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Prof. Zenyuk traveled to Germany in January. She visited our collaborators at Bosch in Renningen with update presentation and discussions. Then she visited collaborators at Helmholtz Institute in Erlangen. She got a chance to visit groups of Dr. Serhiy Cherevko and Prof. Simon Thiele, concluding with enjoyable dinner and social time. Then Prof. Zenyuk traveled […]

Prof. Zenyuk was an organizer and a co-chair of one of the sessions at AICHE. She had a pleasure of introducing both of her advisors as speakers in the session she chaired. Her presentation was on design of GDLs and MPLs for transport in PEM fuel cells. Many of the CBE students and colleagues from […]

CTO of Plug Power Tim Cortez and Dr. Thomas Valdez visited our group for a project close-out. Nausir did very well with presenting our Year 2 results. Our first postdoc Dr. Andrea Perego visited the group. He is now a researcher at IRD, Denmark. Andrea met with both fuel cell and electrolyzer sub-groups and provided […]

Masao, HMC, Obeen, Morimoto-san and Prof. Zenyuk travelled to ECS PRIME in Hawaii to deliver talks and to attend the conference. Everyone’s talks went well, and it was first ECS conference for HMC and Obeen and they spent all their days in sessions, they enjoyed the conference so much.  

About 60 researchers from all around the world came to UCI in early October 2024 to participate in International Energy Agency (IEA) Task Force workshop organized by Dr. Guido Bender (NREL) and Prof. Iryna Zenyuk (UCI). The workshop focused on PEM, AEM and alkaline water electrolyzer technologies. Industry, academia and national labs got together to […]

Prof. Zenyuk spent a month in Europe attending various professional events. The trip started with the Summer School organized by students from TRR 247 of SFP. Prof. Zenyuk taught some lectures on electrolysis and electrochemistry. She then travelled to deliver a keynote presentation at Castle Liblice at  “Challenges on the Renewable Energy Storage.” The conference gathered […]

In August and September the group had a pleasure to host our former PhD students. Dr. Devashish Kulkarni visited the group, he is now working at NEL Hydrogen and we had a nice discussion on electrolysis. Dr. Pranik Saha used to work on streaming-current measurements at Pt-electrolyte interfaces. He then became a postdoc at NREL […]

Masao delivered a presentation on electric double layers modeling. It was an excellent session dedicated to EDLs modeling and Masao delivered an excellent talk and had some very good discussions. Prof. Zenyuk delivered a presentation on IrOx catalyst layers and chaired the same session. She has also proposed to host ISE in 2028 in South […]

The group is saying goodbye to our summer researchers. Chloe Cheng, was a REU student in Decarbonization at UCI. She is undergraduate student at UCLA and in our group she worked on developing four-point probe for conductivity measurements. Chloe accomplished a lot and we are looking forward to co-writing papers with her. Charlotte and Klaus […]