Zebulon (Zeb) Schichtl joined NREL's Materials, Chemical and Computational Science Center in August 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in Emily Warren’s and Annie Greenaway’s research groups. An electrochemist by training, his research focus is in investigating durable photoelectrodes for diurnal carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction and studying the fundamentals of CO₂ reduction. Zeb received his bachelor’s in chemistry and mathematics from Lyon College in 2015. He continued his education as a doctoral candidate at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in Robert Coridan’s group. He received his doctoral degree in 2022 for work on a glycerol-assisted solar-to-hydrogen device. During this time, he also contributed to various other research topics including colloidal aggregation, X-ray imaging, and atomic layer deposition.

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Research Interests

Electrocatalysis

Photoelectrochemistry

Mechanical strain

Supercritical CO₂

Education

Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

B.S., Chemistry, Lyon College

B.S., Mathematics, Lyon College

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, NREL (2022–present)

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Arkansas (2015–2022)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Arkansas (2015–2018)

Assistant Supervisor for Supplemental Instruction Program, Lyon College (2013–2015)

Supplemental Instructor, Lyon College (2012–2015)

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Chemical Society

Member, Materials Research Society

Member, Liquid Sunlight Alliance

Featured Work

Characterizing Sustained Solar-to-Hydrogen Electrocatalysis at Low Cell Potentials Enabled by Crude Glycerol Oxidation, ACS Applied Energy Materials (2022)

Electrooxidation of Glycerol on Self-Organized, Mixed Au-Pt Interfaces Formed on Ni Substrates, Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2020)

Quaternary Core-Shell Oxynitride Nanowire Photoanode Containing a Hole-Extraction Gradient for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2019) 

Enhanced Electrochemical Stability of TiO2-Protected, Al-doped ZnO Transparent Conducting Oxide synthesized by Atomic Layer Deposition, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2018) 

Inhibition of Tafel Kinetics for Electrolytic Hydrogen Evolution on Isolated Micron Scale Electrocatalysts on Semiconductor Interfaces, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2016)

Patents

Systems and Methods for Electrochemical Valorization of Glycerol, U.S. Provisional Patent No. 63/218,963 (2021)

Awards and Honors

Doctoral Academy Fellow (2015–2019)

Lyon College Dean’s List (2011–2015)

Anderson Scholar (2011–2015)