Doug Kushner

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow, Weber Lab

Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division

Energy Conversion Group

Kusoglu Lab

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
70R0108B
1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
Office Location: 070-0127B
(510) 486-6575
[email protected]

Doug Kushner

Awards

October 2020

2020 R&D 100 Award: Microelectrode Cell

Adam Weber, Nem Danilovic, Doug Kushner, John Petrovick

Publications

2021

Luo, Xiaoyan, Douglas I Kushner, Jonathan Li, Eun Joo Park, Yu Seung Kim, and Ahmet Kusoglu. "Anion Exchange Ionomers: Impact of Chemistry on Thin‐Film Properties." Advanced Functional Materials (2021) 2008778.

2020

Crothers, Andrew R, Robert M Darling, Douglas I Kushner, Mike L Perry, and Adam Z Weber. "Theory of Multicomponent Phenomena in Cation-Exchange Membranes: Part III. Transport in Vanadium Redox-Flow-Battery Separators." Journal of The Electrochemical Society 167.1 (2020) 013549.
Regmi, Yagya N, Eden Tzanetopoulos, Guosong Zeng, Xiong Peng, Douglas I Kushner, Tobias A Kistler, Laurie A King, and Nemanja Danilovic. "Supported Oxygen Evolution Catalysts by Design: Toward Lower Precious Metal Loading and Improved Conductivity in Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers." ACS Catalysis 10.21 (2020) 13125 - 13135.
Kushner, Douglas I, Andrew R Crothers, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber. "Transport phenomena in flow battery ion-conducting membranes." Current Opinion in Electrochemistry (2020).

2019

Kushner, Douglas I, Ahmet Kusoglu, Nikolas J Podraza, and Michael A Hickner. "Substrate‐Dependent Molecular and Nanostructural Orientation of Nafion Thin Films." Advanced Functional Materials (2019) 1902699.
Tesfaye, Meron, Douglas I Kushner, and Ahmet Kusoglu. "Interplay between Swelling Kinetics and Nanostructure in Perfluorosulfonic Acid Thin-Films: Role of Hygrothermal Aging." ACS Applied Polymer Materials 1.4 (2019) 631 - 635.
Petrovick, John G, Douglas I Kushner, Meron Tesfaye, Nemanja Danilovic, Clayton J Radke, and Adam Z Weber. "Mass-Transport Resistances of Acid and Alkaline Ionomer Layers: A Microelectrode Study Part 1 - Microelectrode Development." ECS Transactions 92.8 (2019) 77 - 85.

2018

Tesfaye, Meron, Douglas I Kushner, Bryan D McCloskey, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu. "Thermal Transitions in Perfluorosulfonated Ionomer Thin-Films." ACS Macro Letters (2018) 1237 - 1242.

2016

Kushner, Douglas I, Liang Zhu, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Michael A Hickner. "Side Chain Influence on the Mechanical Properties and Water Uptake of Confined Comb-Shaped Cationic Polymer Thin Films." Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 217.21 (2016) 2442 - 2451.

2014

Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A Hickner, and Adam Z Weber. "Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films." Advanced Functional Materials 24.30 (2014) 4763 - 4774.
Kusoglu, Ahmet, Douglas I Kushner, Devproshad K Paul, Kunal Karan, Michael A Hickner, and Adam Z Weber. "Polymer Physics: Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films." Advanced Functional Materials 24 (2014) 4762-4762.