<p>Which engineering field is most applicable to electrochemistry research, specifically on the nanotechnology side? Would it me ChE, EE, MechE, MatE? Would it require a graduate degree of some kind?</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want to do, nanotech can mean a lot of things. Do you want to do development of materials? I know of some chem engineering professors and a couple materials science profs that do electrochemical research. There’s also a mech e professor at PSU that does fuel cell research but his stuff is more on the actual performance and application in automobiles side. I think the electrochemical/nanotechnology stuff is done more by physicists and matse people.</p>
<p>And to pursue a career in research you will definitely need at least a MS</p>
<p>thanks for the info Enginearsrfun! As of right now, I really hope to do chemical engineering with research in electrochemistry and eventually work in R&D for Duracell or something in creating more efficient batteries using chemistry. sounds a bit ambitious, but im about to be a hs senior so i have plenty of time to change my mind.</p>
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<p>dude chances are you are going to get to college and realize you have no idea what you want to do and you probably don’t want to go through the many many years of schooling it will take to actually be doing something like R&D in that industry. What you are talking about is a long way off from where you actually are. Ph.D’s (which you would need to do this) take a lot of time and effort and you may not even like research.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to start off in college and check out what profs at your school do echem research and see if you like doing what they do/working in their lab. Younger students tend to get ahead of themselves when they don’t really know how much work is actually involved in their plans. Nothing wrong with ambition and inquiry, just realize that you are a long way from cutting-edge technology research.</p>
<p>if you want to know about what kinds of research is being done out htere google is your friend</p>