- Name: Tilahun Awoke (Ph.D.)
- Academic rank: Associate professor
- Email: tilahun_awoke@dmu.edu.et or tilachem2003@gmail.com
- ORCID address: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-8729
- Specialization: Physical chemistry
- Courses thought: All Physical chemistry course in both undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Research interest: My research focuses on advanced energy conversion and storage systems, including:
- Electrocatalytic water electrolysis for hydrogen production and green energy solutions
- High-energy batteries, including next-generation and emerging battery technologies
- Fuel cells and their integration in sustainable energy infrastructures
- Solar cells, emphasizing materials and device engineering for enhanced photovoltaic performance
- Supercapacitors with high power density and rapid charge-discharge capabilities
- Students supervised: more than 30 masters students through to successful graduation.
- List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j6GFZScAAAAJ&hl=en
- Scientific conference and presentation
- Activation Energy as Index of Surface Reconstruction and Activity in Next Generation Complex Metal Oxide Electrocatalysts” (February 19/2022 ), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Oral presentation)
- Fabrication and Characterization of High Capacity and Long Cycle Life Lithium-Sulfur Battery Using Porous Material as a Polysulfide Adsorbent” 236th ECS Meeting Abstract (October 13-17, 2019), 6, 519-519 (Atlanta, USA, Oral presentation)
- Systematic Design of Hybrid Porous Host for Sulfur as Efficienct Polysulfide Adsorbent Cathode Materials for High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries”, 2016 International conference on Green Electrochemical Technologies, (September 21-23, 2016), Taipei, Taiwan (Oral presentation).
- Investigation of Carbon and Sulfur Status in the Hybrid Porous Carbon-TiO2/S composite Cathode Materials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy(XPS)”,22nd NSRRC Users meeting and workshops, (September 20-22, 2016) Hsinchu, Taiwan, (Poster presentation).
- Design of Nanostructured Microporous Carbon-Mesoporous carbon doped TiO2/S nanocomposite Cathode Materials for Enhanced performance of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries” IAARHIES 46th International Conference on Engineering and Technology, ICET-2017 (Feb. 15-16, 2017), New York, USA, (Oral presentation)
- Design Advanced Cathode Materials for High Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries “Renewable Energy conversion and storage conference (May 29-30, 2017), Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (Oral presentation)
- Project works (completed and ongoing):
- Ceramic based Solid-State Battery Enegenering for High voltage cathode battery anode-free Lithium metal Battery [Amita-battry company,Taiwan: Completed].
- Multi-metal oxide electrocatalysts design and methode development for water and seawater oxidation [National Science & Technology Council (NSTC),Taiwan: Completed].
- Surface Eneginerging, morphology and structure of Nickel based electrocatalysts for water electrolyser (Natural science and Engenering Council of Canada, Canada: Ongoing).