Biography 
I was born and raised in Hamden, CT, a large suburban town bordering New Haven, with my parents and my older and younger sister. I attended the local public high school where I graduated salutatorian of my class. While I was there I took a broad spread of AP classes including US History, Calculus, Physics, Psychology, and Latin to take advantage of the all opportunities that my school offered. I played trumpet for our school's school’s marching and concert band all throughout high school and was an active member of Boy Scout Troop 604 where I earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
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However, without the sacrificial polymer the carbon nanofibers have very little mesoporosity. Mesoporosity can be developed in electrospun nanofibers from phase separation in the polymer solution. Phase separation occurs when the solution's solution’s solvent is removed because the two polymers in solution become too concentrated to remain homogenous. Electrospinning the polymer solution evaporates the solvent so quickly that it traps the polymers in the beginning stages of phase separation before the individual polymer domains can get very large. The nanofibers are then heat treated, removing the sacrificial polymer by thermal degradation. The carbon precursor remains behind as a sturdy carbon structure molded by the small domains of the sacrificial polymer. The resulting carbon fibers should have meso- and macro- scaled pores. (Fig. 2) Micropores can be added through additional processing to increase the surface area. 