Wu awarded Energy Technology Division Research Award from Electrochemical Society
The award honors outstanding contributions to electrochemical energy technologies-related research
Gang Wu, professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded the Energy Technology Division Research Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
The Energy Technology Division Research Award is given to one researcher annually to recognize outstanding and original contributions to the science and technology of energy-related research in interest areas of the Energy Technology Division of the Electrochemical Society and to encourage excellence in electrochemical energy-related research and publication in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. The award, to be presented in Spring 2025, is the pre-eminent award in the electrochemical energy conversion and storage field.
An electrochemist, Wu is a leading scientist in exploring platinum group metal (PGM)-free and low-PGM catalysts for sustainable hydrogen technologies, such as fuel cells, water electrolysis, carbon dioxide conversion and clean electrosynthesis. Over the past decade, his group was awarded more than $10 million in grants from federal agencies for projects related to developing advanced materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies.
Among his scientific contributions to the field are contributing to PGM catalyst development for heavy-duty vehicles; pioneering highly efficient carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide conversion via engineering and designing atomically dispersed metal catalysts from single to dual metal sites; developing advanced ammonia and nitrogen energy technologies, particularly in ammonia electrosynthesis, direct ammonia fuel cells and ammonia cracking for green hydrogen; and creating innovative and efficient catalysts and electrodes for green hydrogen generation via water electrolysis.
He also is the author of more than 330 scientific papers in journals including Science, Nature Energy and Nature Catalysis, and nine book chapters. He holds 12 patents or patent applications. He is a frequent contributor to ECS, publishing 22 papers in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, ECS Transactions and ECS Letters. His work has earned more than 56,000 citations by August 2024, allowing him to be named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics since 2018. He has won numerous awards and honors for his research.
Wu is an associate editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society and has served on several award committees at ECS. He has co-organized symposia at national conferences, including ECS, ACS, and AIChE. In particular, he initiated a new symposium, “Energy Conversion Systems Based on Nitrogen,” of the Energy Technology Division. He has led the symposium “Applied Electrochemistry for Advanced Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies” at the ACS National Meeting since 2016.
Wu joined the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering this fall from The State University of New York at Buffalo. Wu’s recruitment was supported by the Here and Next Field Leading Faculty Initiative.
