Dr. Kwabena Bediako

Biography

Kwabena Bediako is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his B.S. from Calvin College, MI in 2008, his M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA in 2013, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, MA in 2015. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University from 2015 to 2018. His research focuses on Inorganic Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Low-Dimensional Materials, Quantum Transport, and Optoelectronics. Bediako's research group emphasizes the mesoscopic investigation of interfacial charge transfer and transport in two-dimensional materials and heterostructures. They design materials with modular interfaces at controlled atomically precise length scales to address contemporary challenges in electrochemical energy conversion and quantum electronics. The group synthesizes and isolates atomically thin inorganic crystals while assembling 2D layers of novel multicomponent materials. They utilize solid-state and solution-phase methodologies along with chemical and electrochemical deposition techniques for materials synthesis, employing advanced micromanipulation and nanofabrication tools to prepare mesoscopic structures and utilizing a range of optical spectroscopy and electron microscopy techniques to measure the (electro)chemical and physical properties of individual devices. Current research projects include the discovery of mechanism-guided electrocatalysts for energy storage and the electrochemical control of light-matter interactions in topological phases of 2D materials.

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