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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Viola Birss is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Their publication record demonstrates significant involvement in conference proceedings and journals, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators include Haris Masood Ansari, Marwa Atwa, Xiaoan Li, Bin Pan, and Christopher R. Clarkson.

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Viola Birss include:

  • "Highly Ordered Nanoporous Carbon Scaffold with Controllable Wettability as the Microporous Layer for Fuel Cells" (2020), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Ultrasensitive and Label-Free Detection of the Measles Virus Using an N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Based Electrochemical Biosensor" (2020), ACS Sensors
  • "Wetting dynamics of nanoliter water droplets in nanoporous media" (2020), Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
  • "Scalable nanoporous carbon films allow line-of-sight 3D atomic layer deposition of Pt: towards a new generation catalyst layer for PEM fuel cells" (2021), Materials Horizons
  • "Low-permeability reservoir sample wettability characterization at multiple scales: Pore-, micro- and macro-contact angles" (2021), Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Viola Birss was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011 for contributions to the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • The role and utilization of pseudocapacitance for energy storage by supercapacitors

    B.E. Conway;V. Birss;J. Wojtowicz

  • Effect of hydrogen sulfide on the direct internal reforming of methane in solid oxide fuel cells

    Tyler R. Smith;Anthony Wood;Viola I. Birss

  • Conversion of Methane by Oxidative Coupling

    Yoshimitsu Amenomiya;Viola I. Birss;Maciej Goledzinowski;Jan Galuszka

  • High Performance PtRuIr Catalysts Supported on Carbon Nanotubes for the Anodic Oxidation of Methanol

    Shijun Liao;Kerry-Anne Holmes;Haralampos Tsaprailis;Viola I. Birss

  • Chromium Poisoning of LSM-YSZ SOFC Cathodes: I. Detailed Study of the Distribution of Chromium Species at a Porous, Single-Phase Cathode

    S. C. Paulson;V. I. Birss

  • A model for anodic hydrous oxide growth at iridium

    Peter G. Pickup;V.I. Birss

  • Impact of porous electrode properties on the electrochemical transfer coefficient.

    Jeff N. Soderberg;Anne C. Co;and Aislinn H. C. Sirk;Viola I. Birss

  • Oxygen reduction at sol–gel derived La0.8Sr0.2Co0.8Fe0.2O3 cathodes

    Jingbo Liu;Anne C. Co;Scott Paulson;Viola I. Birss

  • Platinum oxide film formation—reduction: an in-situ mass measurement study

    Viola I. Birss;M. Chang;J. Segal

  • Nanopore Structure Analysis and Permeability Predictions for a Tight Gas/Shale Reservoir Using Low-Pressure Adsorption and Mercury Intrusion Techniques

    Christopher R. Clarkson;James Wood;Sinclair E. Burgis;Samuel D. Aquino

  • Electrochemical Studies of AC/DC Anodized Mg Alloy in NaCl Solution

    S. J. Xia;R. Yue;R. G. Rateick;V. I. Birss

  • Characterization of Oxide Films Formed on Mg-Based WE43 Alloy Using AC/DC Anodization in Silicate Solutions

    V. Birss;S. Xia;R. Yue;Richard G. Rateick

  • Electron Microscopy Study of Formation of Thick Oxide Films on Ir and Ru Electrodes

    Viola I. Birss;R. Myers;H. Angerstein-Kozlowska;B. E. Conway

  • Sr-rich chromium ferrites as symmetrical solid oxide fuel cell electrodes

    Min Chen;Scott Paulson;Venkataraman Thangadurai;Viola Birss

  • Nano-porous iridium and iridium oxide thin films formed by high efficiency electrodeposition

    Ehab N. El Sawy;Viola I. Birss

  • Hydrogen Peroxide Detection at Electrochemically and Sol-Gel Derived Ir Oxide Films

    Hanna Elzanowska;Erfan Abu-Irhayem;Beata Skrzynecka;Viola I. Birss

  • A Kinetic Study of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction at LaSrMnO3-YSZ Composite Electrodes

    Anne C. Co;Shen Jiang Xia;Viola I. Birss

  • Controlled interconversion of nanoarray of ta dimples and high aspect ratio ta oxide nanotubes.

    Hany A. El-Sayed;Viola I. Birss

  • Multi-technique study of the anodic degradation of polyaniline films

    Huyen N. Dinh;Jianfu Ding;S.J. Xia;Viola I. Birss

  • The anodic behavior of silver in chloride solutions—I. The formation and reduction of thin silver chloride films

    Viola I. Birss;C. K. Smith

  • The Influence of the Aqueous Growth Medium on the Growth Rate, Composition, and Structure of Hydrous Iridium Oxide Films

    Peter G. Pickup;Viola I. Birss

Frequent Co-Authors

Siyu Ye
Siyu Ye SinoHyKey
Venkataraman Thangadurai
Venkataraman Thangadurai University of St Andrews
Scott A. Barnett
Scott A. Barnett Northwestern University
John T. S. Irvine
John T. S. Irvine University of St Andrews
San Ping Jiang
San Ping Jiang Curtin University
Tatsumi Ishihara
Tatsumi Ishihara Kyushu University
Mogens Bjerg Mogensen
Mogens Bjerg Mogensen Technical University of Denmark
John M. Vohs
John M. Vohs University of Pennsylvania
Stephen A. Campbell
Stephen A. Campbell University of Minnesota

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