Team
Wilson Merchan-Merchan, PhD
Principal Investigator • wmerchan-merchan@ou.edu
Felghar Hall: Home of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Students
Alireza Abdihamzehkolaei, PhD Candidate
Studies of Particulate Matter from the Combustion of Biodiesels and Blends
Walmy Cuello Jimenez, PhD Student
Flame Synthesis of Hybrid/mixed Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures
Aaron J. Arambula, B.S. /M.S. Accelerated
Flame Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures
Current Undergraduate Students
Stephanie Prado Carbonell , B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Study Total Acid Number of Biodiesel
Tylor Killingsworth, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Biomimicry
Duncan Merchan-Breuer, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Study Hydrophobic Surfaces formed in Diffusion Flames
Jose Christian Morris Huerta, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Study Total Acid Number of Biodiesel
Alfredo Becerril Corral, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Plasma Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures
Michael S. Albertson, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Research Topic: Environmental Pollution
Past Members
- Corynn Berka, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Robotics/Soot Formation
- Courtney Baukal, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Oxygen Enhanced Combustion
- Felix Pappoe, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Open burning/open detonation (OBOD)
- Riley Least, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Research topic: Oxygen Enhanced Combustion
- Erica Johnson, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Pumps
- Janella Clary, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Toxicity of Nanomaterials
- Gerald Lance, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Research topic: Hydrophobic Surfaces
- Nathan Castleberry, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Research topic: Hydrophobic Surfaces
- Miles A Burnett, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2017), Research topic: Soot Formation in Biodiesel Flames
- Salah Uweiti, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2016), Research topic: Hydrophobic Surfaces
- Octavio Mejia, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2017), Research topic: Study Total Acid Number of Biodiesel
- Khalid M Jawabreh, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2017), Research topic: Biodiesel Evaporation
- Bohan Yu, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2017), Research topic: Flame Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanostructures
- Jacob Karl, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Environmental Pollution
- Octavio Rodriguez Coria, B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2018), Research topic: Properties and Applications of TMOs
- Aaron Taylor, M.S. (2008), Thesis Title: Flame Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures
- Vu Nguyen, M.S. (2009), Thesis Title: Opposed Flow Flame Synthesis of Carbon Nanostructures and Molybdenum Oxides on Solid Supports
- Moien Farmahini Farahani, Ph.D (2014), Thesis Title: Flame Synthesis and Funtionalization of 1-D Transition Metal-Oxide Nanocrystals on Macroscopic Platforms for Energy Storage Devices
- Stephen McCollam, M.S. (2015), Thesis Title: Soot Studies in Biodiesel Oxygen Enriched Flames
- Milind Desai, M.S. (2010), Thesis Title: Gas-Phase and Solid Support Flame Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Structures in a Counter-Flow Diffusion Flame
- Walmy Cuello Jimenez , M.S. (2010), Thesis Title: Flame Synthesis of Transition Metal-Oxide Nanoforms: from 1-D Hybrid Nanowires to Nanorods and 3-D Tungsten-Oxide Nanostructures
- Sergio Granados Sanmiguel, M.S. (2011), Thesis Title: Soot Particle Size and Nanostructure in Laminar Diffusion Biodiesel and Diesel Fuel Air-Flames
- Kaarthik Thangamani, M.S. (2014), Thesis Title: Corrosion of Metals in Various Methyl Esters at Different Thermal Conditions
- Ethan Murphy, M.S. (2017), Thesis Title: Hydrophobic surfaces formed using flames.