William Chueh
Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, of Energy Science and Engineering, of Photon Science, and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Bio
The availability of low-cost but intermittent renewable electricity (e.g., derived from solar and wind) underscores the grand challenge to store and dispatch energy so that it is available when and where it is needed. Redox-active materials promise the efficient transformation between electrical, chemical, and thermal energy, and are at the heart of carbon-neutral energy cycles. Understanding design rules that govern materials chemistry and architecture holds the key towards rationally optimizing technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, and novel thermodynamic cycles. Electrochemical and chemical reactions involved in these technologies span diverse length and time scales, ranging from Ångströms to meters and from picoseconds to years. As such, establishing a unified, predictive framework has been a major challenge. The central question unifying our research is: “can we understand and engineer redox reactions at the levels of electrons, ions, molecules, particles and devices using a bottom-up approach?” Our approach integrates novel synthesis, fabrication, characterization, modeling and analytics to understand molecular pathways and interfacial structure, and to bridge fundamentals to energy storage and conversion technologies by establishing new design rules.
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
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Associate Professor, Energy Science & Engineering
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Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
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Associate Professor, Photon Science Directorate
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Principal Investigator, Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences
Administrative Appointments
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Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University (2024 - Present)
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Faculty Director Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies Program, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Materials Research Society (2018)
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Science Award Electrochemistry, BASF/Volkswagen (2016)
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Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Camille Dreyfus Foundation (2016)
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Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2016)
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CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2015)
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Young Scientist Award, International Society for Solid State Ionics (2013)
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Top 35 innovators under the age of 35, MIT Technology Review (2012)
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Professor of the Year Teaching Award, Stanford Society of Women Engineers (2013)
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Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Energy, Caltech (2011)
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President Harry S. Truman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Sandia Naitonal Laboratories (2010)
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Graduate Student Award, American Vacuum Society Thin Film Division (2009)
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Josephine de Karman Fellowship, Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust (2009)
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Graduate Excellence in Materials Science Diamond Award, American Ceramics Society (2008)
Professional Education
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PhD, Caltech, Materials Science (2010)
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BS, Caltech, Applied Physics (2005)
2024-25 Courses
- Scaling Sustainability Solutions
SUSTAIN 170, SUSTAIN 370 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (6)
- Graduate Independent Study
MATSCI 399 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Master's Research
MATSCI 200 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Ph.D. Research
MATSCI 300 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Practical Training
MATSCI 299 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Independent Study
MATSCI 100 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Undergraduate Research
MATSCI 150 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Graduate Independent Study
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- ESE Master's Graduate Seminar
ENERGY 351 (Spr) - ESE PhD Graduate Seminar
ENERGY 352 (Spr) - Energy storage and conversion systems: Solar Cells, Fuel Cells, Batteries
ENERGY 201C (Spr) - Thermodynamic Evaluation of Green Energy Technologies
MATSCI 144 (Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Thermodynamic Evaluation of Green Energy Technologies
MATSCI 144 (Spr)
- ESE Master's Graduate Seminar
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Il Rok Choi, Sean Hsu, Riley Zhang, Wen Zhang, Felipe de Quesada -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
John Cattermull, Feng-Yang Chen, Donggun Eum, Kyle Frohna, Hongchang Hao, Katherine Harmon, Emma Kaeli, Lingchen Kong, Shubham Lochab, Celeste Melamed, Justin Rose, Lukas Stolz, Xiao Zhao -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Eddie Barks, Angel Burgos, Evan Carlson, Sofia Catalina, Emma Choy, Xiao Cui, Ana De La Fuente Duran, Tony Dong, Dylan Edelman, Alexis Geslin, Nidhi Kapate, Vivek Lam, Nic Liang, Edward Mu, Shripad Malakarjun Patil, Hari Ramachandran, Diego Rivera, Alison Shad, Aki Takahashi, Sunny Wang, Adrian Yao -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Samuel Lee, Yuzhe Li, Leah Narun, Jinwon Oh -
Master's Program Advisor
Zachary Nunn, Shashwat Viswanath -
Doctoral (Program)
Evan Carlson, Swati Narasimhan -
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Zhelong Jiang
All Publications
- Semiconductor/Mixed Ion & Electron Conductor Heterojunction for Elevated-Temperature Water Splitting. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2013; 15: 15459-15469
- Determination of the Surface Structure of CeO2(111) by Low-Energy Electron Diffraction. J. Chem. Phys. 2013; 139: 114703
- Sr- and Mn-doped LaAlO3-δ for Solar Thermochemical H2 and CO Production. Energy Environ. Sci. 2013; 6: 2424-2428
- Identifying Electrochemical Intermediate Species in H2 Redox Reactions on Solid-State Electrolytes. Chem. Comm. 2012; 48: 8338-8340
- Ionic and Electronic Conductivity of Nanostructured, Samaria-Doped Ceria. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2012; 159: K127-K135
- Electrochemistry of Mixed Oxygen Ion & Electron Conducting Electrodes in Solid Electrolyte Cells. Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. 2012; 3: 313-341
- High Stability and Reactivity of Ce3+ on Doped CeO2 Surface Revealed In operando. Chem. Mater. 2012; 24: 1876-1882
- Experimental Determination of Transmittance of Porous Cerium Oxide Media in the Spectral Range 300 – 1,100 nm. Exp. Heat Transfer 2011; 24: 285-299
- Decoupling Surface Reaction & Bulk Transport in Mixed Conductors with Electrochemically-Active Surfaces: A 2-D Numerical Study of Ceria. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011; 13: 2121-2135
- Reducing Error & Measurement Time in Impedance Spectroscopy Using Model-based Optimal Experimental Design. Electrochim. Acta 2011; 56: 5416-5434
- Unusual Decrease in Conductivity Upon Hydration in Acceptor Doped, Microcrystalline Ceria. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2011; 13: 6442-6451
- High-Flux Solar-Driven Thermochemical Dissociation of CO2 & H2O Using Nonstoichiometric Ceria. Science 2010; 330: 1797-1801
- Thermochemical Study of Ceria: Exploiting an Old Material for New Modes of Energy Conversion of CO2 Mitigation. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 2010; 368: 3269-3294
- Ceria as a Thermochemical Reaction Medium for Selectively Generating Syngas or Methane from H2O & CO2. Chem. Sus. Chem. 2009; 2: 735-739
- Electrochemical Studies of Capacitance in Cerium Oxide Thin Films and Its Relationship to Anionic and Electronic Defect Densities. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2009; 11: 8144-8148
- Electrochemical Behavior of Ceria with Selected Metal Electrodes. Solid State Ionics 2008; 179: 1036 - 1041
- Inverse Opal Ceria-Zirconia: Architectural Engineering for Heterogeneous Catalysis. Energy Environ. Sci. 2008; 1: 484 - 486
- Tunability of Propane Conversion over Alumina Supported Pt and Rh Catalysts. Top. Catal. 2007; 46: 402 - 413
- High Power-Density Single-Chamber Fuel Cells Operated on Methane. J. Power Sources 2006; 162: 589 - 596