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
- An open-source Python package for lumped parameter modeling of sorbent-filled storage tanks for Hydrogen, CO2, Methane, and other fluids
- Kusdhany Muhammad Irfan Maulana, Amarasinghe Suwin Indula, Maus Steffen, Sasaki Kazunari, Nishihara Masamichi, Lyth Stephen Matthew
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Vol 150 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.05.423
- 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
- Hydrogen production from waste biomass using redox mediators
- MacDonald Lewis, Brightman Edward, Lyth Stephen, Johnson William, Li Jun
- International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero (ScotChem) (2025)
- Recent advances in electrified methane pyrolysis technologies for turquoise hydrogen production
- Rohani Hossein, Sudiiarova Galina, Lyth Stephen Matthew, Badakhsh Arash
- Energies Vol 18 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/en18092393
- Hierarchically porous carbon foams coated with carbon nitride : insights into adsorbents for pre-combustion and post-combustion CO2 separation
- Vorokhta Maryna, Kusdhany Muhammad Irfan Maulana, Švábová Martina, Nishihara Masamichi, Sasaki Kazunari, Lyth Stephen Matthew
- Separation and Purification Technology Vol 354 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.129054
- Improved chemical durability in polymer electrolyte membranes with nanocellulose-based gas barrier interlayers
- Yang I, Gautama Zulfi Al Rasyid, Hutapea Yasir Arafat, Ariyoshi Miho, Fujikawa Shigenori, Sugiyama Takeharu, Lyth Stephen Matthew, Sasaki Kazunari, Nishihara Masamichi
- Journal of Power Sources Vol 629 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.235833
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Professional Activities
- 78th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry
- Member of programme committee
- 5/9/2027
- RSC Electrochemistry Community Northern Regional Butler Meeting 2025
- Participant
- 11/4/2025
- UKCCSRC Spring Conference 2025
- Participant
- 24/3/2025
- Scottish Energy Futures Conference
- Participant
- 4/3/2025
- PFAS Alternatives Workshop
- Participant
- 6/2/2025
- Sustainable Carbons for Hydrogen and Energy Applications
- Speaker
- 30/1/2025
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