Professor David Fermin
Current positions
Professor of Electrochemistry
School of Chemistry
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
DIMENSIONALLY STABLE ELECTRODES FOR SUPERCRITICAL WATER ELECTROLYSIS (SuperH2)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/07/2022 to 31/12/2023
Solution-Processed Inorganic Thin-Film Photovoltaic Devices (SolPV)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/08/2021 to 31/01/2025
Clay-supported Catalytic Nanoparticles As A Scalable Platform For For Wastewater Remediation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/10/2020 to 30/09/2022
In-situ probing structure and electronic properties of transition metal oxide electrocatalysts
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/09/2015 to 31/08/2017
Electrochemical Oxidation of Low Molecular Weight Alkanes to Liquid Fuels at Molecular Interfaces
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/12/2012 to 01/10/2015
Thesis supervisions
Complex ferrite thin films for photoelectrochemical water splitting
Supervisors
Correlating Electronic Structure of Perovskites to their Activity towards Oxygen Electrocatalysis
Supervisors
Electronic Structure Descriptors for Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution
Supervisors
Fluorofunctionalisation of alkenes via electrochemically generated hypervalent iodine reagents
Supervisors
Growing diamond on unusual substrates
Supervisors
The Influence Of The Local Environment on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2
Supervisors
Sustainable functionalization of diamond surface with tin, lithium, and oxygen for low work function applications
Supervisors
Effects of organic cosolvents on a de novo designed heme peroxidase
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
22/03/2025Atomic Layer Deposition Strategies for Surface Passivation of Metal-Halide Perovskite Absorbers
Electronic Materials Letters
Tuning the Surface Electronic Landscape of Ultrathin (Al,Sn)Ox Electron Extraction Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells
Small
Activating Mn Sites by Ni Replacement in α-MnO2
ACS Materials Au
Correlating molecular precursor interactions with device performance in solution-processed Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 thin-film solar cells
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Molecular Structure Effects on Ionic Diode Performance in Desalination
ChemElectroChem
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