My name is
Daniel Scott Mitchell and I am a B.S. Mechanical Engineering Candidate (’20)
and Honors College student here at George Mason University.
Over the past 14
months, I have been developing a novel, cost-effective, and scalable method to
fabricate the nanomaterial graphene with Dr. Pilgyu Kang (Mechanical
Engineering), Farbod Moghaddam (Mechanical Engineering ’19), and our
collaborators from the Korea Research Institute for Chemical Technology in
Daejeon, South Korea. Our research has shown that our graphene has great
promise for practical applications, including high-sensitivity and wireless gas
sensing.
This November,
Farbod and I had the opportunity to present our research at ASME’s
International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. It was a thought-provoking and humbling experience to share our
work at the world’s largest mechanical engineering conference and interface
with our field’s top researchers, scholars, and industry leaders. In the
future, I am excited for further research regarding graphene and pursuing
academia as a whole.
