Professor Jihoon Lee (Department of Electronic Engineering) Research Team

Development of High Efficiency Green Hydrogen Production Electrode to Meet Industrial Requirements Based on Nickel-Boron-Phosphate Micro Spherical

- JCR ‘Engineering, Environment’ Category Q1, IF: 16.744 Published in a Scientific Journal -

-Significantly Improved Hydrogen Generation Reaction (HER) and Oxygen Generation Reaction (OER) and Produced Ultra-pure Green Hydrogen by Using a Micro Sphere Structure With Greatly Improved Surface Area -

(Left) Ahasan PhD researcher / (Right) Professor Jihoon Lee

Professor Lee Ji-hoon (Department of Electronic Engineering) research team together with Ahasan PhD researcher (first author) of the Department of Electronic Engineering succeeded in developing ternary nickel-boride-phosphide (Ni-B-P)-based micro sphere (Micro Sphere, MS) electrode for producing high-efficiency green hydrogen for the first time in the world.

Photo Description: Schematic diagram of the Ni-B-P MS electrode. Ni-B-P microsphere electrodes perform well at high current when paired with Pt/C due to their superior OER performance compared to the benchmark.

Researchers for this study are Md Ahasan Habib (PhD student, Kwangwoon University ？ first author), Rutuja Mandavkar (PhD student, Kwangwoon University), Shusen Lin (PhD student, Kwangwoon University), Shalmali Burse (PhD student, Kwangwoon University), Tasmia Khalid (PhD student, Kwangwoon University), Mehedi Hasan Joni (PhD student, Kwangwoon University), Jae-Hun Jeong (Research professor, Kwangwoon University - Corresponding author), Jihoon Lee (Professor, Kwangwoon University - Corresponding author). Student Md Ahasan Habib entered Kwangwoon University with a Ph.D. in 2021 and is currently a third-year Ph.D. researcher. To date, a number of lead author/co-author papers have been published. Researcher Md Ahasan Habib said, “I am happy that my thesis has been published in an excellent journal, and after receiving my doctorate, I want to continue my research at an excellent institution to make Kwangwoon University shine.”

Meanwhile, this research was carried out with the support of the BK-21, key research institute project and Kwangwoon University promoted by the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Ministry of Education. The research results were published under the title of “NiBP micro spherical clusters for water splitting OER electrocatalyst satisfying industrial operational requirements” in the March 2023 online edition of Chemical Engineering Journal (JCR category field Q1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL, IF: 16.744).

* Web link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142177