Igor Kosacki

• Supporting and leading Materials and Corrosion
Laboratory - 25 people
• Developing corrosion materials research program at
Honeywell
• Serving as Honeywell liaison for numerous Join
Industry Programs
• Exploring new business opportunities for corrosion
research

• Initiated and developed the nanotechnology R&D program - nanomaterials for oil and gas
• Build/run a global materials research portfolio with collaborators from national labs., academic and industry - MIT, Oak Ridge, Institute for Electronic Materials (ITME-Warsaw), AGH-Technical University, Krakow, AEC
• Served as Shell liaison and technical advisor for numerous joint industry partnerships - Advanced Energy Consortium, MIT Energy Initiative
• Established an experimental program for impedance spectroscopy, optical spectroscopy and the design of advanced materials to meet new technical challenge (enhanced oil recovery, heavy oil, tight gas)
• Established and run High Temperature Materials Physics Laboratory - developed the electrical heaters for in-situ oil conversion
• Made numerous technical contributions
- Devised a down-hole Raman spectroscopy tool for real-time monitoring of reservoir fluids/materials
- Designed nanoparticle surfactants to improve enhanced oil recovery
- Crafted a nano-marker technology to monitor corrosion within oil wells
- Initiated a research program for novel proppants that increase production from tight gas systems

• Developed research program related to nanocrystalline oxide thin films for energy conversion
• Discovered nanostructured materials with enhanced electrical transport and chemical reactivity for solid oxide fuel cells, separation membranes and gas sensors
• Developed mesoporous composites with enhanced ionic conductivity for electrochemical devices
• Conducted research of electronic properties of nanocrystalline ion conductors
• Conducted research on mass and electrical transport in nanocrystalline oxide thin films

• Conducted research of nanocrystalline oxide thin films and supervising graduate and undergraduate students - promoted 3 M.Sc and 2 Ph.D.
• Developed processing of nanocrystalline oxide thin films by polymeric precursor spin coating technique
• Lattice dynamics of nanocrystalline materials
• Lattice defects in nanomaterilas and their correlation with electrical and optical properties
• Modeling the relationship between non-stoichiometry and the electrical properties of ion conductors

• Conducted research on ion conducting materials for energy conversion
• Initiated study of nanocrystalline ceramics - discovered an enhanced properties of nanoceramic materials
• Defect equilibria and matter transport in ceramic oxides
• Mixed electronic-ionic conductivity in solids