Publications

2018

Tesfaye, Meron, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Impact of Co-Alloy Leaching and Cation in Ionomer Thin-Films."ECS Transactions 86.13 (2018) 359 - 367. DOI
Tesfaye, Meron, Douglas I Kushner, Bryan D McCloskey, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Thermal Transitions in Perfluorosulfonated Ionomer Thin-Films."ACS Macro Letters (2018) 1237 - 1242. DOI
Guo, Yijun, Manish K Mishra, Futianyi Wang, Joseph Jankolovits, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z Weber, Ant Van Dyk, Kebede Beshah, James C Bohling, John A Roper III, Clayton J Radke, and Alexander Katz."Hydrophobic Inorganic Oxide Pigments via Polymethylhydrosiloxane Grafting: Dispersion in Aqueous Solution at Extraordinarily High Solids Concentrations."Langmuir (2018). DOI
Tesfaye, Meron, Andrew N MacDonald, Peter Dudenas, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber."Exploring substrate/ionomer interaction under oxidizing and reducing environments."Electrochemistry Communications 87 (2018) 86 - 90. DOI
Mukundan, Rangachary, Andrew M Baker, Ahmet Kusoglu, Paul Beattie, Shanna Knights, Adam Z Weber, and Rodney L Borup."Membrane Accelerated Stress Test Development for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability Validated Using Field and Drive Cycle Testing."Journal of The Electrochemical Society 165.6 (2018) F3085 - F3093. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Robert A Meyers."Ionomer Thin Films in PEM Fuel Cells."Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (2018) 1 - 23. DOI

2017

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z Weber."New Insights into Perfluorinated Sulfonic-Acid Ionomers."Chemical Reviews 117.3 (2017) 987 - 1104. DOI
Ertem, S. S Piril, Benjamin R Caire, Tsung-Han Tsai, Di Zeng, Melissa A Vandiver, Ahmet Kusoglu, Soenke Seifert, Ryan C Hayward, Adam Z Weber, Andrew M Herring, E. E Bryan Coughlin, and Matthew W Liberatore."Ion transport properties of mechanically stable symmetric ABCBA pentablock copolymers with quaternary ammonium functionalized midblock."Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 55.7 (2017) 612 - 622. DOI

2016

Shi, Shouwen, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Structure/property relationship of Nafion XL composite membranes."Journal of Membrane Science 516 (2016) 123 - 134. DOI
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Thomas J Dursch, and Adam Z Weber."Nanostructure/Swelling Relationships of Bulk and Thin-Film PFSA Ionomers."Advanced Functional Materials 26.27 (2016) 4961 - 4975. DOI
Jankolovits, Joseph, Ahmet Kusoglu, Adam Z Weber, Antony Van Dyk, James C Bohling, John A Roper, Clayton J Radke, and Alexander Katz."Stable Aqueous Dispersions of Hydrophobically Modified Titanium Dioxide Pigments through Polyanion Adsorption: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application in Coatings."Langmuir 32.8 (2016) 1929 - 1938. DOI
Vandiver, Melissa A, Benjamin R Caire, Tara P Pandey, Yifan Li, Sönke Seifert, Ahmet Kusoglu, Daniel M Knauss, Andrew M Herring, and Matthew W Liberatore."Effect of hydration on the mechanical properties and ion conduction in a polyethylene-b-poly(vinylbenzyl trimethylammonium) anion exchange membrane."Journal of Membrane Science 497 (2016) 67 - 76. DOI
Ding, Guoliang, Michael H Santare, Anette M Karlsson, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Numerical evaluation of crack growth in polymer electrolyte fuel cell membranes based on plastically dissipated energy."Journal of Power Sources 316 (2016) 114 - 123. DOI
Kushner, Douglas I, Liang Zhu, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Michael A Hickner."Side Chain Influence on the Mechanical Properties and Water Uptake of Confined Comb-Shaped Cationic Polymer Thin Films."Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 217.21 (2016) 2442 - 2451. DOI
Shi, Shouwen, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Structure-Transport Relationship of Perfluorosulfonic-Acid Membranes in Different Cationic Forms."Electrochimica Acta 220 (2016) 517 - 528. DOI

2015

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z Weber."Electrochemical/Mechanical Coupling in Ion-Conducting Soft Matter."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2015) 4547 - 4552. DOI
Shi, Shouwen, Thomas J Dursch, Colin Blake, Rangachary Mukundan, Rodney L Borup, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Impact of hygrothermal aging on structure/function relationship of perfluorosulfonic-acid membrane."Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 54.5 (2015) 570-581. DOI
Shi, Shouwen, Thomas J Dursch, Rodney L Borup, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Effect of Hygrothermal Ageing on PFSA Ionomers' Structure/Property Relationship."ECS Transactions 69.17 (2015) 1017 - 1025. DOI
Page, Kirt A, Jae Wook Shin, Scott A Eastman, Brandon W Rowe, Sangcheol Kim, Ahmet Kusoglu, Kevin G Yager, and Gery R Stafford."In Situ Method for Measuring the Mechanical Properties of Nafion Thin Films during Hydration Cycles."ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 7.32 (2015) 17874 - 17883. DOI
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
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. 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