Vitaliy Yurkiv

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Vitaliy Yurkiv

AME N617

520.621.4254
vyurkiv@arizona.edu

Degrees

  • PhD Mechanical engineering
    • Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Work Experience

  • University of Illinois at Chicago (2015 - 2022)
  • German Aerospace Center (DLR) (2011 - 2015)
  • Heidelberg University (2008 - 2010)

 

Interests

Teaching

Thermodynamics, energy storage and conversion, rechargeable batteries, electric vehicles (EVs)

Research

Multi-physics modeling and machine learning calculation of energy storage and conversion technologies. Ab-initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Thermal measurements of cylindrical and pouch batteries.

Courses

Engineering Analysis

AME 301

Thermodynamics

AME 230

AME Special Topics

AME 596

Dissertation

AME 920

Research

AME 900

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Amiri, A., Ghildiyal, P., Phakatkar, A. H., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Shokuhfar, T., Sorokina, L. V., Wang, Y., Yurkiv, V., & Zachariah, M. R. (2023).In Situ Microscopic Studies on the Interaction of Multi-Principal Element Nanoparticles and Bacteria. ACS Nano, 17(6), 5880-5893. doi:10.1021/acsnano.2c12799
  • Das Goswami, B. R., Jabbari, V., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Mashayek, F., & Yurkiv, V. (2023). Unraveling Ion Diffusion Pathways and Energetics in Polycrystalline SEI of Lithium-Based Batteries: Combined Cryo-HRTEM and DFT Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(45), 21971-21979. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c05395
  • Jabbari, V., Yurkiv, V., Ghorbani, A., Mashayek, F., & Shahbazian-Yassar, R. (2023). Fast rate lithium metal batteries with long lifespan enabled by graphene oxide confinement. Energy Advances, 2(5), 712-724. doi:10.1039/d3ya00083d
  • Ragone, M., Shahabazian-Yassar, R., Mashayek, F., & Yurkiv, V. (2023). Deep learning modeling in microscopy imaging: A review of materials science applications. Progress in Materials Science, 138, 101165. doi:10.1016/j.pmatsci.2023.101165
  • Saray, M. T., Yurkiv, V., & Shahbazian‐Yassar, R. (2023). Role of Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Controlling the Crystal Structure of Nickel Nanoparticles Formed on Reduced Graphene Oxide: Implications for Energy Storage and Conversion Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 6(12), 10033-10043. doi:10.1021/acsanm.2c05528
  • Tamadoni Saray, M., Yurkiv, V., & Shahbazian‐Yassar, R. (2023). In Situ Thermolysis of a Ni Salt on Amorphous Carbon and Graphene Oxide Substrates. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(28). doi:10.1002/adfm.202213747
  • Yurkiv, V., Rasul, G., Phakatkar, A. H., Mashayek, F., & Jabbari, V. (2023). In situ formation of stable solid electrolyte interphase with high ionic conductivity for long lifespan all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. Energy Storage Materials, 57, 1-13. doi:10.1016/j.ensm.2023.02.009
  • Halder, S., Granda, R., Wu, J., Sankaran, A. N., Yurkiv, V., Yarin, A. L., & Mashayek, F. (2022). Air bubble entrapment during drop impact on solid and liquid surfaces. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 149, 103974. doi:10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.103974
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Tamadoni, M., Yurkiv, V., Long, L., & Ragone, M. (2022). "Deep Learning for Mapping Element Distribution of High-Entropy Alloys in Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Images". Computational Materials Science, 201, 110905. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110905
  • Mashayek, F., Yarin, A. L., Yurkiv, V., Sankaran, A., Wu, J., Granda, R., & Halder, S. (2022). “Air Bubble Entrapment during Drop Impact on Solid and Liquid Surfaces”. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 149, 103974. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2022.103974
  • Mashayek, F., Yurkiv, V., Granda, R., & Yarin, A. L. (2022). Paint drop spreading on wood and its enhancement by an in-plane electric field. Physics of Fluids, 34(12), 122112. doi:10.1063/5.0130871
  • Mashayek, F., Yurkiv, V., Ramasubramanian, A., Ragone, M., & Kashir, B. (2021). "Application of Fully Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction in Fluid Flow". Journal of Visualization, 24, 771-785. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-020-00732-0
  • Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Mashayek, F., Griffin, P., Cheng, M., Rasul, M. G., Yurkiv, V., & Jabbari, V. (2021). “A Smart Lithium Battery with Shape Memory Function”. Small. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202102666
  • Cheng, M., Ramasubramanian, A., Rasul, M. G., Jiang, Y., Yuan, Y., Foroozan, T., Deivanayagam, R., Tamadoni Saray, M., Rojaee, R., Song, B., Yurkiv, V., Pan, Y., Mashayek, F., & Shahbazian-Yassar, R. (2020). “Direct Ink Writing of Polymer Composite Electrolytes with Enhanced Thermal Conductivities”. Advanced Functional Materials, 31(4), 2006683. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202006683
  • Lu, J., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Mashayek, F., Song, B., Liu, T., Yurkiv, V., Yao, W., & Yuan, Y. (2020). “Beyond volume variation: anisotropic and protrusive lithiation in bismuth” . ACS Nano, 14(11), 15669-15677. doi:http://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c06597
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Paoli, R., Sharifi-Asl, S., Ragone, M., Ramasubramanian, A., Foroozan, T., & Yurkiv, V. (2020). "The Mechanism of ZN Diffusion Through ZnO in Secondary Battery: A Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study”. Journal of Physical Chemstry, 124(29), 15730-15738. doi:http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c03514
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ragone, M., Foroozan, T., Yurkiv, V., & Ramasubramanian, A. (2020). "Stability of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase on Lithium Metal Surface in Lithium Metal Batteries". ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(11), 10560-10567. doi:http://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.0c01605
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ramsubramanian, A., Song, B., Yurkiv, V., & Ragone, M. (2020). “Atomic Column Heights Detection in Metallic Nanoparticles Using Deep Learning”. Computational Material Science, 180, 109722. doi:http://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2020.109722
  • Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ganesan, V., Mashayek, F., Pan, Y., Son, S., Cheng, M., Phakatkar, A. H., Sharifi-Asl, S., Rasul, M. G., Foroozan, T., Deivanayagam, R., Yurkiv, V., Wheatle, B. K., Mogurampelly, S., Cavallo, S., & Rojaee, R. (2020). “Highly-Cyclable Room-Temperature Black Phosphorene Polymer Electrolyte Composites for Li Metal Batteries”. Advanced Functional Materials, 1910749. doi:http://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201910749
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Khounsary, A., Najafi, A., Nie, A., Yurkiv, V., & Ramasubramanian, A. (2019). “A Numerical Study on Striped Lithiation of Tin Oxide Anodes”. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 159, 163-170. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2018.09.027
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ragone, M., Foroozan, T., Yurkiv, V., & Ramasubramanian, A. (2019). “Lithium Diffusion Mechanism through Solid-Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries”. Journal of Physical Chemstry, 123(16), 10237-10245. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00436
  • Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Lu, J., Amine, K., Mashayek, F., Friedrich, C. R., Long, F., Bi, X., Yurkiv, V., Cheng, M., Liu, C., Tan, G., Yuan, Y., & Yao, W. (2019). “Tuning Li2O2 Formation Routes by Facet-engineering of MnO2 Cathode Catalysts”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(32), 12832-12838. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b05992
  • Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Mashayek, F., Rojaee, R., Sharifi-Asl, S., Yurkiv, V., & Foroozan, T. (2019). “Non-Dendritic Zn Electrodeposition Enabled by Zincophilic Graphene Substrates”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11(47), 44077-44089. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b13174
  • Subramanian, A., Vasudevamurthy, G., Harris, C. T., Yoo, J., Maksud, M., Ramasubramanian, A., Shikder, M. R., Yurkiv, V., & Mashayek, F. (2019). “Plastic Recovery and Self-healing in Longitudinally Twinned SiGe Nanowires”. Nanoscale, 11(18). doi:https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NR02073J
  • Unocic, R. R., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Veith, G. M., Mashayek, F., Yurkiv, V., Shin, D., Sang, X., Baggetto, L., & Gutierrez-Kolar, J. S. (2019). “Interpreting Electrochemical and Chemical Sodiation Mechanisms and Kinetics in Tin Antimony Battery Anodes using in situ TEM and Computational Methods”. ACS Applied Engineering, 2(5), 3578-3586. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.9b00310
  • Mashayek, F., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ramasubramanian, A., Foroozan, T., & Yurkiv, V. (2018). “The Influence of Stress Field on Li Electrodeposition in Li-metal Battery” . MRS Communications, 8, 1285-1291. doi:https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2018.146
  • Mashayek, F., Yarin, A. L., & Yurkiv, V. (2018). “Modeling of Droplet Impact onto Polarized and Non-polarized Dielectric Surfaces”. Langmuir, 34(34), 10169-10180. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01443

Presentations

  • Yurkiv, V. R., Phakatkar, A., Shahbazian-Yassar, R., Ragone, M., & Mashayek, F. (2022, December). Combined machine learning and density functional theory approach to predict element distribution of high-entropy alloys in scanning transmission electron microscopy images. 2022 MRS Meeting. Boston: NSF.