Publications: Weber Lab

2015

Allen, Frances I., Luis R. Comolli, Ahmet Kusoglu, Miguel A. Modestino, Andrew M. Minor, and Adam Z. Weber."Morphology of Hydrated As-Cast Nafion Revealed through Cryo Electron Tomography."ACS Macro Letters 4.1 (2015) 1 - 5. DOI

2014

Weber, Adam Z., and Ahmet Kusoglu."Unexplained transport resistances for low-loaded fuel-cell catalyst layers."J. Mater. Chem. A 2.41 (2014) 17207 - 17211. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I. Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A. Hickner, and Adam Z. Weber."Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials 24.30 (2014) 4763 - 4774. DOI
Santamaria, Anthony D., Prodip K. Das, James C. MacDonald, and Adam Z. Weber."Liquid-Water Interactions with Gas-Diffusion-Layer Surfaces."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 161 (2014) F1184-F1193. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I. Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A. Hickner, and Adam Z. Weber."Polymer Physics: Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films."Advanced Functional Materials 24 (2014) 4762-4762. DOI
Page, Kirt A., Ahmet Kusoglu, Christopher M. Stafford, Sangcheol Kim, R. Joseph Kline, and Adam Z. Weber."Confinement-Driven Increase in Ionomer Thin-Film Modulus."Nano Letters 14.5 (2014) 2299 - 2304. DOI
Weber, Adam Z., Rodney L. Borup, Robert M. Darling, Prodip K. Das, Thomas J. Dursch, Wenbin Gu, David Harvey, Ahmet Kusoglu, Shawn Litster, Matthew M Mench, Rangachary Mukundan, Jon P. Owejan, Jon G. Pharoah, Marc Secanell, and Iryna V. Zenyuk."A Critical Review of Modeling Transport Phenomena in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.12 (2014) F1254 - F1299. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Michelle Calabrese, and Adam Z. Weber."Effect of Mechanical Compression on Chemical Degradation of Nafion Membranes."ECS Electrochemistry Letters 3.5 (2014) F33 - F36. DOI
Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, Roger Lujan, J. F. Liu, Rangachary Mukundan, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Ice-Crystallization Kinetics in the Catalyst Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.3 (2014) F199 - F207. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber."A Mechanistic Model for Pinhole Growth in Fuel-Cell Membranes during Cyclic Loads."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 161.8 (2014) E3311 - E3322. DOI

2013

Dursch, Thomas J., Gregory J Trigub, J. F. Liu, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Non-isothermal melting of ice in the gas-diffusion layer of a proton-exchange-membrane fuel cell."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 67 (2013) 896-901. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Kyu-Taek Cho, Rafael A. Prato, and Adam Z. Weber."Structural and transport properties of Nafion in hydrobromic-acid solutions."Solid State Ionics (2013). DOI
Dursch, Thomas J., Monica A. Ciontea, Gregory J Trigub, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Pseudo-isothermal ice-crystallization kinetics in the gas-diffusion layer of a fuel cell from differential scanning calorimetry."International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 60 (2013) 450 - 458. DOI
Hwang, Gisuk, Hyoungchul Kim, Roger Lujan, Rangachary Mukundan, Dusan Spernjak, Rodney L. Borup, Massoud Kaviany, Moo Hwan Kim, and Adam Z. Weber."Phase-change-related degradation of catalyst layers in proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells."Electrochimica Acta 95 (2013) 29 - 37. DOI
Hwang, Gisuk, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Ahmet Kusoglu, Alastair A. MacDowell, and Adam Z. Weber."Understanding Water Uptake and Transport in Nafion Using X-ray Microtomography."ACS Macro Letters 2.4 (2013) 288 - 291. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber."Role of Chemical-Mechanical Energies in Understanding Structure and Properties of Aged and Degraded Membranes."ECS Transactions 50.2 (2013) 961 - 965. DOI
Fairweather, Joseph, Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z. Weber, David Harvey, Silvia Wessel, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson, Kateryna Artyushkova, Rangachary Mukundan, and Rodney L. Borup."Effects of Cathode Corrosion on Through-Plane Water Transport in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 160.9 (2013) F980 - F993. DOI

2012

Hussey, Daniel S., Dusan Spernjak, Adam Z. Weber, Rangachary Mukundan, Joseph Fairweather, Eric L. Brosha, John Davey, Jacob S. Spendelow, David L. Jacobson, and Rodney L. Borup."Accurate measurement of the through-plane water content of proton-exchange membranes using neutron radiography."Journal of Applied Physics 112.10 (2012) 104906. DOI
Aieta, Niccolo V., Prodip K. Das, Andrew Perdue, Guido Bender, Andrew M. Herring, Adam Z. Weber, and Michael J Ulsh."Applying infrared thermography as a quality-control tool for the rapid detection of polymer-electrolyte-membrane-fuel-cell catalyst-layer-thickness variations."Journal of Power Sources 211 (2012) 4 - 11. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Adam Z. Weber, Kirt A. Page, Christopher L. Soles, and James Runt."Water Transport and Sorption in Nafion Membrane."Polymers for Energy Storage and Delivery: Polyelectrolytes for Batteries and Fuel Cells 1096 (2012) 175 - 199. DOI
Zhu, Xiaobing, John B. Kerr, Qinggang He, Gisuk Hwang, Zulima Martin, Kyle Clark, Adam Z. Weber, and Nana Zhao."Bridge to Fuel Cell Molecular Catalysis: 3D Non-Platinum Group Metal Catalyst in MEAs."ECS Transactions 45.2 (2012) 143 - 152. DOI
Weber, Adam Z.."Macroscopic Modeling of the Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layer."ECS Transactions 45.2 (2012) 71 - 83. DOI
Das, Prodip K., Adam Grippin, Anthony Kwong, and Adam Z. Weber."Liquid-Water-Droplet Adhesion-Force Measurements on Fresh and Aged Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 159.5 (2012) B489. DOI
Hwang, Gisuk, and Adam Z. Weber."Effective-Diffusivity Measurement of Partially-Saturated Fuel-Cell Gas-Diffusion Layers."Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159.11 (2012) F683 - F692. DOI
Dursch, Thomas J., Monica A. Ciontea, Clayton J. Radke, and Adam Z. Weber."Isothermal Ice Crystallization Kinetics in the Gas-Diffusion Layer of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell."Langmuir 28.2 (2012) 1222 - 1234. DOI