Hybrid Photoelectrode Systems: Multi-scale Modeling, Operando Studies, and Deployment of Advanced Concepts
Understanding hybrid photoelectrodes in fully integrated solar-to-fuel systems is key to their ultimate success. Here we focus on evaluating our hybrid photoelectrodes within operational systems and before, during, and after operation using a combination of multi-scale modeling and operando methods. Learnings will inform advanced system designs and incorporation of new cascades.
Work within this thrust focuses on
Deployment of multi-scale modeling emphasizing reaction kinetics and mass transport to improve cascade reaction performance.
Interrogating state-of-the-art hybrid photoelectrodes through operando and post-mortem characterization to understand time-dependent performance.
Demonstration of unassisted solar-to-fuel systems by coupling CO₂ converting hybrid photoelectrodes with oxygen generating anodes.
Evaluating novel cascades within hybrid photoelectrodes and solar-to-fuel systems.
Thrust Coordinator (early career research) - Kunpeng Yu
