University of Tennessee
Materials Science & Engineering Department


UT Center for Materials Processing and Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM Poster Session
Knoxville, TN, February 16, 2023



Jakob Scroggins, a sophomore in the Materials Science & Engineering department, presented research that he has performed under the advising of Prof. David Harper in the Center for Renewable Carbon at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. His work was co-authored with Dr. Lu Yu, an alumna of the MSE/CRC collaboration, now working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.


Alex Greenhalgh, a senior in the Materials Science & Engineering department, presented research that he has performed under the advising of Prof. David Keffer. His work was co-authored with Dr. Dayton Kizzire, who also happens to be an alum of the MSE/CRC collaboration.

For the interested, below are links to recently published papers with Jakob Scroggins and Alex Greenhalgh as authors/co-authors:
  • Yu, L., Keffer, D.J., Hsieh, C.-T., Scroggins, J.R., Chen, H., Dai, S., Harper, D.P., “Lignin-Derived Magnetic Activated Carbons for Effective Methylene Blue Removal”, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 61(32), 2022 pp. 11840-11850, doi: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c02311 .
  • Greenhalgh, A., Sanjeewa, L.D., Luszczek, P., Maroulas, V., Rios, O, Keffer, D.J., “Assessment of Local Observation of Atomic Ordering in Alloys via the Radial Distribution Function: A Computational and Experimental Approach”, Frontiers in Materials 8 (590) 2021 pp. 1-13, doi: 10.3389/fmats.2021.797418 (Open Access).

More photos on the Keffer research group site.