Christopher Balzer
- Program Year: 1
- Academic Institution: California Institute of Technology
- Field of Study: Chemical Engineering
- Academic Advisor: Zhen-Gang Wang
- Practicum(s): Practicum Not Yet Completed
- Degree(s):
M.Phil. Advanced Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2018; B.S. Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2017
Publications
Christopher J. Balzer, Mitchell Armstrong, Bohan Shan, Yingjie Huang, Jichang Liu, and Bin Mu. Modeling Nanoparticle Dispersion in Electrospun Nanofibers. Langmuir. 2018. 34 (4), pp 1340-1346Mitchell Armstrong. Christopher J. Balzer, Bohan Shan and Bin Mu. Influence of particle size and loading on particle accessibility in electrospun poly(ethylene oxide) and ZIF-8 composite fibers: experiments and theory. Langmuir. 2017, 33 (36), pp 9066-9072
Christopher J. Balzer, Mitchell R. Armstrong, Bohan Shan and Bin Mu. Composite MOF Mixture as Volatile Organic Compound Sensor - A New Approach to LMOF Sensors. Mater Lett. 2017, 190, pp 33-36
Mitchell R. Armstrong, Sethuraman Senthilnathan, Christopher J. Balzer, Bohan Shan and Bin Mu. Particle size studies to reveal crystallization mechanisms of the metal organic framework HKUST-1 during sonochemical synthesis. Ultrason Sonochem., 2017, 34, pp 365-370
Mitchell R. Armstrong, Korinthia Y. Yuriar Arredondo, Chao-Yuan Liu, Joshua E. Stevens, Alexandre Mayhob, Bohan Shan, Sethuraman Senthilnathan, Christopher J. Balzer, and Bin Mu. UiO-66 MOF and Poly(Vinyl Cinnamate) Nanofiber Composite Membranes Synthesized By A Facile 3 Stage Process. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2015, 54 (49), pp 12386-12392
Awards
Jacobs Translational Medicine Fellowship, 2018Churchill Scholarship, 2017
NSF GFRP Honorable Mention, 2017
Goldwater Scholarship, 2016
Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar, 2016