Summary
DATE | ROLE |
2022-date |
Reader in Applied Energy Materials and EPSRC Fellow, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK |
2019-2022 | EPRSRC Early Career Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK |
2014-2019 | Lecturer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Bath, UK |
2011-2014 | Postdoctoral research associate, Dept. of Materials, Imperial College London, UK. Working with Prof. E. Saiz |
2008-2011 | Postdoctoral research associate, Dept. Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. Working with Profs DS.. Wright and R.M. Lambert |
2005-2009 | PhD, Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (COK), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and IMEC, Belgium. Working with Profs K. Maex, C.E.A. Kirschhock, and J.A. Martens |
2004 | Taught Master in Materials Science for Nanotechnologies, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy |
1998-2003 | MEng in Chemical Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain |
Dr Eslava currently leads a group on novel synthesis approaches for (photo)electrochemical and (photo)catalytic materials, including transition metal oxides, halide perovskites, oxide perovskites, and graphene derivatives. He and his group carry out physicochemical and electrochemical characterisation of these materials to relate their properties to their application on energy conversion, as well as on their scale up and development. His research is multidisciplinary, extending the limits and synergies between chemical engineering, chemistry, physics and materials science. He has published more than 73 research articles in leading journals such as Adv. Mater., Energy & Environ. Sci., or Nature Commun. He has been awarded funding from The Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, EPSRC and Innovate UK. Recently, he received the Warner Medal from the Institution of Chemical Engineers for his research contributions and dissemination. His team's most significant contributions to the literature are:
- Developed stable halide perovskite CsPbBr3 based photoanodes for oxygen evolution in aqueous electrolytes (Nature Comm. 2019, Adv. Mater. 2023...)
- Developed halide perovskite composites with graphene and others for photocatalytic conversion of CO2 with water vapor (Chem. Mater. 2023, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2020, J. Mater. Chem. A 2021...)
- Unravelled the role of various oxygen evolution catalysts on Fe2O3, BiVO4, and other semiconductors for photoanodes (Small 2023, Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, and Energy Environ. Sci. 2018).
- Revealed greener and more efficient routes for the preparation of hematite and TiO2 photoanodes for solar water oxidation (Adv. Mater. Interf. 2023, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2019, Sust. Energy Fuels 2018, J. Mater. Chem. A 2017...)
- Discovered the use of graphene oxide as a sacrificial support to replicate its 2D shape on TiO2 photocatalysts for H2 production (J. Mater. Chem. A 2016) and CeO2 catalysts and supports (Appl. Catal. B Environ. 2018)
- Revealed the properties of complex cellular networks formed by the assembly of chemically modified graphene (Nature Comm. 2014) and upscaled graphene oxide for 3D printing graphene structures (Adv. Mater. 2015)
- Revealed the insulator properties of metal-organic framework ZIF-8 films for microelectronics (Chem. Mater. 2013)
- Discovered synthesis routes for heterometallic titanium clusters (Chem. Commun. 2010, Inorg. Chem. 2011) and their deposition for photochemical applications (Chem. Mater. 2010)
- Revealed that spin-coated zeolite films contain large voids detrimental for their application as insulator in microelectronics (Adv. Mater. 2008)
- Developed different approaches to optimise zeolite films, such as UV photochemistry (JACS 2007), silylation (Langmuir 2008), and zeolitic sol-gel process (JACS 2008 and Adv. Funct. Mater. 2008)
Publications
Journals
Zhu Z, Daboczi M, Chen M, et al. , 2024, Ultrastable halide perovskite CsPbBr3 photoanodes achieved with electrocatalytic glassy-carbon and boron-doped diamond sheets., Nat Commun, Vol:15, Pages:2791-2791
Fernández-Catalá J, Jussila L, Daboczi M, et al. , 2023, Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Cu3TeO6 Nanoparticles with Photocatalytic Features., Cryst Growth Des, Vol:23, ISSN:1528-7483, Pages:8828-8837
Liu SC, Lin HY, Hsu SE, et al. , 2023, Highly reproducible self-assembled monolayer based perovskite solar cells via amphiphilic polyelectrolyte, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:12, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:2856-2866
Daboczi M, Cui J, Temerov F, et al. , 2023, Scalable All-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photoanodes with >100 h Operational Stability Containing Earth-Abundant Materials., Adv Mater, Vol:35
Baghdadi Y, Temerov F, Cui J, et al. , 2023, Cs3Bi2Br9/g-C3N4 Direct Z-Scheme Heterojunction for Enhanced Photocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to CO., Chem Mater, Vol:35, ISSN:0897-4756, Pages:8607-8620