Professor Jenny Yang

Professor Jenny Yang
Department of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Abstract

Electrochemical CO2 Capture, Concentration, and Conversion

CO2 capture, concentration, and utilization are all important processes for a circular carbon economy. Developing selective catalysts for concentration CO2 reduction without concomitant hydrogen evolution is a challenge. I will discuss our thermodynamic and kinetic strategies for suppressing the hydrogen evolution reaction under reductive conditions. I will also discuss our work in developing oxygen- stable systems for electrochemical CO2 capture and concentration using secondary hydrogen- bonding interactions. Lastly, I will discuss our work on integrating CO2 capture and conversion into catalytic systems that can take dilute streams of CO2 directly into products.

Jenny Yang

Professor Jenny Y. Yang is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She received her B.S. degree in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera at MIT. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) with Dr. Daniel L. DuBois. She continued as a scientist at PNNL and then at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis before starting as an Assistant Professor at UCI. Her research is focused on inorganic synthesis and electrochemical processes relevant catalysis and separations.

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