Water treatment and energy storage technology: Developing electrodeposition techniques to control the size and dispersion of nanoparticles and nanowires for these applications.
Machine learning techniques: Identifying promising catalyst materials for electrochemical applications such as water splitting for hydrogen and oxygen production and carbon dioxide reduction.
Techno-economic analyses: Studying emerging technologies related to chemical synthesis, energy conversion, and energy storage. The analyses serve to identify a system’s key parameters which must be optimized to advance their profitability and viability.
Direct solar-to-chemical conversion units: The lab designs coatings to protect embedded PV devices submerged in caustic electrolytes which can be applied using scalable techniques.
Dr. Mubeen's research explores solutions in these interconnected fields.
