Abstract:

His KAUST Global Fellowship Program project proposes to achieve sustainable hydrogen production through seawater electrolysis, which is a promising technology, especially coupled with renewable power (e.g., solar and wind). His project goals are to develop efficient and stable catalysts based on earth-abundant elements for reducing overpotentials in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) at cathode and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at anode involved in seawater splitting, realizing the avoiding the use of valuable freshwater resources, improving energy conversion efficiency and reducing the cost of hydrogen production. 

Bio:

Dr. Huawei Huang received his Ph.D. degree from Dalian University of Technology (DUT) in 2019. Then, he moved to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as a postdoctoral researcher (from 08/2019) and then research assistant professor (from 10/2020). His research focuses on the synthesis of functional materials for hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction involving in electrochemical water splitting. He has published 12 SCI papers as the first author and more than 30 SCI papers as co-author.