Jiahong "John" Zhu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office: Brown Hall 116
Phone: (931) 372-3186
Fax: (931) 372-6340
E-mail: jzhu@tntech.edu

Degrees:
B.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Northeast Heavy-Machinery Institute, 1988
M.S. - Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, 1991
Ph.D. - Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1998

Professional Expertise: Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, High-temperature Materials, Coatings, Environmental Effects in Advanced Materials, Intermetallics

Recent Works/Projects Accomplished:

1. “Effect of Sr and Mg Doping on the Property and Performance of the La 1-xSr xGa 1-yMg yO 3- d Electrolyte”, with X.L. Lu, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, submitted, 2008.

2. “A High-Performance Ni 0.75Fe 0.25/YSZ Composite Anode for SOFC”, with J.L. Batey, Journal of Power Sources, submitted, 2008.

3. “A Co-Fe Alloy as Alternative Anode for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell”, with Z.G. Lu, Z.H. Bi, and X.C. Lu, Journal of Power Sources, submitted, 2008.

4. “Improved Oxidation Resistance of a Nanocrystalline Chromite-Coated Ferritic Stainless Steel”, with Z.G. Lu, Y. Pan, N. Wu, and A. Ignatiev, Journal of Power Sources, 178, p. 282, 2008.

5. “Cu(Pd)-Impregnated La 0.75Sr 0.25Cr 0.5Mn 0.5O 3- d Anodes for Direct Utilization of Methane in SOFC”, with X.C. Lu, Solid State Ionics, 178, p. 1467, 2007.

6. “Evaluation of Binary Fe-Ni Alloys as Intermediate-Temperature SOFC Interconnect”, with S.J. Geng, Z.G. Lu, and W.D. Porter, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 154(12), p. B1288, 2007.

7. “Thermal Evaporation of Pure Ag in SOFC-Relevant Environments”, with Z.G. Lu, Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 10(10), p. B179, 2007.

8. “A Low-Cr Metallic Interconnect for Intermediate-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”, with S.J. Geng, M.P. Brady, H.U. Anderson, X.D. Zhou, and Z.G. Yang, Journal of Power Sources, 172, p.775, 2007.

9. “NiFe + SDC Composite Anodes for Intermediate-Temperature SOFC”, with X.C. Lu, Journal of Power Sources, 165, p. 678, 2007.

10. “Nd 2-xLa xNiO 4+ d , a Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conductor with Interstitial Oxygen, as a Cathode Material”, with J. Wan and J.B. Goodenough, Solid State Ionics, 178(3-4), p. 281, 2007.

11. "Evaluation of Several Low Thermal Expansion Fe-Co-Ni Alloys as Interconnect for Reduced-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell", with S.J. Geng and D.A. Ballard, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32, p.3682, 2007.