Jason Nicholas
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (ChEMS), College of Engineering
Engr Rsch Complex, 1497 Engineering Research Ct Room C9c
Biography
Dr. Jason D. Nicholas is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department at Michigan State University (MSU). His group is focused on understanding and exploiting ionic conduction, ionic surface exchange, mechano-electro-chemical coupling, cost-effective processing methodologies, and hierarchy tailored microstructures to improve the performance of fuel cells, batteries,
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sensors, and other electro-chemically active devices. He earned a B.S. in Geoscience, with Honors, from Franklin & Marshall College in 2000, a M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2003, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California Berkeley in 2007. After a PostDoc position at Northwestern University, he joined the faculty at MSU in 2010. His innovative teaching and research have earned him a MSU Withrow Teaching Award and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. Jason has also taken several leadership roles, serving as the lead organizer for a NSF-sponsored "Solid Oxide Fuel Cells- Promise, Progress, and Priorities" workshop, the sole organizer for an annual Michigan State Girl Scout Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Demo Day, and a guest editor for a Journal of the Electrochemical Society Focus Issue on mechano-electro-chemical coupling. Updates on his work can be found at https://www.egr.msu.edu/nicholasgroup/
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley 2007
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2003
B.A., Geoscience, Franklin and Marshall College-Lancaster 2000
Publications
Y. Zhang & J.D. Nicholas, "Updating the Notion that Poor Cathode Performance Typically Dominates Overall Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Response." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 168, 034513 https://doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/abed21 (2021).
Y. Zhang & J.D. Nicholas, "Evidence that Surface-Segregated Sr Phases Can Be Removed in LSCF via Ceria Pre-Infiltration, Are Less Apt to Form in SSC." Journal of the Electrochemical Society 168, 024522, https://doi. org/10.1149/1945-7111/abe34e (2021).
G. Hu, Q. Zhou, A. Bhatlawande, J. Park, R. Termuhlen, Y. Ma, T.R. Bieler, H.-C. Yu, Y. Qi, T. Hogan & J.D. Nicholas, "Patterned Nickel Interlayers for Enhanced Silver Wetting, Spreading and Adhesion on Ceramic Substrates." Scripta Materialia 196, 113767, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.113767 (2021).
R. Termuhlen, X. Chatzistavrou, J.D. Nicholas & H.-C. Yu, "Three-Dimensional Phase Field Sintering Simulations Accounting for the Rigid-Body Motion of Individual Grains". Computational Materials Science, 186, 109963, https://doi. org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109963 (2021).