Louis Wang Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States

• Lead fuel cell/catalyst coated membrane tape casting project and develop catalyst ink design, mixing, coating, and characterization capabilities. Eliminated electrode defects including cracks and agglomerates.
• Developed machine learning (Bayesian Optimization) approach to optimize fuel cell design and fabrication
• Develop and implement electrochemical characterization methods (polarization curves, EIS, CV, LSV) and durability testing protocols (accelerated stress tests, ASTs) for PEM fuel cell stacks and single cells
• Wrote python scripts automating data processing/analysis for IV curves, CV, and durability testing, reducing time required by >95% percent
• Established and implemented root cause failure analysis techniques such as XRD and microscopy

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Characterize defect chemistry in triple-conducting oxides using TGA with a focus on proton transport in protonic ceramic electrolyzers
• Fabricate protonic ceramic electrolyzers including materials synthesis
• Coordinate and draft DOE grant report documents across 10 research groups and 6 universities
• Mentor(ed) 5 graduate students and 2 undergraduates

• Optimizing fuel cell electrode microstructure for activity and stability
• Characterizing and fabricating electrode materials
• Investigating the phase behavior of superprotonic solid acid electrolytes
• Discovering new superprotonic solid acid compounds and structures
• Establishing relationships between structure, thermodynamics of superprotonic phase transformations, and proton transport

Pasadena, California, United States

Learning commercial techniques for the fabrication of fuel cells and electrochemical devices including ink based methods

• Prof. Pratim Biswas
• Developed and executed a project embedding Sn nanoparticles in a MOF for lithium ion battery anodes
• Synthesized SnO2/ TiO2 nanocomposite using aerosol chemical vapor deposition for lithium ion battery anodes

• Synthesized sulfur infiltrated MOF’s using microwave assisted hydrothermal methods and solution-phase sulfur infiltration for Li-S battery cathodes
• Characterization by FTIR and XRD
• Constructed coin cells and performed electrochemical characterization

Designed and studied linear optimization algorithms for optimization of alternative energy supply systems

• Synthesized Na0.44MnO2 nanoparticles using aerosol flame reactor
• Characterized samples using XRD and SEM and electrochemical cycling

• high school research program in laboratory of Prof. Sophia Hayes
• Synthesized hydrated magnesium carbonates using a hydrothermal method
• Characterized samples using 13C NMR, XRD, and SEM

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Materials Science And Engineering

Haile Group

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering, 3.92/4.00 Summa Cum Laude