Melissa Kreider joined NREL's Chemistry and Nanoscience Center in October 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher. Her research in the Hydrogen and Fuel Cells group focuses on improving the performance and durability of anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers for green hydrogen production. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. She then did her doctorate in chemical engineering at Stanford University with Professor Thomas Jaramillo, where she developed non-precious metal fuel cell electrocatalysts and investigated catalyst material changes and degradation during reaction using in situ X-ray techniques and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.

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Research Interests

Electrocatalyst development 

Electrolyzers and fuel cells 

Catalyst and device degradation processes 

Education

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University 

M.S., Chemical Engineering, Stanford University 

B.S., Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Featured Work

Material Changes in Electrocatalysis: An In Situ/Operando Focus on the Dynamics of Cobalt-Based Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Catalysts, ChemElectroChem (2022)

Understanding the Stability of Manganese Chromium Antimonate Electrocatalysts through Multimodal In Situ and Operando Measurements, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2022)

Strategies for Modulating the Catalytic Activity and Selectivity of Manganese Antimonates for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, ACS Catalysis (2022)

First-Row Transition Metal Antimonates for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, ACS Nano (2022)

Identifying and Tuning the In Situ Oxygen-Rich Surface of Molybdenum Nitride Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction, ACS Applied Energy Materials (2020)

Nitride or Oxynitride? Elucidating the Composition-Activity Relationships in Molybdenum Nitride Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, Chemistry of Materials (2020)

Precious Metal-Free Nickel Nitride Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2019)