Advanced Materials Research Group

Group Photos

Group Photo: Summer 2026

Dr. Vladislav Klepov, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Georgia at Athens, after a research talk and meeting with students. His visit to JSU surely excites the students at JSU Clean Energy and Education (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, September 5, 2025)

Taohedul Islam, a member of our group, after an outstanding PhD defense with the dissertation committee members on September 11, 2025. (Thanks to DOE-BES research grants for the financial support for his PhD studies)

Dr Boniface Fokwa, Professor of Chemistry at UC Riverside, after a research talk and meeting with students. His visit to JSU surely excites the students at JSU Clean Energy and Education (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, September 5, 2025)

Dr Veronica Augustyn, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State University after a research talk and meeting with students. Her visit to JSU surely excites the students to JSU Clean Energy and Education (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, March 21, 2025)

It was a great experience visiting Alocrn State State University and engaging with students and faculties. (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, February 27, 2025)

Dr. Svilen Bobev, Professor of the University of Delaware, after a research talk and meeting with students. His visit to JSU surely excites the students to JSU Clean Energy and Education (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, February 27, 2025)

Dr. Sara Skrabalak, Professor of Indiana University at Bloomington and Editor-in-Cheif Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters, after a research talk and meeting with students. Her visit to JSU surely excites the students to JSU Clean Energy and Education (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, February 07, 2025)

JSU Clean Energy Symposium, October 2024 (Huge thanks to HBCU Clean Energy and Education Award to make it happen, February 2025)

After the Research Talk of Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee, September 2024

Dr. Islam is giving a lecture: Materials  on  Sustainable Energy and Environmental Issues  at Mississippi Valley State University (September 2024)

Dr. Islam’s visit to Mississippi Valley State University  for the HBCU Clean Energy  Outreach Program  and Student Recruitment (September 2024)

K-12 Student Suri and MVSU undergrad Olujege are working on casting electrodes for Lithium ion batteries (summer 2024)

Dr. Islam with K-12 students, and MVSU Prof. Nellore and her undergraduate students  (summer 2024)

K-12 students Suri and Tasmiyah received a poster presentation award at the NSF PREM JSU-UCSB conference   (summer 2024)

Group Photo: Fall 2025

Group Photo: Fall 2024

Dr. Ruhul Amin and Dr. Ilias Belharouak from Oak Ridge National Laboratory paid a visit to Jackson State University and gave us some insight about the advanced energy storage research they are conducting at ORNL

The group with Dr. Justin Hoffman after the PDF workshop

Dr. Justin Hoffman from Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory conducted a day-long workshop on Pair Distribution Function Analysis for our group

Prof. Stephanie Brock from Wayne State University gave a talk on the Chalcogenide-aerogels, one of the research focuses of our group

Group Picture 2023

Group Picture 2022