PI: Dr. Hanping Ding
Email: hding@ou.edu
Education
Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering (2014)
University of South Carolina
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering (2009)
University of Science and Technology of China
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering
Jilin University, China
Dr. Ding is primarily focusing on research in energy conversion and storage, such as fuel cell, hydrogen production, battery, electrocatalysis, additive manufacturing, and electrochemical processing. He graduated with PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Solis Oxide Fuel Cell EFRC Center at University of South Carolina in 2014, and worked in proton conducting SOFCs with dissertation “Material Synthesis and Fabrication Method Development for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”. After graduation, he worked as CoosTek postdoctoral fellow in Colorado School of Mines until 2017 to focus on methane-fueled SOFC and proton conducting SOFC/SOEC for ARPA-E REBELS and NASA projects to deliver short-stacks demonstration.
Before joining OU, he was a research scientist in Idaho National Laboratory working on hydrogen production with solid oxide cells. As one of the technical leads in INL, he has supported the material and electrochemistry development with significant involvement into DoE’s HydroGEN consortium by leading the efforts in material characterization and electrochemical measurements for 8 seedling projects from universities (Univ. Connecticut, Univ. South Carolina, West Virginia Univ., Northwestern Univ.) and industry (UTRC, Redox, Nexceris, Saint-Gobain) under high-temperature electrolysis category. Dr. Ding helped these project PIs with technical supports to succeed moving forward to next phases. He also worked for H2-2.0 project for performing fundamental study in understanding electron leakage and proton conduction in P-SOEC electrolytes. Dr. Ding actively worked for H2NEW and SuperNode projects for studying degradation behaviors and mechanisms for conventional oxide-ion conducting SOECs. He led two Laboratory Direct Research Development (LDRD) projects and one DoE project working with Dr. Duan. One of LDRD projects was to investigate electronic leakage mechanism of P-SOEC electrolytes.
Dr. Ding is actively working on hydrogen technologies. His current laboratory in OU has extensive capabilities in P-SOEC manufacturing, cell testing, and advanced characterizations. Dr. Ding has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in solid oxide fuel cell and electrolysis cells since 2008, including the journals Nature, Nature Communications, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Joule and J. Power Sources. He has filed 5 US patents on hydrogen production and catalysts.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6xDQe7oAAAAJ&hl=en
PhD students
Shuanglin Zheng
- PhD. University of Oklahoma, 2023/01~present
- M. S., Fuzhou University in Material Engineering
- B. S., Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in Material Engineering
Saroj Karki
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 2024/01- present
MSc., Mechanical Engineering, Tribhuvan University
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Tribhuvan University
Research interest: Hydrogen Technologies, Fuel cells, Batteries, Techno-economic assessment
Undergraduate students
Allison Le
I’m currently a junior student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. I’m passionate in problem solving and creativity. My desire of engineering field is machine learning. My goal in life is to fulfill my professional dream of being an engineering and improve myself every day.
Intern students
Fiona Chen
Fiona Chen is a rising senior at Norman North High School.
In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing and the outdoors. She is passionate about science and learning more about the STEM field.
Andy Wang
Andy Wang is a rising junior in high school. He is interested in computer science and tennis. He hopes to expand his knowledge in energy production and engineering.