Stefan Kaskel, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at TU Dresden, has been researching for several years nanostructured and porous carbon materials for the use in batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and catalysis. Recently, the team has announced a collaboration with a renowned international researcher. Prof. Qiang Xu, Director of the AIST-Kyoto University Chemical Energy Materials Open Innovation Laboratory (ChEM-OIL) and Humboldt Research Award Winner. Together, they will conduct research on nanostructured materials with the goal of long-term collaboration.
Xu obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Osaka University in 1994 and joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 1995. He then initiated the collaboration between AIST and Kyoto University on chemical energy materials as the founding director of ChEM-OIL in 2017.
Xu's plans to expand the development and commercialization of nanostructured materials, including materials based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and carbons, with high performance for hydrogen evolution catalysis and for electrical energy storage applications.