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  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Laurent Pilon is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and materials science, with significant contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their work spans several key topics in advanced materials and technologies. These include:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Aerogels and thermal insulation
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Pilon has published research in notable venues, often contributing multiple articles to the following journals:

  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Journal of Power Sources
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Recent publications by Pilon include:

  • "Hysteresis in electrochemical systems," 2022, Battery energy
  • "Effect of dew and rain on photovoltaic solar cell performances," 2020, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
  • "Revisiting independent versus dependent scattering regimes in suspensions or aggregates of spherical particles," 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • "Operando calorimetry informs the origin of rapid rate performance in microwave-prepared TiNb2O7 electrodes," 2021, Journal of Power Sources
  • "How do bubbles affect light absorption in photoelectrodes for solar water splitting?" 2022, Sustainable Energy & Fuels

Laurent Pilon has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Bruce Dunn (17 joint publications)
  • Matevž Frajnkovič (14 joint publications)
  • Sarah H. Tolbert (14 joint publications)
  • Sun Woong Baek (13 joint publications)
  • Yucheng Zhou (13 joint publications)

In 2015, Pilon was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • Physical Interpretations of Nyquist Plots for EDLC Electrodes and Devices

    Bing-Ang Mei;Obaidallah Munteshari;Jonathan Lau;Bruce Dunn

  • Optical constants of silica glass from extreme ultraviolet to far infrared at near room temperature.

    Rei Kitamura;Laurent Pilon;Miroslaw Jonasz

  • Can the compressive strength of concrete be estimated from knowledge of the mixture proportions?: New insights from statistical analysis and machine learning methods

    Benjamin A. Young;Alex Hall;Laurent Pilon;Puneet Gupta

  • Accurate Simulations of Electric Double Layer Capacitance of Ultramicroelectrodes

    Hainan Wang;Laurent Pilon

  • Artificial phototropism for omnidirectional tracking and harvesting of light.

    Xiaoshi Qian;Yusen Zhao;Yousif Alsaid;Xu Wang

  • Effective optical properties of non-absorbing nanoporous thin films

    Matthew M. Braun;Laurent Pilon

  • Physical interpretation of cyclic voltammetry for measuring electric double layer capacitances

    Hainan Wang;Laurent Pilon

  • Physical Interpretations of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Redox Active Electrodes for Electrical Energy Storage

    Bing-Ang Mei;Jonathan Lau;Terri Lin;Sarah H. Tolbert

  • Radiation characteristics of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC125 and its truncated chlorophyll antenna transformants tla1, tlaX and tla1-CW+

    Halil Berberoglu;Laurent Pilon;Anastasios Melis

  • Recent Advances in Continuum Modeling of Interfacial and Transport Phenomena in Electric Double Layer Capacitors

    Laurent Pilon;Hainan Wang;Anna d’Entremont

  • Pyroelectric energy converter using co-polymer P(VDF-TrFE) and Olsen cycle for waste heat energy harvesting

    Hiep Nguyen;Ashcon Navid;Laurent Pilon

  • Pyroelectric energy harvesting using Olsen cycles in purified and porous poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] thin films

    Ashcon Navid;Laurent Pilon

  • Effective optical properties of absorbing nanoporous and nanocomposite thin films

    Anna Garahan;Laurent Pilon;Juan Yin;Indu Saxena

  • The pyroelectric energy harvesting capabilities of PMN–PT near the morphotropic phase boundary

    Razmig Kandilian;Ashcon Navid;Laurent Pilon

  • Diurnal thermal analysis of microencapsulated PCM-concrete composite walls

    Alexander M. Thiele;Gaurav Sant;Laurent Pilon

  • Simulations of Cyclic Voltammetry for Electric Double Layers in Asymmetric Electrolytes: A Generalized Modified Poisson–Nernst–Planck Model

    Hainan Wang;Alexander Thiele;Laurent Pilon

  • Chitosan nanoparticle coatings reduce microbial growth on fresh‐cut apples while not affecting quality attributes

    Lucimeire Pilon;Poliana C. Spricigo;Marcela Miranda;Márcia R. de Moura

  • Rapid and accurate estimation of blood saturation, melanin content, and epidermis thickness from spectral diffuse reflectance

    Dmitry Yudovsky;Laurent Pilon

  • Pyroelectric waste heat energy harvesting using heat conduction

    Felix Y. Lee;Ashcon Navid;Laurent Pilon

  • Light transfer in bubble sparged photobioreactors for H2 production and CO2 mitigation

    Halil Berberoglu;Juan Yin;Laurent Pilon

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaurav Sant
Gaurav Sant University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah H. Tolbert
Sarah H. Tolbert University of California, Los Angeles
Bruce Dunn
Bruce Dunn University of California, Los Angeles
Narayanan Neithalath
Narayanan Neithalath Arizona State University
Andrei G. Fedorov
Andrei G. Fedorov Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher S. Lynch
Christopher S. Lynch University of California, Riverside
Dominique Baillis
Dominique Baillis Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Jack Legrand
Jack Legrand University of Nantes
Torsten Brezesinski
Torsten Brezesinski Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Aditya Kumar
Aditya Kumar Missouri University of Science and Technology

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