Research Interests Based on Seminars and Presentations  - Back to IF Cheng’s Research Homepage.

April 9, 2016 TEDx UIdaho “Science and Serendipity: The story of GUITAR with no strings”

March 15, 2016. “GUITAR: A New Carbon Allotrope and Application in Ultracapacitors” I. Francis Cheng, Haoyu Zhu, Isaiah Gyan, Jeremy Foutch, 251st ACS Meeting, San Diego CA, Paper 262

March 20, 2014 “Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of GUITAR: A Breakthrough Material for Energy Storage.” Idaho Academy of Sciences, Moscow ID, March 20, 2014.

June 2014 “High Energy Density Ultracapacitors Based on GUITAR-Nanospring Composites” Power Sources Conference, Orlando FL

March 2014Synthesis and Electrochemical Properties of GUITAR: A Breakthrough Material for Energy Storage” Idaho Academy of Sciences, Moscow Idaho

January 2014 “GUITAR: A New Material For Energy Storage and Conversion” Central Washington University

September 2013 “GUITAR: A New Material For Energy Storage and Conversion” American Vacuum Society, Troutdale, OR

August 2012 "GUITAR: A New Material For Dimensionally Stable Anodes" Paper No. 19649, 244th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

May 2012 "GUITAR: A New Material For Dimensionally Stable Anodes" Seminar Given To Washington State University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

September 2010 "I. Deep Oxidations of Aqueous Organic Pollutants Under RTP Conditions II. A New Avenue to Carbon Nano-structures by the Thermal Degradation of Asphalt; Is it Multilayered Graphene?" Seminars given at Whitworth College and University of Washington.

June 2010 Yuqun Xie's seminar at NORM 2010 "Fabrication of Porous Hollow Glass Microspheres as additives for Lead Acid Battery"

June 2009 Yuqun Xie's seminar at NORM 2009 "Selective Electrochemical Detection of Triacetone Triperoxide"

November 12, 2008 Kenichi Shimizu : “Application of Galvanic Exchange Reaction for Preparation of Pt coated Fe Nanoparticles supported by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Fuel Selective Reduction of Oxygen over Methanol Oxidation” ACS 60th Southeast Regional Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 12-15 2008, Abstract #479

October 7, 2008 Simon McAllister’s M.S. Research Seminar on the Lead-Acid Battery

March 6, 2008 Pittcon, Detection of Peroxide Based (Kitchen Sink) Explosives, with Derek Laine and Chris Roske

November 6, 2007 Kenichi Shimizu's Ph.D. Research Seminar on Fuel Cell Catalysts.

October 23, 2007 Rubha Ponraj's M.S. Research Seminar on the Lead-Acid Battery

October 16, 2007 Derek Laine's Ph.D. Research Seminar on the ZEA Reaction and TATP Analysis

September 11, 2007 "The many Wonders of FeEDTA: Room Temperature Incineration of Pollutants, and Detection of TATP" given at University of Idaho, Department of Physics

September 10, 2007 "The many Wonders of FeEDTA: Room Temperature Incineration of Pollutants, and Detection of TATP" given at Washington State University, Department of Chemical Engineering

June 20, 2007 "Kinetic study of formic acid oxidation on multi-wall carbon nanotube supported Pt, PtRu and PtBi electrocatalyst" Kenichi Shimizu 62nd  Northwest Regional Meeting, Boise, Idaho

June 18, 2007 “Application of O2 Activation Toward Pollutant Degradation” Derek F. Laine, 62nd  Northwest Regional Meeting, Boise, Idaho

June 17, 2007 “Increase of positive active material utilization in lead-acid batteries” Rubha Ponraj, Simon McAllister 62nd  Northwest Regional Meeting, Boise, Idaho

November 2006  "The many Wonders of FeEDTA: Room Temperature Incineration of Pollutants, and A Model for Biological Oxidations." Seminar given at Boise State University.

April 2005 "Kinetics and Mechanism of Xenobiotic Degradation Induced by Dioxygen Activation " Tina Nordoun's Ph.D. Seminar

March 2005 “Kinetics of EDTA degradation induced by dioxygen activation in the Fe(0)/air/water system” Christina E. Noradoun, INOR 0482, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego CA, March 2005.

March 2004  by Ryan Hutcheson at the ACS National Meeting in Anaheim CA on the pH dependence of the FeII/IIIEDTA voltammetry

November, 2003 Graduate student recruiting seminar given at Evergreen State College and Gonzaga University. Good for a more general discussion of the flavonoid work.  

September, 2003 Presentation of oxygen work given at ACS National Meeting in NYC Symposium Title "Targeting Chemical and Biological Agents"

September, 2003 Flavonoid Metal Binding Properties poster presentation given at the NYC ACS National Meeting.

September, 2003 Ca2+/Zn2+ Pro-oxidant/antioxidant poster given at the NYC ACS National Meeting Bioinorganic Symposium.

February 3, 2003 Seminar given at Washington State University, Department of Chemical Engineering describing the environmental remediation.

January 2003 A 20 minute seminar regarding destruction of pollutants by a RTP dioxygen activation scheme. Given to a CTO of a large microelectronics company

October 2002 Mark Engelmann's Ph.D. seminar on flavonoids.

October 2001 A 20 min presentation given to incoming graduate students explaining the entire scope of my research program.

July 2000 A seminar given to NASA regarding a UI team's progress at a method for the detection of life on Mars

June 1999 A seminar given at an AOAC meeting regarding the detection of PCB and DDT by dechlorination.

March 1998 A seminar given at PittCon describing the detection of PCB by dechlorination

Spring 1997 A seminar on the hypothesized antioxidant action of aspirin.