Assistant professor David Kisailus studies the chiton, a
marine snail found off the coast of California, to develop nanoscale materials
for energy applications
An assistant professor at the University of California,
Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering is using the teeth of a marine snail
found off the coast of California to create less costly and more efficient
nanoscale materials to improve solar cells and lithium-ion batteries.
The most recent findings by David Kisailus, an assistant
professor of chemical and environmental engineering, details how the teeth of
chiton grow. The paper was published today (Jan. 16) in the journal Advanced
Functional Materials. It was co-authored by several of his current and former
students and scientists at Harvard University in Cambridge Mass., Chapman
University in Orange, Calif. and Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY.