ABSTRACT
Cengiz S. Ozkan has been a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of California, Riverside, since 2009. He was an associate professor from 2006 to 2009 and an assistant professor from 2001 to 2006. Between 2000 and 2001 he was a consulting professor at Stanford University. He earned a PhD in materials science and engineering at Stanford University in 1997. Dr. Ozkan’s areas of expertise include nanomaterials for energy storage; synthesis/processing including graphene, III-V, and II-VI materials; novel battery and supercapacitor architectures; nanoelectronics; biochemical sensors; and nanopatterning for beyond CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor). He organized and chaired 20 scientic and international conferences. He has written more than 200 technical publications, including journal papers, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He holds over 50 patent disclosures, has given more than 100 presentations worldwide, and is the recipient of more than 30 honors and awards. His important contributions include growth of hierarchical three-dimensional graphene nanostructures; development of a unique high-throughput metrology method for large-area CVD-grown graphene sheets; doping and functionalization of CVD-grown and pristine graphene layers; study of digital data transmission in graphene and InSb materials; memory devices based on inorganic/organic nanocomposites, novel lithium-ion batteries based on nanosilicon from beach sand and silicon dioxide nanotubes; fastcharging lithium-ion batteries based on silicon-decorated three-dimensional nano-carbon architectures; and highperformance supercapacitors based on three-dimensional graphene foam architectures.
