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Shimshon Gottesfeld is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering and energy, with significant contributions in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's main topics of work include fuel cells and related materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advancements in solid oxide fuel cells, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced battery technologies research, membrane separation and gas transport, and ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gottesfeld include Brian P. Setzler, Yushan Yan, Lin Shi, Stephanie Matz, and Yun Zhao.

Research outputs have been published extensively in several venues, including:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
  • Nature Energy
  • Cell Reports Physical Science

Notable recent papers by Gottesfeld and collaborators include:

  • Low-temperature direct ammonia fuel cells: Recent developments and remaining challenges, 2020, Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
  • A Direct Ammonia Fuel Cell with a KOH-Free Anode Feed Generating 180 mW cm−2 at 120 °C, 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • A shorted membrane electrochemical cell powered by hydrogen to remove CO2 from the air feed of hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells, 2022, Nature Energy
  • A high-performance 75 W direct ammonia fuel cell stack, 2022, Cell Reports Physical Science
  • Demonstration of Electrochemically-Driven CO2 Separation Using Hydroxide Exchange Membranes, 2020, Journal of The Electrochemical Society

Best Publications

  • Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Model

    T. E. Springer;T. A. Zawodzinski;S. Gottesfeld

  • Water Uptake by and Transport Through Nafion® 117 Membranes

    Thomas A. Zawodzinski;Charles Derouin;Susan Radzinski;Ruth J. Sherman

  • Determination of water diffusion coefficients in perfluorosulfonate ionomeric membranes

    Thomas A. Zawodzinski;Michal Neeman;Laurel O. Sillerud;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • Thin-film catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes

    M. S. Wilson;S. Gottesfeld

  • A Comparative Study of Water Uptake By and Transport Through Ionomeric Fuel Cell Membranes

    Thomas A. Zawodzinski;Thomas E. Springer;John Davey;Roger Jestel

  • Recent advances in direct methanol fuel cells at Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Xiaoming Ren;Piotr Zelenay;Sharon Thomas;John Davey

  • Conducting polymers as active materials in electrochemical capacitors

    Andy Rudge;John Davey;Ian Raistrick;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • Characterization of polymer electrolyte fuel cells using ac impedance spectroscopy

    T. E. Springer;T. A. Zawodzinski;M. S. Wilson;S. Gottesfeld

  • Modeling and Experimental Diagnostics in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    T. E. Springer;M. S. Wilson;S. Gottesfeld

  • Poly(aryl piperidinium) membranes and ionomers for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells

    Junhua Wang;Yun Zhao;Brian P. Setzler;Santiago Rojas-Carbonell

  • Anion exchange membrane fuel cells: Current status and remaining challenges

    Shimshon Gottesfeld;Dario R. Dekel;Miles Page;Chulsung Bae

  • High Performance Catalyzed Membranes of Ultra‐low Pt Loadings for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Mahlon S. Wilson;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • The Water Content Dependence of Electro-Osmotic Drag in Proton-Conducting Polymer Electrolytes

    Thomas A. Zawodzinski;John Davey;Judith Valerio;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • High performance direct methanol polymer electrolyte fuel cells

    Xiaoming Ren;Mahlon S. Wilson;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • Low platinum loading electrodes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells fabricated using thermoplastic ionomers

    Mahlon S. Wilson;Judith A. Valerio;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • Methanol transport through Nafion membranes : Electro-osmotic drag effects on potential step measurements

    Xiaoming Ren;Thomas E. Springer;Thomas A. Zawodzinski;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS.

    Shimshon Gottesfeld;Tom A. Zawodzinski

  • Surface Area Loss of Supported Platinum in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

    Mahlon S. Wilson;Fernando H. Garzon;Kurt E. Sickafus;Shimshon Gottesfeld

  • A study of the electrochemical properties of conducting polymers for application in electrochemical capacitors

    Andy Rudge;Ian Raistrick;Shimshon Gottesfeld;John P. Ferraris

  • A New Approach to the Problem of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Fuel Cells Operating at Low Temperatures

    Shimshon Gottesfeld;Judith Pafford

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas A. Zawodzinski
Thomas A. Zawodzinski University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Piotr Zelenay
Piotr Zelenay Los Alamos National Laboratory
Steven P. Armes
Steven P. Armes University of Sheffield
Israel Rubinstein
Israel Rubinstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Edson A. Ticianelli
Edson A. Ticianelli Universidade de São Paulo
Yushan Yan
Yushan Yan University of Delaware
Stephen W. Feldberg
Stephen W. Feldberg Brookhaven National Laboratory
Charles T. Campbell
Charles T. Campbell University of Washington
Ernesto R. Gonzalez
Ernesto R. Gonzalez Universidade de São Paulo
John P. Ferraris
John P. Ferraris The University of Texas at Dallas

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