Jonathan Turnley
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, College of Engineering
Engineering Building, 428 S Shaw Ln, Room 4143
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 dissert
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Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2023
B.S., Chemistry, Presbyterian College, 2018
B.S., Physics, Presbyterian College, 2018
Awards
College of Engineering Outstanding Research Award, Purdue University, 2024
Frederick N. Andrews Fellowship, Purdue University, 2019-2021
Valedictorian, Presbyterian College, 2018
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
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