Faculty DirectoryJeffrey Richards

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Contact
2145 Sheridan RoadTech E166
Evanston, IL 60208-3109
847-467-4641Email Jeffrey Richards
Website
Departments
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Education
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA - 2014
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA - 2011
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN - 2008
Research Interests
The Richards laboratory seeks to quantify the relationships linking the microscopic structure of multicomponent materials to their macroscopic properties. We are interested in exploiting these relationships to develop new materials that facilitate the generation, storage and transport of electrical charge and energy. These materials form the basis of emerging technologies that address challenges associated with the transition to a renewable energy driven infrastructure.
Selected Publications
- Lin, Han; Majji, Madhu V.; Cho, Noah; Zeeman, John R.; Swan, James W.; Richards, Jeffrey J., Quantifying the hydrodynamic contribution to electrical transport in non-Brownian suspensions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2022).
- Cho, Noah H.; Zhang, Qingteng; Dufresne, Eric M.; Narayanan, Suresh; Richards, Jeffrey J., Microscopic Dynamics of Inverse Wormlike Micelles Probed Using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, ACS Macro Letters (2022).
- Cho, Noah H.; Riley, John K.; Richards, Jeffrey J., Fast Dynamics of Inverse Wormlike Micelles Probed Using Mechanical and Dielectric Spectroscopy, Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2021).
- Hipp, Julie B.; Richards, Jeffrey J.; Wagner, Norman J., Direct measurements of the microstructural origin of shear-thinning in carbon black suspensions, Journal of Rheology 65(2):145-157 (2021).
- Chen, Jeffrey E.; Wang, Qifeng; Shull, Kenneth R.; Richards, Jeffrey J., Control over electroless plating of silver on silica nanoparticles with sodium citrate, Journal of Colloid And Interface Science 576:376-384 (2020).
- Richards, Jeffrey J.; Riley, John K., Dielectric RheoSANS, Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science 42:110-120 (2019).
- Hipp, Julie B.; Richards, Jeffrey J.; Wagner, Norman J., Structure-property relationships of sheared carbon black suspensions determined by simultaneous rheological and neutron scattering measurements, Journal of Rheology 63(3):423-436 (2019).
- Riley, John K.; Richards, Jeffrey J.; Wagner, Norman J.; Butler, Paul D., Branching and alignment in reverse worm-like micelles studied with simultaneous dielectric spectroscopy and RheoSANS, Soft Matter 14(26):5344-5355 (2018).