UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
Specialist, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, 2003 - present
Graduate Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1990 - present
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008―2010 Treasurer, Battery Division, the Electrochemical Society.
2005―present Member, Executive Committee, International Battery Association.
11/05 – 12/05 Visiting Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, under a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow award.
06/05 – 08/05 Summer Research Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, under an ASEE/ONR Summer Research Fellowship.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 1988
M.S., Chemistry, University of Georgia, 1982
B.S., Chemistry, National Tsing-Hua University, 1977
PATENTS
1. Liaw, B.Y. and X.G. Yang, “Pressure-Based Battery Charging,” U.S. Patent 6,437,542, August 20, 2002.
2. Liaw, B.Y. “Intelligent Prediction of Battery Service Life and Performance”, US60/634,521, December 9, 2004.
3. Scott D. and B.Y. Liaw, “Sustainable Current Generation from the Ammonia-Polypyrrole Interaction,” U.S. Provisional Pattern application, April 7, 2008.
4. Scott D. and B.Y. Liaw, “Carbohydrate anode for energy harvesting and power generation,” U.S. Provisional Pattern application, October 20, 2008.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Fuel Cells:
• Bio-Fuel Cells, • Electrochemical in situ characterizations • Micro-power sources • Fundamentals and Bioengineering of Enzymatic Fuel Cells (2003-present)
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, NEDO International Joint Research project on “preparation of zirconia of enhanced oxygen conduction via interface processing” (1994-97)
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thin tetragonal zirconia films as solid electrolytes (1993-1995)
Battery R&D:
• Battery cycle life prediction, diagnostics, and prognostics (1999-present)
• Dynamic battery modeling and simulation and experimental validation (1996-present)
• Advanced electric vehicle battery evaluation (1995-present)
• Advanced rapid charging algorithm development (1997-2003)
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Testing:
• EV-Ready State and Hyundai Santa Fe e-SUV demonstration, leading the task of data collection, driving cycle and battery performance analyses (2001-present)
• DARPA EHV National Data Center, collecting and managing data collected from seven national consortia on electric vehicle testing and demonstrations (1994-97)
PUBLICATIONS
1. W. Johnston, N. Maynard, B.Y. Liaw, M.J. Cooney, “In situ measurement of activity and mass transfer effects in enzyme immobilized electrodes,” Enzyme and Microbial Technology 39 (2006) 131.
2. D.M. Jenkins, B. Chami, M. Kreuzer, G. Presting, A.M. Alvarez, and B.Y. Liaw, “Hybridization probe for femtomolar quantification of selected nucleic acid sequences on a disposable electrode,” Anal. Chem. 78 (2006) 2314.
3. M. Dubarry, V. Svoboda, R. Hwu, and B.Y. Liaw, “Incremental capacity analysis and close-to-equilibrium OCV measurements to quantify capacity fade in commercial rechargeable lithium batteries,” Electrochem. Solid-State Lett., 9 (2006) A454.
4. A., Konash, M.J. Cooney, B.Y. Liaw, and D.M. Jameson, “Characterization of enzyme-polymer interaction using fluorescence,” J. Materials Chem. 16 (2006) 4107.
5. J.C. Viera, M. González, B.Y. Liaw, F.J. Ferrero, J.C. Álvarez, J.C. Campo, C. Blanco, “Characterization of 109 Ah Ni–MH batteries charging with hydrogen sensing termination,” J. Power Sources 171 (2007) 1040.
6. V. Svoboda, M.J. Cooney, C. Rippolz, and B.Y. Liaw, “In-situ characterization of electrochemical polymerization of methylene green on platinum electrodes,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 154 (2007) D113.
7. M. Dubarry, V. Svoboda, R. Hwu and B.Y. Liaw, “Capacity and power fading mechanism identification from a commercial cell evaluation,” J. Power Sources 165 (2007) 566.
8. M. Dubarry, V. Svoboda, R. Hwu and B.Y. Liaw, “Capacity loss in rechargeable lithium cells during cycle life testing: The importance of determining state-of-charge” J. Power Sources 174 (2007) 1121.
9. M. Dubarry and B.Y. Liaw, “Development of a universal modeling tool for rechargeable lithium batteries,” J. Power Sources 174 (2007) 856.
10. M. Dubarry, V. Svoboda, R. Hwu and B.Y. Liaw, “A roadmap to understand battery performance in electric and hybrid vehicle operation,” J. Power Sources 174 (2007) 366.
11. B.Y. Liaw, M. Dubarry, “From driving cycle analysis to understanding battery performance in real-life electric hybrid vehicle operation” (invited) to the Special Issue on Hybrid Electric Vehicles, J. Power Sources 174 (2007) 76.
12. S.D. Minteer, B.Y. Liaw, M.J. Cooney, “Enzyme-based biofuel cells” Current Opinion in Biotechnology (invited), 18 (2007) 228-234.
13. P. Atanassov, C. Apblett, S. Banta, S. Brozik, S. Calabrese Barton, M. Cooney, B.Y. Liaw, S. Mukerjee, S.D. Minteer, “Enzymatic biofuel cell” Interface, 16 (2007) 28-31.
14. M. Dubarry, N. Vuillaume, B.Y. Liaw, and T. Quinn, “Vehicle evaluation, battery modeling, and fleet-testing experiences in Hawaii: A roadmap to understanding evaluation data and simulation” J. Asian Electric Vehicles 5 (2007) 1033.
15. M.J. Cooney, C. Lau, M. Windmeisser, B.Y. Liaw, T. Klotzbach, and S.D. Minteer, “Design of chitosan gel pore structure: towards enzyme catalyzed flow-through electrodes” J. Mat. Chem. 18 (2008) 667.
16. D.M. Sun, D. Scott, M.J. Cooney, B.Y. Liaw, “A potential reconstitution platform for PQQ-dependent apo-enzymes” Electrochem. Solid State Lett. 11 (2008) B101.
17. V. Svoboda, M. Cooney, B.Y. Liaw, S. Minteer, E. Piles, D. Lehnert, S. Calabrese Barton, R. Rincon, and P. Atanassov, “Standardized characterization of electrocatalytic electrodes” Electroanalysis, 20 (2008) 1099.
18. V. Svoboda, B.Y. Liaw, “In-situ transient study of polymer nano-film growth via simultaneous correlation of charge, mass, and ellipsometric measurements” Pure Applied Chem., 80 (2008) 2439–2449.
19. D. Scott, M.J. Cooney, and B.Y. Liaw, “Sustainable current generation from the ammonia - polypyrrole interaction” J. Mat. Chem., 18 (2008) 3216.
20. M. Dubarry, N. Vuillaume, and B.Y. Liaw, “From single cell model to battery pack simulation for Li-ion batteries,” J. Power Sources, (2008) doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2008.10.051.
22. Liaw, B.Y., and D.D. Friel, “Battery management and life prediction,” in Industrial Applications of Batteries: From Electric Vehicles to Satellites, Michel Broussely and Gianfranco Pistoia, eds., Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007. Chapter 13, pp - .
23. Cooney, M., and B.Y. Liaw, “In situ characterization techniques for design and evaluation of micro and nano enzyme-catalyzed power sources,” in Nano-scale Science and Technology in Biomolecular Catalysis, eds., H.S. Kim, J.B, Kim, and P. Wang, ACS Symposium Series 986, the American Chemical Soc., Cleveland, OH, 2008, Chapter 19, pp. 289-333.
24. Cugnet, M., M Dubarry, and B.Y. Liaw, “Lead-acid battery modeling,” to be published in: The Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources, Eds. J. Garche (Chief), C.K. Dyer, P. Moseley, Z. Ogumi, D. Rand, B. Scrosati, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
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