Digestion of Ambient Humidity for Energy Generation

Yaoxin Zhang completed his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and he is currently a postdoctoral researcher at NUS. His research interests mainly focus on advanced materials and systems and their applications in the fields of solar desalination, atmospheric water harvesting, carbon energy generation, and environmental sustainability. Dilip Krishna Nandakumar is currently a postdoctoral researcher at NUS in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and received his PhD at NUS. His research interests focus on developing hygroscopic materials for harnessing ambient humidity as a potential resource for energy conservation, harvesting, and environmental applications. Swee Ching Tan received his PhD from the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge. His PhD work was to use photosynthetic proteins as light-absorbing materials for solar cells under the supervision of Prof. Sir Mark Welland. After getting his PhD in 2010, Dr. Tan then moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT to become a postdoctoral associate working on nano-electronics. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NUS.