Wilson A. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He earned his BS in Physics from American University in 2005, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Georgia in 2010, where he studied the synthesis and applications of nanostructured photocatalysts. From there he moved to Paris, France as a postdoctoral research associate at the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/Sorbonne where he studied the defect structure of doped semiconductors for solar water purification. In 2012 he began his independent career at TU Delft, where his group focuses on fundamental and applied aspects of photoelectrochemical water splitting, electrochemical CO2 reduction and ammonia synthesis. ÌýWilson has been the recipient of the prestigious VENI (2013), VIDI (2016), and ERC Starting (2017) personal grants, which have helped his group bridge scales and disciplines to address practical problems in large scale energy conversion and storage.
Wilson's Recent RASEI Activities
Electrolyte–Electrocatalyst Interfacial Effects of Polymeric Materials for Tandem CO2 Capture and Conversion Elucidated Using In Situ Electrochemical AFM
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2024, 16, 32, 42021-42033 Read more
Insights into Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Metallic and Oxidized Tin Using Grand-Canonical DFT and In Situ ATR-SEIRA Spectroscopy
ACS CATALYSIS, 2024, 14, 8353-8365 Read more
Closing the Loop: Unexamined Performance Trade-Offs of Integrating Direct Air Capture with (Bi)carbonate Electrolysis
ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2024, 9, 2472-2483 Read more
Layered Sn–Au Thin Films for Increased Electrochemical ATR-SEIRAS Enhancement
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2024, 16, 15, 19780-19791 Read more
Elucidation of Critical Catalyst Layer Phenomena toward High Production Rates for the Electrochemical Conversion of CO to Ethylene
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2024, 16, 3, 3246-3252 Read more
Analyses of the Opportunities and Barriers associated with Electrochemical-Driven Decarbonization
RASEI Fellows Bri-Mathias Hodge and Wilson Smith has been part of a series of collaborative studies that have explored the use of electrochemical carbon reduction. Read more
Evaluating the techno-economic potential of defossilized air-to-syngas pathways
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 2023, 16, 6127-6146 Read more
Direct Measurement of Electrochemical Selectivity Gradients over a 25 cm2 Copper Gas Diffusion Electrode
ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2023, 8, 3811–3819 Read more
Barriers and opportunities for the deployment of CO2 electrolysis in net-zero emissions energy systems
JOULE, 2023, 7, 6, 1111-1133 Read more