Faculty
Kenneth J. Takeuchi
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
Office: 876 Natural Sciences Complex
Phone: (716) 645-1494
Fax: (716) 645-6963
E-mail: takeuchi@buffalo.edu
Information on Kenneth Takeuchi's Research Group
Education:
- B. S., University of Cincinnati (1975)
- Ph.D., Ohio State University (1981)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-83)
Awards and Honors:
- 2011 ACS Fellow (2011)
- 2011 UB Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (2011)
- 2010 New York Professor of the Year, presented by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (2010)
- Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) Essential Piece Award, UB (2009)
- Inspire Integrity Award, sponsored by The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (National Runner-up 2008)
- ACS Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences (2006)
- UB Ronald E. McNair Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2006)
- UB Milton Plesur Awards for Excellence in Teaching (2003, 1997, 1989, 1985)
- SUNY at Buffalo, Graduate Student Association, Most Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (2002)
- Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY at Buffalo (1997)
- CMA National Catalyst Award (1997)
- SUNY at Buffalo, Friend of EOP (1993)
- SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986)
- Awarded memberships in Golden Key (1997), Mortar Board (1994), and Phi Eta Sigma (1986) honor societies, SUNY at Buffalo chapters
Specializations:
Inorganic materials, electrochemistry, battery chemistry, transition metal redox chemistry, coordination chemistry
Research Summary:
The synthesis and utility of inorganic materials towards energy storage devices are subjects of our current research. Our initial inorganic materials studies involved the synthesis of carbon particles from gaseous precursors and also the chemical modification of commercially available forms of carbon, with the purpose of using the carbons as probes in the fundamental study of chemical and electrochemical reactions which occur within batteries. In addition, during the synthesis of carbon particles we discovered the reaction conditions necessary for the formation of novel acicular iron particles.
A more current research interest is the synthesis of inorganic materials such as iron-containing spinels and inverse spinels and silver containing layered or channeled materials. A specific synthetic target is the development of synthetic control of crystallite size and particle size, and the subsequent fundamental study of crystallite size and particle size effects on the electrochemistry of inorganic materials.
The synthesis, characterization, and electron transfer properties of coordination compounds primarily featuring ruthenium centers is a general area of previous research for the K. Takeuchi group. In particular, the preparation of transition metal complexes which contain trans-spanning diphosphine ligands or heteroscorpionate ligands are areas of recent past research interest and related future studies might be possible.
Selected Recent Publications:
- Takeuchi, Esther S.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Tanzil, Kevin; Kozarsky, Eric S.; Zhu, Shali; Takeuchi, Kenneth J. “Electrochemical Reduction of Silver Vanadium Phosphorus Oxide, Ag2VO2PO4: The Formation of Electrically Conductive Metallic Silver Nanoparticles,” Chemistry of Materials (2009), 21(20), 4934-4939.
- Zhu, Shali; Marschilok, Amy C.; Takeuchi, Esther S.; Takeuchi, Kenneth J. “Crystallite Size Control and Resulting Electrochemistry of Magnetite, Fe3O4,” Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters (2009), 12(4), A91-A94.
- Marschilok, Amy C.; Takeuchi, Kenneth J.; Takeuchi, Esther S. “Preparation and Electrochemistry of Silver Vanadium Phosphorous Oxide, Ag2VO2PO4,” Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters (2008), 12(1), A5-A9.
- Takeuchi, Esther S.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Leising, Randolph A.; Takeuchi, Kenneth J. “Sol-gel Synthesis and Controlled Sintering of Silver Vanadium Oxide,” Journal of Power Sources (2007), 174(2), 552-553.
- Takeuchi, Kenneth J.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Leising, Randolph A.; Takeuchi, Esther S. “Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Acicular Silver Vanadium Oxide Nanofibers,” Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2007), 972(Solid-State Ionics--2006), 351-356.
- Takeuchi, Kenneth J.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Lau, Garret C.; Leising, Randolph A.; Takeuchi, Esther S. “Carbon Structure/Function Relationships: Characterization and Electrochemistry of Carbon Nanofibers,” Journal of Power Sources (2006), 157(1), 543-549.
- Takeuchi, Kenneth J.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Davis, Steven M.; Leising, Randolph A.; Takeuchi, Esther S. “Heat-Treatment of Synthetic Graphite under Argon and Effect on Li-Ion Electrochemistry,” Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2005), 152(1), A147-A151.
- Takeuchi, Kenneth J.; Marschilok, Amy C.; Davis, Steven M.; Leising, Randolph A.; Takeuchi, Esther S. “Novel Impact of Short Term Aging on the Electrochemistry of CO2 Treated Synthetic Graphite,” Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2004), 151(8), A1188-A1195.
