Introduction

Date	Time	Title	Speaker
Dec. 6th	14:30 - 15:00	Design of High-performance Electrocatalysts for Green Hydrogen Production and Uses: A Computational Materials Science Approach	Dr. Byung-Hyun Kim

Abstract

Environmental issues and dependence on fossil fuels have triggered the worldwide energy transition towards next-generation technologies including high-efficiency low-cost photovoltaics, wind power generation, batteries for energy storage systems and electric vehicles, hydrogen production, efficient hydrogen storage, fuel cells, and so on. To realize the so-called ‘carbon neutral’ energy transition, the development of advanced energy materials which should not only exhibit high efficiency and performance but also be eco-friendly and sustainable to overcome the limitations of current technologies is still needed. Recently, computational materials science has been regarded as an essential tool to investigate and establish the structure-property relationship for the materials design with new or better functions. The number of successful examples of developing new energy materials based on computational materials science has rapidly increased, which reflects the fact that the effective utilization of computational materials science becomes inevitable even in the renewable energy research field.

In this talk, I will introduce how we utilize the multiscale simulation method in the renewable energy research field and talk about recent progress on the development of catalysts and energy-related materials.