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Overview

Thein Kyu is affiliated with the University of Akron in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Mechanical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

Thein Kyu's research topics cover a range of advanced materials and technologies with a particular focus on battery and sensor applications. Key topics addressed in their publications include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies, Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Dielectric Materials and Actuators, Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids, and Advanced Battery Technologies Research.

Thein Kyu has published multiple papers in notable academic venues such as ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Energy Materials, Solid State Ionics, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, and ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Frequent coauthors in their research include Camilo Piedrahita, Antal Jákli, Hyunsang Lee, Jinwei Cao, and Hamad Albehaijan.

Notable recent publications by Thein Kyu include:

  • Flexoelectricity in Flexoionic Polymer Electrolyte Membranes: Effect of Thiosiloxane Modification on Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate and Ionic Liquid Electrolyte Composites, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Mechanoelectrical Transduction of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes: Effect of Branched Networks, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Poly(ethylene glycol) Diacrylate Based Electro-Active Ionic Elastomer, 2020, Macromolecular Rapid Communications
  • Flexo-Ionic Effect of Ionic Liquid Crystal Elastomers, 2021, MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • In Situ Polymerized Electrolytes with Fully Cross-Linked Networks Boosting High Ionic Conductivity and Capacity Retention for Lithium Ion Batteries, 2021, ACS Applied Energy Materials

Best Publications

  • Effect of Plasticization on Ionic Conductivity Enhancement in Relation to Glass Transition Temperature of Crosslinked Polymer Electrolyte Membranes

    Ruixuan He;Thein Kyu

  • Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Porous Structure Formation in Electrospun Fibers

    Pratyush Dayal;Jing Liu;Satish Kumar;Thein Kyu

  • Spinodals in a Polymer-Dispersed Liquid-Crystal

    Chungsea Shen;Thein Kyu

  • Characterization and properties of polyethylene blends I. Linear low-density polyethylene with high-density polyethylene

    Shi-Ru Hu;Thein Kyu;Richard S. Stein

  • Characteristics of hydroxybenzoic acid‐ethylene terephthalate copolymers and their blends with polystyrene, polycarbonate, and polyethylene terephthalate

    Ping Zhuang;Thein Kyu;James L. White

  • Effect of carbon nanotubes on phase transitions of nematic liquid crystals

    Hatice Duran;Bruce Gazdecki;Atsushi Yamashita;Thein Kyu

  • Highly conductive solvent-free polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium-ion batteries: Effect of prepolymer molecular weight

    Ruixuan He;Mauricio Echeverri;Daniel Ward;Yu Zhu

  • Ionic Conductivity in Relation to Ternary Phase Diagram of Poly(ethylene oxide), Succinonitrile, and Lithium Bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide Blends

    Mauricio Echeverri;Namil Kim;Thein Kyu

  • Polymerization-induced phase separation in a liquid-crystal-polymer mixture.

    J. Y. Kim;J. Y. Kim;J. Y. Kim;C. H. Cho;C. H. Cho;C. H. Cho;P. Palffy-Muhoray;P. Palffy-Muhoray;P. Palffy-Muhoray;T. Kyu;T. Kyu;T. Kyu

  • Porous Fiber Formation in Polymer-Solvent System Undergoing Solvent Evaporation

    Pratyush Dayal;Thein Kyu

  • EQUILIBRIUM PHASE BEHAVIOR OF NEMATIC MIXTURES

    Hao‐Wen Chiu;Thein Kyu

  • Preparation, Characterization, and Physical Properties of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube/Elastomer Composites

    Leon D. Perez;Leon D. Perez;Manuel A. Zuluaga;Thein Kyu;James E. Mark

  • Rhythmic Growth of Target and Spiral Spherulites of Crystalline Polymer Blends

    Thein Kyu;HW Chiu;AJ Guenthner;Y Okabe

  • Phase separation by spinodal decomposition in polycarbonate/poly(methyl methacrylate) blends

    Thein Kyu;Jeanne M. Saldanha

  • Phase-Field Modeling on Morphological Landscape of Isotactic Polystyrene Single Crystals

    Haijun Xu;Rushikesh Matkar;Thein Kyu

  • Liquid crystalline polymer systems: technological advances

    Avraam I. Isayev;Thein Kyu;Stephen Z. D. Cheng

  • Effects of mixing on morphology, rheology, and mechanical properties of blends of ultra‐high molecular weight polyethylene with linear low‐density polyethylene

    Parimal Vadhar;Thein Kyu

  • Nucleation initiated spinodal decomposition in a polymerizing system.

    Thein Kyu;Jae Hyung Lee

  • Characterization and properties of polyethylene blends II. Linear low‐density with conventional low‐density polyethylene

    Thein Kyu;Shi-Ru Hu;Richard S. Stein

  • Dynamics of Hollow Nanofiber Formation During Solidification Subjected to Solvent Evaporation

    Andrew J. Guenthner;Sureeporn Khombhongse;Wenxia Liu;Pratyush Dayal

  • Porous Fiber Formation in a Polymer-Solvent System undergoing Solvent Evaporation

    Thein Kyu

Frequent Co-Authors

Antal Jakli
Antal Jakli Kent State University
Richard S. Stein
Richard S. Stein University of Massachusetts Amherst
James L. White
James L. White University of Akron
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Frank W. Harris
Frank W. Harris University of Akron
Timothy J. Bunning
Timothy J. Bunning United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Vincent P. Tondiglia
Vincent P. Tondiglia United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Lalgudi V. Natarajan
Lalgudi V. Natarajan Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Bryan D. Vogt
Bryan D. Vogt Pennsylvania State University
Joseph P. Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy University of Akron

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