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Shawn Litster is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and energy, with significant publication contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, energy engineering and power technology, and automotive engineering.

The main topics of their work include fuel cells and related materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in solid oxide fuel cells, advanced battery technologies research, hybrid renewable energy systems, and advancements in battery materials.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Shawn Litster include Kara J. Ferner, Jonathan Braaten, Gang Wu, Jiawei Liu, and Scott A Mauger. These collaborations are evident across multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

Shawn Litster has contributed extensively to various publication venues, notably:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of Power Sources
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Applied Energy
  • ECS Transactions

Their recent papers feature work on diverse aspects of fuel cells and catalysis research:

  • Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen-carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells (2022), Nature Energy
  • Single Cobalt Sites Dispersed in Hierarchically Porous Nanofiber Networks for Durable and High-Power PGM-Free Cathodes in Fuel Cells (2020), Advanced Materials
  • Development of high-performance roll-to-roll-coated gas-diffusion-electrode-based fuel cells (2021), Journal of Power Sources
  • Integration of a high oxygen permeability ionomer into polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell cathodes for high efficiency and power density (2022), Journal of Power Sources
  • Prediction of high frequency resistance in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells using long short term memory based model (2020), Energy and AI

Best Publications

  • PEM fuel cell electrodes

    S. Litster;G. McLean

  • Atomically dispersed iron sites with a nitrogen–carbon coating as highly active and durable oxygen reduction catalysts for fuel cells

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  • Highly active atomically dispersed CoN 4 fuel cell cathode catalysts derived from surfactant-assisted MOFs: carbon-shell confinement strategy

    Yanghua He;Sooyeon Hwang;David A. Cullen;M. Aman Uddin

  • A Critical Review of Modeling Transport Phenomena in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Adam Z. Weber;Rodney L. Borup;Robert M. Darling;Prodip K. Das

  • Ex situ visualization of liquid water transport in PEM fuel cell gas diffusion layers

    S. Litster;D. Sinton;N. Djilali

  • Single Cobalt Sites Dispersed in Hierarchically Porous Nanofiber Networks for Durable and High-Power PGM-Free Cathodes in Fuel Cells.

    Yanghua He;Hui Guo;Sooyeon Hwang;Xiaoxuan Yang

  • Resolving the Three-Dimensional Microstructure of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Electrodes using Nanometer- Scale X-ray Computed Tomography

    William K. Epting;Jeff Gelb;Shawn Litster

  • Expert assessments of the cost and expected future performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells for vehicles.

    Michael M Whiston;Inês L Azevedo;Shawn Litster;Kate S Whitefoot

  • Morphological Analyses of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Electrodes with Nano-Scale Computed Tomography Imaging

    S. Litster;W. K. Epting;E. A. Wargo;S. R. Kalidindi

  • Multiscale modeling of lithium-ion battery electrodes based on nano-scale X-ray computed tomography

    Ali Ghorbani Kashkooli;Siamak Farhad;Dong Un Lee;Kun Feng

  • Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle LiFePO4 battery life implications of thermal management, driving conditions, and regional climate

    Tugce Yuksel;Shawn Litster;Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan;Jeremy J. Michalek

  • Exergy and economic analyses of advanced IGCC–CCS and IGFC–CCS power plants

    Nicholas S. Siefert;Shawn Litster

  • Engineering model of a passive planar air breathing fuel cell cathode

    Ryan O’Hayre;Tibor Fabian;Shawn Litster;Fritz B. Prinz

  • Resolving Electrode Morphology’s Impact on Platinum Group Metal-Free Cathode Performance Using Nano-CT of 3D Hierarchical Pore and Ionomer Distribution

    Siddharth Komini Babu;Hoon T. Chung;Piotr Zelenay;Shawn Litster

  • High Power Density Platinum Group Metal-free Cathodes for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Aman Uddin;Lisa Dunsmore;Hanguang Zhang;Leiming Hu

  • Active Water Management for PEM Fuel Cells

    Shawn Litster;Cullen R. Buie;Tibor Fabian;John K. Eaton

  • Gas Transport Resistance in Polymer Electrolyte Thin Films on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts

    Hang Liu;William K. Epting;Shawn Litster

  • On the impact of water activity on reversal tolerant fuel cell anode performance and durability

    Bo Ki Hong;Bo Ki Hong;Pratiti Mandal;Jong-Gil Oh;Shawn Litster

  • Mathematical modelling of ambient air-breathing fuel cells for portable devices

    S. Litster;N. Djilali

  • Understanding the voltage reversal behavior of automotive fuel cells

    Pratiti Mandal;Bo Ki Hong;Bo Ki Hong;Jong-Gil Oh;Shawn Litster

  • Computational analysis of heat and mass transfer in a micro-structured PEMFC cathode

    S. Litster;J.G. Pharoah;G. McLean;N. Djilali

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan G. Santiago
Juan G. Santiago Stanford University
Jay Whitacre
Jay Whitacre Carnegie Mellon University
Iryna V. Zenyuk
Iryna V. Zenyuk University of California, Irvine
Paul A. Salvador
Paul A. Salvador Carnegie Mellon University
Ned Djilali
Ned Djilali University of Victoria
Gang Wu
Gang Wu Washington University in St. Louis
Piotr Zelenay
Piotr Zelenay Los Alamos National Laboratory
Anthony D. Rollett
Anthony D. Rollett Carnegie Mellon University
Emin Caglan Kumbur
Emin Caglan Kumbur Drexel University
Ryan O'Hayre
Ryan O'Hayre Colorado School of Mines

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