Research Areas
Susutainable Energy Harvesting
Solar Water Splitting
The chemical reaction 2H2O → O2 + 4H+ + 4e–,is known as "water splitting," which breaks down water into oxygen and hydrogen. Due to its critical significance in addressing the energy crisis and environmental issues, photocatalytic water splitting into hydrogen fuel has been the subject of research. Our group's only objective is to create photocatalysts that can boost the effectiveness of water splitting reactions.
Electrochemical Energy Conversion
Oxygen Evolution Reaction I Oxygen Reduction Reaction
The basic goal of electrocatalysis is to identify the ideal electrocatalysts and conditions that will enable the required reactions to occur most effectively, or with the less overpotential. Fuel cells require catalysts As the kinetics of the chemical reactions involved make them somewhat slow. Nanomaterials based on carbon and non-nobel metals are created, and their activity towards diverse fuel cell reactions is studied.
Sustainable Energy Harvesting
Piezocatalysis
A developing method for producing "green hydrogen" that can address a number of the shortcomings of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic methods is piezocatalytic water splitting. Our goal is to create such piezocatalytsts that can split water with an incredibly high efficiency even without the aid of a cocatalyst or scavenger to concurrently produce H2 and value-added H2O2.
