Get to know your team and responsibilities
Team/division description
The Materials Engineering division at Toyota Motor Europe is responsible for investigating and developing new materials and analytical techniques for emerging technologies. The division focuses on new technologies to reduce the environmental impact of Toyota vehicles. One area of work is developing sustainable fuels, including green (solar) hydrogen produced via photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical processes.
The team identifies and incorporates advanced European technologies into products with the goal of supporting the development of future Toyota vehicles.
Your project
We are now offering a position to develop semiconductors for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting (hydrogen production) as part of a European-funded project, PH2OTOGEN.
The activity will include:
- Preparation of nanomaterials and deposition as thin films
- Development of co-catalysts to promote hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions
- Photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic testing under simulated solar irradiation
- Characterisation through UV-vis spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction etc.
Literature survey and discussion with our collaborators