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Ahmet Kusoglu

Electrochemical Technologies Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 70-108B
Berkeley CA 94720
Office Location: 70-0189
(510) 486-6590

Ahmet Kusoglu is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Electrochemical Technologies group working on fundamental understanding of polymer materials for electrochemical energy devices. Ahmet hold B.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, the latter of which was received from University of Delaware, where he studied the mechanical characterization and durability of ionomer membranes and earned a graduate fellowship award. His current research involves modeling the degradation and failure mechanisms, transport phenomena and structure/function/performance relationships in ion-conducting polymers and thin films, as well as their structural characterization through X-Ray Scattering techniques.

Education

2009, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware

Links

Best Poster Paper Award at the 2012 Fuel Cell Science and Technology Grove Conference, Berlin
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This publications database is an ongoing project, and not all Division publications are represented here yet.

Publications

2013

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber. "Role of Chemical-Mechanical Energies in Understanding Structure and Properties of Aged and Degraded Membranes." ECS Transactions 50, no. 2 (2013): 961-965.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Kyu Taek Cho, Rafael A. Prato, and Adam Z. Weber. "Structural and transport properties of Nafion in hydrobromic-acid solutions." Solid State Ionics (2013).
Hwang, Gi Suk, Dilworth Y. Parkinson, Ahmet Kusoglu, Alastair A. MacDowell, and Adam Z. Weber. "Understanding Water Uptake and Transport in Nafion Using X-ray Microtomography." ACS Macro Letters 2, no. 4 (2013): 288-291.

2012

Modestino, Miguel A., Ahmet Kusoglu, Alexander Hexemer, Adam Z. Weber, and Rachel Segalman. "Controlling Nafion Structure and Properties via Wetting Interactions." Macromolecules 45, no. 11 (2012): 4681-4688.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Alexander Hexemer, Ruichun Jiang, Craig S. Gittleman, and Adam Z. Weber. "Effect of compression on PFSA-ionomer morphology and predicted conductivity changes." Journal of Membrane Science 421-422 (2012): 283-291.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Suchol Savagatrup, Kyle Clark, and Adam Z. Weber. "Role of Mechanical Factors in Controlling the Structure–Function Relationship of PFSA Ionomers." Macromolecules 45, no. 18 (2012): 7467-7476.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Miguel A. Modestino, Alexander Hexemer, Rachel Segalman, and Adam Z. Weber. "Subsecond Morphological Changes in Nafion during Water Uptake Detected by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering." ACS Macro Letters 1, no. 1 (2012): 33-36.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber. "Water Transport and Sorption in Nafion Membrane." In ACS Symposium SeriesPolymers for Energy Storage and Delivery: Polyelectrolytes for Batteries and Fuel CellsWater Transport and Sorption in Nafion Membrane, edited by Kirt A. Page, Christopher L. Soles and James Runt, 175-199. Vol. 1096. Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 2012.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Anthony Kwong, Kyle Clark, Haluna P. Gunterman, and Adam Z. Weber. "Water Uptake of Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 159, no. 9 (2012): F530-F535.

2011

Kusoglu, Ahmet, and Adam Z. Weber. Compression and Hydration Effects of PFSA Membranes In 9th European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering. Crete Greece, 2011.