Amin Salehi-Khojin, Ph.D.

Amin Salehi-Khojin

Amin Salehi-Khojin, Ph.D.

Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Inaugural William T. Solomon Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Interim Executive Director of Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

Office Location: Embrey 200C

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Education

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University
  • M.S. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tabriz University
  • B.S. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Karaj University

Biography

Prof. Amin Salehi-Khojin is the inaugural William T. Solomon Chair of Mechanical Engineering at 51²è¹Ý's Lyle School of Engineering, where he also serves as the Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department. Before joining 51²è¹Ý, Prof. Salehi-Khojin was a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a University Scholar of the University of Illinois system, and held a joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and completed four years of postdoctoral studies in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

He has secured over $15 million in grants and served as the principal investigator for multiple federal projects, including those funded by DOE EarthShot, DOE-EERE, ARPA-E, NSF-EFRI, NSF-DMREF, and NSF-CBET.

Prof. Salehi-Khojin has co-authored over 100 journal publications, including three papers in Science, two in Nature, as well as papers in Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Communications. He is the inventor of more than 10 patents or patent applications. His research has been featured in numerous news outlets, including The Times of London, The Guardian, New York Post, Science, Huffington Post, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, MIT Technology Review, The Electrochemical Society, Chicago Tribune, Science daily, IEEE Spectrum, C & EN, Nature Climate Change, Chemistry World Magazine, Daily Mail, and others His recent research on Li-CO2 batteries was featured on Cold Fusion TV, with the corresponding YouTube video nearing 1,000,000 views. Dr. Salehi-Khojin was named one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, with only eight individuals selected in the category of innovations. 

Honors and Awards

  • Named University of Illinois Scholar, 2022
  • Cited as Foreign Policy 100 Leading Global Thinkers, 2018
  • UIC College of Engineering Faculty Teaching Award, 2018
  • Listed as Illinois Researchers Who Wowed Us in 2016
  • UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2015
  • The Shen post-doctoral fellowship award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for 2009
  • Received “Best Student Paper” Finalist Award, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2008, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Research

  • Solid State Batteries for Electric Aviation

  • CO2 Capture and Conversion

  • Advanced Materials for Extreme Conditions

  • Hydrogen Transportation

  • Ammonia Synthesis

Recent Publications

  • M. Asadi, B. Sayahpour, P. Abbasi, A. Ngo, K. Karis, J. Jokisaari, C. Liu, B. Narayanan, M. Gerard, P. Yasaei, X. Hu, K. Chun Lau, F. Khalili-Araghi, R. Klie, L. A. Curtiss, A. Salehi-Khojin, A lithium–oxygen battery with a long cycle life in an air-like atmosphere, Nature, 555 (7697), 502, 2018.
  • M. Asadi, K. Kim, C. Liu, V. A. Addepalli, P. Phillips, P. Abbasi, A. Behranginia, P. Yasaei, R. Haasch, P. Zapol, B. Kumar, R. F. Klie, J. Abiade, L. A. Curtiss, A. Salehi-Khojin, Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction, Science, 353 (6298), 467-470, 2016.
  • J. Lu, Y. J. Lee, X. Luo, K. C. Lau, M. Asadi, H. Wang, J. Wen, D. Zhai, D. Miller, Y. Jeong, J. Park, Z. Z. Fang, B. Kumar, A. Salehi-Khojin, Y. Sun, L. A. Curtiss, K. Amine, A Lithium-Oxygen Battery Based on Lithium Superoxide, Nature, 529, 377- 382, 2016.
  • B. Rosen, A. Salehi-Khojin, M. R. Thorson, W. Zhu, D. T. Whipple, P. J.A. Kenis, R. I. Masel, Ionic Liquid Mediated Selective Conversion of CO2 to CO at Low Overpotentials, Science, 334 (6056), 643-644, 2012.
  • Salehi-Khojin, K. Y. Lin, C. R. Field, R. I. Masel, Non-Thermal Current Stimulated Desorption of Gases from Carbon Nanotubes, Science, 329 (5997), 1327–1330, 2010.

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