Achievement

Menan Hussein’s research focus supports environmentally friendly solar-hydrogen production for the future hydrogen economy. Specifically, he is engaged in the design, synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials for direct water-splitting and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). He has demonstrated the efficacy of zirconia doped ZnO-TiO2 binary oxide as a photo-catalyst for hydrogen production in the presence of sacrificial agents. The hydrogen production supported on these materials has been shown to be ten orders of magnitude greater than on the un-doped parent material. This work was presented both at the Nanotech Conference Expo 2011, Boston June 13-16, 2011 and AICHE annual meeting 2011, Minneapolis, MN, October 16-21, 2011.