Renewable Energy and Chemicals (REC) Research Group


Design of nanoscale materials with superior catalytic or electrocatalytic properties, essentially holds the key to success for developing renewable energy and chemicals. In our efforts, a bottom-up approach is applied, wherein quantum mechanical ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations of reactions occurring on the material surface are guiding the rational design of heterogeneous catalysts. The inherent design ideas vary and depend on the problem at hand. Overall, the ab initio level theoretical simulations provide us a mechanistic insight into the reaction, which in-turn offers us an opportunity to engineer the material itself. This is often implemented in experiments by changing the material surface, morphology and the characteristic length scales.  


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M. Ali Haider

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Associate Faculty, Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence  (ScAI)

B. Tech. IIT Guwahati, 2006

M. S. & Ph.D University of Virginia (UVA), 2006-2011

Postdoctoral Research Associate, NSF-CBiRC, UVA, 2011-2013 

Visiting Scholar, CCEI, University of Delaware, 2016-17

Co-investigator: Energy Storage Platform on Batteries &

Centre of Excellence for Biopharmaceutical Technology

CO2 Reduction

catalyst discovery

BiorenewableS

Platform Chemicals

Biofuels

Natural Gas to Aromatics

methane Activation

Water Purification

NOx Adsorbers

Single Atom Alloys

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