"AN EXPERIMENT IS A QUESTION WHICH SCIENCE POSES TO NATURE, AND A MEASUREMENT IS THE RECORDING OF NATURE'S ANSWER."--- MAX PLANCK
"AN EXPERIMENT IS A QUESTION WHICH SCIENCE POSES TO NATURE, AND A MEASUREMENT IS THE RECORDING OF NATURE'S ANSWER."--- MAX PLANCK
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Preetam Sharma and Vaibhav Kumar Arghode. Liquid Fuels Flameless Combustion. In Fundamentals of Low Emission Flameless Combustion and Its Applications, pages 477–503. Elsevier, 2022.
Journal Articles
Preetam Sharma, Lei Cheng, Shirin Mehrazi, Douglas Aaron, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Path-Dependent Degradation in High-Performance Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs). Accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal (IF: 13.4), 2025.
Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, Pierre Boillat, Lei Cheng, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Correlating Catalyst Growth with Liquid Water Distribution in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Small (IF: 13.0), volume 2404023, 2024.
Preetam Sharma, Lei Cheng, Douglas Aaron, Shirin Mehrazi, Jonathan Braaten, Nathan Craig, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Unveiling Local Aging Patterns Following Accelerated Stress Testing of High-Performance Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. Small (IF: 13.0), volume 2306433. Appears in Wiley’s Hot Topic: Carbon, Graphite, and Graphene Collection, 2023.
Preetam Sharma, Bapi Bera, Douglas Aaron, Muenir Mustafa Besli, Saravanan Kuppan, Lei Cheng, Jonathan Braaten, Nathan Craig, Sarah Stewart, Michael Metzger, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Spatially Resolved Heterogeneous Electrocatalyst Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Subjected to Accelerated Aging Conditions. Journal of The Electrochemical Society (IF: 3.3), volume 169, page 114506, 2022.
Raghav Sood, Preetam Sharma, and Vaibhav Kumar Arghode. Combustion Characteristics of a Peripheral Vortex Reverse Flow Combustor With Coaxial Fuel Injection. Journal of Energy Resources Technology (IF: 2.4), volume 142, pages 052301–1, 2020.
Preetam Sharma, Naman Jain, and Vaibhav Kumar Arghode. Investigation of a Low Emission Liquid Fueled Reverse-Cross-Flow Combustor. Journal of Energy Resources Technology (IF: 2.4), volume 141, page 102202, 2019.
Conference Proceedings
Preetam Sharma, Ali Mizrak, Gabriel Goenaga, Emily Bias, Tarik Rhadfi, Douglas Aaron, Thomas Zawodzinski, and Matthew M. Mench. Effect of Commercial Porous Transport Layers on the Performance of Aluminum-Air Flow Battery. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 248. Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
Tarik Rhadfi, Gabriel Goenaga, Garrett Fields, Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, Thomas Zawodzinski, and Matthew M. Mench. Polyol Synthesis of Hausmannite Mn3O4 Nanocatalysts - Application to Oxygen Reduction Reaction. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 248. Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
2025 Ali Mizrak, Preetam Sharma, Christopher Esan, Fields Garrett Bias, Emily, Gabriel Goenaga, Colt Griffith, Caroline Whitaker, Shane Foister, Douglas Aaron, Thomas Zawodzinski, and Matthew M. Mench. Achieving Over 1 W cm2 in Aluminum-Air Batteries via a Novel Cell Design and Material Optimization. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 248. Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
Garrett Fields, Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, and Matthew M. Mench. Effect of PorousLand Flow Field Architectures on Oxygen Transport Resistance in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 248. Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
Emily Bias, Ali Mizrak, Preetam Sharma, Gabriel Goenaga, Colt Griffith, Garrett Fields, Douglas Aaron, Thomas Zawodzinski, and Matthew M. Mench. Characterizing the Effect of Commercially Available Membranes: A High-Performance Aluminum-Air Battery Study. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 248. Chicago, Illinois, 2025.
Preetam Sharma, J.P. Owejan, O.C. Esan, G. Fields, Douglas Aaron, and Matthew M. Mench. High-Performance Fuel Cell with Integrated Flow Distribution in Porous Transport Layer for Heavy-Duty Vehicular Application. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts PRiME. Honolulu, Hawaii, 2024.
Preetam Sharma, J.P. Owejan, Douglas Aaron, and Matthew M. Mench. Porous Carbon Fiber Flow Fields for Heavy-Duty Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (PEFC) Application. (Poster Presentation). In Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Fuel Cells. Smithfield, Rhode Island, 2024.
Preetam Sharma, Pierre Boillat, Lei Cheng, Douglas Aaron, Nathan Craig, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Water in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs): Friend or Foe? Linking Preferential Catalyst Growth with Liquid Water Distribution in PEFCs. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 245. San Francisco, California, 2024.
Preetam Sharma, J.P. Owejan, Douglas Aaron, and Matthew M. Mench. Porous Carbon Fiber Flow Fields for Heavy-Duty Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (PEFC) Application. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 243, number 38, pages 2255–2255. Boston, MA, 2023.
Preetam Sharma, Lei Cheng, Shirin Mehrazi, Douglas Aaron, Jonathan Braaten, Nathan Craig, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Investigating the Effects of Cascading Accelerated Stress Tests (ASTs) on the Localized Electrochemical Performance Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs). In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 243, number 38, pages 2218–2218. Boston, MA, 2023.
Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, Lei Cheng, Jonathan Braaten, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Localized Electrochemical Performance Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (Poster Presentation). In Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Fuel Cells. Smithfield, Rhode Island, 2022.
Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, Lei Cheng, Jonathan Braaten, Nathan Craig, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M. Mench. Localized Electrochemical Performance Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs). In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts 242, number 42, pages 1571–1571. Atlanta, GA, 2022.
Preetam Sharma, Douglas Aaron, Lei Cheng, Jonathan Braaten, Nathan Craig, Christina Johnston, and Matthew M Mench. Current, Temperature, and Pt Particle Size Growth Heterogeneities in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs) Subjected to Accelerated Aging Conditions (Best Oral Presentation Award). In Grand Renewable Energy (GRE) 2022 International Conference. Japan, 2022.
Preetam Sharma, Bapi Bera, Douglas Aaron, Muenir Mustafa Besli, Zachary Taie, Lei Cheng, Sarah Stewart, Saravanan Kuppan, Christina Johnston, Michael Metzger, and Matthew M. Mench. Influence of Flow Rate on Catalyst Layer Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. In Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting Abstracts PRiME, number 36, pages 2345–2345. Honolulu, Hawaii, 2020.
Naman Jain, Preetam Sharma, and Vaibhav Arghode. Experimental Investigation of Liquid Jet Atomization in Non-Uniform Gaseous Cross-Flow. In Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference (FMFP 2018). Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, India, 2018.
Preetam Sharma and Vaibhav Arghode. Experimental Investigation of Low Emission Liquid Fuelled Reverse Cross Flow Combustor. In ASME Gas Turbine India Conference, volume 58509, page V001T04A003. Bangalore, India, 2017.
Invited Talks/Workshops/Consultancy
Led a one-day workshop at FCRENEW, Knoxville, TN on the topic, "Best Practices in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Testing." Invited by Dr. Philip Stuckey (Founder of FCRENEW), 2023.
Delivered a talk at the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center–North America, Sunnyvale, CA on the topic, "Degradation Studies in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells." Invited by Dr. Lei Cheng (Robert Bosch LLC), 2022.
Patents
V.K. Arghode, Preetam Sharma, and Raghav Sood. A Peripheral Vortex Reverse Flow Combustor with Coaxial Fuel Injection (PVRF-COAX) and Method Thereof, 2020. Indian (IN) Patent No. 435784.
Invited Talks/Workshops/Consultancy
Led a one-day workshop at FCRENEW, Knoxville, TN on the topic, "Best Practices in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Testing." Invited by Dr. Philip Stuckey (Founder of FCRENEW), 2023.
Delivered a talk at the Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center–North America, Sunnyvale, CA on the topic, "Degradation Studies in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells." Invited by Dr. Lei Cheng (Robert Bosch LLC), 2022.
Patents
V.K. Arghode, Preetam Sharma, and Raghav Sood. A Peripheral Vortex Reverse Flow Combustor with Coaxial Fuel Injection (PVRF-COAX) and Method Thereof, 2020. Indian (IN) Patent No. 435784.
Patents
V.K. Arghode, Preetam Sharma, and Raghav Sood. A Peripheral Vortex Reverse Flow Combustor with Coaxial Fuel Injection (PVRF-COAX) and Method Thereof, 2020. Indian (IN) Patent No. 435784.
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