Welcome to the Hasin

HASIN SEEKS TO DISCOVER NEW WAYS TO CONVERT & STORE RENEWABLE ENERGY USING INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE/CARBON COMPOSITE ELECTROCATALYSTS AS ELECTRODE MATERIALS.

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

“The amount of sunlight that strikes the earth's surface in an hour is about 4.3 × 10²⁰ J and a half is enough to produce energy in order to power all human activities on Earth for a full year. Despite the fact of the steady scientific progress for renewable energy advances, the devices for the conversion & storage of this energy have remained technically elusive in terms of efficiency. The design of highly efficient electrocatalysts that catalyze electrochemical reactions occurring in the energy conversion & storage devices is both a formidable challenge and an opportunity that, if realized, could have a revolutionary impact on our energy system.

In the past years, Hasin’s research group has made steady progress towards basic problems of electrocatalysis of reactions occurring in dye-sensitized solar cells, supercapacitors, fuel cells, and Li-ion batteries, while discovering inorganic nanoparticle/carbon composite electrocatalysts for use as the electrode materials that are both efficient and robust. Technological development and success in this area could drive a revolution in the way that electrocatalysts for the electrode materials can be well designed for producing scientific breakthroughs that could dramatically advance renewable energy systems.”