BAKDAULET ISAKHOV

Metairie, LA *****; 504-***-****

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SUMMARY

MSc. in Chemical Engineering with 4+ years of experience in R&D projects involving Cyclic Voltammetry, Photolithography, Tribology, Electron Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Materials Property Testing, Chemical Vapor Deposition and Elemental Analysis

My graduate research projects are focused on fabrication of patterned carbon nanotube (CNT) supercapacitors and synthesis of carbon microsphere (CM) lubricants

Undergraduate education specialized in Chemical Process Modeling and Li-ion battery research

With particular interest in materials science and process engineering, I am seeking opportunities to conduct research in the chemical, manufacturing and/or environmental industries

EDUCATION

MSc.: Chemical Engineering, Tulane University (full scholarship) August 2016 – Present

New Orleans, LA (GPA: 3.92/4.00, expected graduation: December 2020)

Thesis title: Carbon Microspheres Lubrication on Rough Surfaces

B.Sc.: Chemical Engineering, Nazarbayev University (full scholarship) August 2012 – May 2016

Astana, Kazakhstan (GPA: 3.51/4.00)

Capstone project title: Ethylene Oxide (EO) production plant modeling in Aspen Plus

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Pesika Laboratory, Tulane University, Research Assistant May 2017 – Present

Research Area: Functional nanomaterials fabrication

Designed Patterned Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitors for enhanced electrolyte diffusion

Obtained & tested atomic monolayer deposition of 1-octadecanethiol on gold surface using AFM

Synthesized and tested tribological properties of Carbon Microspheres as effective lubricants

Created Silicon wafer substrates of varying surface roughness for tribometric analysis

Created Matlab program which transforms friction data from tribometer into surface profile

Carried out friction tests and analyzed degradation of different polymer materials in acids and bases (Intralox® projects)

Institute of Batteries, Astana, Kazakhstan, Research Assistant January 2015 – May 2016

Research Area: Novel lithium-sulfur batteries

Assembled and analyzed performance of aqueous batteries and coin cells

Conducted analysis of the effectiveness of different current conductors in aqueous batteries based on LiFePO4 cathode material

Synthesized cathode material, assembled and tested batteries in commercial production of the first Kazakhstani rechargeable Li-ion coin cell battery (IB 2032)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Department of Mathematics, August 2018 – December 2018

Tulane University, Teaching Assistant

Designed and graded weekly quizzes for undergraduate class of Consolidated Calculus

Conducted weekly 2-hour tutorial classes and explained homework solutions to students

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, August 2016 – May 2017

Tulane University, Teaching Assistant

Graded exams for undergraduate classes of Transport Phenomena II and Thermodynamics II

Held weekly 2-hour office hours to help students solve homework problems

RESEARCH SKILLS

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) scanning methods

Analysis of Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) and Charge/Discharge profiles of coin cell batteries and supercapacitors

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) growth by Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Synthesis of Hard Carbon Spheres, Gas Chromatography, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

Photolithography, Tribology, E-beam deposition, Thermal Evaporation and Elemental Analysis

Optical profilometer, Magnetron Sputtering, Universal Materials Tester (UMT), Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Cleanroom and glovebox experience

PRESENTATIONS

Poster presentation – Friction as a Means of Detecting Biomolecules with Ultrahigh Sensitivity and Specificity (Authors: Bakdaulet Isakhov, WT Godbey, Noshir Pesika); presented at 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting, November 10–15, Orlando, FL

Poster presentation - Reinforced composite gel-polymer electrolytes for lithium-sulfur batteries (Authors: Bakdaulet Isakhov, Almagul Mentbayeva, Dauren Batyrbekuly, Yongguang Zhang, Zhumabay Bakenov) presented at the:

66th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry – October 4–9, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan

3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems (INESS-2015) – September 2–4, 2015, Astana, Kazakhstan

Research trip to University of Hebei, Tianjin, China (July 27–31, 2015) on synthesis and testing of Gel Polymer Electrolytes (GPEs) based on a PVDF-HFP/PMMA (poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoro propylene)/ poly(methylmethacrylate)) composite system

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Proficient in MATLAB, AutoCAD, ChemCAD, Aspen Plus and Microsoft Office products

LANGUAGES

Kazakh (native), Russian (bilingual), English (fluent), Turkish (proficient)

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