Congratulations Daniel Nframah Ampong

Daniel Nframah Ampong is a graduating PhD student from the Materials Engineering Department at KNUST.

His research interests are Materials for energy production and storage, exhaust after-treatment systems in diesel engines, renewable energy systems, material synthesis and advanced characterisation, mine waste treatments, and physical and extractive metallurgy.

He synthesised and characterised highly pure hierarchical porous carbon from bio-wastes for his PhD. This involved the adoption of a facile and novel two-stage synthesis protocol to obtain the activated carbon, fabricate them into electrodes, and assemble them in supercapacitor devices. After achieving satisfactory results, the activated carbon was used as an anchor to suppress the polysulphide shuttling effect in lithium-sulfur batteries through a sustainable fabrication technique. All the assembled storage devices successfully power real-life electronic gadgets and could be compared to state-of-the-art cells in the industry. His research can potentially revolutionise the renewable energy conversion and storage industry.

The KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP) has been instrumental in his academic success by providing financial support. He is very grateful for the support and encouragement received from the staff and management of KEEP.

He plans to continue his research using a machine learning-based approach to predict storage device performance and detect cell defects.