Metal-Free Electrodes for Energy Storage

Pradeep Kumar Panda is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. He earned his PhD at Chang Gung University, Taiwan in 2021 and worked at Yonsei University, South Korea as a postdoctoral researcher. His research encompasses sustainable nanomaterials, electrochemical catalysts, energy devices, polymer science, and biomaterials.

Arpan Kumar Nayak earned his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Hanyang University, South Korea and Research Professor at Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea. He is an Assistant Professor at Regional Institute of Education (NCERT) Mysuru, India. His research focuses on the synthesis of various nanostructured materials and carbon-based materials in environment and energy applications.

Chien-Te Hsieh earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 2001. Following a four-year tenure as a Ph.D. researcher at the Materials/Chemical Research Laboratories of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan, he joined the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, as a professor, where he continues to teach and research. From 2017 to 2020, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, while concurrently holding a visiting scholar position at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. His research focuses on two main areas: (i) nanomaterial synthesis using atomic layer deposition (ALD), microwave deposition, and infrared-assisted methods, and (ii) energy storage applications, including Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, solid-state batteries, electrochemical capacitors, and fuel cells.