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November 10, 2009
Blake Stevens presented a talk titled "Dual magnetron oblique sputtering of biaxially oriented ZnO thin films on amorphous substrates" at the 56th AVS Conference in San Jose, CA.
October 4-9, 2009: Eleventh International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-XI) in Vienna, Austria.
James Wilson, David Bierschenk, and Jason Nicholas present at SOFC-XI in Vienna Austria.
Left to right: James Wilson, Mae Kobsiriphat, Justin Scott, David Bierschenk
October, 2009
Blake Stevens spent October 2009 in Sweden at Linkoping University to start a collaboration with the Plasma Research Group.
September 20-25, 2009
Blake Stevens presented a poster at the International Conference of Advanced Materials in Rio de Janeiro. Titled: "Dual magnetron oblique sputtering of biaxially oriented ZnO thin films on amorphous substrates."
Celebrating beachside on the last day of the conference. Left to Right: Adney Luis Anjos da Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Blake, Jeremy Graham (University of Virginia), Nilo Kim (Unicamp) and Felipe Loureiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
September 15-25, 2009
Blake Stevens attends the Workshop to Foster US-Brazilian Research Collaboration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 15-26th, 2009.
Left to Right: Mahin Shahlari (Missouri University of S&T), Linsey Goodman (Georgia Tech), Blake, Dave Cullen (Arizona State), and Michelle Gabriele (University of Pittsburg)
September 13, 2009: Barnett group BBQ.
September 9, 2009
The Barnett Group watches a White Sox ball game to celebrate Hongbo Gao's year with the Barnett Group.
Left to right: Scott Cronin, Hongbo Gao, Dr. James Wilson, Blake Stevens, David Bierschenk, Megna Shah, Joann Barnett, Scott Barnett, Oath Muangnapoh, Dr. Jason Nicholas, Gareth Hughes
August 23, 2009
Barnett Group summer beach party.
June 28 – July 3, 2009
Dr. James Wilson presents "Three-Dimensional Microstructure of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Cathode Materials" and Dr. Jason Nicholas presents "Effect of Infiltrate Structure and Composition on SOFC Cathode Polarization Resistance" at the 17th Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI) in Toronto, Canada.
April 22, 2009
Scott Cronin presents a talk entitled "3-D Reconstruction of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes" for the tri-annual DOE-BES Review of Argonne's Electron Microscopy Center.
March 17, 2009
James Wilson presents a talk (for Scott Barnett in absentia) entitled “Solid oxide fuel cell research at Northwestern University” at the inaugural Northwestern-Argonne Workshop on Energy Demand, held at the Allen Center at Northwestern University.
Feb-March, 2009
Scott Barnett spends a month in Singapore at the Nanyang Technological University as a guest professor, researching possible collaborations and working on a new SOFC book with Professor San Ping Jiang.
January 19-23, 2009
Scott Cronin, Megna Shah, David Bierschenk, James Wilson, and Scott Barnett attend the 33rd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics in Daytona Beach, Florida. The titles and first authors of the talks are listed below:
Scott Cronin – “Quantitative Microstructural Analysis of Ni Coarsening in Ni-YSZ Anodes”
Megna Shah – “Polarization Resistance of Infiltrated LSCF-GDC Cathodes: Effect of Surface Area”
David Bierschenk – “Operation of Oxide-Anode Solid Oxide Fuel Cells on Simulated Coal Gas”
James Wilson – “Structural and Electrochemical Characterization of LSM-YSZ Cathodes with Varying Composition”
Scott Cronin, Megna Shah, David Bierschenk, Scott Barnett, and James Wilson (Photographer) discussing silicates at ACERS 2009.
December 8, 2008
James Wilson successfully defends his dissertation entitled “Quantitative three-dimensional analysis of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes using focused ion beam – scanning electron microscopy.”
December 1-5, 2008
Blake Stevens presents "DC Reactive Sputtering, Annealing, and Characterization of CuAlO2 Delafossite Thin Films" at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
September 29, 2008
David Cohen successfully defends his dissertation entitled “Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides Through Modulation-Doped ZnO/ZnMgO Thin Films.”
Jan 28 – Feb 1, 2008
Jason Nicholas, James Wilson, and Scott Barnett attend the 32nd International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics in Daytona Beach, Florida. James gives a talk entitled “Composite Electrode Microstructure Studied by Focused Ion Beam – Scanning Electron Microscopy.”
November 16, 2007
Mae Kobsiriphat successfully defends her dissertation entitled “Ceramic Anode Materials with Nanoscale Electrocatalysts for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.”
September 24-28, 2007
James Wilson presents the poster “Three-dimensional reconstruction of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes,” at the Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science (FEMMS) Conference in Sonoma, California.
September 16-20, 2007
David Bierschenk, Megna Shah, and Blake Stevens present at the Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) Conference in Detroit, Michigan.
David Bierschenk, Megna Shah and Blake Stevens enjoying Detroit at the 2007 MS&T conference.
August, 2007
The Barnett group, alumni, and friends enjoy the annual summer cookout at the Barnett’s house.
Barnett group, alumni, and friends at summer 2007 cookout.
June, 2007
Scott Barnett travels China giving lectures on SOFCs as a guest of former group member and now professor at South China University, Jiang Liu.
Scott Barnett and Jiang Liu, a former group member now on the faculty at South China University, visiting the Great Wall.
June 3-7, 2007
James Wilson, Mae Kobsiriphat, Manoj Pillai, and Scott Barnett attend the Tenth International Symposium on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC-X) in Nara, Japan. James presents a talk entitled “Three-dimensional reconstruction of solid oxide fuel cell electrodes using focused ion beam – scanning electron microscopy.”
James Wilson (left), Scott Barnett, and Manoj Pillai enjoying the city of Nara, Japan, while attending the Tenth International Conference on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
February 8, 2007
Yuanbo Lin successfully defends his dissertation entitled “Direct Methane Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Their Related Applications.”
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