Yossef Elabd

Associate Professor

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2001
• BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1995

Honors and Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 2007
• DuPont Science and Engineering Award, 2005
  
• ARO Young Investigator Award, 2004
  
• NRC Postdoctoral Award, 2001
  

Research Interests

• Fuel Cells
• Polymer Membranes
• Diffusion in Polymers

Recent Publications

Chen, H.; Snyder, J.D.; Elabd, Y.A. Electrospinning and Solution Behavior of Nafion and Poly(acrylic acid). Macromolecules 2008, 41, 128-135.

Hallinan, D.T., Jr.; Elabd, Y.A. Diffusion and Sorption of Methanol and Water in Nafion using Time-Resolved FTIR-ATR Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. B 2007, 111 (46), 13221-13230. Featured in Photonics Spectra, Jan 2008.

Chen, H.; Palmese, G.R.; Elabd, Y.A. Membranes with Oriented Polyelectrolyte Nanodomains. Chem. Mater. 2006, 18, 4875-4881.

Elabd, Y.A.; Napadensky, E.; Walker, C.W.; Winey, K.I. Transport Properties of Sulfonated Poly(styrene-isobutylene-styrene) Triblock Copolymers at High Ion-Exchange Capacities. Macromolecules 2006, 39, 399-407.