Cailin Buchanan

Biography

Cailin Buchanan is a Walter Massey Fellow in the Electrochemical Materials and Interfaces Group within the Materials Science Division. She focuses on automating fundamental electrochemistry experiments to accelerate clean energy storage solutions. Previously, Cailin was a postdoctoral appointee in the same group, during which she focused on linking fundamental electrochemical studies of lead and lead dioxide electrodes to lead acid battery performance. Her other focus areas include economic and environmental modeling of energy storage systems. Cailin completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2022 and also has a Master of Science in Engineering and Master of Science in Sustainable Systems (2018) from the University of Michigan. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2016.

Publications

Buchanan, C., Shaheen, N. A., Williams, C. K., Messias, I., Dean-Kersten, B., Kim, T., Connell, J. G., Srinivasan, V., Akolkar, R., Papa Lopes, P. (2025). “Investigation of electrode passivation during oxidation of a nitroxide radical relevant for flow battery applications”. J. of Mater. Chem. A, 13, 25363-25374. DOI: 10.1039/D5TA00481K

Ferels, C., Chaudhari, N., Agyapong-Fordjour, F., Buchanan, C. A., Papa Lopes, P. (2024). Fundamental Benchmarking of the Discharge Properties of Negative Electrodes in Lead Acid Batteries. Journal of Power Sources, 615(30), 235100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.235100

Buchanan, C. A. and Singh, N. (2023). Levelized Cost of Electricity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Ce- and V-Based Redox Flow Batteries. Journal of Power Sources, 582, 233535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2023.233535

Buchanan, C. A., Herrera, D., Balasubramanian, M., Goldsmith, B. R., Singh, N. (2022). Unveiling the Cerium(III)/(IV) Structures and Charge-Transfer Mechanism in Sulfuric Acid. JACS Au, 2(12), 2742-2757. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00484

Buchanan, C. A., Ko, E., Cira, S., Balasubramanian, M., Goldsmith, B. R., Singh, N. (2020). Structures and Free Energies of Cerium Ions in Acidic Electrolytes. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(17), 12552-12563. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01645.

Lewis, G. M., Buchanan, C. A., Jhaveri, K. D., Sullivan, J. L., Kelly, J. C., Das, S., Taub, A. I., and Keoleian, G. A. (2019). Green Principles for Vehicle Lightweighting. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(8), 4063–4077. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05897

Buchanan, C. A., Charara, M., Sullivan, J. L., Lewis, G. M., and Keoleian, G. A. (2018). Lightweighting shipping containers: Life cycle impacts on multimodal freight transportation. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 62, 418-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2018.03.011