Research interests
Mohammed’s main research focus is to boost the efficiency of the low temperature hydrogen fuel cells through proposing new designs and materials. In addition to that, his research interests cover the following areas:
- Innovation and characterisation of cheap and high-performance catalysts, porous media and membrane electrolytes for hydrogen fuel cells and electrolysers
- Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of hydrogen fuel cells
- Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of membrane distillation desalination modules
- Dynamic modelling of desalination systems driven by renewable energy sources
- Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of molten carbonate fuel cells used as a carbon capture solution
Postgraduate supervision
Dr Ismail welcomes applications for PhD, MPhil and MSc by Research Degrees in all the following areas: hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen electrolysers, molten carbonate fuel cell as a carbon capture solution, and membrane distillation desalination. Please contact him directly to discuss research topics.
Current PhD Students (co-supervised along with colleagues from the University of Sheffield):
- Qizhi Ba, Novel Microporous Layers for Hydrogen Fuel Cells (2022 - 2026)
- Laraib Nisar, Non-Precious Graphene Foam Based Catalysts for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (2021 - 2025)
- Fernando Ruscillo, Novel and High-performance Gas Diffusion Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (2020 - 2024)
- Fatma Calili, Efficient PEFCs for Portable Applications (2019 - 2023)
- Mustafa Ercelik, Nanoscale Imaging of Cathode Electrodes used in PEFCs (2019 - 2023)
- Jinbei Tian, Novel Non-precious Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction (2019 - 2023)
- Florence Lee, A Novel Multifunctional Porous Layer for Low Temperature PEFCs (2018 - 2022)
- Isaac Okereke, Novel Gas Diffusion Layers for PEFCs (2018-2022)
Completed PhD supervision:
- Fahad Aldakheel, Compressibility of Porous Media Used in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, University of Sheffield (2017 - 2021)
- Narvin Neehall, Gas Diffusivity of Porous Media used in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, University of Sheffield (2015-2020)
- Raja Aslam, Visualisation of Water and Thermal Distributions in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, University of Sheffield (2014 - 2018)
- Olutomisin Orogbemi, Gas Permeability of Gas Diffusion Media used in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, University of Sheffield (2013 - 2017)