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X Author: Ashley Bird

2025

Bird, Ashley, Yonsoo Kim, Sarah A Berlinger, Adam Z Weber, and Ahmet Kusoglu."PFSA‐Ionomer Dispersions to Thin‐Films: Interplay Between Sidechain Chemistry and Dispersion Solvent."Advanced Energy Materials (2025). DOI

2024

Bird, Ashley, Matthew Lindell, Douglas I Kushner, Andrew Haug, Michael A Yandrasits, and Ahmet Kusoglu."Modulating Perfluorinated Ionomer Functionality via Sidechain Chemistry."Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI
Liepold, Hannes, Ashley Bird, Philipp A Heizmann, Hassan Fadlullah, Hien Nguyen, Carolin Klose, Steven Holdcroft, Ahmet Kusoglu, Severin Vierrath, and Andreas Münchinger."High protonic resistance of hydrocarbon-based cathodes in PEM fuel cells under low humidity conditions: Origin, implication, and mitigation."Journal of Power Sources 624 (2024) 235537. DOI
Rongpipi, Sintu, Jonathan M Chan, Ashley Bird, Guillaume Freychet, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Gregory M Su."Revealing Mesoscale Ionomer Membrane Structure by Tender Resonant X-ray Scattering."ACS Applied Polymer Materials (2024). DOI

2020

Berlinger, Sarah A, Peter Dudenas, Ashley Bird, Xunkai Chen, Guillaume Freychet, Bryan D McCloskey, Ahmet Kusoglu, and Adam Z Weber."Impact of Dispersion Solvent on Ionomer Thin Films and Membranes."ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2.12 (2020) 5824 - 5834. DOI

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