The world is becoming electrified to move to a net-zero emissions economy. But advancements across multiple technologies are needed to rapidly test and deploy them at scale. My research focuses on electrochemical and chemical systems for decarbonization such as batteries, hydrogen production and consumption, and carbon capture and conversion. These systems are a complex combination of thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, and transport phenomena, but as such present the ideal problem for a chemical engineer’s skillset. My research combines experiments and continuum-scale computation to analyze different technologies to identify their limiting components that will provide the most gains from research and development, then optimizing the materials and device to increase the technology readiness level and decrease cost for commercial implementation.
