Faisal Alamgir Assistant Professor Georgia Institute of Technology Materials Science and Engineering 771 Ferst Drive, N.W. Atlanta, GA 30332-0245 Office: Love Bldg., Room 373 Phone: 404.385.3263  | Fax: 404.894.9140 faisal.alamgir@mse.gatech.edu   Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering (2003), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. B.S. in Physics and Mathematics magna cum laude (1996), Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA Research Interests Materials for Energy Storage Conversion and Harvesting Core-shell catalysts and their surface atomic, electronic, topographical structure Mediation of poisons of catalysts for fuel cells; reformer catalysts for CO elimination Storage of electrochemical energy; Li-ion batteries Storage of H2 fuel in the solid state; glassy metals, carbon nanotubes Combinatorial approaches to material discovery for energy applications Nano-textured materials for photovoltaics and thermoelectrics Nanoscopy and nano-scale structure development of synchrotron-like capabilities in transmission electron microscope (TEMs), to obtain atom-specific radial distribution functions medium-range order structure from combination of species-resolved scattering techniques Dr. Faisal Alamgir joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in July 2007.  He received his BA in physics and mathematics at Coe College and his Ph.D. in materials science and technology at Lehigh University.  His dissertation work was on the use of electron microscopy and various spectroscopies to study bulk metallic glasses in order to explain their high glass-forming ability from the bottom up.  The work also involved the development of electron microscopy based techniques for probing sub-nanoscale structure.  His dissertation and follow-up work has led to multiple publications including articles in Nature and PRL as well as an invited book chapter. Following his doctorate, he held a postdoctoral position jointly between Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Hunter College of the City University of New York for two years where he did research on the development of synchrotron-based in-situ spectroscopies for the dynamic nanoscale study of secondary battery and fuel cell materials.  He simultaneously held a position as adjunct professor at Hunter and taught undergraduate physics courses in that capacity. In February 2006, he has begun working as a Visiting Scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he was one of three scientists in charge of a suite of synchrotron beamlines at BNL.    Academic Grants, Citations, Awards and Honors DOE Hydrogen Initiative - whitepaper approved Research travel grant from the Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per Le Scienze Fisiche Della Materia, 2006 Awarded grant from NIST program on Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards, 2006 Co-author on one year pilot grant won from ARO Who’s Who in America, 61st ed., 2007 Libsch Student Award for work with ONERA, a French Aerospace Laboratory Work highlighted at the National Synchrotron Light Source Science Highlight 2001 Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the Microbeam Analysis Society, 1999 DOE supported research assistantship Graduation with Honors (magna cum laude), Coe College Outstanding Physics Student Award, Coe College Invited Oral Presentations Thin-film Batteries – IUMACRO-07, New York, ‘07 XAFS Analysis of Nanocatalysis and Chemical Transformations – NSLS, ‘06 Physical and Computational Characterization of Nanostructured Electrocatalysts – ACS, San Francisco ‘06 CO Poisoning of Fuel Cell Catalysts – National Synchrotron Light Source seminar, ‘06 Atomic-level structure using electron and X-ray spectroscopy – University of Pennsylvania ‘05 (Sub)nanoscale Origins of Materials Properties: Dept. of Ceramics and Materials Engr., Rutgers University ‘05 Hume-Rothery Symposium on Complex Alloys: TMS, San Francisco ‘05 Dynamic Structure in Batteries and Fuel Cells: Dept. Mat. Science & Engr., Ohio State University ’04 Obtaining Structural Information from the Nanoscale: Dept. of Mech. Engr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute ‘04 Use of EELS and XAS in a complementary way: ONERA, Châtillon, France ’00 List of Publications Book Chapter F.M. Alamgir, H. Jain, D.B. Williams, R.B. Schwarz , Sub-nanoscale Structural Origins of the Stability of Pd-Ni-P Model Bulk Metallic Glass, The Science of Complex Alloy Phases, P. Turchi and T.  Massalski, editors, TMS, Warrensdale, PA, 2005. Journal Articles (published or in preparation) W. Yoon, F.M. Alamgir, D. Fischer, XAS Study of Li(1-x)(Fe,Co)PO4 Olivines, manuscript in preparation. F.M. Alamgir, R.G. Agostino, A. Policicchio, J. Cooper, P. McGinn, Surface and Sub-surface Structure of Pt-Ru Thin-Films, manuscript in preparation. F.M. Alamgir, K. Martocci, A. Colon, S. Sambasivan, D. Fischer, J. Cooper, P. Mcginn, E. Smotkin, S.  Greenbaum, Mechanism of CO poisoning of Pt-Ru Catalysts, manuscript in preparation. F.M. Alamgir, N. Leifer, A. Colon, K. Martocci, T. Reddy, E. Takeuchi, S. Greenbaum, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Lithium Insertion in Silver Vanadium Oxide Cathodes, accepted by J. Electrochem. Soc., Jan. 2007. M. Vittadello, P.E. Stallworth, F.M. Alamgir, S. Suarez, S. Abbrent, C.M. Drain, V. Di Noto, S.G. Greenbaum, On the Covalent Nature of _-MgCl2, accepted by Inorg. Chim. Acta., February 2006. H.W Sheng, W.K. Luo, F.M. Alamgir, J.M. Bai, E. Ma, Nature 439, no. 7075, (2006) 419-425. J.V. Sluytman, W.West, J. Whitacre, F.M. Alamgir, S. Greenbaum, Cycle-induced Degradation of LiCoO2 Thin-Film Cathodes at Elevated Temperature, Electrochimica Acta 51, 3001–3007 (2006). F.M. Alamgir, E. Strauss, M. denBoer, S. Greenbaum, J.F. Whitacre, C.-C. Kao, S. Neih, LiCoO2 thin-film batteries: Structural changes and charge compensation, J. Electrochem. Soc. 152, 5, (2005) 845-849. W.K. Luo, H.W. Sheng, F. Alamgir, J.M. Bai, J.H. He and E. Ma, Icosahedral short-Range order in an Amorphous Alloy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 14, 145502 (2004). F.M. Alamgir, H. Jain, D.B. Williams, R.B. Schwarz The structure of a metallic glass system using EXELFS and EXAFS as complementary probes: Micron 34, Issue 8 , (2003) 433-439. F. Ronci, P.E. Stallworth, F. Alamgir, T. Schiros, J. Van Sluytman, G. Xiaodong, P. Reale, S. Greenbaum, M. denBoer, B. Scrosati, Lithium-7 nuclear magnetic resonance and Ti K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopic investigation of electrochemical Li insertion in Li4/3 + xTi5/3O4, J. of Power Sources 5370 (2003) 1-6. F. M. Alamgir, Y. Ito, H. Jain, and D. B.Williams, EXELFS analysis of 3d transition metals using the Lionization edges: Phil. Mag. Lett. 81, 3, (2001) 213. F.M. Alamgir, H. Jain, R.B. Schwarz, O. Jin, D.B. Williams, Electronic properties of Pd-based bulk metallic glasses: J. of Non-Cryst. Sol. 274, 1-3, (2000) 289. F. M. Alamgir, H. Jain, A.C. Miller, D. B.Williams, and R.B. Schwarz, XPS analysis of bulk metallic glasses: Phil. Mag. B 79, (1999) 239-247. R. Boekenhauer R, Z.H. Zhang, S. Feller, D. Bain, S. Kambeyanda, K. Budhwani, P. Pandikuthira, F. Alamgir, A.M. Peters, S. Messer, K.L. Loh, The glass transition temperature of lithium borosilicate glasses as elated to atomic arrangements: J. Non-Cryst. Sol. 175 (1994) 137-144. A.M. Peters, F.M. Alamgir, S.W. Messer, S.A. Feller, K.L Loh, The density of lithium silicate glasses over an extended range of alkali composition: Phys. and Chem. of Glasses 35, 5, (1994). Conference Proceedings and Annual Reports X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of sub-nanoscale strain in thin-film Li-ion battery cathodes, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 822, ( 2004) S2.3.1. Defect Analysis of CuInS2 for photovoltaic applications using Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (EXAFS), Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 763, ( 2003) B1.2.1. Measured and calculated electronic structure of Ni0.4Pd0.4P0.2 and Cu0.4Pd0.4P0.2, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 754 (2003). EXAFS and EXELFS study of the structure of Pd-Ni-P Bulk Metallic glasses: MRS Proc. Vol. 644, (2001) L2.4.1-6. Analysis of the structure of bulk metallic glasses using EXELFS: Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 5, supplement 2, (1999) 138. Optimizing the metalloid content in bulk metallic glasses: MRS Proc. 580, (2000) 277. Local structural probes around high-Z elements in a solid: EXAFS vs. EXELFS: National Synschrotron Light Source Science Highlights, 2001. EXELFS as a tool for investigating the local structure of bulk glass-forming metallic alloys: Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 5, supplement 2, (2000) p. 194. A local probe into the atomic structure of metallic glasses using EELS: MRS Proc. 554, 15 (1999). EXELFS of metallic glasses: MRS Proc. 554, (1999) 31 Return to top