Prof. Zenyuk traveled to Vancouver area to REACH2 workshop organized by Dr. Jasna Jankovic, from University of Connecticut. The workshop took place at beautiful campus of University of British Columbia. Before the workshop she got a chance to stop by Dr. Steven Holdcrof’s lab, and see where the magic of synthesis of hydrocarbon membranes happens. […]

Prof. Zenyuk traveled to REACH2 conference organized by Prof. Jasna Jankovic in Freiburg, Germany. The conference was a a networking event hosted by Fraunhofer ISE and brought together industry and academia. She then visited Prof. Matthias Arenz group at University of Bern and delivered a talk. She got a chance to catch up with another […]

Prof. Zenyuk represented the group at Telluride science workshop titled: Platinum Group Metal and Platinum Group Metal-free Electrocatalysts: Diagnostics, Modeling and Characterization. The workshop was organized by Prof. Svitlana Pylypenko and Prof. Plamen Atanassov and hosted at newly built Telluride Science building. The workshop participants were world leaders in electrocatalysis, characterization, interfaces. In addition to […]

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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 […]