Dr Mario Kurniawan is one of the winners of this year's DGO Young Talent Award (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Galvano- und Oberflächentechnik e.V.). He receives the award for his dissertation on "Preparation and characterization of cuprous oxide for improved photoelectrochemical performance". The DGO Young Scientist Award is given to graduates with an outstanding thesis in the field of surface technology. The DGO would like to encourage young technicians and scientists to work in the field of surface technology. This year's prize goes in equal parts to two young scientists who dealt with questions of energy production and resource efficiency in their dissertations. Both topics are of great topicality. Electroplating processes lead to interesting results, which open up new fields of application within electroplating.
In his dissertation, Mr. Kurniawan dealt with an electrochemical production route for Cu2O on porous copper. In an innovative approach, he uses the hydrogen bubbles formed in an acid electrolyte at high current densities to produce porous copper layers, into which he subsequently deposits copper oxide from an alkaline electrolyte. The resulting layers with a large surface area have a high application potential for photolytic water decomposition.
Mario Kurniawan obtained his Bachelor's degree at the "Swiss German University" in Indonesia, his Master's degree at the "University of Tokyo" in Japan and his doctoral degree at the Department of Electrochemistry and Electroplating at the Ilmenau University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Bund. Dr Kurniawan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the department.
Source: Sabine Groß, DGO; Dr Andreas Bund/Dr Mario Kurniawan, FG Electrochemistry and Electroplating