Cowan, Alexander - University of Liverpool

个人简介

Prof Alex Cowan obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham (2007) for the study of inorganic reaction mechanisms with transient spectroscopy, under the supervision of Prof. Mike George. Following a postdoctoral position at Nottingham developing catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide he moved to Imperial College London to study photoelectrochemical water splitting with Prof. David Klug. In 2011 Alex was appointed to a Lectureship in Renewable Fuel Synthesis at Imperial College on the Artificial Leaf programme. In October 2012 he joined the department of Chemistry and the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy at Liverpool University initially as a Lecturer and he was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2015, Reader in 2017 and Professor in 2019. In 2012 Alex was awarded a prestigious 5-year EPSRC early career fellowship and in 2017 he was awarded a further EPSRC fellowship that will run from 2017-2021.

研究领域

‌1. Electrocatalytic and photochemical carbon dioxide reduction 2. In-situ and transient spectroscopy of electrode surfaces 3. Transient spectroscopy of CO2 reduction and water splitting photocatalysts/electrodes 4. New photo- and electrocatalysts for water splitting

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Dynamics of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Silicon Electrodes Revealed by Combinatorial Electrochemical Screening (Journal article)Martín-Yerga, D., Milan, D. C., Xu, X., Fernández-Vidal, J., Whalley, L., Cowan, A. J., . . . Unwin, P. R. (2022). Dynamics of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Silicon Electrodes Revealed by Combinatorial Electrochemical Screening. Angewandte Chemie, 134(34). doi:10.1002/ange.202207184 Dynamics of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Silicon Electrodes Revealed by Combinatorial Electrochemical Screening (Journal article)Martin-Yerga, D., Milan, D. C., Xu, X., Fernandez-Vidal, J., Whalley, L., Cowan, A. J., . . . Unwin, P. R. (2022). Dynamics of Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Formation on Silicon Electrodes Revealed by Combinatorial Electrochemical Screening. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. doi:10.1002/anie.202207184 Tuning the local chemical environment of ZnSe quantum dots with dithiols towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction (Journal article)Sahm, C. D., Ciotti, A., Mates-Torres, E., Badiani, V., Sokolowski, K., Neri, G., . . . Reisner, E. (2022). Tuning the local chemical environment of ZnSe quantum dots with dithiols towards photocatalytic CO2 reduction. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 13(20), 5988-5998. doi:10.1039/d2sc00890d Zero-Gap Bipolar Membrane Electrolyzer for Carbon DioxideReduction Using Acid-Tolerant Molecular Electrocatalysts (Journal article)Siritanaratkul, B., Forster, M., Greenwell, F., Sharma, P. K., Yu, E. H., & Cowan, A. J. (2022). Zero-Gap Bipolar Membrane Electrolyzer for Carbon DioxideReduction Using Acid-Tolerant Molecular Electrocatalysts. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 144(17), 7551-7556. doi:10.1021/jacs.1c13024 Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Under Visible Light Enabled by a Particulate Conjugated Polymer Loaded with Palladium and Iridium (Journal article)Bai, Y., Li, C., Liu, L., Yamaguchi, Y., Bahri, M., Yang, H., . . . Sprick, R. S. (2022). Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Under Visible Light Enabled by a Particulate Conjugated Polymer Loaded with Palladium and Iridium. ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. doi:10.1002/anie.202201299 Manganese Carbonyl Complexes as Selective Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction in Water and Organic Solvents (Journal article)Siritanaratkul, B., Eagle, C., & Cowan, A. J. (2022). Manganese Carbonyl Complexes as Selective Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction in Water and Organic Solvents. ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH, 55(7), 955-965. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00692 How to go beyond C-1 products with electrochemical reduction of CO2 (Journal article)Li, D., Zhang, H., Xiang, H., Rasul, S., Fontmorin, J. -M., Izadi, P., . . . Xuan, J. (2021). How to go beyond C-1 products with electrochemical reduction of CO2. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS, 5(23), 5893-5914. doi:10.1039/d1se00861g Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Polaron Formation in a Polymer Photocatalyst (Journal article)Piercy, V. L., Saeed, K. H., Prentice, A. W., Neri, G., Li, C., Gardner, A. M., . . . Cowan, A. J. (2021). Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy of Polaron Formation in a Polymer Photocatalyst. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 12(44), 10899-10905. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03073 Electrolysis of low-grade and saline surface water (vol 5, pg 367, 2020) (Journal article)Tong, W., Forster, M., Dionigi, F., Dresp, S., Erami, R. S., Strasser, P., . . . Farras, P. (2021). Electrolysis of low-grade and saline surface water (vol 5, pg 367, 2020). NATURE ENERGY, 6(9), 935. doi:10.1038/s41560-021-00851-4 Water electrolysis: Direct from the sea or not to be? (Journal article)Farràs, P., Strasser, P., & Cowan, A. J. (2021). Water electrolysis: Direct from the sea or not to be?. Joule, 5(8), 1921-1923. doi:10.1016/j.joule.2021.07.014 Noncovalent Immobilization of a Nickel Cyclam Catalyst on Carbon Electrodes for CO2 Reduction Using Aqueous Electrolyte (Journal article)Greenwell, F., Neri, G., Piercy, V., & Cowan, A. J. (2021). Noncovalent Immobilization of a Nickel Cyclam Catalyst on Carbon Electrodes for CO2 Reduction Using Aqueous Electrolyte. Electrochimica Acta, 139015. doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2021.139015 Thermal catalytic conversion: general discussion. (Journal article)Armstrong, K., Barbarino, S., Cao, X. E., Cassiola, F., Catlow, R. A., Claeys, M., . . . Wolf, M. (2021). Thermal catalytic conversion: general discussion.. Faraday discussions, 230(0), 124-151. doi:10.1039/d1fd90045e Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Ionic Liquids at High Pressure (Journal article)Welch, L., Vijayaraghavan, M., Greenwell, F., Satherley, J., & Cowan, A. (n.d.). Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Ionic Liquids at High Pressure. Faraday Discussions. doi:10.1039/D0FD00140F Emerging technologies: general discussion (Journal article)Bardow, A., Bizzarri, C., Cao, X. E., Cowan, A. J., Cummings, C., Del Angel Hernandez, V., . . . Yu, E. (2021). Emerging technologies: general discussion. FARADAY DISCUSSIONS, 230(0), 388-412. doi:10.1039/d1fd90048j Hybrid Photocathodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: Interfaces for Charge Separation and Selective Catalysis (Journal article)Garcia Osorio, D. A., Neri, G., & Cowan, A. J. (2021). Hybrid Photocathodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: Interfaces for Charge Separation and Selective Catalysis. CHEMPHOTOCHEM, 5(7), 595-610. doi:10.1002/cptc.202000309 Alkaline Water Oxidation Using a Bimetallic Phospho-Boride Electrocatalyst (Journal article)Chunduri, A., Gupta, S., Patel, M., Forster, M., Cowan, A. J., & Patel, N. (2020). Alkaline Water Oxidation Using a Bimetallic Phospho-Boride Electrocatalyst. CHEMSUSCHEM, 13(24), 6534-6540. doi:10.1002/cssc.202002269 Controlling Photocatalytic Activity by Self-Assembly - Tuning Perylene Bisimide Photocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (Journal article)McDowall, D., Greeves, B. J., Clowes, R., McAulay, K., Fuentes-Caparros, A. M., Thomson, L., . . . Adams, D. J. (2020). Controlling Photocatalytic Activity by Self-Assembly - Tuning Perylene Bisimide Photocatalysts for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 10(46). doi:10.1002/aenm.202002469 Solar to fuel: Recent developments in conversion of sunlight into high value chemicals (Journal article)Toma, F. M., Cowan, A. J., Sugiyama, M., Wang, L., & Xi, K. (2020). Solar to fuel: Recent developments in conversion of sunlight into high value chemicals. APL MATERIALS, 8(12). doi:10.1063/5.0038968 Potential and pitfalls: On the use of transient absorption spectroscopy for in situ and operando studies of photoelectrodes (Journal article)Forster, M., Cheung, D. W. F., Gardner, A. M., & Cowan, A. J. (2020). Potential and pitfalls: On the use of transient absorption spectroscopy for in situ and operando studies of photoelectrodes. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 153(15). doi:10.1063/5.0022138 Photocatalyst Z-scheme system composed of a linear conjugated polymer and BiVO(4)for overall water splitting under visible light (Journal article)Bai, Y., Nakagawa, K., Cowan, A. J., Aitchison, C. M., Yamaguchi, Y., Zwijnenburg, M. A., . . . Cooper, A. I. (2020). Photocatalyst Z-scheme system composed of a linear conjugated polymer and BiVO(4)for overall water splitting under visible light. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 8(32), 16283-16290. doi:10.1039/d0ta04754f Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Loaded Linear Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts (Journal article)Sprick, R. S., Chen, Z., Cowan, A. J., Bai, Y., Aitchison, C. M., Fang, Y., . . . Wang, X. (2020). Water Oxidation with Cobalt-Loaded Linear Conjugated Polymer Photocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie. doi:10.1002/ange.202008000