Kristy JostE: kristy.a.jost@gmail.comP: 215 900 4614A: 2215 Arch Street, APT 618, Philadelphia, PA 19103

SKILLS

Science and EngineeringFabrication and testing of assembled supercapacitorsElectrochemical characterizationHandling of nanomaterialsFamiliar with antenna development and designScanning Electron MicroscopyX-ray tomography (XCT)

Software: EC lab, Origin, Maple, End-Note, VESTA Crystal Making

Creative Arts and DesignComputerized knittingDigital garment renderingApparel Design CAD for Patternmaking Draping and PatternmakingCouture and tailoring Yarn twisting/plyingSewable circuitsVideo editing

Software: Shima Seiki Apex-3 Knitting SoftwarePattern Aided Design (PAD, aka CAD)Microsoft office, iMovieGoogle Sketch-up, Splashtop, BlenderAdobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Critical Writing and CommunicationScientific proposals Successful Fellowship/Award essaysReferee for the Royal Society of Chem-istry Journals and Wiley Journals

EDUCATION

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D. Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering Department (MSE)Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute (DNI)Prof. Genevieve Dion, Director, Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory (HTL)

2011 - 2015 GPA: 3.83

Bachelor of Science in Fashion DesignFashion, Product, Design and Merchandising DepartmentAntoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (CoMAD)

2007 - 2011 GPA: 3.73, Magna Cum Laude

FELLOWSHIPS

DoD-NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship) 2012-2015

NSF-GRFP (National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship Program) 2012, declined

NSF-IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship) 2011-2012

RESEARCH SUMMARY

My research is rooted in the field of wearable computing, where lab scale work requires consideration for human interaction and safety. My thesis work has focused on developing textile energy storage to power wearable electronics. To complete this work, I have acquired skills spanning the creative and techni-cal spectrums, from e-textile design, carbon nanomaterials, electrochemistry and antenna design. Much of my research is interdisciplinary, requiring the ability to work and communicate effectively across diverse research groups.

EXPERTISE

Textile energy storageWearable computingCarbon nanomaterialsFashion design3D knittingVisual/written communication

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Effects of knit structures on the electrochemical performance of knitted supercapacitors, Spring 2014 - present

Natural Fiber Welded Electrode Yarns for Knittable Textile Supercapacitors, U.S. Naval Academy, Dr. Paul C. Trulove, 2012-2014

Knitted energy harvesting antennas and supercapacitors, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Dr. Kapil Dandekar, Fall 2013 - Summer 2014

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE by project

Effects of knit structures on the electrochemical performance of knitted supercapacitorsLead Researcher and Inventor, MSE/HTL/DNIFall 2013 – present

- Designing and writing knit programs for 2D and 3D knitted superca-pacitors, including interdigitated, striped, planar and multilayered geometries-Building a predictive model to estimate the performance prior to fabrication- Characterizing the effects of stretching and bending on the ca-pacitive performance- Developing custom knit programs capable of being sent to a man-ufacturer for immediate large-scale production- Manuscript in preparation / patent converted July 2014

Natural Fiber Welded Electrode Yarns for Knittable Textile Superca-pacitorsLead researcher, MSE/HTL/DNI, in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Academy, Department of Chemistry, Dr. Paul TruloveFall 2012 – Present

- Designing a capacitive yarn that combines the electrode materi-als, current collector, and electrolyte into a single knittable strand for large scale production of textile supercapacitors.- These capacitive yarns will be durable enough to withstand be-ing processed in an industrial knitting machine and could also be woven or stitched, making these yarns highly versatile as integrated energy storage devices.- Manuscript in press, Advanced Energy Materials

Knitted and screen printed carbon fiber supercapacitors for appli-cations in wearable electronicsLead Researcher, MSE/HTL/DNI Fall 2011 – Present

- Designed and fabricated a textile supercapacitor using custom knitted carbon fiber currentcollectors screen printed with high-sur-face area activated carbon and utilized a solid electrolyte- Eliminated solid/non-textile and liquid components from system making the component completely textile compatible.- Published in Energy and Environmental Science in 2013

Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Energy Storage in Smart Gar-mentsLead Researcher, Undergraduate Research Co-op Student, MSE/DNI/Fashion Design DepartmentSpring 2010 – Fall 2011

- Created activated carbon and carbide-derived carbon (CDC) fabric supercapacitors as a flexible source of energy.- Electrochemically tested properties of fabric electrodes with results comparable to commercial supercapacitors- Published in Energy and Environmental Science in 2011

SIDE PROJECTS

Energy Harvesting Knitted Antennas and SupercapacitorsSupporting Researcher, MSE/DNI/HTLSenior Design Project in ECEDr. Kapil DandekarSummer 2013 - Summer 2014

- Mentored undergraduate senior design team on how to design a knitted electronic system- Provided insight to combine a knitted supercapacitor with an energy harvesting antenna in the same piece of fabric- Designed and fabricated all textile anten-nas and supercapacitors- Provisional Patent Application filed April 2014- Manuscript in preparation

Carbon onion and carbon nanotube film antennasSupporting Researcher, MSE/DNI in collab-oration with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Prof. Timothy KurzwegSpring 2012 - Fall 2012

- Provided insight into the material charac-terization and film preparation of carbon onion antennas- Performed SEM on all samples- Developed figures for the paper- Published in Applied Physics Letters

3D simulation of a knitted interdigitated capacitor, rendered on the Shima Seiki Apex-3 Design Software

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AWARDS

Lindau Graduate Student Award, Mars Inc. Nominee, Lindau, Germany, 27 June – 7 July 2013 Selected students worldwide attend a week long experience to meet with 35 Nobel Laureates

Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting 2012, Boston MA, 27 November 2012 Graduate Student Silver Award, Internationally competitive, (top 24/220) Arthur Nowick Graduate Student Award, in recognition of promise as a future teacher and mentor (top 1/220)

NSF Visualization Challenge, Poster and Graphics Category, Washington D.C., 7 Feb. 2014 1st Place Poster Prize, winners have posters featured in a full page article in Science Magazine People’s Choice Award, awarded to participants who received the most votes in their category

1st Place Poster Award in Solid State Devices, Electrochemical Society Meeting, San Francisco CA, 29 October 2013

NSF-IGERT 2012 Video-Poster Competition, “Energy Textiles,” K. Jost, C.R. Perez, Washington D.C., 1 June 2012 Judging Award (top 20) IGERT Community Choice Award (top 4) Public Choice Award (top 2)

2nd Place Prize for poster “Energy Textiles: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Wearable Energy Storage,” from American Society for Materials (ASM), Philadelphia PA, 19 April 2012

2nd Place Poster Prize from Pennsylvania Regional Nanotechnology Conference for poster “Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Energy Storage in Smart Garments,” Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, 30 May 2011

1st Place Poster Prize from ASM for poster “Fabrics Capable of Capacitive Energy Storage” Philadelphia PA, 21 April 2011

1st Place University Poster Prize in Creative Arts and Design and 2nd Place College Prize from Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design (AW CoMAD), Poster “Fashionable Technology,” Research Day 2011, Philadelphia PA, April 2011

1st and 2nd Poster Prize from AW CoMAD at Drexel’s Annual Research Day for Audio and Video “smart” garment re-search and designs, Philadelphia PA, April 2009

Drexel Senior Fashion Show, Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Philadelphia PA, June 4, 2011 Frank Agostino Award for Excellence in Design, Construction and Workmanship Most Creative Senior Collection Best in Eveningwear

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LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Member of the NSF-IGERT Trainee Advisory Board for IGERT.org, Cambridge MA, November 2012 - 2013

Founding President, Drexel University Electrochemical Society (ECS) Student Chapter, Philadelphia PA, February 2012 – Octo-ber 2013

Lead Student Researcher/Coordinator, Fashion and Technol-ogy Project, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, Winter 2009 – June 2011

3D simulation of smart garment, adapted from NSF Visualization Challenge winning poster “Wearable Power”

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ORAL PRESENTATIONS (selected)

“Knitted electrochemical capacitors from carbon welded cotton yarns” Materials Research Society (MRS), K. Jost, D.P. Durkin, P.C. Trulove, Y. Gogotsi, G. Dion et al., San Francisco, CA, Spring 2014

“Knitted Electrochemical Capacitors for Applications in Wearable Electronics” Electrochemical Society Meeting (ECS), K. Jost, D.P. Durkin, L.M. Haverhals, C.R. Perez, J.K. McDonough, C. Knittel, H. De Long, P.C. Trulove, Y. Gogotsi, G. Dion San Francisco, CA, October 2013

Invited talk, “Wearable Textile Supercapacitors,” Y. Gogotsi, K. Jost, G. Dion, MRS, San Francisco CA, 2 April 2013

“All-Textile EDLCs for Applications in Wearable Electronics” MRS, K. Jost, C. R. Perez, J.K. McDonough, K. Lian, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, Boston MA, 28 November 2012

“Knitted Carbon Fiber Electrodes for Integrated Energy Storage in Smart Garments” MRS, K. Jost , C. R. Perez, J.K. Mc-Donough, K. Lian, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, San Francisco CA, 10 April 2012

“Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Energy Storage in Smart Garments,” Electrochemical Energy Summit, ECS, K. Jost , C. R. Perez, J.K. McDonough, V. Presser, M. Heon, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, Boston MA, 10 October 2011

“Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Energy Storage in Smart Garments” Dynamic Multifunctional Materials for a Sec-ond Skin Concept Workshop, hosted by DTRA, K. Jost , G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi et al., Natick MA, August 4-5, 2011

PUBLICATIONS

K. Jost, Y. Gogotsi, G. Dion, “Fundamental study on the effects of knitted structures on textile supercapacitor perfor-mance,” in preparation

D. Patron, K. Jost, S. Watt, J. Fisher, M. Le, A. Cook, Y. Gogotsi, K. Dandekar, G. Dion, “Knitted Antennas and superca-pacitors for wireless power harvesting,” in preparation

K. Jost, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, Invited Book Chapter, “Integrating energy storage into textiles,” Fundamentals of Wear-able Computers and Augmented Reality, 2nd Edition, September 2014, in press

K. Jost, D.P. Durkin, et al., “Natural Fiber Welded Electrode Yarns for Knittable Textile Supercapacitors,” accepted to Advanced Energy Materials (IF: 14.38), in press

K. Jost, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, “Textile Energy Storage in Perspective,” Review Article in Issue on Flexible Energy Storage and Conversion, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (IF: 6.2), Vol. 2, (2014) p. 10776-10787 (cited by 4)

K. Jost, B. Anasori, M. Beidaghi, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, Wearable Power, Science (IF: 31), Vol. 343, (2014) p. 602-603 (First Place and People’s Choice Winner in the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge)

K. Jost, D. Stenger, C.R. Perez, J.K. McDonough, K. Lian, Y. Gogotsi, G. Dion, “Knitted and screen printed carbon fiber textile-supercapacitors for applications in wearable electronics,” Energy and Environmental Science (IF: 15.4), Vol. 6 (2013), p. 2698-2705 (cited by 28)

N. Vacirca, J.K. McDonough, K. Jost, Y. Gogotsi, T. Kurzweg, “Onion-like carbon and carbon nanotube film antennas,” Applied Physics Letters (IF: 3.5), Vol. 103 (2013) p. 073301 (cited by 2)

K. Jost, C.R. Perez, J.K. McDonough, V. Presser, M. Heon, G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, “Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Ener-gy Storage in Smart Garments.” Energy and Environmental Science (IF: 15.4) Vol. 4, (2011) p. 5060-5067 (cited by 89)

PATENTS

K. Jost, Y. Gogotsi, G. Dion, US Patent No. 13-1586D, “Knitted Electrochemical Capacitors and Heated Fabrics” Patent Application, submitted July 25, 2013, Converted July 25, 2014

G. Dion, Y. Gogotsi, K. Dandekar, D. Patron, K. Jost et al., “Wearable Power Harvesting System,” Provisional patent application, US Patent No. 62/005,531, submitted 5 March 2014

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FASHION SHOWS

Phasion Phest 2011, featured online at CBSPhilly.com, Philadelphia PA, 21 September 2011

Senior Collection in Fashion Design, “Neoprene Sculpture” Drexel Senior Fashion Show, Urban Outfitters Headquarters, Philadelphia PA, 4 June 2011 (Featured in Emerging Fashion Designers 3, by Sally Congdon-Martin, p. 87-88)

Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) Fashion Show along side couture designer Ralph Rucci, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia PA, 8 April 2011

International Arts of Fashion Show, Philadelphia PA, October 2009

COVERS AND FIGURES

“Mechanisms of Capacitance figure,” by K. Jost, adapt-ed for Science Magazine, P. Simon, Y. Gogotsi, B. Dunn, Science 2014

K. Jost, Cover Design (back), ChemSusChem, Dyatkin et al., December 2013

K. Jost, Cover Design (Frontispiece) Advanced Function-al Materials, Beidaghi et al. October 2012

K. Jost, Cover Design (back) of Advanced Energy Materi-als, Dennison et al., July 2012

“Smart design figures” by K. Jost, adapted for Science Magazine, “Valuing Reversible Energy Storage,” J.R. Mill-er, 335, 1312 – 1313, (2012)

V. Presser, K. Jost, Cover Design (front) of Materials Ex-press, Vol. 1, December 2011

V. Presser, K. Jost, Cover Design (front) of Advanced Engi-neering Materials, Vol. 13, November 2011

SEMINARS/WEBINARS

IGERT Video Competition WebinarAdvised student videographers in the competition, IG-ERT.org, 15 May 2013

Shima Seiki Apex-3 Software SeminarSupervised participants and demonstrated 3D modeling of flat patterns, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, 9-11 May 2013

POSTER PRESENTATIONS (selected)

“Knitted Electrochemical Capacitors for Applications in Wearable Electronics”- Electrochemical Energy Summit, Electrochemical Soci-ety (ECS), San Francisco, CA, 29 October 2013 *1st Place

“Knitted Carbon Fiber EDLCs for Applications in Smart Garments”- Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, Honolulu, Ha-waii, October 7, 2012

“Energy Textiles: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Wear-able Energy Storage”- NSF-IGERT Video/Poster Competition, Washington D.C., 22-31 May 2012 *Multiple Awards- Oral and Poster presentation, American Society for Materials (ASM) Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter, 19 April 2012

“Carbon Coated Textiles for Flexible Energy Storage in Smart Garments” - International Symposium for Wearable Computers (ISWC), presented by Genevieve Dion, San Francisco CA, 14 June 2011

“Fabrics Capable of Capacitive Energy Storage” - American Society for Materials (ASM) International Philadelphia Liberty Bell Chapter, Philadelphia PA, 21 April 2011 *1st Place- 9th Annual International Society of Electrochemistry Conference, Nice France, September 2010

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