Solomon Oyakhire is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. He earned his BSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, graduating with the highest honors and recognized as the department's best graduating student.

He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University working on interfacial electrochemistry with Stacey Bent and Yi Cui as a Knight Hennessy scholar. During his postdoctoral training at the University of California Berkeley, he developed artificial intelligence algorithms for high dimensional datasets with Kristin Persson and Gerbrand Ceder as a Schmidt Science Fellow.

Research summary: Grand challenges in energy storage, environmental stewardship, and environmental remediation require innovations in coupled ion-electron transfer (CIET) at electrified interfaces. To address those challenges, we study and control CIET in batteries and electrochemical separations devices.

Our approach: The Oyakhire Lab studies and controls ion and electron transfer at solid-liquid interfaces in electrochemical systems. These interfacial charge-transfer processes determine the macroscopic performance of batteries, electrocatalytic cells, and related technologies. Consequently, designing next-generation energy storage and conversion devices depends on controlling charge transfer at interfaces.

We follow an iterative investigative cycle:

• Synthesize hypothesis-informed materials such as thin films and small molecules using tunable methods.
• Probe ion- and electron-transfer mechanisms to determine how these materials influence device properties such as efficiency.
• Refine material design using the resulting mechanistic insights.

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