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Mission of this Laboratory

This laboratory aims to decarbonize the world by developing technologies to achieve carbon-neutral energy cycling and reduced emissions in industries.

We are actively working on demonstrating efficient and durable energy conversion and storage, such as fuel cells, water electrolyzes, and solid-state battery to transit intermittent renewable energies in the form of hydrogen or electron which can be transiently converted to electricity as needed. We focus on materials R&D, manufacturing, large-scale demonstration, and electrochemical evaluations. Both fundamental and applied science are ongoing in this lab.

We are also very interested with electron-to-molecule by hydrogenation or deprotonation to achieve CO2 reduction to useful chemicals, ammonia synthesis, and ethylene/aromatic synthesis in electrochemical membrane reactors.

This laboratory is very capable of developing advanced catalysts or electrocatalysts for thermochemical reactions and electric-driven reactions by facilitating reaction kinetics or improving thermodynamics. Design, synthesis, characterization, and testing of the catalysts are emphasized to explore mechanisms, compositions, and relationships for discovering new knowledge and approach.

We are expanding our expertise into many other aspects such recycling of Li-ion battery and fuel cell components, solid-state ionics, electrochemistry, and more.