Dah-Shyang Tsai
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Biography
Dah-Shyang Tsai has been a Researcher and Educator at the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (Taiwan Tech) since 1985. His expertise is in the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials coating and related surface issues. These inorganic coatings are designed to upgrade the performance of device, or simply enhance our knowledge on film growth. For example, his research group worked out the reactive sticking coefficients of silane free radicals in CVD, using the trench thickness profiles grown in a hot-wall reactor (2002). In another instance, they prepared Pt/Sn/SnO2 nanowires on the carbon paper which served as a combination of CO-tolerant electrocatalysts and gas diffusion layer in fuel cells (2010). Recent interests of his research group are focused on the soft sparking mode of plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), and improving the electron and ion paths of the porous electrode for electrochemical energy storage device, such as lithium ion hybrid capacitor.