Publications

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Journal Articles

  1. C. Norris and A. Ayyaswamy, B. S. Vishnugopi, C. Martinez, S. A. Roberts, P. P. Mukherjee, “Uncertainty quantification and propagation in lithium-ion battery electrodes using Bayesian convolutional neural networks,” Energy Storage Materials, 67 (2024) 103251, DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2024.103251.
  2. J. A. Actor, X. Hu, A. Huang, S. A. Roberts, N. Trask, “Data-driven Whitney forms for structure-preserving control volume analysis,” J. Comp. Phys, 496 (2023) 112520, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112520.
  3. C. W. Foster, L. N. Collins, F. Panerai, S. A. Roberts, “Assessing thermophysical properties of parameterized woven composite models using image-based simulations,” Composites Science and Technology, 241 (2023) 110136, DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2023.110136.
  4. C. Martinez, D. S. Bolintineanu, A. Olson, T. Rodgers, B. Donohoe, K. M. Potter, S, A. Roberts, R. Pokharel, S. Forrest, N. W. Moore, “Automated segmentation of porous thermal spray material CT scans with predictive uncertainty estimation,” Computational Mechanics, 72 (2023) 525, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-023-02345-4.
  5. J. M. Meyer, K. L. Harrison, P. P. Mukherjee, S. A. Roberts, “Developing a model for the impact of non-conformal lithium contact on electro-chemo-mechanics and dendrite growth,” Cell Reports Physical Science, 4 (2023) 101364, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2023.101364.
  6. J. S. Horner, G. Whang, I. V. Kolesnichenko, T. N. Lambert, B. S. Dunn, S. A. Roberts, “A Pseudo-Two-Dimensional (P2D) Model for FeS2 Conversion Cathode Batteries,” J. Power Sources, 544 (2022) 231893, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231893.
  7. T. Jang, L. Mishra, S. A. Roberts, B. Planden, A. Subramaniam, M. Uppaluri, D. Linder, M. P. Gururajan, J.-G. Zhang, V. R. Subramanian, “BattPhase—A Convergent, Non-Oscillatory, Efficient Algorithm and Code for Predicting Shape Changes in Lithium Metal Batteries Using Phase-Field Models: Part I. Secondary Current Distribution,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 169(8) (2022) 80516, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac86a7.
  8. S. J. Cooper, S. A. Roberts, Z. Liu, B. Winiarski, “Kintsugi Imaging of Battery Electrodes: Distinguishing Pores from the Carbon Binder Domain using Pt Deposition,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 169 (2022) 070512, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac7a68.
  9. D. S. Ashby, J. S. Horner, G. Whang, A. S. Lapp, S. A. Roberts, B. Dunn, I. V. Kolesnichenko, T. N. Lambert, A. A. Talin, “Understanding the Electrochemical Performance of FeS2 Conversion Cathodes,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14(23) (2022) 26604–26611, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01021.
  10. M. Parmananda, C. Norris, S. A. Roberts, P. P. Mukherjee, “Probing the Role of Multi-scale Heterogeneity in Graphite Electrodes for Extreme Fast Charging,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14(16) (2022) 18335-18352, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c25214
  11. C. A. Norris, M. Parmananda, S. A. Roberts, P. P. Mukherjee, “Probing the Influence of Multiscale Heterogeneity on Effective Properties of Graphite Electrodes,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14(1) (2022) 943-953, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c19694
  12. K. L. Harrison, L. C. Merrill, D. M. Long, S. J. Randolph, S. Goriparti, J. Christian, B. Warren, S. A. Roberts, S. J. Harris, D. L. Perry, and K. L. Jungjohann. “Cryogenic electron microscopy reveals that applied pressure promotes short circuits in Li batteries.” iScience 24(12) (2021), 103394, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.103394
  13. J. S. Horner, G. Whang, D. S. Ashby, I. V. Kolesnichenko, T. N. Lambert, B. S. Dunn, A. A. Talin, S. A. Roberts, “Electrochemical Modeling of GITT Measurements for Improved Solid-State Diffusion Coefficient Evaluation,” ACS Appl. Energy Mater. (2021), DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c02218
  14. A. Mistry, A. Verma, S. Sripad, R. Ciez, V. Sulzer, F. Brosa Planella, R. Timms, Y. Zhang, R. Kurchin, P. Dechent, W. Li, S. Greenbank, Z. Ahmad, D. Krishnamurthy, A. M. Fenton, K. Tenny, P. Patel, D. Juarez Robles, P. Gasper, A. Colclasure, A. Baskin, C. D. Scown, V. R. Subramanian, E. Khoo, S. Allu, D. Howey, S. DeCaluwe, S. A. Roberts, V. Viswanathan, “A Minimal Information Set To Enable Verifiable Theoretical Battery Research,” ACS Energy Lett. 6 (2021), 3831-3835, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c01710 
  15. M. C. Krygier, T. LaBonte, C. Martinez, C. Norris, K. Sharma, L. N. Collins, P. P. Mukherjee, S. A. Roberts, “Quantifying the unknown impact of segmentation uncertainty on image-based simulations,” Nature Communications 12 (2021) 5414, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25493-8
  16. L. Mishra, A. Subramaniam, T. Jang, K. Shah, M. Uppaluri, S. A. Roberts, V. R. Subramanian, “Perspective-Mass Conservation in Models for Electrodeposition/Stripping in Lithium Metal Batteries,” J. Electrochem. Soc. 168 (2021) 092502, DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac2091
  17. I. Srivastava, S. A. Roberts, J. T. Clemmer, L. E. Silbert, J. B. Lechman, G. S. Grest, “Jamming of bidisperse frictional spheres,” Phys. Rev. Research 3 (2021) L032042, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L032042
  18. K. L. Harrison, S. Goriparti, L. C. Merrill, D. M. Long, B. Warren, S. A. Roberts, B. R. Perdue, Z. Casias, P. Cuillier, B. L. Boyce, and K. L. Jungjohann, “The Effects of Applied Interfacial Pressure on Li Metal Cycling Performance and Morphology in 4 M LiFSI in DME,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 (2021) 31668–31679, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06488
  19. A. Mistry, A. A. Franco, S. J. Cooper, S. A. Roberts, and V. Viswanathan, “How Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Electrochemical Sciences,” ACS Energy Lett. 6 (2021) 1422–1431, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.1c00194
  20. T. G. Voskuilen, H. K. Moffat, B. B. Schroeder, and S. A. Roberts, “Multi-fidelity electrochemical modeling of thermally activated battery cells,” J. Power Sources 488 (2021) 229469, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2021.229469
  21. I. Srivastava, D. S. Bolintineanu, J. B. Lechman, S. A. Roberts, “Controlling Binder Adhesion to Impact Electrode Mesostructure and Transport,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 31 (2020) 34919-34930. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c08251
  22. J. Y. Hartley, M. Owen-Bellini, T. Truman, A. Maes, E. Elce, A. Ward, T. Khraishi, S. A. Roberts, “Effects of Photovoltaic Module Materials and Design on Module Deformation Under Load,” Journal of Photovoltaics, 10 (2020) 838. DOI: 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2020.2971139
  23. X. Zhang, Q. J. Wang, K. L. Harrison, S. A. Roberts, S. J. Harris, “Pressure-Driven Interface Evolution in Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries,” Cell Reports Phys. Sci. 1 (2020) 100012. DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2019.100012
  24. B. L. Trembacki, D. R. Noble, M. E. Ferraro, S. A. Roberts, “Mesoscale Effects of Composition and Calendering in Lithium-Ion Battery Composite Electrodes,” J. Electrochem. En. Conv. Stor. 17 (2020) 041001. DOI: 10.1115/1.4045973 (Invited)
  25. M. E. Ferraro, B. L. Trembacki, V. E. Brunini, D. R. Noble, S. A. Roberts, “Electrode Mesoscale as a Collection of Particles: Coupled Electrochemical and Mechanical Analysis of NMC Cathodes,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 167(1) (2020) 013543. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab632b, PDF
  26. B. L. Trembacki, A. Vadakkepatt, S. A. Roberts, J. Y. Murthy, “Volume-Averaged Electrochemical Performance Modeling of 3D Interpenetrating Battery Electrode Architectures,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 167(1) (2020) 013507. DOI: 10.1149/2.0072001jes, PDF
  27. X. Zhang, Q. J. Wang, K. L. Harrison, K. Jungjohann, B. L. Boyce, S. A. Roberts, P. M. Attia, S. J. Harris, “Rethinking How External Pressure Can Suppress Dendrites in Lithium Metal Batteries,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 166(15) A3639-A3652 (2019). DOI: 10.1149/2.0701914jes, PDF
  28. B. L. Trembacki, A. N. Mistry, D. R. Noble, M. E. Ferraro, P. P. Mukherjee, S. A. Roberts, “Mesoscale Analysis of Conductive Binder Domain Morphology in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 165(13) E725-E736 (2018). DOI: 10.1149/2.0981813jes, PDF
  29. S. A. Roberts, H. Mendoza, V. E. Brunini, D. R. Noble, “A verified conformal decomposition finite element method for implicit, many-material geometries,” J. Comp. Phys., 375 (2018) 352-367. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2018.08.022
  30. B. L. Trembacki, D. R. Noble, V. E. Brunini, M. E. Ferraro, S. A. Roberts, “Mesoscale Effective Property Simulations Incorporating Conductive Binder,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 164 (11) (2017) E3613-E3626. DOI: 10.1149/2.0601711jes, PDF
  31. S. A. Roberts, H. Mendoza, V. E. Brunini, B. L. Trembacki, D. R. Noble, and A. M. Grillet, “Insights into lithium-ion battery degradation and safety mechanisms from mesoscale simulations using experimentally-reconstructed mesostructures,” J. Electrochem. En. Conv. Stor, 13 (2016) 031005. DOI: 10.1115/1.4034410
  32. A. M. Grillet, T. Humplik, E. K. Stirrup, S. A. Roberts, D. A. Barringer, C. M. Snyder, M. R. Janvrin, and C. A. Apblett, “Conductivity Degradation of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Composite Binder during Cycling: Measurements and Simulations for Lithium-Ion Batteries,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 163 (2016) A1859-A1871. DOI: 10.1149/2.0341609jes, PDF
  33. E. L. Reinholz, S. A. Roberts, C. A. Apblett, J. B. Lechman, and P. R. Schunk, “Composition and Manufacturing Effects on Electrical Conductivity of Li/FeS2 Thermal Battery Cathodes,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 163 (2016) A1723-A1729. DOI: 10.1149/2.1191608jes, PDF
  34. H. Mendoza, S. A. Roberts, V. E. Brunini, and A. M. Grillet, “Mechanical and Electrochemical Response of a LiCoO2 Cathode using Reconstructed Microstructures,” Electrochim. Acta, 190 (2016) 1-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.12.224
  35. S. A. Roberts, V. E. Brunini, K. N. Long, and A. M. Grillet, “A Framework for Three-Dimensional Mesoscale Modeling of Anisotropic Swelling and Mechanical Deformation in Lithium-Ion Electrodes,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 161 (2014) F3052-F3059. DOI: 10.1149/2.0081411jes, PDF
  36. S. A. Roberts and P. R. Schunk, “A reduced-order model for porous flow through thin, structured materials,” Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 67 (2014) 25-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.07.013
  37. C. C. Roberts, S. A. Roberts, M. B. Nemer, and R. R. Rao, “Circulation within confined droplets in Hele-Shaw channels,” Phys. Fluids 26 (2014) 032105-11. DOI: 10.1063/1.4867695
  38. S. A. Roberts, D. R. Noble, E. M. Benner, and P. R. Schunk, “Multiphase hydrodynamic lubrication flow using a three-dimensional shell finite element method,” Comput. Fluids, 87 (2013) 12-25. DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2012.08.009
  39. S. A. Roberts and R. R. Rao, “Numerical simulations of mounding and submerging flows of shear-thinning jets impinging in a container.” J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 166 (2011) 1100-1115. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2011.06.006
  40. S. A. Roberts and S. Kumar, “AC electrohydrodynamic instabilities in trilayer liquid films.” Phys. Fluids 22 (2010) 122102-15. DOI: 10.1063/1.3520134
  41. S. A. Roberts and S. Kumar, “AC electrohydrodynamic instabilities in thin liquid films.” J. Fluid Mech. 631 (2009) 255-279. DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009006843
  42. S. A. Roberts and S. Kumar, “Stability of creeping Couette flow of a power-law fluid past a deformable solid.” J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 139 (2006) 93-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2006.07.006

Refereed Computer Science Conference Papers

  1. C. Martinez, K. M. Potter, M. D. Smith, E. A. Donahue, L. Collins, J. P. Korbin, and S. A. Roberts, “Segmentation Certainty through Uncertainty: Uncertainty-Refined Binary Volumetric Segmentation under Multifactor Domain Shift,” The IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops (2019). DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00066

Other Articles

  1. D. A. Howey, S. A. Roberts, V. Viswanathan, A. Mistry, M. Beuse, E. Khoo, S. C. DeCaluwe, V. , “Free Radicals: Making a Case for Battery Modeling.” Electrochem. Soc. Interface 29 (2020) 30, DOI: 10.1149/2.F03204IF (Invited)
  2. T. LaBonte, C. Martinez, S. A. Roberts, “We Know Where We Don’t Know: 3D Bayesian CNNs for Credible Geometric Uncertainty.” arXiv:1910.10793

Patents

  1. C. Martinez, K. M. Potter, E. Donahue, M. D. Smith, C. L. Snider, J. P. Korbin, S. A. Roberts, L. Collins, “Uncertainty-Refined Image Segmentation Under Domain Shift,” US Patent 11,379,991 B2.

Power Sources Proceedings

  1. S. A. Roberts, C. F. Jove-Colon, H. K. Moffat, M. L. Neilsen, E. S. Piekos, B. B. Schroeder, B. L. Trembacki, T. G. Voskuilen, “TABS: A Thermal Battery Desktop Design Tool” (2018).
  2. B. B. Schroeder, E. Allcorn, J. C. Hewson, H. K. Moffat, E. S. Piekos, B. L. Trembacki, T. G. Voskuilen, S. A. Roberts, “Credibility of Single Cell Thermal Battery Modeling through V&V/UQ Activities” (2018).
  3. T. G. Voskuilen, C. F. Jove-Colon, H. K. Moffat, B. B. Schroeder, B. L. Trembacki, S. A. Roberts, “Multi-Physics Cost and Complexity Reduction Strategies for Modeling Thermally Activated Batteries” (2018).
  4. T. G. Voskuilen, J. C. Hewson, H. K. Moffat, and S. A. Roberts, Multi-Physics, Multi-Plateau Reaction Model for LiSi/FeS2 Batteries” (2016).
  5. B. L. Trembacki, S. R. Harris, E. S. Piekos, and S. A. Roberts, “Uncertainty Quantification, Verification, and Validation of a Thermal Simulation Tool for Molten Salt Batteries” (2016).
  6. S. L. Hodson, E. S. Piekos, R. A. Sayer, S. A. Roberts, C. C. Roberts, “Thermal Characterization of Molten Salt Battery Materials” (2016).
  7. S. A. Roberts, K. N. Long, J. R. Clausen, M. J. Martinez, E. S. Piekos, A. M. Grillet, “Towards a Coupled Multiphysics Model of Molten Salt Battery Mechanics” (2014).
  8. A. M. Grillet, D. E. Wesolowski, A. N. Allen, C. C. Roberts, L. A. Mondy, B. McKenzie, R. P. Grant, S. A. Roberts, M. J. Martinez, J. R. Clausen, “Electrolyte Mobility within Molten Salt Batteries” (2014).
  9. S. A. Roberts, K. N. Long, J. S. Rath, L. A. Mondy, A. M. Grillet, “Modeling separator deformation and electrolyte flow in thermally-activated batteries” (2012).