Angela Lueking 
EESI Associate
Angela Lueking
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003
Contact Information:
Department of Energy and Engineering Minerals
120 Hosler Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-6256
email: adl11@psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/adl11/
Current Research Interests:
Prof. Angela Lueking's current research centers around developing hydrogen storage materials, new synthesis methods for carbon nanomaterials, and more broadly, applications in adsorption, catalysis, and electrochemistry. Lueking has been working in hydrogen storage research for the past six years, and has received international recognition for her work in catalyzed carbon composite materials, which invoked the hydrogen spillover hypothesis to explain activation of carbon materials in the presence of a residual catalytic material and the effect of carbon defects and pretreatment on hydrogen storage. Since coming to Penn State, she has been developing new nanoporous carbons such as exfoliated graphite nanofibers (EGNFs), working to develop a fundamental framework to understand hydrogen spillover, looking at alternative low cost methods for nanocarbon production by using coal as the precursor, and working collaboratively to design and build a differential high pressure unit to accurately measure adsorption. She has experience in carbon nanotube synthesis via chemical vapor deposition, doping, incorporation of heteroatoms into storage materials through ball milling, and characterization using TEM, SEM, XPS, XRD, and TGA. Prior to her PhD studies, she designed and conducted experiments in developing an index for the bioavailability of subsurface contaminants and worked as an Environmental Engineer at Procter & Gamble which instilled practical knowledge of the application of environmental issues in a real world, industrial setting.
Selected Publications:
Lueking, A.D.; Pan, L.; Narayanan, D.; Burgess-Clifford, C. “Effect of Expanded Graphite Lattice in Exfoliated Graphite Nanofibers on Hydrogen Storage,” J. Phys. Chem. B. 109, 12710, (2005). Copy in pdf format.
Lueking, A.D.; Yang, R.T. Hydrogen Spillover onto Carbon: Inference of Spiltover Hydrogen on Optimization for Hydrogen Storage. Appl. Catal. A—Gen., 265, 259, (2004).
Lueking, A.D.; Yang, R.T.; Rodriguez, N.M.; Baker, R.T.K. Hydrogen Storage in Graphite Nanofibers: Effect of Synthesis Catalyst and Pretreatment Conditions. Langmuir, 20, 714, (2004).
Lueking, A.D.; Yang, R.T. Hydrogen Storage in Carbon Nanotubes: Residual Metal Content and Pretreatment Temperature. AIChE Journal, 49, 1556, (2003). Copy in pdf format.
Lueking, A.D.; Yang, R.T. Hydrogen Spillover from a Metal Oxide Catalyst onto Carbon Nanotubes—Implications for Hydrogen Storage. J. Catal. 206, 165, (2002).