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Fanglin (Frank) Chen

Assistant Professor

Dr. Chen's research and interests include Synthesis and characterization of materials for energy conversion and storage, microstructure property relationship, electroceramics and solid state ionic devices, electrochemical performance evaluation, materials and designs for solid oxide fuel cells.

Education
  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001
  • M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China 1995
  • B.S., Chemistry, Anhui University, Hefei, China, 1992
Selected Publications
  • A. Cabot, J. Arbiol, J. Morante, F.  Chen, and M. Liu, "Synthesis of Tin Oxide Nanostructures with Controlled Particle Size using Mesoporous Frameworks". Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, 7 (2004) G93-G97
  • C. Xia, W. Rauch, F. Chen, and M. Liu, "Sr0.5Sm0.5CoO3 as cathode materials for ceria-based solid oxide fuel cells", Solid State Ionics, 149 (2002) 11-19
  • F. Chen, C. Xia, and M. Liu, "Preparation of ordered macroporous Sr0.5Sm0.5CoO3 as Cathode for solid oxide fuel cells". Chemistry Letters, 10 (2001) 1032-1033
  • F. Chen and M. Liu, "Preparation of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) films on La0.85Sr0.15MnO3 (LSM) and LSM-YSZ substrates using electrophoretic deposition (EPD) process". Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 21 (2001) 127-134
  • F. Chen and M. Liu, "Preparation of mesoporous yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and YSZ-NiO using a triblock copolymer as surfactant". Journal of Materials Chemistry, 10 (2000) 2603-2605
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