Johnathan Turnley
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Assistant Professor
Biography
Jonathan Turnley joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science in the fall of 2025. His research interests lie in the development of emerging metal chalcogenide materials for use in energy generation, energy storage, and electronics.
Jonathan obtained B.S. degrees in physics and chemistry from Presbyterian College, where he was also a collegiate soccer player. He then obtained a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Purdue University working with Rakesh Agrawal. His dissertation focused on solution-based synthesis methods of metal chalcogenide semiconductors for solar energy applications. Jonathan then worked as a postdoc in the group of Paul Braun at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he studied the solution processing of solid electrolytes for lithium batteries.
Education
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2023
- B.S., Chemistry, Presbyterian College, 2018
- B.S., Physics, Presbyterian College, 2018
Research Interests
- Development of Emerging Metal Chalcogenide Materials
Selected Publications
- J. W. Turnley, S. Agarwal, R. Agrawal, "Rethinking tolerance factor analysis for chalcogenide perovskites," Mater. Horiz., 2024,11, 4802-4808
- J. W. Turnley, R. Agrawal, "Solution processed metal chalcogenide semiconductors for inorganic thin film photovoltaics," Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 5245-5269
- J. W. Turnley, S. D. Deshmukh, V. M. Boulos, R. Spilker, C. J. Breckner, K. Ng, J. K.-Y. Liu, J. T. Miller, H. I. Kenttämaa, R. Agrawal, "A selenium-based “alkahest”: reactive dissolutions of metals and metal compounds with n-alkylammonium polyselenide
- J. W. Turnley, K. C. Vincent, A. A. Pradhan, I. Panicker, R. Swope, M. C. Uible, S. C. Bart, R. Agrawal, "Solution Deposition for Chalcogenide Perovskites: A Low-Temperature Route to BaMS3 Materials (M = Ti, Zr, Hf)," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022, 144, 40,
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Awards
- College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, Purdue University, 2024
- Frederick N. Andrews Fellowship, Purdue University, 2019-2021
- Valedictorian, Presbyterian College, 2018
