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Yu Seung Kim is a researcher affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States, specializing in the fields of engineering and energy. Their work predominantly focuses on electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry. Within these domains, their research extends into biomedical engineering and energy engineering and power technology.

The primary topics in Yu Seung Kim's work include fuel cells and related materials, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies, membrane-based ion separation techniques, and hybrid renewable energy systems. There is also a notable focus on advancements in solid oxide fuel cells.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yu Seung Kim include Eun Joo Park, Sandip Maurya, Cy Fujimoto, Ivana Matanović, and Santosh Adhikari. These collaborations highlight a network of colleagues contributing to the various aspects of their research fields.

The scientist has published extensively across several venues. The most frequent publication outlets include ECS Meeting Abstracts, SSRN Electronic Journal, ACS Energy Letters, Journal of The Electrochemical Society, and Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Yu Seung Kim are:

  • Highly quaternized polystyrene ionomers for high performance anion exchange membrane water electrolysers, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Durability challenges of anion exchange membrane fuel cells, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Durability of anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers, 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Synergistically integrated phosphonated poly(pentafluorostyrene) for fuel cells, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Protonated phosphonic acid electrodes for high power heavy-duty vehicle fuel cells, 2022, Nature Energy

Best Publications

  • Scientific aspects of polymer electrolyte fuel cell durability and degradation.

    Rodney Borup;Jeremy Meyers;Bryan Pivovar;Yu Seung Kim

  • Alternative Polymer Systems for Proton Exchange Membranes (PEMs)

    Michael A. Hickner;Hossein Ghassemi;Yu Seung Kim;Brian R. Einsla

  • Direct polymerization of sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) random (statistical) copolymers: candidates for new proton exchange membranes

    Feng Wang;Michael Hickner;Yu Seung Kim;Thomas A. Zawodzinski

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

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

  • Highly quaternized polystyrene ionomers for high performance anion exchange membrane water electrolysers

    Dongguo Li;Eun Joo Park;Wenlei Zhu;Qiurong Shi

  • Durability challenges of anion exchange membrane fuel cells

    William E. Mustain;Marian Chatenet;Miles Page;Yu Seung Kim

  • Durability of anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers

    Dongguo Li;Andrew R. Motz;Chulsung Bae;Cy Fujimoto

  • Hard-Magnet L10-CoPt Nanoparticles Advance Fuel Cell Catalysis

    Junrui Li;Shubham Sharma;Xiaoming Liu;Yung-Tin Pan

  • State of Water in Disulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Copolymers and a Perfluorosulfonic Acid Copolymer (Nafion) and Its Effect on Physical and Electrochemical Properties

    Yu Seung Kim;Limin Dong;Michael Anthony Hickner;Thomas E. Glass

  • Fe Stabilization by Intermetallic L10-FePt and Pt Catalysis Enhancement in L10-FePt/Pt Nanoparticles for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Fuel Cells.

    Junrui Li;Zheng Xi;Yung-Tin Pan;Jacob S. Spendelow

  • Fabrication and characterization of heteropolyacid (H3PW12O40)/directly polymerized sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymer composite membranes for higher temperature fuel cell applications

    Yu Seung Kim;Feng Wang;Michael Hickner;Thomas A Zawodzinski

  • Poly(Arylene Ether Sulfone) Copolymers and Related Systems from Disulfonated Monomer Building Blocks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Performance – A Topical Review

    W. L. Harrison;M. A. Hickner;M. A. Hickner;Y. S. Kim;Y. S. Kim;J. E. McGrath

  • Robust Hydroxide Ion Conducting Poly(biphenyl alkylene)s for Alkaline Fuel Cell Membranes

    Woo-Hyung Lee;Yu Seung Kim;Chulsung Bae

  • Influence of the bisphenol structure on the direct synthesis of sulfonated poly(arylene ether) copolymers. I

    William L. Harrison;Feng Wang;Jeffery B. Mecham;Vinayak A. Bhanu

  • An operationally flexible fuel cell based on quaternary ammonium-biphosphate ion pairs

    Kwan Soo Lee;Jacob Schatz Spendelow;Yoong Kee Choe;Cy Fujimoto

  • Backbone stability of quaternized polyaromatics for alkaline membrane fuel cells

    Cy Fujimoto;Dae-Sik Kim;Michael Hibbs;Debra Wrobleski

  • Sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone) copolymer proton exchange membranes: composition and morphology effects on the methanol permeability

    Yu Seung Kim;Michael A. Hickner;Limin Dong;Bryan S. Pivovar

  • Poly(terphenylene) Anion Exchange Membranes: The Effect of Backbone Structure on Morphology and Membrane Property

    Woo-Hyung Lee;Eun Joo Park;Eun Joo Park;Junyoung Han;Dong Won Shin

  • Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 2.36 TeV with ALICE at LHC

    K. Aamodt;N. Abel;U. Abeysekara;A. Abrahantes Quintana

  • Stable Elastomeric Anion Exchange Membranes Based on Quaternary Ammonium-Tethered Polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene-co-butylene)-b-polystyrene Triblock Copolymers

    Angela D. Mohanty;Chang Y. Ryu;Yu Seung Kim;Chulsung Bae

  • Structure–property–performance relationships of sulfonated poly(arylene ether sulfone)s as a polymer electrolyte for fuel cell applications

    Yu Seung Kim;Brian Einsla;Mehmet Sankir;William Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan S. Pivovar
Bryan S. Pivovar National Renewable Energy Laboratory
James E. McGrath
James E. McGrath Virginia Tech
Michael A. Hickner
Michael A. Hickner Pennsylvania State University
Chulsung Bae
Chulsung Bae Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rangachary Mukundan
Rangachary Mukundan Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael D. Guiver
Michael D. Guiver Tianjin University
Piotr Zelenay
Piotr Zelenay Los Alamos National Laboratory
Qing Li
Qing Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jovan Milosevic
Jovan Milosevic University of Belgrade
Karren L. More
Karren L. More Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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