009-10), Material Advantage chapter, FIU, USA. o Led Material Advantage chapter at FIU to win several international awards including Chapter of Excellence Awards, ASM Materials Education Foundation Grant, Fall Membership Challenge (Most Innovative Recruitment Strategy Award), and World Materials Day Award. o President (2010-11), Electrochemical Society Chapter at FIU o In-charge of SEM, Electrochemical Tests Stations, E-beam lithography system, Mask Aligner and Nanoimprint systems at FIU Cleanroom facilities. o Judging for best poster award at Drexel Research Day (2013).

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Publications

Patents:

1. M. Beidaghi, Chunlei Wang, Wei Chen, “Electrochemically activated C-MEMS electrodes for on- chip micro-supercapacitors” No. US 2014/0029161A1, Publication Date: January 30, 2014

Published or accepted journal papers: (331 citations, h-index: 10, as of October 2014) Google scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AvUqNcwAAAAJ

1. C. Zhang, R. Maloney, M. R. Lukatskaya, M. Beidaghi, B. Dyatkin, E. Perre, D. Long, W Qiao, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, “Synthesis and electrochemical properties of niobium pentoxide deposited on layered carbide-derived carbon” Accepted for publication in the Journal of Power Sources, (2014). 2. X. Xiao, Z. Peng, C. Zhang, M. Beidaghi, Z. Yang, B. Yao, T. Li, N. Wu, Q. Luo, Y. Gogotsi, and J. Zhou. “Freestanding MoO3-x Nanobelt/Carbon Nanotube Films for Li-Ion Intercalation Pseudocapacitors” NanoEnergy (Accepted)(2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2014.08.001 3. H Ghassemi, W Harlow, O Mashtalir, M Beidaghi, Y Gogotsi, ML Taheri, “In Situ Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Oxidation of Two-Dimensional Ti3C2 and Formation of Carbon-Supported TiO2”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, (Accepted)(2014). DOI: 10.1039/C4TA02583K. 4. M. D. Levi, M. R. Lukatskaya, S. Sigalov, M. Beidaghi, N. Shpigel, L. Daikhin, D. Aurbach, Y. Gogotsi, “Solving the Capacitive Paradox of 2D Ti3C2-Based MXene by Electrochemical Quartz-Crystal Admittance Combined with in situ Electronic Conductance Measurements” Advanced Energy Materials, (Accepted) (2014). DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201400815 5. B. Anasori, M. Beidaghi, Y. Gogotsi. "Graphene–transition metal oxide hybrid materials." Materials Today, 17(5), 253-254 (2014). 6. M. Boota, K. B. Hatzell, M. Beidaghi, C. R. Dennison, E. C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi, “Activated Carbon Materials as a Flowable Electrode in Electrochemical Flow Capacitors”, Journal of Electrochemical Society,161 (6) A1078-A1083 (2014). 7. K. B. Hatzell, L. Fan, M. Beidaghi, M. Boota, C. R. Dennison, E. C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi, “Charge Storage Properties of a Manganese Oxide Flowable Electrode”, ACS Applied Materials&Interfaces , 6, 8886−8893 (2014). 8. C. Zhang, K. B. Hatzell, M. Boota, B. Dyatkin, M. Beidaghi, D. Long, W. Qiao, E. C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi,” Highly Porous Carbon Spheres for Electrochemical Capacitors and Capacitive Flowable Suspension Electrodes” Carbon , 77, 155–164 (2014). 9. M. Beidaghi, Y. Gogotsi, “Capacitive Energy Storage in Micro-scale devices: Recent Advances in Design and Fabrication of Micro-supercapacitors”, Energy and Environmental Science, 7, 867–884 (2014).

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10. C. Shi, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, O. Mashtalir, P. Juhas, Y. Gogotsi, S. J. L. Billinge “Studying Structure of Nanocrystalline Ti3C2 MXene Using Atomic Pair Distribution Function”, Physical Review Letters , 112, 125501 (2014). 11. C. R. Dennison, M. Beidaghi, K. B. Hatzell, J. W. Campos, E.C. Kumbur, and Y. Gogotsi, “Effects of Flow Cell Design on Charge Transfer and Storage in the Carbon Slurry Electrodes of Electrochemical Flow Capacitors”, Journal of Power Sources, 247, 489–496 (2014). 12. B. Dyatkin, V. Presser, M. Heon, M. R. Lukatskaya, M. Beidaghi, Y. Gogotsi, “Development of a “Green” Supercapacitor Composed Entirely of Environmentally Friendly Materials”, ChemSusChem, 6, 2269–2280, (2013). 13. K. B. Hatzell, M. Beidaghi, J. W. Campos, C. R. Dennison, E.C. Kumbur, and Y. Gogotsi, “A High Performance Pseudocapacitive Suspension Electrode for the Electrochemical Flow Capacitor”, Electrochimica Acta, 111, 888–897 (2013). 14. J. W. Campos, M. Beidaghi, K. B. Hatzell, C. R. Dennison, B. Musci, V. Presser, E. C. Kumbur, and Y. Gogotsi, “Investigation of Carbon Materials for Use as a Flowable Electrode in Electrochemical Flow Capacitors” Electrochemica Acta, 98, 123-130 (2013). 15. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Micro-supercapacitors Based on Interdigital Electrodes of Reduced Graphene Oxide and Carbon Nanotube Composites with Ultra-high Power Handling Performance”, Advanced Functional Materials, 22 (21), 4501-4510 (2012). 16. M. Beidaghi, Zhifeng Wang, Lin Gu, Chunlei Wang, “Electrostatic Spray Deposition of Graphene Nanoplatelets for High-power Thin-film Supercapacitor Electrodes”, J Solid State Electrochemistry, 16, 3341–3348 (2012). 17. V. Penmatsa, A. R. Ruslinda, M. Beidaghi, H. Kawarada, C. Wang, “Platelet-derived Growth Factor Oncoprotein Detection Using Three-dimensional Carbon Microarrays”, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 39, 118–123 (2012). 18. V. Penmatsa, T. Kim, M. Beidaghi, H. Kawarada, Z. Wang, L. Gu, C. Wang, “Three- Dimensional Graphene Nanosheets Encrusted Carbon Micropillar Arrays for Electrochemical Sensing”, Nanoscale, 4, 3673-3678 (2012). 19. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Micro-supercapacitors Based on Three Dimensional Interdigital Polypyrrole/C-MEMS Electrodes”, Electrochimica Acta, 56, 9508-9514 (2011). 20. M. Beidaghi, W. Chen, C. Wang, “Electrochemically Activated 3D C-MEMS Based Supercapacitors”, Journal of Power Sources ,196, 2403-2409 (2011). 21. W. Chen, M. Beidaghi, V. Penmatsa, L. Kumari, W. Li, and C. Wang , “Integration of Carbon Nanotubes to C-MEMS for On-chip Supercapacitors”, IEEE Transactions On Nanotechnology ,9 734-740 (2010).

Journal papers in preparation: (Only papers in final stages of manuscript writing are listed) 22. K. Van Aken, M.Beidaghi, Y. Gogotsi,” Effect of asymmetric performance of ionic liquid electrolyte ions on maximum operation potential of symmetric supercapacitors.” In preparation (2014).

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23. C. (John) Zhang, M. Beidaghi, M. Naguib, M. R. Lukatskaya, R. Maloney, B. Dyatkin, K. Cook, S. J. Kim, B. Eng, Xu Xiao, Donghui Long, W. Qiao, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, “Synthesis and electrochemical properties of carbon-supported Niobium pentoxide by one step oxidation of two- dimensional Nb2CTx and Nb4C3Tx” In preparation, (2014). 24. M. Beidaghi, R. P. Maloney, J. C.F. Zhang, B. Dunn, Y. Gogotsi, “Three-dimensional Structures of Nb2O5/Graphene as High Rate Electrodes for Li Ion Capacitors” In preparation (2014). 25. K. L. Van Aken, M. Bedaighi, M. Nishida, Y. Gogotsi “Novel Mixtures of Ionic Liquids and Organic Solvents as Electrolyte for Electrochemical Capacitors” In Preparation (2014). Peer-reviewed conference proceedings: 1. M. Beidaghi, Chunlei Wang, “Recent advances in design and fabrication of on-chip microsupercapacitors”, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Energy Harvesting and Storage: Materials, Devices, and Applications III, April 23 – 27, 2012, Baltimore, MD. 2. M. Beidaghi, Chunlei Wang, “Design, fabrication, and evaluation of on-chip micro- supercapacitors”, Proceeding of SPIE Symposium on Defense, Security, and Sensing, April 25- 29, 2011, Orlando,FL. 3. M. Beidaghi, Chunlei Wang, “On-chip micro-power: Three dimensional structures for micro- batteries and micro-supercapacitors”, Proceeding of SPIE Symposium on Defense, Security, and Sensing, April 5-9, 2010, Orlando,FL 4. V. Penmatsa, A. R. Ruslinda, M. Beidaghi, H. Kawarada, C. Wang, “Functionalized Three- Dimensional Carbon Microarrays for Cancer Biomarker”, ECS transactions 45 (15), 7-14 (2013).

Selected Conference Presentations (from more than 60 presentations)

1. M. Beidaghi, C. Zhang, Maria Lukatskaya, R. Maloney ,B. Dunn,Y. Gogotsi, “One-step synthesis of carbon supported Nb2O5 particles by oxidation of layered Nb2C for electrochemical capacitor applications” 226th ECS meeting, October 5-9, 2014, Cancun, Mexico. 2. M. Beidaghi, C. Zhang ,R. Maloney ,B. Dunn,Y. Gogotsi, “Three-Dimensional Structures of Nb2O5/Graphene As High Rate Electrodes for Li-Ion Capacitors” 2014 MRS Spring meeting, Apri 21-25, 2014, San Francisco, CA. 3. M. Beidaghi, K.B. Hatzell, C.R. Dennison, M. Boota, E.C. Kumbur, Y. Gogotsi, “Recent advances towards improvement of Electrochemical Flow Capacitors (EFCs)” 143th Annual TMS meeting, February 16-20, 2014 San Diego, CA. (Invited talk) 4. M. Beidaghi and C. Wang, “High Performance Micro-Supercapacitors Based on Interdigital Graphene/CNT Hybrid Electrodes” 221th ECS Spring meeting, May 6-10, 2012, Seattle 5. M. Beidaghi, C.Wang, “Recent Advance in Design and Fabrication of On-Chip Microsupercapacitors” (invited oral) SPIE defense Security and Sensing 2012, April 23 - 27 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 6. M. Beidaghi, W. Chen, V. Penmatsa, C. Wang, “Development of C-MEMS based micropower system: challenge, solution and beyond” (invited oral) ACS spring 2012, March 25-29, 2012, San Diego 7. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Interdigital Hybrid Graphene/CNT Micro-electrodes for Supercapacitor Application”, TMS 2012, March 11-15, 2012, Orlando, FL

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8. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Micro-Supercapacitors of Hybrid Graphene/CNT Electrodes.” (oral presentation), 2011 MRS Fall meeting, November 28 - December 2, 2011, Boston, MA 9. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Hybrid Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Films as Supercapacitor Electrodes”, 220th ECS meeting, October 9-14, 2011, Boston, MA. 10. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “Binder-free Porous Network of Graphene/Manganese Oxide Composites as Electrodes for Electrochemical Capacitors”, 2011 MRS Spring meeting, Apri 25- 29, 2011, San Francisco, CA. 11. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “C-MEMS/Manganese Oxide Composites as Electrodes for Microsupercapacitors”, 2011 MRS Spring meeting, April 25-29, 2011, San Francisco, CA. 12. M. Beidaghi, C.Wang, “ C-MEMS Structures as Three Dimensional Current Collectors for Micro supercapacitors“, 2010 MRS Fall meeting, November 29 - December 3, 2010 Boston, Massachusetts 13. M. Beidaghi, C. Wang, “ Preparation and electrochemical characterization of polypyrrole-based three dimensional micro-supercapacitors“2, 18th ECS meeting, October 10-15, 2010, Las Vegas, NV. 14. M. Beidaghi, W. Chen, C. Wang “Electrochemically Activated C-MEMS Structures as Microelectrodes for On-Chip Supercapacitors” 2010 MRS Spring meeting, April 6-8, 2010, San Francisco, CA. 15. M. Beidaghi, W. Chen, C. Wang, “Three Dimensional Microsupercapacitors: As-Pyrolyzed and Porous Carbon Structures” (poster), 2009 MRS fall meeting, Nov 30-Dec 4, 2009, Boston, MA. 16. M. Beidaghi, V. Penmatsa, W. Chen, C. Wang, “On-Chip Supercapacitors Based on Porous Carbon Electrodes”, (poster) 215th ECS Meeting, May 24-29, 2009, San Francisco, California 17. M. Beidaghi, V. Penmatsa, W. Chen, C. Wang, “Characterization of Porous Electrodes for 3D Microsupupercapacitors”, (25th SBEC, May 15-17, 2009, Miami, FL

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