Vijay Sethuraman's Academic Page
| Address Vijay Anand Sethuraman (Tamil: விஜய் ஆனந்த் சேதுராமன்,
Hindi: विजय आनंद सेतुरामनं)
Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road, MS 70-0180B, Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 486-4919; 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).
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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, Lithium Ion Batteries, PEM Fuel Cells
Refereed Journal Articles
9. Measuring Oxygen, Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen Sulfide Diffusion Coefficient and
Solubility in Nafion Membranes
(with Saahir Khan, Jess A. Jur, Andrew T. Haug and John W. Weidner), Electrochimica Acta,
54 (27), 6850-6860, 2009.
doi:
10.1016/j.electacta.2009.06.068 [PDF]
8. Importance of Catalyst Stability vis-à-vis Hydrogen Peroxide Formation
Rates in PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes
(with John W. Weidner, Andrew T. Haug, Marianne Pemberton, and Lesia V.
Protsailo),
Electrochimica Acta, 54 (23), 5571-5582, 2009.
doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2009.04.062 [PDF]
7.
Quantifying Desorption and Rearrangement Rates of Carbon Monoxide on a PEM Fuel
Cell Electrode
(with Balasubramanian Lakshmanan and John W. Weidner), Electrochimica Acta,
54 (23), 5492-5499, 2009.
doi: 10.1016/j.electacta.2009.04.049 [PDF]
6. Durability of Perfluorosulfonic Acid and Hydrocarbon Membranes:
Effect of Humidity and Temperature
(with John W. Weidner, Andrew T. Haug and Lesia V.
Protsailo), Journal of the Electrochemical Society,
155 (2), B119-B124, 2008.
doi:10.1149/1.2806798 [PDF]
5. Hydrogen Peroxide Formation Rates in a PEMFC Anode and
Cathode: Effect of Humidity and Temperature
(with John W. Weidner, Andrew T. Haug, Sathya Motupally and
Lesia V. Protsailo), Journal of the Electrochemical
Society, 155 (1), B50-B57, 2008.
doi:10.1149/1.2801980 [PDF]
4. Effect of
Di-phenyl Siloxane on the Catalytic Activity of Pt on Carbon
(with John W. Weidner and Lesia V. Protsailo),
Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 10(12), B207-B209, 2007.
doi: 10.1149/1.2787870 [PDF]
3. Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Resistance Model
(with
Sindhuja Renganathan+, Qingzhi Guo, John W. Weidner and
Ralph E. White), Journal of Power Sources, 160 (1), 386-397, 2006.
doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2006.01.098
[PDF]
2. Mathematical Model of a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell
(with
Brenda L. Garcia+, John W. Weidner, Roger Dougal and
Ralph E. White),
International Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 1 (1), 43-48,
2004.
doi:10.1115/1.1782927 [PDF]
1. Parameter Estimates
for a PEMFC Cathode
(with
Qingzhi Guo+ and Ralph E. White, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 151
(7),
A983-A993, 2004.
doi:10.1149/1.1747850 [PDF]
+ lead author
Other Publications
5. PEMFC Cells
(with Adam Z. Weber and John W. Weidner), Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power
Sources, Jürgen Garche, Editor, Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, 2008. [PDF]
4. Academic Family Tree of
Professor John Newman
(with Paul Albertus), Electrochemical Society Transactions,
16 (13), 1-22, 2008.
doi: 10.1149/1.2987755 [PDF]
3. Durability Aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane
Fuel Cells
Ph. D. Dissertation - University of South Carolina, 2006.
2. Hydrogen Sulfide Kinetics on PEM Fuel Cell Electrodes
(with Leslie A. Wise, Siva Balasubramanian and John W. Weidner), Electrochemical
Society Transactions, 1 (8), 111-130, 2006.
doi:10.1149/1.2214548
[PDF]
1. Engineering a
Membrane Electrode Assembly
(with John W. Weidner and John W. Van Zee), Electrochemical Society Interface, 12,
40-43, 2003. [PDF]
0. Professors shouldn't get all of the blame
Letter to the Editor, The Daily Gamecock, March 20, 2002. [PDF]
Submitted Manuscripts (Preprints available upon
request)
1. Analysis of Sulfur Poisoning on a PEM Fuel Cell Electrode
(with John W. Weidner), submitted to Electrochimica Acta, July 14, 2009.
[Abstract]
Working Manuscripts (Manuscripts available upon
request)
2. Kinetics of
Lithiation and Delithiation of Silicon
(with Venkat Srinivasan and John Newman). [Abstract]
1. Evidence of a Direct Relationship between Electrochemical Stress and
Composition during Cycling in Lithiated Graphite Anodes
(with Laurence J. Hardwick, Venkat Srinivasan and Robert Kostecki). [Abstract]
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