Inorganic chemistry

additive manufacturing

magnetic materials

catalyst development

scale-up manufacturing

Education

• National Research Council Fellowship, Materials Physics, 2000
• MBA, Global Business and Entrepreneurship, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019
• Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry, University of New Orleans, 1999 
• M.S., Polymer Chemistry, Appalachian State University, 1996 
• B.S., Environmental Chemistry, Appalachian State University, 1994 

Research Interests

Research focuses on the synthesis of novel nanostructure for a host of applications ranging from magnetic nanoparticles for energy applications to catalytic nanoparticles for organic synthesis.  Our magnetic work is focused on the synthesis and characterization of new nanomagnetic materials. Current high efficiency motors utilize rare earth elements which are expensive and have uncertain supply chains. Our group has developed a new class of magnets which contain no rare earths. Our goals are to develop this new magnet system for use in renewable energy applications such as power generators and electric motors.  Chemical engineering comes into play because all too often a promising synthesis is never moved into commercialization application due in part to the low yield and/or lack of scalability of the synthesis method.  All our processes focus on techniques which can be converted into continuous flow processes.  We utilize not just simple precipitation but also high pressure supercritical fluids.  We focus on magnetic elements of iron, cobalt, and nickel, and catalytic elements of platinum and palladium.  

Select Publications

TKH Trinh, W Qiu, M Thornton, EE Carpenter, Y. Guo. "A property fine-tuned sulfobetaine chloesterol derivative for membrane protein structural biology" Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects 2021, 1865 (7), 129908

EE Carpenter. "Perovskite manganese oxides with strong magnetocaloric effect and uses therof" 2020 US Patent App. 16/768 173

CSM Hunt, R Barua, EE Carpenter. "Influence of A-Site cation size-disorder on the magnetocaloric response of La0.60Cax Sr0.40-xMnO3 nanoparticles" AIP Advances 2020 10 (1), 015228

B Williams, AA El-Gendy, EE Carpenter. "Exchange bias and enhances anisotropy from exchange couples Fe3/CoO nanoaggregates" Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 2017, 444, 332-337

EE Carpenter, ZJ Huba, KJ Carroll, A Farghaly, SN Khanna, M Qian, M Bertino. "Non-rare earth magnetic nanoparticles" 2017, US Patent 9,773,594