Miriam Rafailovich

About

Miriam Rafailovich received her PhD from Stony Brook University in Applied Nuclear Physics. She then did her postdoctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Weizmann Institute. Miriam was a professor of Physics and Astronomy at CUNY, Queens College, and is currently a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. She is known as a pioneer in the integration of research with education, having graduated more than 60 PhD and Master's students and mentored several hundred undergraduate and high school students from across the United States and abroad. Miriam is the co-author of more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed journals and technical review articles. Her research interests span a broad spectrum, addressing challenges in sustainability, environmental protection, medicine, and tissue engineering. She has published extensively and collaborated with regional industries in areas such as polymer nanocomposites, polymer surface and interfacial phenomena, biodegradable polymers, additive manufacturing, environmental flame retardants, green energy generation—including hydrogen and anionic fuel cells and photovoltaics—biosensors, tissue engineering, stem cell differentiation, protein folding, and nanotoxicology. She has received numerous awards, including being a co-Director of the NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Center: Polymers at Engineered Interfaces, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for…

Research topics

• Composite material
• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Crystallography
• Optics
• Inorganic chemistry
• Optoelectronics
• Physical chemistry

Selected publications

• Enhanced flame retardancy of poly(lactic acid) with ultra-low loading of ammonium polyphosphate

  Composites Part B Engineering · 2020 · 108 citations

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• Enhancing Chemical Stability and Suppressing Ion Migration in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells <i>via</i> Direct Backbone Attachment of Polyesters on Grain Boundaries

  Chemistry of Materials · 2020 · 82 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Organic–inorganic halide perovskites feature excellent optoelectronic properties but poor chemical stability. While passivating perovskite grain boundary (GB) by polymers shows prospects on long-term performance of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), its detailed impact on the ion migration phenomenon, which largely deteriorates the PSC stability, remains less probed. Here, we introduce a new polar polymer, polycaprolactone (PCL), to passivate GBs of methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3) perovskite…

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• Engineering thermally and electrically conductive biodegradable polymer nanocomposites

  Composites Part B Engineering · 2020 · 78 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• In-situ X-ray scattering study of isotactic polypropylene/graphene nanocomposites under shear during fused deposition modeling 3D printing

  Composites Science and Technology · 2020 · 54 citations

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• Migration and Precipitation of Platinum in Anion‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

  Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2023-07-19 · 15 citations

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  Abstract Despite the recent progress in increasing the power generation of Anion‐exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs), their durability is still far lower than that of Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Using the complementary techniques of X‐ray micro‐computed tomography (CT), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X‐ray (EDX) spectroscopy, we have identified Pt ion migration as an important factor to explain the decay in performance of AEMFCs. In alkaline media Pt…

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Recent grants

• NSF/FDA SIR: Surface-Induced Self-Assembly of Fibrinogen Fibers: Designing Non- thrombogenic Materials and Understanding the Link Between Cholesterol and Thrombosis

  NSF · $150k · 2012–2013

• INSPIRE Track 1: Multifunctional Interfaces for Responsive Materials

  NSF · $1.1M · 2013–2018

• Polymers at Interfaces: A Vehicle for Integrating Research with Education

  NSF · $1.6M · 2006–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Jonathan Sokolov

  Stony Brook University

  610 shared

• Tadanori Koga

  Division of Chemistry

  152 shared

• Sushil K. Satija

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  125 shared

• Shouren Ge

  121 shared

• Harald Ade

  120 shared

• Marcia Simon

  Stony Brook University

  93 shared

• Young‐Soo Seo

  Sejong University

  88 shared

• Kwanwoo Shin

  Sogang University

  85 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering

  Stony Brook University

  1996

• M.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  Stony Brook University

  1992

• B.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  Stony Brook University

  1989

Awards & honors

• Lady Davis Foundation Scholar
• Fellow, American Physical Society
• Co-Director NSF Materials Research Science & Engineering Cen…
• SUNY Chancellors Award for Research in Science, Engineering,…
• Siemens Foundation Recognition Award as Outstanding Mentor f…

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