Prof. Dr. Rodney D.L. Smith

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSolid State Chemistry and Surface Chemistry, Material Synthesis,Electrochemistry,Kinetics and Catalysis
Keywordselectrocatalysis, energy storage, structural analysis, materials chemistry, heterogenous catalysis
Honours and awards

2202: University of British Columbia Young Alumnus Award

2024: Strem Award for Pure or Applied Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Institute of Canada

2023: Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityWaterloo
InstitutionUniversity of Waterloo
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry
Homepagesmithgroup.uwaterloo.ca

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Holger DauFachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan CuenyaInterface Science Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2019Pasquini, C.; Zaharieva, I.; Gonzalez-Flores, D.; Chernev, P.; Mohammadi, M. R.; Guidoni, L.; Smith, R. D. L.; Dau, H.: H/D isotope effects reveal factors controlling catalytic activity in Co-based oxides for water oxidation. In: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 2938-2948
2019Villalobos, J.; Gonzalez-Flores, D.; Klinagan, K.; Chernev, P.; Kubella, P.; Urcuyo, R.; Pasquini, C.; Mohammadi, M. R.; Smith, R. D. L.; Montero, M. L.; Dau, H.: Structural and functional role of anions in electrochemical water oxidation probed by arsenate incorporation into cobalt-oxide materials. In: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 12485-12493
2018Rodney D. L. Smith, Chiara Pasquini, Stefan Loos, Petko Chernev, Katharina Klingan, Paul Kubella, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Diego Gonzalez-Flores, Holger Dau: Geometric distortions in nickel (oxy)hydroxide electrocatalysts by redox inactive iron ions. In: Energy & Environmental Science, 2018, 2476-2485
2018Diego González-Flores, Katharina Klingan, Petko Chernev, Stefan Loos, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Chiara Pasquini, Paul Kubella, Ivelina Zaharieva, Rodney D. L. Smith, Holger Dau: Nickel-iron catalysts for electrochemical water oxidation – redox synergism investigated by in situ X-ray spectroscopy with millisecond time resolution. In: Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2018, 1986-1994
2017Rodney D. L. Smith, Chiara Pasquini, Stefan Loos, Petko Chernev, Katharina Klingan, Paul Kubella, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Diego Gonzalez-Flores, Holger Dau Spectroscopic identification of active sites for the oxygen evolution reaction on iron-cobalt oxides. In: Nature Communications, 2017, 2022