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MRS Bulletin , Volume 39 , Issue 9: Low-Temperature Solid-Oxide Fuel Cells , September 2014 , pp. 780 - 782
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Eric D. Wachsman

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Energy Research Center, University of Maryland, USA; tel. 301-405-8193; and email .

Wachsman is the director of the Energy Research Center and the William L. Crentz Centennial Chair in Energy Research with appointments in both the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University and his BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Fellow of ECS and ACS. His awards include the ECS HTM Outstanding Achievement Award, the Fuel Cell Seminar Award, and the Sir William Grove Award. He is editor-in-chief of Ionics, editor of Energy Technology, Scientific Reports, and Energy Systems, and former associate editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He has more than 220 publications and nine patents on energy-related technologies.

Tatsumi Ishihara

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan; email .

Ishihara is a professor at the International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University, where he received his Dr.Eng. degree in 1991. His current research area is functional inorganic materials, including solid-oxide fuel cells and catalyst materials. He has published more than 400 papers and 80 patents on energy-related materials and catalysts. He is a member of the Chemical Society of Japan, Japan Catalyst Society, Electrochemical Society of Japan, ACS, ECS, and MRS. He is a recipient of the 2012 IUMRS Somiya Award.

John A. Kilner

Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin

Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK; tel. +44-0207-594-6745; and email .

Kilner is B.C.H. Steele Professor of Energy Materials in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. He is also a principal investigator at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research and the Group Leader for Ceramic Electrolytes at CIC Energigune in Spain. He received his PhD degree in physical metallurgy in 1975 from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining, and the City and Guild Institute of London. He is an editor of Solid State Ionics. His awards include the Christian Friedrich Schönbein Gold Medal, the IOMMM Verulam Prize, the IOMMM Platinum Medal, the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Award, and he led a team that won the 2012 IUMRS Somiya Award. He has more than 400 publications and eight patents on SOFC and oxygen separator technologies and is a co-founder of the fuel-cell developer, Ceres Power.

Jihwan An

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA and Manufacturing Systems and Design Engineering Programme, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea; email .

An is a research associate and a full-time lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his BS degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Seoul National University in 2007. He received his MS (2009) and PhD (2013) degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include exploring and engineering nanoscale phenomena in energy-conversion devices.

John Druce

Hydrogen Production Division, International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan; tel. +81(92)802-6738; and email .

Druce is a postdoctoral research associate at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER). He obtained his PhD degree in materials science and engineering in 2010 from Imperial College London, with a focus on composite oxygen conducting membranes. After a postdoctoral appointment at Imperial College London working in tribology, he joined the I2CNER’s Hydrogen Production Division in 2012. He is currently developing applications of low-energy ion scattering for the surface characterization of energy materials.

Emiliana Fabbri

Electrochemistry Laboratory, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; tel. +41 56 310 27 95; and email .

Fabbri works at the Electrochemistry Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute. She obtained a PhD degree in materials science in 2008 from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2009, she joined the National Institute for Materials Science and then moved to the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2012. She has received awards from the European Academy of Sciences and The American Ceramic Society and has published more than 50 manuscripts. She has organized several workshops and symposia for The Electrochemical Society and MRS.

Yoshinobu Fujishiro

Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; email .

Fujishiro is group leader of the Functional Integrated Technology Group at AIST’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute since 2009. He completed a degree in applied chemistry at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Engineering in 1995. His specialties are functional ceramics material chemistry and inorganic processing chemistry, and his research field is ceramic materials science for energy and environmental electrochemical devices.

Turgut M. Gür

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; tel. 650-725-0107; and email .

Gür is a consulting professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and the Executive Director of Stanford’s DOE-EFRC Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion. He received BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering from Middle East Technical University and graduate degrees, including a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Stanford University. He has 10 US patents and has published over 150 articles related to materials and processes for energy conversion and storage.

Koichi Hamamoto

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; email .

Hamamoto is a senior research scientist at AIST. He received his PhD degree in materials science from the University of Tokyo in 2001. His research interests include next-generation rechargeable battery, creation of a functionally structured electrode for electrochemical device, and molecular synthesis by electrolysis.

Junji Hyodo

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan; email .

Hyodo is a postdoctoral researcher at Kyushu University, where he received his PhD degree in the Department of Applied Chemistry. He works on the analysis and understanding of oxide ion transport at the surface and heterointerfaces of materials for solid-oxide fuel cells using advanced surface analysis techniques, such as XPS, SIMS, and LEIS.

Young-Beom Kim

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea; email .

Kim is an assistant professor in Hanyang University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2012. He received his BS degree from Hanyang University in 2004. He earned his MS (2007) and PhD (2011) degrees in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include renewable energy/smart grid systems, solid-oxide ceramic fuel cells, MEMS and nanosphere lithography processes, and thin-film deposition techniques.

Kang Taek Lee

Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea; tel. +82-785-6430; and email .

Lee is an assistant professor in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology. He received his BS degree in ceramic engineering from Yonsei University and his MS degree in materials science and engineering at KAIST. In 2010, he completed his PhD degree studies in materials science and engineering under Eric Wachsman at the University of Florida, focusing on low-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). His research interests include solid-state electrochemistry, low-temperature SOFCs, and all-solid-state batteries.

Wonyoung Lee

School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea; email .

Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) since 2013. He received his BS degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Seoul National University in 2004. He earned his MS (2006) and PhD (2010) degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Previously, he worked at MIT and Stanford University. His research interests include low-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells and nanotechnologies for characterization and fabrication.

Anna Magrasó

Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain; and Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo SMN/FERMiO, Norway; tel. +47-22840660; and email and .

Magrasó works at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo (2008–2014) specializing in oxide ceramics for high-temperature solid-state proton conductors. She obtained a PhD degree in materials technology at the University of Barcelona in 2007. Her research focuses on the development of new materials for use in proton-conducting fuel cells or dense H2 permeable membranes and their fundamental understanding. She has published 34 papers and has co-organized conferences and workshops in the field.

Joong Sun Park

Argonne National Laboratory, USA; email .

Park is a postdoctoral appointee in the Electrochemical Energy Storage Department at Argonne National Laboratory. He completed his PhD degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in material science and engineering at Stanford University in 2012. His research interests include design and synthesis of metal oxide electrodes for advanced lithium-ion batteries.

Daniele Pergolesi

Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland; tel. +41 56 310 42 67; and email .

Pergolesi is a member of the Materials Group at the Paul Scherrer Institute since January 2013. He obtained a PhD degree in materials science at the University of Genova in 2004. From 2009 to 2012, he worked at NIMS, Japan. His research interests focus on the investigation of the mechanisms of stress generation and evolution in thin films, and the influence of the lattice distortions on the physical properties of materials. He is co-author of 50 publications.

Friedrich (Fritz) B. Prinz

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA; tel. 650-723-4023; and email .

Prinz is the Finmeccanica Professor of Engineering, professor of materials science and engineering, and professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He earned a PhD degree in physics at the University of Vienna. He leads a group of doctoral students and researchers who are addressing fundamental issues on energy conversion and storage at the nanoscale. He is a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy and previously served as chair of Stanford University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2003–2013.

Joon Hyung Shim

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University, South Korea; email .

Shim is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Korea University (KU) and a project manager of KU’s Green Manufacturing Research Center. He received a BS degree (2002) in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Seoul National University and MS (2004) and PhD (2009) degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Before joining KU, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and a lecturer of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

Hirofumi Sumi

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; email .

Sumi is a senior researcher at AIST working on the development of small-scale portable solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) under direct hydrocarbon (methane, LPG) utilization. He obtained BS and MS degrees in material science and engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology and a PhD degree in energy and hydrocarbon chemistry from Kyoto University.

Toshio Suzuki

Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; tel. +81-52-736-7295; and email .

Suzuki is a senior research scientist at AIST working on the development of next-generation solid-oxide fuel cells, aiming for low-temperature operation. He obtained BS and MS degrees in applied physics from Tohoku University and a PhD degree in ceramic engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Helena Téllez

Hydrogen Production Division, International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan; tel. +81(92)802-6738; and email .

Téllez works at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER). She received her PhD degree in chemistry from the University of Málaga in 2010 on the application of SIMS for the analysis of nanolayered materials for microelectronics and photovoltaic applications. After a period at Imperial College London as a Marie Curie Fellow, she joined the I2CNER as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. She seeks to improve the understanding of novel energy conversion and storage materials by using ion-beam techniques to characterize their surface and near-surface composition.

Toshiaki Yamaguchi

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan; email .

Yamaguchi is a senior research scientist at AIST. He received a Dr.Eng. degree in 2002 from Nagoya University, where he served as an assistant professor until 2005, when he joined AIST. His research interests include inorganic materials, and process and characterization for electrochemical devices, such as solid-oxide fuel cell/electrolysis cells.