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Alice Sleightholme

Alice Sleightholme photo.

Assistant Research Scientist

3086 H.H. Dow
(734) 647-6004
FAX: (734) 763-0459
aess@umich.edu





  • Short Bio
  • Research
  • Publications

Biographical Information

Education
Ph.D. Imperial College London Chemistry 2007
M. Chem. St Hugh’s College, Oxford University Chemistry 2003

Professional Experience
University of Michigan
Chemical Engineering Department
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Assistant Research Scientist, 2008 - present
 
University of British Columbia
Chemical Engineering Department
British Columbia, Canada
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2007-2008
 
Imperial College London
Chemistry Department
London, United Kingdom
Research Assistant, 2007-2008
 

Research Interests

My research focuses on fundamental aspects of electrochemical energy systems including fuel cells, supercapacitors and redox flow batteries.  Ongoing projects include (I) new system chemistries for non-aqueous redox flow batteries; (II) investigation of transition-metal carbide materials as catalyst supports for fuel-cell relevant reactions; (III) electrochemical supercapacitors based on transition-metal nitride materials.

Publications

  1. Aaron A. Shinkle, Alice E.S. Sleightholme, Levi T. Thompson, Charles W. Monroe, “Electrode kinetics in non-aqueous vanadium acetylacetonate redox flow batteries” Journal of Applied Electrochemistry (2011) in press.

  2. Aaron A. Shinkle, Alice E.S. Sleightholme, Lucas Griffth, Levi T. Thompson, Charles W. Monroe, “Degradation mechanisms in the non-aqueous vanadium acetylacetonate redox flow battery” Journal of Power Sources (2011) in press.

  3. Alice E.S Sleightholme, Aaron A. Shinkle, Qinghua Liu, Charles W. Monroe, Levi T. Thompson, “Non-aqueous manganese acetylacetonate electrolyte for redox flow batteries” Journal of Power Sources 196 (2011) p.5742-5745.

  4. Alice E.S. Sleightholme and Anthony R. Kucernak, “An anomalous peak observed in the electrochemistry of the platinum/perfluorosulfonic acid membrane interface”, Electrochimica Acta 56 (2011) p.4396-4402.

  5. Qinghua Liu, Aaron A. Shinkle, Yongdan Li, Charles W. Monroe, Levi T. Thompson, Alice E. S. Sleightholme, “Non-aqueous Chromium acetylacetonate electrolyte for redox flow batteries”, Electrochemistry Communications 12 (2010) p.1634-1637.

  6. A.A Kornyshev, A.R. Kucernak, M. Marinescu, C.W. Monroe, A.E.S. Sleightholme, M. Urbakh*, “Ultra-low voltage electrowetting”, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114 (2010) p.14885-14890, *authors listed in alphabetical order.

  7. Alice E.S. Sleightholme, David P. Wilkinson, Dan Bizotto, Siyu Ye, Elod L. Gyenge, “Nafion  film-templated platinum electrodes for oxygen reduction”, Electrocatalysis 1 (2010) p.22-27.

  8. Qinghua Liu, Alice E.S. Sleightholme, Aaron A. Shinkle, Yongdan Li, Levi T. Thompson, “Non-aqueous vanadium acetylacetonate electrolyte for redox flow batteries”, Electrochemistry Communications 11 (2009) p.2312-2315.

  9. Alice E.S. Sleightholme, John R. Varcoe, and Anthony R. Kucernak, “Oxygen reduction at the silver/hydroxide-exchange membrane interface”, Electrochemistry Communications 10 (2008) p.151-155.

  10. C.W. Monroe, A.A. Kornyshev, A.R. Kucernak, A.E.S. Sleightholme, and M. Urbakh, “Electrowetting Devices,” United States patent application number 11/798,901.