Melinda Mohl received her M.S. in Environmental Chemistry from The University of Szeged (Hungary) in June 2006. She performed her internship at The Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur (Belgium) in 2005-2006. She has worked previously on the synthesis and characterisation of metal nanoparticles. Her current research interest is focussed on developing novel hybrid nanostructures.

Dr. You Zeng joined Prof. Ajayan's group at Rice University as a visiting scientist in August 2008. He received his Ph. D in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Shenyang National Laboratory for Material Sciences (SYNL), Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in 2004. Then he was cooperating with Prof. Huiming Cheng (Director of Advanced Carbon Division, SYNL, CAS) and carrying out research on functional CNT/polymer composites. He is an associate professor of polymeric materials at Shenyang Jianzhu University (China). His research interest is the design, fabrication and application of the advanced functional nanocomposites.

Dr. Changru Rong joined Prof. Ajayan's group at Rice University in September 2008. He has worked on the high performance of carbon nanotubes and polymer composite in Jilin University, Changchun, China. His current research is focused on the fabrication of graphene polymeric complex and their studies

JungJoon Yoo joined Prof. Ajayan's group at Rice University as a visiting student in september 2008. He is a Ph.D student in the Department of Materials science and Engineering at KAIST (South Korea). He worked on synthesis and characterization of metal or metal oxide/CNT nanocomposite films. His current research interest is on high Tg-low Tg polymer self assembly for multifunctional nanocomposites 

Yongjie Li
Visiting Student
yl22@rice.edu

Yongjie Li joined Prof. Ajayan’s group at Rice University in October 2008. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Lanzhou University in China in June 2005. She has previously worked on synthesis and application of microwave absorbers. Her current research interest is focused on synthesis of grapheme based catalyst for direct methanol fuel cells.

Dr. Anchal Srivastava received his Masters in Physics from D.D.U. University, Gorakhpur, India. He obtained his Ph.D in 2002 from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India for his work on synthesis and characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the same place. Since May 2004, he has been serving as an Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi, India. His current research interest is carbon nanotube and its applications. He joined Prof. Ajayan's group in October 2008 as a visiting scholar under BOYSCAST fellowship (India).