Sustainable Electrochemical Science & Technology
We are a research group at the Research Center for Nanotechnology System, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN), led by Angga Hermawan. We design nanostructured materials that convert and store energy electrochemically, we make them from sustainable sources such as battery and biomass waste, and we study them while they work.
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Joint projects, co-supervision of students, joint funding proposals, and research visits with groups that share our interest in sustainable electrochemistry.
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We host postdoctoral and visiting researchers, project assistants, doctoral and master's students, and bachelor's students and interns.
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Electrochemical testing, nanomaterials synthesis and characterization, and waste valorization studies.
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We are always looking for talented and bright minds to join our team, as postdoctoral or visiting research fellows, as project assistants on our funded projects, as doctoral and master's students through BRIN Degree by Research and the LPDP scholarship, or as bachelor's students for internships and final-year projects.
Six lines of research
From the reactions that convert and store energy to the methods that show how materials behave at work.
Electrocatalysis for fuels and chemicals
Catalysts for water splitting, CO2 and nitrogen reduction, and the oxidation of biomass-derived molecules.
Read about this themeEnergy storage
Supercapacitor electrodes built on metal oxides, conducting polymers, and biomass-derived carbon.
Read about this themeSustainable materials from waste
Spent batteries, biomass, and industrial residues rebuilt as nanostructured catalysts and electrodes.
Read about this themeChemical and electrochemical sensing
Gas sensors and electrochemical sensors for health, food, and environmental targets.
Read about this themeOperando and in situ spectroscopy
We watch materials while they work, combining synchrotron X-ray methods with in situ Raman, infrared, and UV-Vis spectroscopy.
Read about this themeAI and machine learning in electrochemistry
Models and automated computation that find patterns in electrochemical data and guide the next experiment.
Read about this themeSelected publications
One highlight from each year. Every title opens the paper in a new tab.
- 2026
- 2025
Achieving high-performance NO2 sensors via vertically-aligned Ti3C2Tx nanoarchitectures
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 433, 137509
- 2024
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 89, 254-263
- 2023
- 2022
Autonomous high-throughput computations in catalysis
Chem Catalysis 2(5), 940-956
- 2021
Advanced strategies to improve performances of molybdenum-based gas sensors
Nano-Micro Letters 13(1), 207
- 2020
CuO nanoparticles/Ti3C2Tx MXene hybrid nanocomposites for detection of toluene gas
ACS Applied Nano Materials 3(5), 4755-4766
- 2019
One-step synthesis of micro-/mesoporous SnO2 spheres by solvothermal method for toluene gas sensor
Ceramics International 45(12), 15435-15444
- 2018
High temperature hydrogen gas sensing property of GaN prepared from α-GaOOH
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 276, 388-396
Software built in the lab
We build our own tools when the right ones do not exist, from instrument control to data analysis and figure making, and share them with anyone who needs them.
- Anayasa makes electrochemical data analysis effortless, from raw potentiostat files to journal-ready figures.
- BRINanoStat runs our own potentiostat, with plots you can change while the measurement is running.
- LICAgraphy is a web tool that draws the plots needed for life cycle assessment results. Open it.
Recent activity
See all activities- In situ X-ray absorption beamtime at the Synchrotron Light Research Institute (SLRI), Thailand, following our battery-derived catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction.
- Chaired the 11th International Symposium on Functional Materials (ISFM 2026) in Yogyakarta.
- Our paper on high-entropy layered oxides from spent battery cathodes appeared in Materials Horizons.
- The RECO2VER project was funded through the Southeast Asia-Europe Joint Funding Scheme.
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