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Search Publications by: Joseph A. Dura (Fed)

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Morphology of Thin-Film Nafion on Carbon as an Analogue of Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers

January 11, 2024
Author(s)
Corey Randall, Lianfeng Zou, Howard Wang, Jingshu Hui, Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez, Melodie Chen-Glasser, Joseph A. Dura, Steven DeCaluwe
Species transport in thin-film Nafion heavily influences proton exchange membrane (PEMFC) performance, particularly in low-platinum-loaded cells. Literature suggests phase-segregated nano-structures in hydrated Nafion thin films can reduce species mobility

High Sulfur Loading and Capacity Retention in Bilayer Garnet Sulfurized-Polyacrylonitrile/Lithium-Metal Batteries with Gel Polymer Electrolytes

September 24, 2023
Author(s)
Changmin Shi, Saya Takeuchi, George Alexander, Tanner Hamann, Jonathan O'Neill, Joseph A. Dura, Eric Wachsman
Abstract The cubic‐garnet (Li 7La 3Zr 2O 12, LLZO) lithium–sulfur battery shows great promise in the pursuit of achieving high energy densities. The sulfur used in the cathodes is abundant, inexpensive, and possesses high specific capacity. In addition

Modification of Nafion's Nanostructure for the Water Management of PEM Fuel Cells

April 15, 2023
Author(s)
Yuanchao Li, Natalie Schwab, Robert M. Briber, Joseph A. Dura, Trung Van Nguyen
A PEM fuel cell with the Nafion® ionomer phase of the cathode catalyst layer (CL) that was exposed to dry gas during the annealing process showed improved performance over the whole current density range and 220% peak power increase with humidified air at

3D Asymmetric Bilayer Garnet-Hybridized High-Energy-Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

January 11, 2023
Author(s)
Changmin Shi, Tanner Hamann, Saya Takeuchi, George Alexander, Adelaide M. Nolan, Matthew Limpert, Zhezhen Fu, Jonathan O'Neill, Griffin Godbey, Joseph A. Dura, Eric Wachsman
Lithium garnet Li 7La 3Zr 2O 12 (LLZO) with high ionic conductivity and chemical stability against a Li metal anode is considered one of the most promising solid electrolytes for lithium-sulfur batteries. However, an infinite charge time resulting in low

All-Temperature Zinc Batteries with High-Entropy Aqueous Electrolyte

January 9, 2023
Author(s)
Chongyin Yang, Jiale Xia, Chunyu Cui, Travis P. Pollard, Jenel Vatamanu, Antonio Faraone, Joseph Dura, Madhu Sudan N. Tyagi, Alex Kattan, Elijah Thimsen, Jijian Xu, Wentao Song, Enyuan Hu, Xiao Ji, Singyuk Hou, Xiyue Zhang, Michael S. Ding, Sooyeon Hwang, Dong Su, Yang Ren, Xiao-Qing Yang, Howard Wang, Oleg Borodin, Chunsheng Wang
Solvent-in-salt electrolytes have revolutionized both aqueous and non-aqueous batteries by extending the electrochemical stability window 1,2,3 and enabling new battery chemisties 4-6. However, the presence of both anions and solvent in the cation

The Effect of Transverse Wavefront Width on Specular Neutron Reflection

August 1, 2022
Author(s)
Charles Majkrzak, Norman F. Berk, Brian B. Maranville, Joseph Dura, Terrence J. Jach
In the analysis of neutron scattering measurements of condensed matter structure, it normally suffices to treat the incident and scattered neutron beams as if composed of incoherent distributions of plane waves with wavevectors of different magnitudes and

Low-Background Neutron Reflectometry from Solid/Liquid Interfaces

February 1, 2022
Author(s)
David Hoogerheide, Joseph Dura, Brian B. Maranville, Charles F. Majkrzak
Liquid cells are an increasingly common sample environment for neutron reflectometry experiments and are critical for measuring the properties of materials at solid/liquid interfaces. Background scattering determines the maximum useful scattering vector

Quantifying and Suppressing Proton Intercalation to Enable High-Voltage Zn-Ion Batteries

November 4, 2021
Author(s)
Fei Wang, Lauren E. Blanc, Qin Li, Antonio Faraone, Xiao Ji, Huaiyu H. Chen-Mayer, Rick L. Paul, Joseph Dura, Enyuan Hu, Kang Xu, Linda F. Nazar, Chunsheng Wang
We explore the Zn-ion intercalation mechanisms/interfacial dynamics of VPO 4F and quantify the water dynamics in water-in-salt (WISE) and hybrid aqueous-non aqueous electrolytes (HANEs). We demonstrate that H + intercalation dominates electrochemical

Spatially Resolved Potential and Li-Ion Distributions Reveal Performance-Limiting Regions in Solid-State Batteries

October 19, 2021
Author(s)
Elliot Fuller, Evgheni Strelcov, Jamie Weaver, Michael Swift, Joshua Sugar, Andrei Kolmakov, Nikolai Zhitenev, Jabez J. McClelland, Yue Qi, Joseph Dura, Alec Talin
The performance of solid-state electrochemical systems is intimately tied to the potential and lithium distributions across electrolyte–electrode junctions that give rise to interface impedance. Here, we combine two operando methods, Kelvin probe force

Magnetic depth profiling Co/Cu multilayers to investigate magnetoresistance

October 12, 2021
Author(s)
John Unguris, D. Tulchinsky, Michael H. Kelley, Julie Borchers, Joseph Dura, Charles Majkrzak, S. Y. Hsu, R. Loloee, W. P. Pratt, J. Bass
The magnetic microstructure responsible for the metastable high resistance state of weakly coupled, as-prepared [Co(6nm)/Cu(6nm)] 20 multilayers was analyzed using polarized neutron reflectivity and scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis

Tailoring electrode-electrolyte-interfaces in lithium-ion batteries using molecularly engineered functional polymers

February 22, 2021
Author(s)
Laisuo Su, Jamie Weaver, Mitchell C. Groenenboom, Nathan Nakamura, Eric Rus, Priyanka Anand, Shikhar Krishn Jha, Joseph Okasinski, Joseph Dura, B Reeja-Jayan
Electrode−electrolyte interfaces (EEIs) affect the rate capability, cycling stability, and thermal safety of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Designing stable EEIs with fast Li+ transport is crucial for developing advanced LIBs. Here, we study Li+ kinetics at

Layering of Magnetic Nanoparticles at Amorphous Magnetic Templates with Perpendicular Anisotropy

August 26, 2020
Author(s)
Apurve Saini, Julie Borchers, Sebastian George, Brian B. Maranville, Kathryn L. Krycka, Joseph Dura, Katharina Theis-Brohl, Max Wolff
We reveal the assembly of monodisperse magnetite nanoparticles of sizes 5 nm, 15 nm and 25 nm from dilute water-based ferrofluids onto an amorphous magnetic template with out-ofplane anisotropy. From neutron reflectometry experiments we extract density

Enhanced Conductivity via Homopolymer-Rich Pathways in Block Polymer-Blended Electrolytes

December 24, 2019
Author(s)
Melody A. Morris, Seung Hyun Sung, Priyanka M. Ketkar, Joseph Dura, Ryan Nieuwendaal, III Epps
The optimization of ionic conductivity and lithium-ion battery stability can be achieved by independently tuning the ion transport and mechanical robustness of block polymer (BP) electrolytes. However, the ionic conductivity of BP electrolytes is

Nuclear Spin Incoherent Neutron Scattering from Quantum Well Resonators

July 1, 2019
Author(s)
Max Wolff, Anton Devishvili, Joseph Dura, Franz A. Adlmann, Brian Kitchen, Gunnar K. Palsson, Heikki Palonen, Brian B. Maranville, Charles Majkrzak, Boris P. Toperverg
We report the detection and quantification of nuclear spin incoherent scattering from hydrogen occupying interstitial sites in a thin film of vanadium. The neutron wave field is enhanced in a quantum resonator with magnetically switchable iron boundaries

Highly Reversible Zinc Metal Anode for Aqueous Batteries

June 1, 2018
Author(s)
Fei Wang, Oleg Borodin, Tao Gao, Xiulin Fan, Wei Sun, Fudong Han, Antonio Faraone, Joseph Dura, Kang Xu, Chunsheng Wang
Metallic zinc (Zn) has been regarded as an ideal anode material for aqueous batteries, because of its high theoretical capacity (820 mAh/g), low electrochemical potential (-0.762 V vs. SHE), high abundance, low toxicity and intrinsic safety. There has been