Tyler Mefford

Electrochemistry offers a clean pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in manufacturing, chemical production, transportation, and to store excess energy from intermittent renewables like wind and solar. My research is focused on improving electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies through rational material design. I develop new, higher performance electrodes and advanced techniques to study material structure-property relationships during operation. I am particularly interested in the functionality of transition metal oxides and polymeric electrodes in aqueous systems for use as battery electrodes and electrocatalysts for hydrogen production, oxygen reduction/evolution, CO2 reduction, and ammonia production.