Doctor Leigh Sheppard

• Biography  
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise  
• Grants / Current Projects  
• Awards and Recognition  
• Selected Publications  
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Biography

Dr Sheppard is currently an Australian Research Fellow and co-leader of the Solar Energy Technologies Research Group. He is actively involved in the development of novel titanium dioxide based semiconductors as photoelectrode materials for solar-driven water splitting. Dr Sheppard has a PhD in Materials Science and Enegineering from the University of New South Wales, where his project was titled "Defect Chemistry and Charge Transport in Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide". Dr Sheppard also has a Bachelor of Engineering (Ceramic - Hon I). At present Dr Sheppard has 50 published refereed journal papers.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, Solid State Processing, Mass Transport in Oxides

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Grants / Current Projects

2009-2013: ARC Discovery Project "An Innovative Solid State Approach to Enhanced Solar-Hydrogen Production", L.R. Sheppard and E. Wachsman

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Awards and Recognition

• 2008: Awarded the Pfeil award by the Institute for Mining, Materials and Minerals (London) for the paper, “Materials for Photo-electrochemical Energy Conversion”, Adv. App. Cer., 106, 9 (2007)
• 2008: Finalist - British Council Eureka Prize for Young Leaders in Environmental Issues and Climate Change
• 2006: Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD - German Academic Exchange Organisation) fellowship to access unique facilities at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin
• 2006: NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award

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Selected Publications

*J. Nowotny, C. C. Sorrell, L.R. Sheppard and T. Bak, “Solar Hydrogen: Environmentally Safe Fuel for the Future”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 30 (2005) 521-544

*L.R. Sheppard, T. Dittrich, J. Nowotny and T. Bak, “Surface Photovoltage Studies of Nonstoichiometric Titanium Dioxide”, Applied Physics Letters, Accepted 18/1/10

*J. Nowotny, T. Bak, M.K. Nowotny and L.R. Sheppard, “Titanium Dioxide for Solar-Hydrogen. I. Functional Properties”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32 (2007) 2609-2629

L. Sheppard, “75 Years of Climate Change, & Renewable Research Unchanged”, Australian Quarterly, 79 [3] 45-45 (2007) (invited)

*L.R. Sheppard and J. Nowotny, “Materials for Photo-electrochemical Energy Conversion”, Advances in Applied Ceramics, 106, 9-21 (2007)

*M.K. Nowotny, L.R. Sheppard, T. Bak and J. Nowotny, “Defect Chemistry of TiO2. Application of Defect Engineering in Processing TiO2 Photocatalysts”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 112, (2008) 5275-5300 (invited)

L.R. Sheppard, T. Bak and J. Nowotny, “Metallic TiO2”, Physica Status Solidi, (a) 203 [11], (2006) R85-R87

*J. Nowotny, T. Bak, M.K. Nowotny, L.R. Sheppard, “TiO2 Surface Active Sites for Water Splitting”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, (2006), 18492-18495

L.R. Sheppard, T. Bak and J. Nowotny, “Electrical Properties of Niobium-Doped Titanium Dioxide. I. Defect Disorder”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 110, (2006), 22447-22454

L.R. Sheppard, A. Atanacio, T. Bak, J. Nowotny and K.E. Prince, “Bulk Diffusion of Niobium in Single Crystal TiO2”, Journal of the Physical Chemistry B, 111 8126-8130 (2007)

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