Hydrogen Enthusiast
“If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.”
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
The women's in hydrogen are the future of the sustainable society.
MSc in Hydrogen Technologies (2011)
PhD in Electrochemistry (incl. Chemical Energy Sources) (2018)
Research Associate in IEES-BAS, Bulgaria (from 2017-till now)
E. Petkucheva, G. Borisov, E. Lefterova, E. Slavcheva, Configuration of electrochemical
celltNF-AW|ZIFRON PERL500| DDM-tNF–CAT for alkaline water electrolysis (in
Bulgarian) , Paper of 17 National Youth Scientific and Practical Conference 12-
13.11.2020, in press
E. Petkucheva, E. Lefterova, E. Slavcheva,Ni-foam modified by '' Dip and Drying''
Method- effect of transition metal salts on the electrochemical properties , Journal
“Chemical Problems” 2020, Vol.52 , pp.72-78 ISSN (2221-8688),
G. Borisov, N. Borisov, E. Petkucheva, E. Slavcheva, Mathematical modeling and
experimental validation of advanced alkaline water electrolyser U/j performance,Bulgarian Chemical Communications, Vol. 52, Special Issue E, 2020, pp. 84- 87
V. Majidzade, S.Mammadova, E. Petkucheva, E. Slavcheva, A. Aliyev, D. Tagiyev, Coelectrodeposition
of iron and sulfur in aqueous and non-aqueous electrolytes, Bulgarian
Chemical Communications, Vol. 52, Special Issue E, 2020, pp.73-78
F. Song, M. Busch, B.Lassalle-Kaiser, C.-S.Hsu, E. Petkucheva, M. Bensimon, H. M.
Chen, Cl. Corminboeuf, X.Hu, An Unconventional Iron Nickel Catalyst for the Oxygen
Evolution Reaction, ACS Central Science, 2019, doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00053
E. Petkucheva, G. Borisov, E. Lefterova, E. Slavcheva, Application of the ‘‘Dip* and
drying’’ Method- (DDM) for synthesis of electrocatalysts for industrial alkaline water
electrolysis, (in Bulgarian)ISSN:ISSN 1314-8931, Paper of 16 National Youth Scientific
and Practical Conference 07-08.11.2019
H. Penchev, G. Borisov, E. Petkucheva, F. Ublekov, V. Sinigersky, I. Radev Highly KOH
doped para-polybenzimidazole anion exchange membrane and its performance in
Pt/TinO2n− 1 catalyzed water electrolysis cell,Materials Letters (2018) 221, 128-130
E. Petkucheva, G. Borisov, E. Lefterova, J. Heiss, U. Schnakenberg, E.Slavcheva,
Gold-supported Magnetron sputtered Ir thin films as OER catalysts for cost-efficient
water electrolysis, INT J HYDROGEN ENERG XXX (2018) 1-8;
E. Petkucheva, G.Borisov, E. Lefterova, J. Heiss, U. Schnakenberg, E. Slavcheva,
Gold-supported Magnetron sputtered Ir thin films as OER catalysts for cost efficient
water electrolysis, sended to Int J Hydrogen Energy(2017), special issue ,, HYCELTEC
2017''
G. Borisov, S. Avramov, E. Petkucheva, E. Lefterova, E.Slavcheva, W. Lehnert, Effect
of sintering temperature on performance and durability of HT-PEFC cathodes’’ accepted
for publishing - Bulgarian Chemical Communications, 49, С (2017)
F. Song, M. M. Busch, B. Lassalle-Kaiser, E. Petkucheva, M. Bensimon,
Cl.Corminboeuf, X. Hu, Bifunctional Iron Nickel Catalysis for the Oxygen Evolution
Reaction, sended to Science (2016)
E. Petkucheva , E. Lefterova, J. Heiss, U.Schnakenberg, E. Slavcheva, Influence of the
gold sub-layer on the catalytic properties of magnetron sputtered Pt and Ir thin films,
Bulgarian Chemical Communications, Special Issue A, (2016), pp 38-43
E. Slavcheva, G. Borisov, E. Lefterova, E. Petkucheva, I. Bosnakova, Ebonex supported
iridium as anode catalyst for PEM water electrolysis, INT J HYDROGEN ENERG XXX
(2015) I-6
E. Petkucheva , E. Lefterova , J. Heiss , U. Schnakenberg , E. Slavcheva, Magnetron
sputtered multilayered (Ti-Au-Pt) catalysts for hydrogen energy systems, Nanoscience &
Nanotechnology (2015) 15 , ISSN: 1313-8995
US Patent 10,907,263, 02.02.2021 ‘’ Method of synthesis of an electrode for use as a
catalyst of oxygen evolution reaction’’- X.Hu, S. Fang, E. Petkucheva
Utility model/Patent № 3218, 26.07.2019, Electrolysis cell for testing of MEAs -E.
Slavcheva, G. Borisov, D. Paskalev, I. Boshnakova, E. Petkucheva, K. Maximova-
Dimitrova, I.Velianov , Bulgaria
Utility model/Patent№ 2980, 16.07.2018, "Modular electrolysis cell for production of oxyhydrogen
mixture" - E. Slavcheva, G. Borisov, D. Paskalev, I. Boshnakova, E.
Petkucheva, K. Maximova-Dimitrova , Bulgaria