Dr. Cynthia Rice-York

Publications

1. Gupta, N.; York, C.; Needham, J.; Hagans, P.L. ECS Transactions, Los Angeles, California, “Platform for Prototyping of PEM Fuel Cell Designs with Enhanced Cold-Start Performance and Durability,” October 16- October 21, 2005, 208th ECS Meeting, Volume 1, Issue 6.
2. Zhao, M.; Rice, C.; Masel, R.I.; Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A. J. Electrochem. Soc. “Kinetic Study of Electro-oxidation of Formic Acid on Spontaneously-Deposited Pt/Pd Nanoparticles. CO Tolerant Fuel Cell Chemistry,” 2004, 151(1), A131-A136.
3. Rice, C; Ha, S.; Masel, R.I.; Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A. J. Power Sources “Catalyst for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells,” 2003, 115(2), 229-235.
4. McGovern, M. S.; Garnett, E. C.; Rice, C.; Masel, R. I.; Wieckowski, A. J.Power Sources “Effects of Nafion as a binding agent for unsupported nanoparticle catalysts.” 2003, 115(1), 35-39.
5. Ren, X.; Davey, J.; Pivovar, B.S.; Dinh, H.; Rice, C.; Gottesfeld, S.; Zelenay, P. Pre-Print Archive - AIChE “80 W direct methanol fuel cell stack for portable power applications.” New Orleans, LA, Mar. 11-14, 2002, 2407-2414.
6. Rice, C.; Ha, S.; Masel, R. I.; Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A. Proceedings of the Power Sources Conference “Characteristics of formic acid fuel cells.” 2002, 40 th, 254-257.
7. Ha, S.; Rice, C.A.; Masel, R.I.; Wieckowski, A. J. Power Sources “Methanol conditioning for improved performance of formic acid fuel cells.” 2002, 112(2), 655-659.
8. Waszczuk, P.; Barnard, T.M.; Rice, C.; Masel, R.I.; Wieckowski, A. Electrochem. Comm. “A nanoparticle catalyst with superior activity for electrooxidation of formic acid.” 2002, 4(9), 732.
9. Waszczuk, P.; Lu, G.-Q.; Wieckowski, A.; Lu, C.; Rice, C.; Masel, R.I. Electrochemica Acta, “UHV and Electrochemical Studies of CO and Methanol Adsorbed at Platinum/Ruthenium Surfaces, and Reference to Fuel Cell Catalysis.” 2002, 47(22-23), 3637-3652.
10. Rice, C; Ha, S.; Masel, R.I.; Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A.; Barnard, T. J. Power Sources, “Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells,” 2002, 111(1), 83-89.
11. Lu, C.; Rice, C.; Masel, R. I.; Babu, P. K.; Waszczuk, P.; Kim, H. S.; Oldfield, E.; Wieckowski, A. J. Phys. Chem. B “UHV, Electrochemical NMR, and Electrochemical Studies of Platinum/Ruthenium Fuel Cell Catalysts.” 2002, 106(37), 9581-9589.
12. Waszczuk, P.; Barnard, T.M.; Rice, C.; Masel, R.I.; Wieckowski, A. Electrochem. Comm. “A nanoparticle catalyst with superior activity for electrooxidation of formic acid.” 2002, 4(7), 599-603.
13. Lu, C.; Lee, I.C.; Masel, R.I.; Wieckowski, A.; Rice, C. J. Phys. Chem. A “Correlations between the Heat of Adsorption and the Position of the Center of the D-Band: Differences between Computation and Experiment.” 2002, 106(13), 3084-3091.
14. Tong, Y.Y.; Rice, C.; Oldfield, E.; Wieckowski, A. ACS Symposium Series “Electronic properties at a metal-solution interface as viewed by solid-state NMR.” 2001, 789(Solid-Liquid Interface Theory), 26-39
15. Wieckowski, A.; Kim, H.; Rice, C.; Waszczuk, P. Proceedings- Electrochemical Society (2001), 2000-20(Global Climate Change), “Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Strategies for Basic Research in Fuel Cell Catalysis,” ECS, Pennington,2001, 91-110.
16. Rice, C.; Ren, X.; Gottesfeld, S. Patent Application “ Methods of Preconditioning Direct Methanol Fuel Cells" 2001, Patent LAD 2001-001, Pending.
17. Tong, Y.Y.; Rice, C.; Wieckowski, A.; Oldfield, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. “Pt-195 NMR of platinum electrocatalysts: Friedel-Heine invariance and correlations between platinum knight shifts, healing length, and adsobated electronegativity.” 2000, 122, 11921-11924.
18. Crown, A.; Kim, H.; Lu, G.Q.; de Moraes, I.R.; Rice, C.; Wieckowski, A. J. New Mat. Electrochem. Systems “Research Towards Designing High Activity Catalysts for Fuel Cells: Structure and Reactivity.” 2000, 3, 275-284.
19. Tong, Y.Y.; Rice, C.; Wieckowski, A.; Oldfield, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. “A Detailed NMR-­Based Model for CO on Pt Catalysts in an Electrochemical Environment: Shifts, Relaxation, Back-Bonding and the Fermi-level Local Density of States.” 2000, 122, 1123-1129.
20. Rice, C.; Tong, Y.; Oldfield, E.; Wieckowski, A.; Hahn, F.; Gloaguen, F.; Leger, J-M.; Lamy, C. J. Phys. Chem. B “In-Situ infrared study of carbon monoxide adsorbed onto commercial fuel-cell-grade carbon supported platinum nanoparticles: Correlation with C-13 NMR results.” 2000, 104, 5803-5807.
21. Tong, Y.Y.; Rice, C.; Godbout, N.; Wieckowski, A.; Oldfield, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. “Correlation between the Knight Shift of Chemisorbed CO and the Fermi Level Local Density of States at Clean Platinum Catalyst Surfaces.” 1999, 121, 2996-3003.
22. Rice, C.; Tong, Y.Y.; Oldfield, E.; Wieckowski, A. Electrochem. Acta “Cyclic Voltammetry and 195Pt Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Characterization of Graphite-Supported Commercial Fuel Cell Grade Platinum Electrocatalysts.” 1998, 43, 2825-2830.
23. Tong, Y.Y.; Belrose, C.; Wieckowski, A.; Oldfield, E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. “First Observation of Platinum-195 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Commercial Graphite-Supported Platinum Electrodes in an Electrochemical Environment.” 1997, 119, 11709-11710.
24. Hepel, M. and Rice-Belrose, C. Proceedings of the SUR/FIN’96 Technical Conference, C/eve/and, OH, June 11-14, 1996, American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society “Metallization of Polypyrrole Films Part III: Electrodeposition of Silver.” 1996, 1-13.

Patents

1. Masel, R.I.; Rice, C.A.; Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A., “Fuel cells and fuel cells catalysts.” US Patent 7,132,188, Nov. 7, 2006.
2. Masel, R.I.; Rice, C.A. U.S. Pat. Appl. Publ. “Solids supporting mass transfer for fuel cells and other applications and solutions and methods for forming.” US Patent 7,108,773, Sept. 19, 2006.
3. Schrooten, J. A.; Schmidt, W. R.; Rice, C. A.; Perry, M. L.; Michels, H. H.; Marzullo, J. M.; Hagans, P. L., “Freeze tolerant fuel cell power plant with a direct contact heat exchanger.” US Patent 7,090,940, Aug 15, 2006.
4. Rice, C.; Ren, X.; Gottesfeld, S., “Methods of conditioning direct methanol fuel cells”, US Patent 6,962,760, Nov. 8, 2005.
5. Rice, C.; Masel, R. Waszczuk, P.; Wieckowski, A.,  “Fuel Cells for Micro Power Applications,” Patent Disclosure TF02003, Submitted, 2002.