News
January 2013
Award Hans Geerlings and poster prize Moreno de Respinis
Hans Geerlings received the ‘Science of hydrogen and energy’ award 2013 for his outstanding work on the hydrogen production and storage, as well as his effort to open new fields in a world leading oil producing company at the 7th International Hydrogen and Energy Symposium in Stoos, Switzerland.
At the same conference Moreno de Respinis obtained the poster prize for his poster: Optimization of the anneal procedure in metal hydrides: case study of nanostructured tungsten processed via low-energy helium ions.
February 2012
Maarten de Nier wins Shell Master Award 2011
Maarten de Nier has won the Shell Master Award 2011 with his MSc thesis: “Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production – thin film bismuth ferrite as photo-electrode material”. He did this work in the Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage group of the Chemical Engineering department. The MECS group is very proud of Maarten's achievement and warmly congratulates him with this prestigious award!
More information: Shell BaMa Awards
For further information on the thesis subject, please contact Dr. R. van de Krol
December 2011
New book on solar hydrogen production, edited by Roel van de Krol (ChemE-MECS) and Michael Grätzel
This new book, titled “Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production”, describes the principles and materials challenges for the conversion of sunlight into hydrogen through water splitting at a semiconducting electrode. Apart from three chapters by Van de Krol, it includes contributions from Kevin Sivula, Kazuhiro Sayama, Bruce Parkinson, Eric Miller, Scott Warren, Julian Keable, and other experts in the field. More information can be found on the Springer website: www.springer.com/engineering/energy+technology/book/978-1-4614-1379-0. The book is also available on Amazon.com.
February 2011
Aletta Kaas wins Shell Bachelor Award 2010
Aletta Kaas has won the Shell Bachelor Award 2010 with her BSc thesis “Anodic alumina templates for nanostructured iron oxide”. She did this work in the Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage group of the ChemE department. The aim of her work was to make nanowires of iron oxide (‘rust’) that can be used to convert water and sunlight into a clean solar fuel, hydrogen. The MECS group is very proud of Aletta’s achievement and warmly congratulates her with this prestigious award!
More information: Delta interview, Shell BaMa Awards
For further information on the thesis subject, please contact Dr. R. van de Krol
