Dr Stephen Lyth
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Chemical and Process Engineering
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative academic with 15 years experience of working on hydrogen technologies and novel materials in Japan before returning to the UK. My main interests lay in energy and sustainabity and how we can ensure that so-called renewable technologies do not inherently rely on unsustainable or critical raw materials .
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Prize And Awards
- Daiwa Foundation Award
- Recipient
- 2023
- Daiwa Foundation Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- NICE STEP Researcher 2019
- Recipient
- 2019
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Publications
- Optimizing interlayer thickness for enhanced performance and chemical durability in sandwich-structured PEM fuel cells
- Gautama Zulfi Al Rasyid, Yang I, Fukaya Norihiro, Ercelik Mustafa, Ismail Mohammed S, Lyth Stephen Matthew, Sasaki Kazunari, Nishihara Masamichi
- Journal of Power Sources Vol 661 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2025.238654
- Impact of catalyst support impurities on chemical degradation in polymer electrolyte membranes
- Nakamura S, Sanami K, Fukaya N, Gautama Z, Noda Z, Yasutake M, Lyth SM, Nishihara M, Sasaki K
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Vol 204 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.153188
- Solvent driven pore engineering in coffee-derived activated hydrochar : implications for post-combustion CO2 capture
- Maulana Kusdhany Muhammad Irfan, Vorokhta Maryna, Sasaki Kazunari, Nishihara Masamichi, Lyth Stephen Matthew
- Carbon Energy (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cey2.70141
- Formation of high entropy alloy films on various substrates via pulsed laser deposition using a rotating multicomponent target
- Miyajima Yoji, Minowa Hiroki, Tanada Daisuke, Bhattacharjee Pinaki Prasad, Lyth Stephen M, Ishikawa Kazuhiro
- Optics and Laser Technology Vol 191 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113381
- Jigsaw puzzle inspired patterning of gas diffusion layers for enhanced water management in polymer electrolyte fuel cells
- Can Enes Muhammet, Nishihara Masamichi, Sasaki Kazunari, Lyth Stephen Matthew
- Advanced Science Vol 12 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507918
- Acetone adsorption on hierarchically porous carbon foams : effect of nitrogen doping and oxygen functional groups
- Vorokhta Maryna, Maulana Kusdhany Muhammad Irfan, Vorochta Michael, Švábová Martina, Nishihara Masamichi, Sasaki Kazunari, Lyth Stephen Matthew
- Chemical Engineering Journal Vol 521 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2025.166784
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Professional Activities
- 78th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
- Member of programme committee
- 5/9/2027
- 2nd Conference on Engineering Porous Materials at Multiple Scales (EPoMM)
- Speaker
- 18/9/2025
- 76th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
- Speaker
- 10/9/2025
- Fatma Calili-Cankir
- Host
- 17/8/2025
- RIKEN SPring-8 Centre
- Visiting researcher
- 30/7/2025
- Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation
- Visiting researcher
- 28/7/2025
Projects
- Entropyst HGSP Company Creation Project
- Badakhsh, Arash (Principal Investigator) Lyth, Stephen (Academic) Rohani, Hossein (Academic)
- 03-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Combining Water Remediation with Green Hydrogen Production
- Lyth, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- Cross-linked cellulose nanocrystals as an alternative to sulfonated fluoropolymers in fuel cells
- Lyth, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- HGSP Award Entropyst
- Badakhsh, Arash (Principal Investigator) Lyth, Stephen (Academic)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- Support for reciprocal visits by researchers at Strathclyde and Kanazawa Universities collaborating on the laser reduction of graphene oxide dispersed in water for sustainable energy applications, resulting in workshops, seminars and publications, spring to winter 2024
- Lyth, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
- Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem: Next-generation solid oxide cells for power generation and hydrogen production
- Lyth, Stephen (Visiting Academic) Sasaki, Kazunari (Principal Investigator)
- The ASPIRE program is funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and aims to maintain and improve Japan's scientific and technological capabilities, to connect top researchers in Japan and advanced STI countries and regions through international joint research, and to accelerate talent circulation across the world. They aim to promote pioneering R&D, as well as nurture and mobilize the next generation of research leaders.
Kyushu University is one of the leading institutions in the worlds for hydrogen research, with state-of-the-art characterisation, testing and pilot-scale testing facilities, including the Next Generation Fuel Cell Research Center (NEXT-FC). In this project NEXT-FC is collaborating with me and other international researchers to develop "next-generation solid oxide cells for power generation and hydrogen production". - 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2029
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Contact
Dr
Stephen
Lyth
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Chemical and Process Engineering
Email: stephen.lyth@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5306