Mogotu Mogaka

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Mogotu Mogaka

Doctoral Candidate

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Education:

Doctoral Candidate at the University of Colorado - Boulder (8/2005 - Present), expected 2010
BS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University - Lafayette (2004)

Awards:

National Science Foundation Alliance (NSF) for Graduate Education and Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship, 2005

E-mail: mogaka@colorado.edu

Reseach Area:

Photocatalytic Decomposition on TiO2 and Pt/TiO2

Elucidating how weakly adsorbed water dramatically increases the rate of photocatalytic decomposition of hazardous organic contaminants on TiO2 and Pt/TiO2 through a combination of experimental and computational quantum calculations. Techniques include: Static Adsorption and BET surface area measurements, Temperature Programmed Desorption, Mass spectrometry, Vienna Ab-initio Simulation Package (VASP), and Amsterdam Density Functional program (ADF).

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