Vijay Sethuraman's Academic Page
Address
Vijay A. Sethuraman
Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, MS 70-0180B, Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 486-4360; Fax: (510) 486-4260
E-mail: VASethuraman@lbl.gov
Education
Ph. D.,
Chemical Engineering,
University of South Carolina, Columbia (2006).
B. Tech., Chemical and Electrochemical Engineering, Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India (2000).
Professional Employment
9/2007 - Present Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
1/2007 - 9/2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC
6/2005 - 5/2006 Engineering Intern, UTC Power, South Windsor,
CT
8/2001 - 12/2006 Research and Teaching Assistant, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC
7/2000 - 6/2001 Corrosion Engineer,
Enercon India Limited,
India
Research Interests
Biosensors, PEM Fuel Cells, Lithium Ion Batteries
Journal Articles
6. Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner, Andrew T. Haug and Lesia V.
Protsailo, “Durability of Perfluorosulfonic Acid and Hydrocarbon Membranes:
Effect of Humidity and Temperature”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society,
155 (2), B119, 2008. doi:10.1149/1.2806798 [PDF]
5. Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner, Andrew T. Haug, Sathya Motupally and
Lesia V. Protsailo, “Hydrogen Peroxide Formation Rates in a PEMFC Anode and
Cathode: Effect of Humidity and Temperature”, Journal of the Electrochemical
Society, 155 (1), B50, 2008. doi:10.1149/1.2801980 [PDF]
4. Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner and Lesia V. Protsailo, “Effect of
Di-phenyl Siloxane on the Catalytic Activity of Pt on Carbon”,
Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 10(12), B207-B209, 2007.
doi: 10.1149/1.2787870 [PDF]
3. Sindhuja Renganathan, Qingzhi Guo, Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner and
Ralph E. White, “Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Resistance Model”, Journal of
Power Sources, 160, 386, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2006.01.098
[PDF]
2. Brenda L. Garcia, Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner, Roger Dougal and
Ralph E. White, “Mathematical Model of a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell”,
International Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 1, 43-48,
2004. doi:10.1115/1.1782927 [PDF]
1. Qingzhi Guo, Vijay A. Sethuraman and Ralph E. White, “Parameter Estimates
for a PEMFC Cathode”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 151,
A983-A993, 2004. doi:10.1149/1.1747850 [PDF]
Other Publications
3. Vijay Anand Sethuraman, “Durability Aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells”, Ph. D. Dissertation - University of South Carolina, 2006.
2. Vijay A. Sethuraman, Leslie A. Wise, Siva Balasubramanian and John W. Weidner, “Hydrogen Sulfide Kinetics on PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes”, in Durability and Reliability of Low-Temperature Fuel Cells and Fuel Cell Systems/2005, S. Gottesfeld, H. A. Gasteiger, T. D. Jarvi and S. Cleghorn, Editors, The Electrochemical Society Transactions, Pennington, NJ, 2006. (Electrochemical Society Transactions, 1 (8), 111-130, 2006. doi:10.1149/1.2214548) [PDF]
1. John W. Weidner, Vijay A. Sethuraman and John W. Van Zee, “Engineering a Membrane Electrode Assembly”, Electrochemical Society Interface, 12, 40-43, 2003. [PDF]
Submitted Abstracts/Manuscripts
1. Vijay A. Sethuraman, Balasubramanian Lakshmanan and John W. Weidner, “Desorption and Rearrangement Kinetics of Carbon Monoxide on a PEM Fuel Cell Electrode”, submitted to the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, April 11, 2008. [PDF]
2. Vijay A. Sethuraman, Adam Z. Weber and John W. Weidner, “Polymer
Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells: Cells”, Manuscript MS-228 for the Encyclopedia of
Electrochemical Power Sources, Jürgen Garche, Editor, Elsevier B. V.,
Amsterdam, 2008, April 27, 2008
Article page (with
constituent files)
3. Abstracts for the
Pacific Rim Meeting (214th Meeting of the Electrochemical
Society), Honolulu, HI, October 12-17, 2008.
A. Hysteresis during Cycling of a Lithiated Silicon Electrode
[PDF]
B. Analysis of Charge/Discharge Behavior of Silicon Electrodes
[PDF]
C. Academic Family Tree of Professor John S. Newman [PDF]
D. A Study of the Mechanism of Graphite Structural
Degradation in Lithium-ion Cell Anodes [PDF]
4. Vijay A. Sethuraman and Paul Albertus, "Academic Family Tree of Professor John S. Newman", submitted to the Electrochemical Society Transactions, July 18, 2008. [PDF]
Links
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Last modified: July 24, 2008