Mike Tebyetekerwa

Dr Mike is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Research Fellow and Sub-Group Leader at UQ Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation and ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide(GETCO2), working with Professor Xiwang Zhang. Mike's current main research interests rotate around water and electrochemical systems such as electrochemical carbon dioxide capture using water-based approaches, electrochemical synthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water, co-production of hydrogen and peroxide from treated wastewater and electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to valuable chemicals. He completed his PhD at The Australian National University (ANU) in July 2022, where his research was predominantly focused on optical spectroscopy and advanced characterization of semiconducting materials and their devices for energy technologies. Mike also holds a Master's in Materials Processing Engineering from Donghua University, Shanghai, where his research focused on fibrous materials for flexible energy storage. Mike supervises projects for undergraduate, master's, and PhD students on topics related to the following research interests;

1. Electrochemical production of hydrogen peroxide and/or hydrogen from water
2. Electrochemical CO2 capture and reduction to valuable chemicals
3. Reconstructed graphite for sodium-ion batteries
4. High surface area electrospun fibre materials for various applications
5. Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) molecules and their engineered applications
6. Light-matter understanding of 2D materials and other semiconductor materials for optoelectronics

Featured works

• 2022: His work on 2D materials (https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(21)00213-7) was selected in the Cell Reports Physical Science “Influential papers-2021” and "Editor's Choice-2021" collection.
• 2021: His works (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/sc/c8ee02607f) and other co-authored works (https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb8687), ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.11.012 ) are listed as "Highly Cited Papers" and "Hot Papers" in Web of Science.
• 2020:His work on nanofibers has continuously been listed as one of the highly cited articles for Advanced Fiber Materials (https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-020-00049-5), since it was published to date.
• 2019:His work on nanofibers ( https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.7b00057 ) was listed as the most-read article for ACS Applied Energy Materials in 2018.