Onno van der Heijden
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Water electrolysis combined with renewable electricity can reduce the CO2 emissions of the chemical industry by replacing hydrogen produced from fossil resources with green hydrogen. However, many challenges remain in producing and understanding catalyst materials with high activity and good stability from abundant and inexpensive materials. In previous work, Onno studied the intrinsic kinetic parameters of NiFeOOH (such as the Tafel slope) and their relationship to non-kinetic effects, such as bubble behaviour, mass transport, and resistance, which convolute kinetic measurements. Moreover, he investigated the effect of the electrolyte on the reaction activity. As a postdoc at TU Eindhoven, he will explore electrocatalysts for water electrolysis based on cheap and abundant materials.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Onno has performed his Bachelor Chemistry and Master Nanomaterials Science studies at Utrecht University. He performed his master鈥檚 thesis on the effects of the channel geometry of zeolite ZSM-5 on the methanol-to-hydrocarbon process in the group of Prof. Dr. Ir. Bert Weckhuysen, and he conducted his research internship on hydrogenation catalysis at BASF in de Meern. Onno had done his PhD studies in the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry (CASC) group at Leiden University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc T.M. Koper. There he investigated the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) under alkaline conditions on NiFeOOH electrocatalysts.
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