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Dr. Peter Sherrell
Position:
Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Science
Email:
peter.sherrell@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
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Dr Peter C. Sherrell is a Senior Vice Chancellors Research Fellow in Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science within the STEM College.
Dr Peter C. Sherrell's research focusses on capturing and using ambient energy from the environment, to drive green and sustainable chemistries. In particular, Peter is working on developing new methods of harvesting motion and heat from chemical and electrochemical processes, to enable highly efficient catalysis. He is broadly interested in understanding materials structure-property-performance relationships, and unlocking the fundamental mechanisms behind emerging energy devices - and using these mechanistic understanding to engineer more efficient energy storage, conversion, and harvesting systems.
Before joining RMIT University, Peter was an Elizabeth & Vernon Puzey Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2019-2023); a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Imperial College London, UK (2015-2018), and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Linkoping University, Sweden (2013-2015).
Peter also holds the following appointments:
- Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne [2023 - ]
- Member, Communications Officer, Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Physical Chemistry Division Executive Committee [2022 - ]
- Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence of Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals [2021 - ]
- Fellow, Melbourne Energy Institute [2021 - ]
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Supervisor Interests
- Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production; Mechanocatalysis; Polymer Energy Harvesting; Surface charging; Solid-Liquid Interfaces; Electrochemical Energy Storage; Electrochemical Device Engineering & Translation
Selected Key Publications
- Yemima Ehrnst, Peter C Sherrell, Amgad R Rezk, Leslie Y Yeo; "Acoustically-Induced Water Frustration for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Neutral Electrolytes"; In: Advanced Energy Materials, 2023, 202203164
- Osvalds Verners, Linards Lapčinskis, Līva Ģermane, Aarne Kasikov, Martin Timusk, Kaspars Pudzs, Amanda V Ellis, Peter C Sherrell, Andris Šutka; "Smooth polymers charge negatively: Controlling contact electrification polarity in polymers"; In: Nano Energy, 2022, 104, 107914
- Peter C Sherrell, Marco Fronzi, Nick A Shepelin, Alexander Corletto, David A Winkler, Mike Ford, Joseph G Shapter, Amanda V Ellis; "A bright future for engineering piezoelectric 2D crystals"; In: Chemical Society Reviews, 2022, 51, 650
- Nick A Shepelin, Peter C Sherrell, Emmanuel N Skountzos, Eirini Goudeli, Jizhen Zhang, Vanessa C Lussini, Beenish Imtiaz, Ken Aldren S Usman, Greg W Dicinoski, Joseph G Shapter, Joselito M Razal, Amanda V Ellis; "Interfacial piezoelectric polarization locking in printable Ti3C2Tx MXene-fluoropolymer composites"; In: Nature Communications, 2021, 12, 3171
- Andris Šutka, Peter C Sherrell, Nick A Shepelin, Linards Lapčinskis, Kaspars Mālnieks, Amanda V Ellis; "Measuring piezoelectric output—fact or friction?"; In: Advanced Materials, 2020, 32, 2002979
- Peter C Sherrell, Pawel Palczynski, Maria S Sokolikova, Francesco Reale, Federico M Pesci, Mauro Och, Cecilia Mattevi; "Large-Area CVD MoS2/WS2 Heterojunctions as a Photoelectrocatalyst for Salt-Water Oxidation"; In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2019, 2, 5887
Selected Media Articles
- Why you don't want 'phantom energy' on a spacecraft
- Weaving a new flexible energy harvesting technique for wearable tech
- Harvesting Big Energy from Small Movement
- Could pencils purify water and get us closer to solving the water crisis?
- Purifying Water with a Simple Powder
- Wearable Devices that use Human Energy
- Recycling grapevine waste into particleboard
- Ph.D. in Chemistry
- Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation
- B. Nanotechnology (Advanced)
Peter's research has been supported and engaged with various industries throughout my career, in reverse chronological order he has worked with;
- 2020 – Present Future Battery Industries CRC
- 2019 – 2020 The Reserve Bank of Australia (ARC LP)
- 2015 – 2018 EVOQUA Water Technologies (EPSRC EP/M022250/1)
- 2015 – 2018 Hyflux (EPSRC EP/M022250/1)
- 2013 – 2015 LinkoCare (spin out company)
- 2011 – 2012 SMR Automotive (ARC LP)
- Corletto, A.,Fronzi, M.,Joannidis, A.,Sherrell, P.,Ford, M.,Winkler, D.,Shapter, J.,Bullock, J.,Ellis, A. (2024). A Predictive Model for Monolayer-Selective Metal-Mediated MoS2 Exfoliation Incorporating Electrostatics In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 11, 1 - 11
- Taha, M.,Balendhran, S.,Sherrell, P.,Kirkwood, N.,Wen, D.,Wang, S.,Meng, J.,Bullock, J.,Crozier, K.,Sciacca, L. (2023). Infrared modulation via near-room-temperature phase transitions of vanadium oxides & core-shell composites In: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, 7629 - 7638
- Linarts, A.,Sherrell, P.,Malnieks, K.,Ellis, A.,Sutka, A. (2023). Electrospinning Triboelectric Laminates: A Pathway for Scaling Energy Harvesters In: Small, 19, 1 - 9
- Leon, R.,Sherrell, P.,Sutka, A.,Ellis, A. (2023). Decoupling piezoelectric and triboelectric signals from PENGs using the fast fourier transform In: Nano Energy, 110, 1 - 9
- Sutka, A.,Malnieks, K.,Zubkins, M.,Pludons, A.,Sarakovskis, A.,Verners, O.,Eglitis, R.,Sherrell, P. (2023). Tribovoltaic Performance of TiO2 Thin Films: Crystallinity, Contact Metal, and Thermoelectric Effects In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, 33140 - 33147
- Zhang, R.,Wu, Q.,Sherrell, P.,Li, D.,Huang, K.,Chen, J.,Yao, X. (2023). Dynamic investigation of oxygen defects on transition metal-based electrocatalysts: formation, characterization, and mechanism during alkaline oxygen evolution reaction In: Science China Chemistry, 66, 2221 - 2237
- Lapcinskis, L.,Germane, L.,Platnieks, O.,Krikovs, A.,Gaidukovs, S.,Pudzs, K.,Linarts, A.,Sherrell, P.,Sutka, A. (2023). High Performance Triboelectric Nanogenerators from Compostable Cellulose-Biodegradable Poly(Butylene Succinate) Composites In: Advanced Sustainable Systems, 7, 1 - 14
- Sutka, A.,Lapcinskis, L.,He, D.,Kim, H.,Berry, J.,Bai, J.,Knite, M.,Ellis, A.,Jeong, C.,Sherrell, P. (2023). Engineering Polymer Interfaces: A Review toward Controlling Triboelectric Surface Charge In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10, 1 - 28
- Verners, O.,Lapcinskis, L.,Sherrell, P.,Sutka, A. (2023). Contact Electrification at Dielectric Polymer Interfaces: On Bond Scission, Material Transfer, and Electron Transfer In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10, 1 - 7
- Sutka, A.,Malnieks, K.,Linarts, A.,Sherrell, P.,Yu, X.,Bilotti, E. (2023). High-Performance Hybrid Triboelectric Generators Based on an Inversely Polarized Ultrahigh ß-Phase PVDF In: ACS Applied Energy Materials, 6, 9300 - 9306
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