Mr Asim Riaz
Areas of expertise
- Electrochemical Energy Storage And Conversion 400404
- Materials Engineering 4016
- Chemical Engineering Design 400403
- Powder And Particle Technology 400406
Research interests
Renewable Fuels
Green Hydrogen Production
Electrolyser system design
Electrolyser stack design
Electrocatalysis
Catalyst fabrication and characterization
Nanomaterials and Nanostructures
Biography
Dr. Asim Riaz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ACT-H2 program at the School of Engineering at the ANU. He has gain experties in metal oxides, 2D nanomaterials, heterogenous catalysis, thermochemical and electrochemical converison of CO2/H2O into H2 and carbon-neutral fuels. Prominent work of Asim’s research activities/collaborations have been published in reputed research journals Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, ACS Catalysis, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, etc..
Through his research and development, he is passionate to help creating a cleaner and more efficient energy landscape that benefits both the environment and society. His current research activities focus on developing sustainable energy solutions towards the climate change crisis. That involes low cost and efficient solar driven electrolyser systems for green hydrogen production. In addition, he is working on developing efficient earth abundant electrocatalysts with facile fabrication techniques. He is also developing skills in the area of technoeconomic analysis and system level modeling of pilot scale electrolysers for cost effective H2 production.
Asim completed his Ph.D degree from college of Engineering and computer science, ANU in 2021. His PhD research focused on the mixed metal oxides for syngas production via high temperature thermochemical routes. His research interests focus on development and advanced characterization of new materials and its application to sustainble energy and fuels systems. He has gain experties in metal oxides, 2D nanomaterials, heterogenous catalysis, thermochemical and electrochemical converison of CO2/H2O into H2 and carbon-neutral fuels.
Researcher's projects
Electrochemical water splitting device design and testing
Earth abundant electrocatalysts for efficient water splitting reaction
PV-coupled Electrolysis system design and integration
Current student projects
Synthesis of nanostructured electrocatalysts by facile techniques
Surface modification of substrates for enhanced water electrolysis
Simulation of interaction effects in water splitting electrolyser systems by Artificial Nural Network technique
Publications
- Soo, J, Gupta, B, Riaz, A et al. 2022, 'Facile Substrate-Agnostic Preparation of High-Performance Regenerative Water Splitting (Photo)electrodes', Chemistry of Materials, vol. 34, no. 15, pp. 6792-6801.
- Gupta, B, Hossain, M, Riaz, A et al. 2022, 'Recent Advances in Materials Design Using Atomic Layer Deposition for Energy Applications', Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 1-39.
- Zhang, D, Li, H, Riaz, A et al. 2022, 'Unconventional direct synthesis of Ni3N/Ni with N-vacancies for efficient and stable hydrogen evolution', Energy and Environmental Science, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 185-195.
- Sharma, A, Duong, T, Liu, P et al. 2021, 'Direct solar to hydrogen conversion enabled by silicon photocathodes with carrier selective passivated contacts', Sustainable Energy & Fuels, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 349-360.
- Riaz, A, Lipinski, W & Lowe, A 2021, 'Cyclic oxygen exchange capacity of Ce-doped V2O5 materials for syngas production: Via high-temperature thermochemical-looping reforming of methane', RSC Advances, vol. 11, no. 37, pp. 23095-23104.
- Riaz, A, Kremer, F, Kim, T et al. 2021, 'Experimental demonstration of vanadium-doped nanostructured ceria for enhanced solar thermochemical syngas production', Nano Energy, vol. 81.
- Chen, J, Riaz, A, Taheri, M et al. 2021, 'Optical and radiative characterisation of alumina-silica based ceramic materials for high-temperature solar thermal applications', Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, vol. 272, pp. 1-11.
- Riaz, A, Bodger, C, Chen, J et al. 2021, 'Redox Performance of Ceria-Vanadia Mixed-Phase Reticulated Porous Ceramics for Solar Thermochemical Syngas Production', Energy and Fuels, vol. 35, no. 20, pp. 16791-16798.
- Riaz, A, Ali, M, Enge, T et al. 2020, 'Concentration-Dependent Solar Thermochemical CO2/H2O Splitting Performance by Vanadia-Ceria Multiphase Metal Oxide Systems', Research, vol. 2020, pp. 1-12.
- Riaz, A, Tsuzuki, T, Kremer, F et al. 2020, 'Structural Rearrangement in LSM Perovskites for Enhanced Syngas Production via Solar Thermochemical Redox Cycles', ACS Catalysis, vol. 10, no. 15, pp. 8263-8276.
- Riaz, A, Kreider, P, Kremer, F et al. 2019, 'Electrospun Manganese-Based Perovskites as Efficient Oxygen Exchange Redox Materials for Improved Solar Thermochemical CO2 Splitting', ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 2494-2505.