David Kwabi

Associate Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Office Address:
9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520
Email: david.kwabi@yale.edu
Degrees:
  • BSE, Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University (2010)
  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)

Interests:

  • Electrochemical energy storage and conversion
  • Carbon capture
  • Chemical separations

Selected Awards & Honors:

  • ASME Rising Star Award for Early Career Engineers (2024)
  • Scialog Negative Emissions Fellow (2022)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2021)
  • ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal (2020)

Selected Publications:

  • Saha, P., Meeder, J., Singh, S., Ramesh, S., Nippe, M., and Kwabi, David G. Enabling Light-Driven CO2 Removal from Seawater using Metastable Photoacids, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2024 128 (12), 4914-4923. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c08306.
  • Modak, S.V., Shen, W., Singh, S. et al. Understanding capacity fade in organic redox-flow batteries by combining spectroscopy with statistical inference techniques. Nat Commun 14, 3602 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39257-z.
  • Jin, S., Wu, M., Gordon, R.G., Aziz, M., and Kwabi, David G. pH swing cycle for CO2 capture electrochemically driven through proton-coupled electron transfer, Energy Environ. Sci. 2020 13 (10) 3706-3722. https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/D0EE01834A.
  • Modak, S. and Kwabi, David G.  A Zero-Dimensional Model for Electrochemical Behavior and Capacity Retention in Organic Flow Cells, J. Electrochem. Soc. 2021 168 080528. https://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1945-7111/ac1c1f.
  • Modak, S., Pert, Tami, J., Shen, W., Abdullahi, I., Huan, X., McNeil, A., Goldsmith, B., and Kwabi, David G. Substituent Impact on Quinoxaline Performance and Degradation in Redox Flow Batteries, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024 126 (8), 5173-5185. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c10454.