Vijay Sethuraman's Academic Page

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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]

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Last modified: July 24, 2008