Vijay A. Sethuraman, Ph. D.

2A01H Swearingen Engineering Center
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(V) 803.777.0611
(F) 803.777.8265
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Vijay joined Professor Weidner's group in the fall of 2001 and worked on the membrane and catalyst durability aspects of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells [PEMFCs]. His graduate research at USC involved studying the adsorption, desorption and electro-oxidation kinetics of carbon monoxide [CO] and hydrogen sulfide [H₂S] on composite solid polymer electrolyte Pt  [SPE-Pt] electrodes.

Between June 2005 and May 2006, he was part of the Durability Group in UTC Power, South Windsor, CT. Specifically, he was involved in DOE's High Temperature Membrane & Catalyst program and studied the effects of humidity on the durability of PEMFCs at elevated temperatures.

He graduated in Fall 2006 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Environmental Energy Technology Division in Berkeley Lab and is part of the BATT program.

Current address:
1 Cyclotron Road MS 70-0108B
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone: (510) 486-4360
Fax: (510) 486-4260
E-mail: VASethuraman at lbl dot gov
URL: http://eetd.lbl.gov/staff/sethuraman/

Recent Publications

• 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
   

• 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
   

• Vijay A. Sethuraman, John W. Weidner*, and Lesia V. Protsailo, "Effect of Diphenyl Siloxane on the Catalytic Activity of Pt on Carbon", Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 10 (12), B207-B209 (2007).
  doi: 10.1149/1.2787870
   

• Vijay A. Sethuraman, Leslie A. Wise, Sivagaminathan Balasubramanian and John W. Weidner, "Hydrogen Sulfide Kinetics on PEM Electrodes", Electrochemical Society Transactions, 1 (8), 111-130 (2006).
  doi:10.1149/1.2214548
   

• 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

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