The University of Tennessee Southern

Tyler Cosby, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Contact Information

Office Address:
School of Mathematics & Science
School of Mathematics and Sciences

Phone: 931-424-2036 Ext: 3022

Email: jcosby3@utsouthern.edu

Biography

Dr. Cosby received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 2013 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2018. Following two years as a research professor at the United States Naval Academy, investigating the dissolution of cellulosic biomass by ionic liquids and structure-property relationships of chloroaluminate ionic liquids, he joined the Mathematics and Sciences faculty at the University of Tennessee Southern in 2021.

Education

  • BS, Tennessee Technological University
  • PhD, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Publications

  • C. Stachurski, J. H. Davis Jr., T. Cosby, M. E. Crowley, N. E. Larm, M. G. Ballentine, R. A O’Brien, M. Zeller, E. A. Salter, A. Wierzbicki, P. C. Trulove, D. P. Durkin, “Physical and Electrochemical Analysis of N-Alkylpyrrolidinium Substituted Boronium Ionic Liquids,” Inorganic Chemistry, Oct 2023.
  • T. Cosby, C. Stachurski, R.A. Mantz, P.C. Trulove, D. P. Durkin, “Elucidating the Interplay of Local and Mesoscale Ion Dynamics and Transport Properties in Aprotic Ionic Liquids,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Feb 2023.
  • A. Aiello, T. Cosby, D. P. Durkin, and P. C. Trulove, “Macroscale time dependent ionic liquid treatment effects on biphasic cellulose xerogels,” Cellulose, Aug 2022.
  • D. P. Durkin, C. E. Hoffman, A. J. Gulbrandson, E. R. Fessler, R. T. Chung, A. Aiello, T. Cosby, J. W. Woodcock, and P. C. Trulove, “Fiber-welded Polyionic Biocomposites using 1-alkyl-3-vinylimidazolium alkylphosphonate Ionic Liquids,” Journal of Ionic Liquids, Feb 2022.
  • S. Spittle, D. Poe, B. Doherty, C. Kolodziej, L. Heroux, M. A. Haque, H. Squire, T. Cosby, Y. Zhang, C. Fraenza, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Tyagi, J. Peng, R. A. Elgammel, T. Zawodzinski, M. Tuckerman, S. Greenbaum, B. Gurkan, M. Dadmun, E. J. Maginn, and J. Sangoro, “Evolution of Microscopic Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Choline Chloride-based Deep Eutectic Solvents,” Nature Communications, Jan 2022.
  • A. Aiello, T. Cosby, J. McFarland, D. P. Durkin, and P. C. Trulvove, “Mesoporous Xerogel Cellulose Composites from Biorenewable Natural Cotton Fibers,” Carbohydrate Polymers, Jan 2022.
  • S. Yee, L. Oney, T. Cosby, D. P. Durkin, H. ElBidweihy, “Photothermal Actuation of Levitated Pyrolytic Graphite,” APL Materials, Oct 2021.
  • T. Cosby, M.J. Schnabel, D. P. Durkin, R.A. Mantz, and P. C. Trulove, “Ion Dynamics and Transport Properties of Lewis-Acidic Imidazolium Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquids,” Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Jun 2021.
  • T. Cosby, A. Aiello, D.P. Durkin, and P.C. Trulove, “Kinetics of Ionic Liquid-facilitated Cellulose Decrystallization by Raman 2D Spectral Mapping,” Cellulose, Jan 2021.
  • B. Donovan, R. Warzoha, T. Cosby, A. Giri, A. Wilson, A. Borgdorff, N. Vu, E. Patterson, and E. Gorzkowski, “Strained Polymer Thermal Conductivity Enhancement Counteracted by Additional Off-Axis Strain,” Macromolecules, Dec 2020.
  • D.P. Durkin, C.E. Hoffman, T. Cosby, A. Aiello, J.A. McFarland, H.C. De Long, J.W. Woodcock, and P.C. Trulove, “Developing Polyionic Biocomposite Materials through Natural Fiber Welding,” ECS Transactions, Sep 2020.
  • T. Kinsey, K. Glynn, T. Cosby, C. Iacob, and J. Sangoro, “Ion Dynamics of Monomeric Ionic liquids Polymerized in situ Within Silica Nanopores,” ACS Applied Material Interfaces, Aug 2020.
  • T. Kinsey, E. Mapesa, T. Cosby, Y. He, K. Hong, Y. Wang, C. Iacob, and J. Sangoro, “Elucidating the Impact of Extreme Nanoscale Confinement on Segmental and Chain Dynamics of Unentangled poly(cis1,4isoprene),” The European Physical Journal E, vol. 42, no.137, Oct 2019.
  • T. Cosby, U. Kapoor, J. K. Shah, and J. Sangoro, “Mesoscale Organization and Dynamics in Binary Ionic Liquid Mixtures,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 10, no.20, pp. 6274–6280 Sep 2019.
  • M. Heres, T. Cosby, E. Mapesa, H. Liu, S. Berdzinski, V. Strehmel, M. Dadmun, S. Paddison, J. Sangoro, “Ion Transport in Glassy Polymerized Ionic Liquids: Unraveling the Impact of the Molecular Structure,” Macromolecules, vol. 52, no. 1, pp.8895, Dec 2018.
  • T. Cosby, Z. Vicars, M. Heres, and J. Sangoro, “Associating Imidazoles: Elucidating the Correlation Between the Static Dielectric Permittivity and Proton Conductivity ,” Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, no. 13, pp. 136001, Mar 2018.
  • T. Cosby, Z. Vicars, M. Heres, K. Tsunashima, and J. Sangoro, “Dynamic and Structural Evidence of Mesoscopic Aggregation in Phosphonium Ionic Liquids,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 148, no. 19, pp. 193815, Feb 2018.
  • · T. Cosby, Z. Vicars, E. U. Mapesa, K. Tsunashima, and J. Sangoro, “Charge Transport and Dipolar Relaxations in Phosphonium-based Ionic Liquids,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 147, no. 23, pp. 234504, Dec 2017.
  • T. Cosby, Z. Vicars, Y. Wang, and J. Sangoro, “Dynamic-Mechanical and Dielectric Evidence of Long-Lived Mesoscale Organization in Ionic Liquids,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 8, no. 15, pp. 3544–3548, Jul 2017.
  • M. Heres, T. Cosby, Y. Wang, and J. Sangoro, “Probing Nanoscale Ion Dynamics in Ultrathin Films of Polymerized Ionic Liquids by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy,” ACS Macro Letters, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 1065–1069, Sep 2016.
  • T. Cosby, A. Holt, P. J. Griffin, Y. Wang, and J. Sangoro, “Proton Transport in Imidazoles: Unraveling the Role of Supramolecular Structure,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 6, no. 19, pp. 3961–3965, Sep 2015.
  • P. J. Griffin, T. Cosby, A. P. Holt, R. S. Benson, and J. R. Sangoro, “Charge Transport and Structural Dynamics in Carboxylic Acid-Based Deep Eutectic Mixtures,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 118, no. 31, pp. 9378–9385, Jul 2014.
  • J. Sangoro, T. Cosby, and F. Kremer, “Rotational and Translational Diffusion in Ionic Liquids,” in Dielectric Properties of Ionic Liquids. Advances in Dielectrics, Edited by M. Paluch, Springer, Cham, 2016.