Electrochemical Water Splitting: Fundamentals, Challenges and Advances

This book provides a comprehensive platform for the research, scientific and educational communities working on electrocatalysis. It covers water electrolysis from different fields of catalysis research, deals with the fundamentals and critically discusses the precise and correct use of evaluating parameters and their calculation for a fair evaluation. Readers find an analysis to probe the origin of different bottlenecks in water electrolysis and scientific methods to enhance the electrode selectivity with high intrinsic activity, effective mass and electron transfer ability, abundant active sites with super hydrophilicity-aerophobicity characteristics and structural, mechanical and chemical stability with high corrosion resistance.

Dr. Tanveer ul Haq received his Ph.D. in sustainable energy from Texas A&M University, USA. He completed his MS in Chemistry from the Lahore University of Management and Science (LUMS), Lahore. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sharjah, UAE. His research primarily focuses on the electronic, surface, and structural engineering of electrocatalysts for direct seawater electrolysis, decoupled and tandem water electrolysis, and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). He is keen on utilizing advanced electronic and spectroscopic characterization tools to explore surface and structural defects in catalysts, study phase transformations during electrocatalysis, and identify active centers for electrochemical reactions.

Yousef Haik is an internationally recognized scholar in nanotechnology. His research focus is in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for a myriad of applications including hydrogen production, biomedical sensors, diagnostics and imaging. His scholarly output includes over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles, over 80 issued patents and patent applications and a number of textbooks. His academic appointments include Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry. His academic affiliation includes Harvard University, Texas A & M University, University of North Carolina, Florida State University, and the University of Sharjah. Professor Haik has over 25 years of academic experience in senior academic administrative positions ranging from a program director, department chair, dean, associate provost, associate vice president, provost and vice chancellor. Prof. Haik has B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a Juris Doctor degree.