2 Questions at Phase Two Chemicals This episode of 2 Question is provided by Alan Pezeshki, a the last of our three founders to be profiled and Chief Technology Officer at Phase Two Chemicals, Inc. How did you decide on Research and Development as your career path? Growing up, I always loved learning about how things work. I am also passionate about protecting the environment and have always felt a pull to work in an area where I could make meaningful change toward sustainability and minimize humanity's impact on the environment while maintaining a high standard of living. R&D is the path to make new technology that can maintain or increase standard of living while also reducing environmental impact. What makes Phase Two Chemicals' technology unique in electrochemistry? Cathodic hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis was first studied in the 1930s. In the nearly century since, institutions from universities to large chemical companies have tried to make the electrochemistry efficient enough to compete with the traditional thermochemical process used to make hydrogen peroxide today. Those efforts were never able to make the electrochemistry efficient enough - the different sources of electrochemical resistance were too high, and the stability of the electrodes was too low. Our CEO and Founder, Ming Qi, cracked the code during his doctoral work, discovering a catalyst that reduced the energy requirement to drive the electrochemical reaction. Since then, our talented team of researchers has also engineered the stack and electrode around the catalyst - to drive overall resistances lower and improve the lifetime to an industrially meaningful duration. As a result, we're able to deliver on the promise of lower cost peroxide using the power of electrochemistry.
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