Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
| agrios@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | 860-486-1350 |
| Mailing Address | Civil and Environmental Engineering 261 Glenbrook Road, Unit 3037 Storrs, CT 06269-3037 |
| Campus | Storrs |
| Link | Research Website |
| Google Scholar Link | |
Brief Bio
Dr. Alex Agrios is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is also the Al Geib Professor of Environmental Engineering Research and Education. He is also associated with UConn's Center for Clean Energy Engineering. His research focuses on energy and environmental applications of nanotechnology, particularly in areas like photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion, combined PV/thermal solar collectors, and photocatalytic pollutant remediation. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University (2003).
- novel materials and nanostructures for improved performance of dye-sensitized solar cells.
- dye regeneration overpotential problem;
- DSC solar power conversion efficiencies
- environmental impacts of nanoparticles,
- solar fuels production,
- materials for energy storage.
- Hewage, N.; Yang, B.; Agrios, A.G.; Brückner, C. “Introduction of Carboxylic Ester and Acid Functionalities to meso-Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)porphyrin and their Limited Electronic Effects on the Chromophore.” Dyes and Pigments 2015 121:159-169.
- Manthina, V.; Agrios, A.G. “Band Edge Engineering of Composite Photoanodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.” Electrochimica Acta 2015 169:416-423.
- Correa Baena, J.P.; Agrios, A.G. “Transparent Conducting Aerogels of Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interf. 2014 6:19127-19134.
- Kopecky, A.; Liu, G.; Agushi, A.; Agrios, A.G.; Galoppini, E. “Synthesis of bifunctional Ru complexes with 1,2-dithiolane and carboxylate-substituted ligands.” Tetrahedron 2014 70:6271-6275.
- Correa Baena, J.P.; Agrios, A.G. “Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide Aerogels as Porous Electron Collectors for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.” J. Phys. Chem. C. 2014 118:17028-17035.
- Manthina, V.; Patel, T.; Agrios, A.G. “Density control in chemical bath deposition of ZnO nanorods on FTO by forced hydrolysis of seed crystals.” J. Amer. Ceram. Soc. 2014 94:1028-1034.
- Liu, G.; Arellano-Jiménez, M. J.; Carter, C.B.; Agrios, A.G. “Preparation of functionalized platinum nanoparticles: A comparison of different methods and reagents.” J. Nanoparticle Res. 2013 15:1744-1756.
- Wang, X.; Santoro, C.; Cristiani, P.; Squadrito, G.; Lei, Y.; Agrios, A.G.; Pasaogullari, U.; Li, B. “Influence of Electrode Characteristics on Coulombic Efficiency (CE) in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) Treating Wastewater.” J. Electrochem. Soc. 2013 160:G3117-G3122.
- Manthina, V.; Correa Baena, J.P.; Liu, G.; Agrios, A.G. “ZnO–TiO2 Nanocomposite Films for High Light Harvesting Efficiency and Fast Electron Transport in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells.” J. Phys. Chem. C 2012 116:23864-23870.
- Santoro, C.; Agrios, A.G.; Pasaogullari, U.; Li, B.K. “Effects of gas diffusion layer (GDL) and micro porous layer (MPL) on cathode performance in microbial fuel cells (MFCs).” Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2011 36:13096-13104.