Overview
Welcome to LECS!
The LECS-Lab is led by Dr. Xu Lu, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Mechanical Engineering. He is affiliated to the Center for Renewable Energy & Storage Technologies (CREST) and the Physical Science and Engineering Division (PSE) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
A low-carbon economy has been set as the goal by worldwide authorities. To cope with this target, we need to provide a transformative energy conversion and storage chain. To this end, the LECS Lab focuses on electrochemical upgrading of high-pressure carbon dioxide and its paired oxygen evolution. We are also developing kilowatt scale solar-to-hydrogen systems with industrial relevance.
We are an interdisciplinary team consisting of members from Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science and Chemistry. Our lab has lasting and close collaborations with world-renowned universities and scholars. We welcome talent from every corner of the globe to join us.
Fully-funded Postdoc, PhD and MSc vacancies are available. Please send your documents to Dr. Lu at xu.lu@kaust.edu.sa.
Latest news
05 June, 2021
Dr. Xu Lu, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at CCRC, KAUST has recently been appointed as a Youth Editorial Board Member for SmartMat.
"SmartMat is a multidisciplinary journal by Wiley and Tianjin University to address challenges across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. It is a great pleasure to join the editorial board!". stated Prof. Xu Lu.
SmartMat aims at addressing the growing scientific interests in developing intelligent materials that can change significantly in a controlled fashion to external stimuli across the entire spectrum of materials science and engineering. The scope is intentionally broad that includes the topics such as functional polymers, 2D materials, biomimetic robotics, electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids, AI and neuromorphic devices and systems, self-healing materials, piezoelectric materials, thermoelectric materials, artificial muscles, functional biological materials, bioimaging, biotherapy, sensing, memory device, energy materials, optical materials, electronic materials, catalysis, etc.