Dan Charles works on developing gas sensors with nanoscale structures. The sensors are patterned using EBL, and are comprised of various doped oxides to maximize selectivity and sensitivity. His research project has been accepted into the 4th Annual International Conference on Ceramics to be held in Chicago this summer.

In addition, he works on creating composites between metallic oxides and graphene to achieve the same goal. This summer, he will be working for Boeing in the Next Generations Materials lab, St. Louis, Missouri.