Can Erkey

Position:
Professor, Department of Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering

Personal WWW Site: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~cerkey

Education:
B.S. (1984) Bogazici University (Turkey)
M.Eng. (1985) University of Bradford (England)
Ph.D. (1989) Texas A&M University

Research Interests: 
Fuel cells and supercritical fluids

Recent Publications:

• Haji, S. and C. Erkey. 2006. Fuels and fuel processing,  Pp. 000-000, inFuel cell technology: reaching towards commercialization (N. Sammes, Ed.), Springer.
• Garrabos, Y., F. Palencia, C. Lecoutre, C. Erkey, and B. Le Neindre.  2006. Master singular behavior from correlation length measurements for seven one-component fluids near their gas-liquid critical point. Phys. Rev. E 73: 026125-1-06125-9.
• Zhang, Y., and C. Erkey. 2006. Preparation of supported nanoparticles using supercritical fluids: a review. J. Supercrit. Fluids (in press).
• Cho, D., Y.J. Kim, C. Erkey, and J.T. Koberstein. 2005. Deposition of block copolymer thin films onto polymeric substrates by adsorption from supercritical carbon dioxide. Macromolecules 38:1829.
• Davis, T., D. Sheldon, and C. Erkey. 2005. Highly porous vitrified bonded abrasives by the selective extraction of butyl carbamate from green grinding wheels with supercritical CO2. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 88:1729-1733.
• Haji, S., and C. Erkey. 2005. An experiment for undergraduate laboratory – kinetics of hydrolysis of acetic anhydride by in-situ FTIR spectroscopy. Chemical Engineering Education 39:56.
• Haji, S., Y. Zhang, D. Kang, M. Aindow, and C. Erkey. 2005. Hydrodesulfurization of model diesel using Pt/Al2O3 catalysts prepared by supercritical deposition. Catalysis Today 99:365-373.
• Jayne, D., Y. Zhang, S. Haji, and C. Erkey. 2005. Dynamics of removal of organosulfur compounds from diesel by adsorption on carbon aerogels for fuel cell applications. Int. J. Hydrogen. Energy 30:1287-1293.
• Jiang, R., Y. Zhang, S. Swier, X. Wei, C. Erkey, H.R. Kunz, and J.M. Fenton. 2005. Preparation via supercritical fluid route of Pd-impregnated Nafion® membranes that exhibit reduced methanol crossover for direct methanol fuel cells. Electrochemical and Solid State Letters 8:A611-A615.
• Saquing, C., M. Aindow, and C. Erkey. 2005. Investigation of the supercritical deposition of platinum nanoparticles into carbon aerogels. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 80:11-23.
• Zhang, Y, D. Kang, C. Saquing, M. Aindow, and C. Erkey. 2005. Supported Platinum Nanoparticles by Supercritical Deposition. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 44:4161.
• Zhang, Y., and C. Erkey. 2005. Preparation of Carbon-Nafion-Platinum Nanocomposites via a Supercritical Fluid Route as Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells. Ind.Eng.Chem.Res. 44:5312-5317.
• Zhang, Y., D. Kang, M. Aindow and C. Erkey. 2005. Ruthenium-carbon aerogel nanocomposites via a supercritical fluid route. J.Phys.Chem.B. 109:2617-2624.