• B.Sc., Energy Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2012
• Ph.D., Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2015

Journal Articles

Nicholas R. Cross, Matthew Rau, Christopher Gorski, , Bruce Logan and Derek Hall, 2024, "Simulating Discharge Curves of an All-Aqueous TRAB to Identify Pathways for Improving System Performance", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171, (4)

L Shi, X Zhou, R Taylor, A Emdadi, B Bain, Derek Hall, R Rossi, M Hickner, C Gorski and B Logan, 2024, "Thin-Film Composite Membranes for Hydrogen Evolution with a Saline Catholyte Water Feed", Environmental Science & Technology, 58, (2)

Jingshi Zhang, Rahman Azari, Ute Poerschke and Derek Hall, 2023, "A review of potential electrochemical applications in buildings for energy capture and storage", Micromachines, 14, (12)

Holkan Vazquez-Sanchez, Shashank S. Nagaraja, Nicholas R. Cross, Derek M. Hall and S. Mani Sarathy, 2023, "A techno-economic analysis of a thermally regenerative ammonia-based battery", Applied Energy, 347, pp. 121501

Nicholas R. Cross, Holkan Vazquez-Sanchez, Matthew J. Rau, Serguei N. Lvov, Michael A. Hickner, Christopher A. Gorski, Shashank S. Nagaraja, S Mani Sarathy, Bruce E. Logan and Derek M. Hall, 2023, "Hydrocarbon-based membranes cost-effectively manage species transport and increase performance in thermally regenerative batteries", Electrochimica Acta, 467, (1), pp. 143090

Ridge M. Bachman, Ljubisa R Radovic and Derek M. Hall, 2023, "Computational Quantum Chemistry Insights into the Mechanism of VO2+ Reduction on Graphene-Based Electrodes", ChemSusChem, 16, (15), pp. e202300167

Nicholas R. Cross, Matthew J. Rau, Serguei N. Lvov, Christopher G. Gorski, Bruce E. Logan and Derek M. Hall, 2023, "System efficiency and power assessment of the all-aqueous copper thermally regenerative ammonia battery", Applied Energy, 339, pp. 120959

Timothy S. Duffy, Derek Hall and Serguei N. Lvov, 2023, "Increasing the lifespan of reference electrodes by increasing the diffusion length", Electrochimica Acta, 438, pp. 141562

Ridge M. Bachman, Derek M Hall and Ljubisa R Radovic, 2023, "On the electrocatalytically active sites in graphene-based vanadium redox flow batteries", Carbon, 201, pp. 891-899

Lingling Gong, Nastaran Khodaparastasgarabad, Derek Hall and Jesse Greener, 2022, "A new angle to control concentration profiles at electroactive biofilm interfaces: Investigating a microfluidic perpendicular flow approach", Electrochimica Acta, 431, pp. 141071

Akash Ganesan, Tawanda Zimudzi, Vineeth Pothanamkandathil, Christopher Gorski and Derek M Hall, 2022, "Spectroelectrochemical Examination of the Ferro-Ferricyanide Redox Reaction: Impacts of Electrode Thickness and Applied Potential", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 169, (10), pp. 106501

Derek M. Hall, Serguei Lvov and Isaac K. Gamwo, 2022, "Thermodynamic Modeling of Mineral Scaling in High-Temperature and High-Pressure Aqueous Environments", Liquids, 2, (4), pp. 303-317

Derek M. Hall, Ridge M. Bachman and Ljubisa R. Radovic, 2022, "Carbon materials in redox flow batteries: Challenges and opportunities", Carbon Reports, 1, (3), pp. 94-112

Le Shi, Xiangyu Bi, Evan Newcomer, Derek Hall, Christopher Gorski and Bruce E Logan, 2022, "Thermodynamic and Kinetic Analyses of Ion Intercalation/Deintercalation Using Different Temperatures on NiHCF Electrodes for Battery Electrode Deionization", Environmental Science and Technology, 56, (12), pp. 8932-8941

Nicholas R. Cross, Matthew Rau, Serguei Lvov, Christopher Gorski, Bruce E Logan and Derek M. Hall, 2022, "Power and energy capacity tradeoffs in an all-aqueous copper thermally regenerative ammonia battery", Journal of Power Sources, 531, pp. 231339

Le Shi, Xiangyu Bi, Evan Newcomer, Derek M. Hall, Christopher Gorski, Ahmed Galal and Bruce E Logan, 2022, "Co-precipitation synthesis control for sodium ion adsorption capacity and cycle life of copper hexacyanoferrate electrodes in battery electrode deionization", Chemical Engineering Journal, 435, pp. 135001

Yingchi Cheng, Derek M. Hall, Jonathan Boualavong, Robert Hickey, Serguei Lvov and Christopher Gorski, 2021, "Influence of Hydrotropes on the Solubilities and Diffusivities of Redox-Active Organic Compounds for Aqueous Flow Batteries", ACS Omega, 6, (45), pp. 30800-30810

Ruggero Rossi, Derek Hall, Le Shi, Nicholas R. Cross, Christopher Gorski, Michael A Hickner and Bruce E Logan, 2021, "Using a vapor-fed anode and saline catholyte to manage ion transport in a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer", Energy and Environmental Science, 14, (11), pp. 6041-6049

Renaldo Springer, Nicholas R. Cross, Serguei Lvov, Bruce E Logan, Christopher Gorski and Derek M. Hall, 2021, "An All-Aqueous Thermally Regenerative Ammonia Battery Chemistry Using Cu(I, II) Redox Reactions", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 168, (7), pp. 070523

Timothy S. Duffy, Derek Hall, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz and Serguei N Lvov, 2021, "Monitoring X65 Steel Internal Corrosion in Humidified N2-Containing H2S Using Membrane-Based Electrochemical Sensors", Corrosion, 77, (6), pp. 593-599

Nicholas R Cross, Derek M. Hall, Serguei N Lvov, Bruce E Logan and Matthew J. Rau, 2021, "The impact of fiber arrangement and advective transport in porous electrodes for silver-based thermally regenerated batteries", Electrochimica Acta, 388, pp. 138527

Derek Hall, Justin Grenier, Timothy S. Duffy and Serguei Lvov, 2020, "The Energy Storage Density of Redox Flow Battery Chemistries: A Thermodynamic Analysis", Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 167, (11), pp. 110536

Le Shi, Ruggero Rossi, Moon Son, Derek Hall, Michael A Hickner, Christopher Gorski and Bruce E Logan, 2020, "Using reverse osmosis membranes to control ion transport during water electrolysis", Energy and Environmental Science, 13, (9), pp. 3138-3148

Ruggero Rossi, Derek Hall, Xu Wang, John M Regan and Bruce E Logan, 2020, "Quantifying the factors limiting performance and rates in microbial fuel cells using the electrode potential slope analysis combined with electrical impedance spectroscopy", Electrochimica Acta, 348, pp. 136330

Timothy S. Duffy, Balaji Raman, Derek Hall, Michael L. Machesky, Russell Taylor Johns and Serguei Lvov, 2019, "Experimentation and modeling of surface chemistry of the silica-water interface for low salinity waterflooding at elevated temperatures", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 570, pp. 233-243

Derek Hall, Timothy Duffy, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz and Serguei Lvov, 2019, "Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and finite element analysis modeling of a 4-electrode humidity sensor for natural gas transportation pipelines", Review of Scientific Instruments, 90, (1)

Ruishu Feng, Justin R. Beck, Derek Hall, Aysel Buyuksagis, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz and Serguei Lvov, 2018, "Effects of CO2 and H2S on Corrosion of Martensitic Steels in Brines at Low Temperature", Corrosion, 74, (3), pp. 276-287

Serguei N. Lvov, Derek Hall, Andrei Bandura and Isaac K. Gamwo, 2018, "A semi-empirical molecular statistical thermodynamic model for calculating standard molar Gibbs energies of aqueous species above and below the critical point of water", Journal of Molecular Liquids, 270, pp. 62-73

Justin Beck, Derek M. Hall, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz and Serguei Lvov, 2017, "Membrane-coated electrochemical sensor for corrosion monitoring in natural gas pipelines", Sensors and Transducers, 214, (7), pp. 28

Balaji Raman, Derek Hall, Stephen J. Shulder, Michael Caravaggio and Serguei N. Lvov, 2016, "An experimental study of deposition of suspended magnetite in high temperature-high pressure boiler type environments", Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 508, pp. 48-56

Derek Hall, Justin R. Beck, Edward Brand, Margaret Ziomek-Moroz and Serguei N. Lvov, 2016, "Copper-Copper Sulfate Reference Electrode for Operating in High Temperature and High Pressure Aqueous Environments", Electrochimica Acta, 221, pp. 96-106

Derek Hall and Serguei N. Lvov, 2016, "Modeling a CuCl(aq)/HCl(aq) Electrolyzer using Thermodynamics and Electrochemical Kinetics", Electrochimica Acta, 190, pp. 1167-1174

Sanchit Khurana, Derek Hall, Rich Schatz and Serguei N. Lvov, 2015, "Effect of Clamping pressure and temperature on the performance of a CuCl(aq)/HCl(aq) electrolyzer", ECS Electrochemistry Letters, 4, (4), pp. F21

Derek Hall, Justin Beck and Serguei N. Lvov, 2015, "Electrochemical kinetics of the hydrogen reaction on platinum in concentrated HCl(aq)", Electrochemistry Communications, 57, pp. 74-77

Sanchit Khurana, Derek Hall, Rich S Schatz, Mark V. Fedkin and Serguei N. Lvov, 2015, "State-of-health of a CuCl electrolyzer during a 168-h test", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 40, (1), pp. 62-69

Derek Hall, Eric G. Larow, Rich S. Schatz, Justin R. Beck and Serguei N. Lvov, 2014, "Electrochemical kinetics of CuCl(aq)/HCl(aq) electrolyzer for hydrogen production via a Cu-Cl thermochemical cycle", Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 162, (1), pp. F108

Derek Hall, Nicholay N. Akinfiev, Eric Larow, Rich Schatz and Serguei N. Lvov, 2014, "Thermodynamics and Efficiency of a CuCl(aq)/HCl(aq) Electrolyzer", Electrochimica Acta, 143, pp. 70-82

Divya Chandra, Caleb Conrad, Derek Hall, Nicholas Montebello, Andrew Weiner, Sarma Pisupati, Uday Turaga, Ghazal Izadi, Arun Ram Mohan and Derek Elsworth, 2012, "Pairing integrated gasification and enhanced geothermal systems (egs) in semiarid environments", Energy and Fuels, 26, (12), pp. 7378-7389

• December 2023 - June 2025, "Developing an Operando Mid-IR Electrocatalyst Characterization Device to Screen New Materials for the Hydrogen Economy," (Sponsor: Materials Research Institute).

• December 2023 - December 2024, "High Temperature NI-Ferrite Particle Interactions in Aqueous Solution," (Sponsor: Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC [MP]).

• September 2023 - September 2024, "Advanced Electrochemical Sensor Development for Natural Gas Pipelines," (Sponsor: Leidos).

• October 2022 - March 2024, "Membrane-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Corrosion and Environmental Monitoring in Natural Gas Pipelines," (Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy).

• June 2023 - December 2024, "Evaluating Corrosion Mitigation by Film Forming Products Using Computerized Tomography," (Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute).

• June 2023 - May 2024, "Developing Strategies To Improve Product Quality In The Recycling Of End-Of-Life Batteries," (Sponsor: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Sustainability Fund).

• March 2021 - July 2023, "Development of an All-Aqueous Thermally Regenerative Redox Flow Battery to Support Fossil Fuel Assets," (Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy).

• January 2020 - December 2023, "A Critical Assessment of Chemistry Action Level Limits for Chloride and Sulfate in Simulated Boiler Water Using Electrochemical Techniques," (Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute).

• January 2022 - June 2022, "Effects of Surface Functionalization on the Performance of Carbon-based Felt Electrodes for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Applications. (Period of Protection for NDA 1/1/2022-12," (Sponsor: Morgan Advanced Materials and Technology, Inc. [MP]).

• June 2020 - December 2022, "Improving the Performance of Grid-Scale Batteries by Developing Advanced Carbon Electrocatalysts.," (Sponsor: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Sustainability Fund).

•  2015 -  2021, "In-Situ Corrosion Studies of Film-Forming Amine Protection for Online Hydrogen Damage and Offline Pitting," (Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute).

• December 2019 - December 2021, "New Low-Cost Flow Battery Chemistries via Ligand-Enhanced Redox Reactions," (Sponsor: Materials Research Institute).

•  2019 -  2020, "Increasing Power Densities and Cycle Efficiencies of Novel, Thermally-Charged Flow Batteries Using Advanced Flow Cell Topologies," (Sponsor: Institutes of Energy and the Environment).

•  2014 -  2019, "Miniaturized and Cost-effective Membrane-Coated Electrochemical Sensors for Corrosion and Environmental Monitoring in Natural Gas Pipelines," (Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy).

• Faculty Research Program, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, 2020

Service to Penn State:

• Committee Work, Member, Mechanical Engineering Community Committee, 2023

Service to External Organizations:

• Participation in or Service to Professional and Learned Societies, Chairperson, Conference Session, The Electrochemical Society, 2022