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Jeffrey Richards

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech E166
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-467-4641Email Jeffrey Richards

Website

Richards Lab Website

Departments

Chemical and Biological Engineering

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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 develop relationships linking the microscopic structure of multicomponent soft 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

  • Brucks, Matthew D.; Arslanova, Alina; Byrne, Nicholas F.; Hui, Janan; Kurtz, Heather E.; Hersam, Mark C.; Richards, Jeffrey John, Anisotropic Electrical Transport in Mechanically Responsive Silver-Coated Microparticle-Gel Composites for Flowable Semiconducting Materials, Advanced Materials (2025).
  • Gupta, Yoshita; Liu, Qingsong; Richards, Jeffrey J., Physical scaling for predicting shear viscosity and memory effects of lithium-ion battery cathode slurries, Soft Matter (2025).
  • Patel, Kush J.; Bowles, Steven; Matolyak, L. Elise; Vogus, Douglas; Wang, Chao; Nagy, Gergely; Richards, Jeffrey J., Mapping Structure and Rheology of pH-Responsive Resins for Low-VOC Coatings, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2024).
  • Liu, Qingsong; Brenneis, Willa; Nagy, Gergely; Doucet, Mathieu; Lopez, Jeffrey; Richards, Jeffrey J., Structure-performance relationships of lithium-ion battery cathodes revealed by contrast-variation small-angle neutron scattering, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2024).
  • Hipp, Julie B.; Ramos, Paolo Z.; Liu, Qingsong; Wagner, Norman J.; Richards, Jeffrey J., Quantifying electron transport in aggregated colloidal suspensions in the strong flow regime, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2024).
  • Richards, Jeffrey J.; Ramos, Paolo Z.; Liu, Qingsong, A review of the shear rheology of carbon black suspensions, Frontiers in Physics (2023).
  • Brucks, Matthew David; Arslanova, Alina; Smith, Caroline Bridget; Richards, Jeffrey John, Electroless Deposition of Silver onto Silica Nanoparticles to Produce Lipophilic Core-Shell Nanoparticles, Journal of Colloid And Interface Science (2023).
  • Ramos, Paolo Z.; Sarmah, Anubhav; Green, Micah J.; Richards, Jeffrey J., In situ investigation of the rheological and dielectric properties of a cross-linking carbon nanotube-thermosetting epoxy, Soft Matter (2023).