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Work Experience
Senior Chemist
Intelligent Optical Systems
2020 - Present 
Research Engineer: Battery Systems
Fisker Inc.
2018 - 2020
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California Irvine
May 2017 - June 2018
Staff Chemist
QinetiQ North America
2011 - 2012
Education
Ph.D. (Chemistry)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
September 2012 - December 2016
B.S. Chemistry (Chemistry & Chemical Biology)
Northeastern University
September 2008 - January 2012
Warren County Community College
2006 - 2008
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lawrence A. Renna, Francois-Guillame Blanc, Vincent Giordani (2020). Interface Modification of lithium Metal Anode and Solid-state Electrolyte with Gel Electrolyte . Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
Connor J. Boyle, Meenakshi Upadhyaya, Peijian Wang, Lawrence A. Renna, Michael Lu-Díaz, Seung Pyo Jeong, Nicholas Hight-Huf, Ljiljana Korugic-Karasz, Michael D. Barnes, Zlatan Aksamija, et al.(2019). Tuning charge transport dynamics via clustering of doping in organic semiconductor thin films . Nature Communications. 10. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Gregory M. Su, William White, Lawrence A. Renna, Jun Feng, Shane Ardo, Cheng Wang (2019). Photoacid-Modified Nafion Membrane Morphology Determined by Resonant X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy . ACS Macro Letters.
Emily C. Smith, Christie L. C. Ellis, Hamza Javaid, Lawrence A. Renna, Yao Liu, Thomas P. Russell, Monojit Bag, D. Venkataraman(2018). Interplay between Ion Transport, Applied Bias, and Degradation under Illumination in Hybrid Perovskite p-i-n Devices . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Md Arifur Rahman, Lawrence A. Renna, D. Venkataraman, Philippe Desbois, Alan J. Lesser(2018). High crystalline, porous polyamide 6 by anionic polymerization . Polymer. 138. p. 8--16. Elsevier {BV}
Renna, Lawrence A and Liu, Yao and Russell, Thomas P and Bag, Monojit and Venkataraman, D(2018). Evidence of tunable macroscopic polarization in perovskite films using photo-Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. Materials Letters. 217. p. 308--311. North-Holland
White, William and Schwartz, Eric and Renna, Lawrence and Ardo, Shane(2018). Organic Photovoltaics where Water is the Semiconducting Medium and Protons and Hydroxides are the Charge Carriers. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. American Physical Society
Seung Pyo Jeong, Lawrence A. Renna, Connor J. Boyle, Hyunwook S. Kwak, Edward Harder, Wolfgang Damm, Dhandapani Venkataraman(2017). High Energy Density in Azobenzene-based Materials for Photo-Thermal Batteries via Controlled Polymer Architecture and Polymer-Solvent Interactions . Scientific Reports. 7. (1). Springer Nature
Lawrence A. Renna, Julia D. Lenef, Monojit Bag, D. Venkataraman(2017). Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conduction in Binary Polymer Nanoparticle Assemblies . Advanced Materials Interfaces. 4. (20). p. 1700397. Wiley-Blackwell
Lawrence A. Renna, Julia D. Lenef, Monojit Bag, D. Venkataraman(2017). Mixed Ionic--Electronic Conduction in Binary Polymer Nanoparticle Assemblies. Advanced Materials Interfaces.
Liu, Yao and Renna, Lawrence and Thompson, Hilary and Page, Zachariah and Emrick, Todd and Barnes, Michael and Bag, Monojit and Venkataraman, D and Russell, Thomas(2017). Role of Ionic Functional Groups on Ion Transport at Perovskite Interfaces. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 62. American Physical Society
Yao Liu, Lawrence A. Renna, Hilary B. Thompson, Zachariah A. Page, Todd Emrick, Michael D. Barnes, Monojit Bag, D. Venkataraman, Thomas P. Russell(2017). Role of Ionic Functional Groups on Ion Transport at Perovskite Interfaces. Advanced Energy Materials.
Liu, Yao and Bag, Monojit and Renna, Lawrence A and Page, Zachariah A and Kim, Paul and Emrick, Todd and Venkataraman, D and Russell, Thomas P(2016). Understanding Interface Engineering for High-Performance Fullerene/Perovskite Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 6. (2). Wiley Online Library
Jiang, Ziwen and Bag, Monojit and Renna, Lawrence A. and Jeong, Seung Pyo and Rotello, Vincent M. and Venkataraman, D.(2016). Aqueous-Processed Perovskite Solar Cells Based on Reactive Inkjet Printing. hal.archives-ouvertes.
Bag, Monojit and Renna, Lawrence A and Jeong, Seung Pyo and Han, Xu and Cutting, Christie L and Maroudas, Dimitrios and Venkataraman, D(2016). Evidence for reduced charge recombination in carbon nanotube/perovskite-based active layers. Chemical Physics Letters. 662. p. 35--41. North-Holland
Liu, Yao and Renna, Lawrence A and Bag, Monojit and Page, Zachariah A and Kim, Paul and Choi, Jaewon and Emrick, Todd and Venkataraman, Dhandapani and Russell, Thomas P(2016). High Efficiency Tandem Thin-Perovskite/Polymer Solar Cells with a Graded Recombination Layer. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 8. (11). p. 7070--7076. American Chemical Society
Liu, Yao and Renna, Lawrence A and Page, Zachariah A and Thompson, Hilary B and Kim, Paul Y and Barnes, Michael D and Emrick, Todd and Venkataraman, Dhandapani and Russell, Thomas P(2016). A Polymer Hole Extraction Layer for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells from Aqueous Solutions. Advanced Energy Materials. 6. (20).
Bag, Monojit and Jiang, Ziwen and Renna, Lawrence A and Jeong, Seung Pyo and Rotello, Vincent M and Venkataraman, D(2016). Rapid combinatorial screening of inkjet-printed alkyl-ammonium cations in perovskite solar cells. Materials Letters. 164. p. 472--475. North-Holland
Renna, Lawrence A and Bag, Monojit and Gehan, Timothy S and Han, Xu and Lahti, Paul M and Maroudas, Dimitrios and Venkataraman, Dhandapani(2016). Tunable Percolation in Semiconducting Binary Polymer Nanoparticle Glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 120. (9). p. 2544--2556. American Chemical Society
Bag, Monojit and Renna, Lawrence A and Adhikari, Ramesh Y and Karak, Supravat and Liu, Feng and Lahti, Paul M and Russell, Thomas P and Tuominen, Mark T and Venkataraman, Dhandapani(2015). Kinetics of Ion Transport in Perovskite Active Layers and Its Implications for Active Layer Stability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137. (40). p. 13130--13137. American Chemical Society
Renna, Lawrence A and Boyle, Connor J and Gehan, Timothy S and Venkataraman, D(2015). Polymer Nanoparticle Assemblies: A Versatile Route to Functional Mesostructures. Macromolecules. 48. (18). p. 6353--6368. American Chemical Society
Renna, Lawrence A and Gehan, Timothy S and Venkataraman, D(2014). Polymer Nanostructures through Packing of Spheres. Optical Properties of Functional Polymers and Nano Engineering Applications. 1. p. 227. CRC Press
Verschoor-Kirss, Michael J and Hendricks, Olivia and Renna, Lawrence and Hill, David and Kirss, Rein U(2014). Phosphine substitution reactions of ($η$ 5-cyclopentadienyl) ruthenium bis (triarylphosphine) chloride, CpRu (PAr 3) 2 Cl ${$PAr 3= PPh 3, P (p-CH 3 C 6 H 4) 3, P (p-FC 6 H 4) 3, P (p-CH 3 OC 6 H 4) 3, and PPh 2 (p-CH 3 C 6 H 4)$}$: a tale of two mechanisms. Dalton Transactions. 43. (40). p. 15221--15227. Royal Society of Chemistry
Supravat Karak, Paul J. Homnick, Lawrence A. Renna, D. Venkataraman, Joel T. Mague, Paul M. Lahti(2014). Solution-Processed Photovoltaics with a 3,6-Bis(diarylamino)fluoren-9-ylidene Malononitrile. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.
Timothy S. Gehan, Monojit Bag, Lawrence A. Renna, Dana A. Algaier, Paul M. Lahti, D. Venkataraman(2014). Fabrication Conditions for Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Cells from Aqueous Dispersions of Nanoparticles. RSC Advances. (Accepted).
Gehan, Timothy S and Bag, Monojit and Renna, Lawrence A and Shen, Xiaobo and Algaier, Dana D and Lahti, Paul M and Russell, Thomas P and Venkataraman, Dhandapani(2014). Multiscale Active Layer Morphologies for Organic Photovoltaics Through Self-Assembly of Nanospheres. Nano letters. 14. (9). p. 5238--5243. American Chemical Society
OTHER
Lawrence Renna, Francois-Guillame Blanc, Vincent Giordani (2020). Modification of Lithium Metal Anode and Solid-State Electrolyte Interface with a Gel Electrolyte .
PATENT
Ardo, Shane and Schwartz, Eric and Liu, Jingyuan and Cardon, Joseph M and White, William and Tkacz, Kevin and Renna, Lawrence A and Modestino, Miguel A and Blanco, Daniela and Schulte, Leanna and others(2019). Systems and methods for integrated solar photodialysis. Google Patents
CONFERENCE PAPER
Glancy, Jennifer and Luo, Simon and Bhide, Rohit and Schulte, Leanna and White, William and Renna, Lawrence and Ardo, Shane(2019). Understanding the photoacid sensitization cycle and cause of photovoltaic action in light-driven ion pumps. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 257.
White, William and Sanborn, Christopher D and Schwartz, Eric and Luo, Simon and Fabian, David M and Renna, Lawrence A and Ardo, Shane(2018). Mechanistic Details of Protonic Solar Cells Formed Via Covalent Modification of Passive Ion-Exchange Membranes with Photoacid Dye Molecules. Meeting Abstracts. (39). p. 2284--2284.
Su, Gregory and Cordova, Isvar and Kusoglu, Ahmet and White, William and Renna, Lawrence and Ardo, Shane and Prendergast, David and Wang, Cheng(2018). Probing chemistry and structure of polymers with energy-tunable X-rays. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 256.
Luo, Simon and Sanborn, Christopher and White, William and Renna, Lawrence and Ardo, Shane(2018). Toward light-driven multiple-electron-coupled proton-transfer (ECPT) reactions. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 255.
Tuominen, MT and Adhikari, RY and Xu, Z and Bag, M and Renna, LA and Cutting, CL and Venkataraman, D(2016). Modeling and Mechanistic Analyses of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Ion Transport in Photovoltaic Devices Containing Perovskite Active Layers. PRiME 2016/230th ECS Meeting (October 2-7, 2016).
Liu, Yao and Bag, Monojit and Page, Zachariah and Renna, Lawrence and Kim, Paul and Choi, Jaewon and Emrick, Todd and Venkataraman, D and Russell, Thomas(2016). High Performance Tandem Perovskite/Polymer Solar Cells. APS March Meeting Abstracts.
Tuominen, MT and Adhikari, RY and Xu, Z and Bag, M and Renna, LA and Cutting, CL and Venkataraman, D(2016). Modeling and Mechanistic Analyses of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Ion Transport in Photovoltaic Devices Containing Perovskite Active Layers. PRiME 2016/230th ECS Meeting (October 2-7, 2016).
Lee, Yongwoo and Collins, William and Shin, Ura and Renna, Lawence and Keogh, Lauren and Kovar, Robert F(2013). Synthesis of greener vinyl ester resin. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 245.
Lee, Yongwoo and Kovar, Bob F and Shin, Ura and Renna, Lawrence and Collins, Will and Francis, Nicole and Reinstein, Bob(2012). Greener vinyl ester resin from biowastes. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 244.
Lee, Yongwoo and Renna, Lawrence and Delane, Philip and Manesis, Anastasia and Patel, Navin(2011). Highly efficient self-decontaminating metal organic framework (SD-MOF) composite. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 242.
DISSERTATION THESIS
Renna, Lawrence A(2017). Characterization of Electronic and Ionic Transport in Soft and Hard Functional Materials.
RESEARCH TOOL
Renna, Lawrence A and Bag, Monojit and Venkataraman, D(2016). Resistor Network Model for Nanoparticle Assemblies.
REPORT
Lee, Yongwoo and Kovar, R and Shin, U and Francis, N and Collins, W and Renna, L(2011). Environmentally Compliant Vinyl Ester Resin (VER) Composite Matrix Resin Derived from Renewable Resources.
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