Akihiro Kushima
Associate Professor
- Office: Research I, Room 277
- Email: kushima@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-0317
- Google Scholar
BIOGRAPHY
Akihiro Kushima is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), with affiliations in the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) and the NanoScience Technology Center.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Engineering Physics and Mechanics, Kyoto University, 2007
- M.E. in Engineering Physics and Mechanics, Kyoto University, 2004
- B.E. in Engineering Science, Kyoto University, 2002
RESEARCH
- In-situ transmission electron microscopy
- Atomistic simulation
- Nano-characterization
- Nano-mechanics
- Energy-storage materials
- Kushima, K. P. So, C. Su, P. Bai, N. Kuriyama, T. Maebashi, Y. Fujiwara, M. Z. Bazant, J. Li, “Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy observation of lithium metal growth and dissolution: Root growth, dead lithium and lithium flotsams”, Nano Energy, 32, 271 (2017).
- Xu, Q. Yan, A. Kushima, X. Zhang, J. Pan, and J. Li, “Conductive graphene oxide-polyacrylic acid (GOPAA) binder for lithium-sulfur battery”, Nano Energy, 31, 568 (2017).
- Jin, S. Li, A. Kushima, X. Zheng, Y. Sun, J. Xie, J. Sun, W. Xue, G. Zhou, J. Wu, F. Shi, R. Zhang, Z. Zhu, K. So, Y. Cui, and J. Li, “Self-healing SEI enables full-cell cycling of a silicon-majority anode with a coulombic efficiency exceeding 99.9%”, Energy Environ. Sci., DOI: 10.1039/C6EE02685K
- Zhu, A. Kushima, Z. Yin, L. Qi, K. Amine, J. Lu, and J. Li, “Anion-redox nanolithia cathodes for Li-ion batteries”, Nature Energy, 1, 16111 (2016).
- P. So, X. Liu, H. Mori, A. Kushima, J. G. Park, H. S. Kim, S. Ogata, Y. H. Lee, and J. Li, “Ton-scale metal-carbon nanotube composite: The mechanism of strengthening while retaining tensile ductility”, Extreme Mech. Lett., 8, 245 (2016).
- P. So, D. Chen, A. Kushima, M. Li, S. Kim, Y. Yang, Z. Wang, J. G. Park, Y. H. Lee, R. I. Gonzalez, M. Kiwi, E. M. Bringa, L. Shao, and Ju Li, “Dispersion of carbon nanotubes in aluminum improves radiation resistance”, Nano Energy, 22, 319 (2016).