![Bilal El-Zahab](../bilal-el-zahab.jpg)
ACADEMIC DEGREES
- Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Akron, Ohio
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Areas of Expertise
- Nanomaterials as electrodes for battery applications
- Ionic liquids as electrolytes for lithium battery applications
- Electrochemical catalysis in lithium-air and lithium-sulfur batteries
- Acoustic templating of conductive particles
- Acoustic separations in and microfluidic of emulsions, vesicles, and cells
- Res. Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, Fall 19-Present
- Board of Directors, FIU Research Foundation, Fall 19-Present
- Asst. Professor, Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Fall 12-Spring 19
- Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 10-Spring 12
Selected Publications
- Meer Safa, Ebenezer Adelowo, Amir Chamaani, Neha Chawla, Amin Rabiei Baboukani, Marcus Herndon, Chunlei Wang, Bilal El‐Zahab. Poly (Ionic Liquid)‐Based Composite Gel Electrolyte for Lithium Batteries. ChemElectroChem 6 (13), 2019, 3319-3326.
- N Chawla, A Chamaani, M Safa, M Herndon, B El-Zahab. Mechanism of Ionic Impedance Growth for Palladium-Containing CNT Electrodes in Lithium-Oxygen Battery Electrodes and its Contribution to Battery Failure. Batteries 5 (1), 2019, 15.
- A Chamaani, M Safa, N Chawla, M Herndon, B El-Zahab. Stabilizing effect of ion complex formation in lithium–oxygen battery electrolytes. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 815, 2018, 143-150.
- M Safa, Y Hao, A Chamaani, E Adelowo, N Chawla, C Wang, B El-Zahab. Capacity fading mechanism in lithium-sulfur battery using poly (ionic liquid) gel electrolyte. Electrochimica Acta 258, 2017, 1284-1292.
- A Chamaani, M Safa, N Chawla, B El-Zahab. Composite gel polymer electrolyte for improved cyclability in lithium–oxygen batteries. ACS applied materials & interfaces 9 (39), 2017, 33819-33826
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