User:Nickelkids

30-something(more 30 than 40 for a couple of years). Lived in the USA (various Midwest cities) and Japan (Ibaraki-ken...Tsukuba). Fluency in the mother tongue and Japanese. Ph.D in Physical Chemistry. I tend to only be involved in editing articles that fall under the following categories:


 * In no way whatsoever do my beliefs and politics (very left...where libertarian is considered too far right) reflect the positions of any of my prior or current employment and/or educational institutions***

- Japanese culture and history

- Fuel cell and battery technology

- X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS, EXAFS, XANES, NEXAFS, etc. ) and synchrotron concerns (note: "SYNCHROTRON" and "PARTICLE ACCELERATOR" and not the same), particularly the utilization of in situ methodologies for elucidating both reaction centers and kinetic pathways.

Education:

BA Chemistry, Earlham College, Richmond IN, 1997

Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Northeastern University, Boston MA, 1997 (adviser Professor Sanjeev Mukerjee)

Employment Experience:

1) EIC, Norwood MA, 1997-2000: Li-ion cathodes, anode, and electrolyte (including SPE materials), Fuel cell cathode materials...all involved inorganic and organic synthesis and a variety of analytical techniques (TGA, atomic absorption spectroscopy, GC and GC-MS, X-ray diffraction, etc.)

2) Battery Engineering (now Electrochem East), Canton, MA, 1997-1998: Inorganic sulfur as Li-ion secondary cell cathodes, SPE

3) Cabot Corporation, Billerica, MA, 1998-2003: Carbon black as catalyst supports, support modification chemistry, fuel cell catalyst materials (anode and cathode), synthesis (inorganic, organic, and polymer).

4) Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 2003-2007. Ph.D. Thesis"Fundamental Aspects of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Non-platinum Electrocatalysts: an Electrochemical and in situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study".  Selected peer-reviewed scientific articles are listed at the end of this screed.

5) General Motors Corporation. Warren, MI, 2008-present: Senior Project Engineer, Fuel Cell Activities, Advanced Electrode (Advanced X-ray spectroscopies and affordable FC catalyst synthesis and development).

Expertise:

1) So-called "Energy Technology"

2) General Electrochemistry

3) Electrochemical catalysis (fuel cells, etc)

4) Li-ion cathode and anode materials

5) Inorganic synthesis (polymer ans solid-state)

6) X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies (synchrotron source...APS and NSLS at Argonne and Brookhaven National Laboratories)

Selected peer-reviewed, Publications (updated 12/2008):

1) D Peramunage, J Ziegelbauer, G Holleck, "Flame Retardant Electrolytes for Li Ion Batteries", Abstracts. of Fall Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Abstract 144,. Phoenix, AZ (2000).

2) J Ziegelbauer, D Gatewood, A Gulla, D Ramaker, S Mukerjee; "X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Water Activation on an RhxSy Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Applications", Electrochem. Solid-State Lett, v9(9), A430-A434 (2006).

3) J Ziegelbauer, A Gulla, C O'Laoire, C Urgeghe, R Allen, S Mukerjee, "Chalcogenide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen-depolarized Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid Electrolysis", Electrochim. Acta, 52(21), 6282-6294 (2007).

4) J Ziegelbauer, T Olson, S Pylypenko, F Alamgir, C Jaye, P Atanassov, S Mukerjee, "Direct Spectroscopic Observation of the Structural Origin of Peroxide Generation from Co-Based Pyrolyzed Porphyrins for ORR Applications", J. Phys. Chem. C, 112(24), 8839-8849 (2008).

5) J Ziegelbauer, V Murthi, C O'laiore, A Gulla, S Mukerjee, "Electrochemical Kinetics and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Investigations of Select Chalcogenide Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction Applications", Electrochim. Acta, 53, 5587–5596 (2008).

6) T Arruda, B Shyam, J Ziegelbauer, S Mukerjee, D Ramaker, "Investigation into the Competitive and Site-Specific Nature of Anion Adsorption on Pt Using In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy", J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, 18087-18097 (2008).