Adam Imel is a research assistant professor with the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Energy Storage and Transportation Convergent Research Initiative.

Imel specializes in energy storage materials, explicitly focusing on polymers, polymer composites, and new electrolytes for energy storage devices.  

Imel completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry at the University of Central Oklahoma, where he developed a solid foundation in chemistry principles. During his Ph.D. studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, he worked in the Polymer Characterization Laboratory, a recharge center at UTK. He assisted with the maintenance and user training on polymer characterization instruments such as TGA with a mass spectrometer, differential scanning calorimetry, light scattering, and gel permeation chromatography. 

After a brief stint in the epoxy and polyurethane coatings industry and undergraduate teaching, Imel returned to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to complete a postdoctoral research assistantship that focused on redox flow battery electrolytes based on microemulsions before joining UT-ORII. 

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