For the past few weeks, researchers in the Zenyuk group have been helping teach COSMOS students in the sustainable aviation cluster. Currently, aviation contributes 2.5% of CO2 emissions (of which 20% stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years), with a single long haul flight generating as much CO2 as one person does in an […]
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Prof. Zenyuk visits Plug Power for a kick-off meeting
Prof. Zenyuk visits Plug Power in Concord, MA for a project kick-off meeting. The meeting also included impressive MW-scale electrolyzer facility.
The group attends Fuel Cells Gordon Research Conference (GRC)
Prof. Zenyuk, Dr. Morimoto, Masao, Kaustubh, Nadia, Ziliang and Celine attend GRC on Fuel Cells, in Bryant University, RI, where Prof. Zenyuk was a vice chair. The students also attended GRS prior to GRC. Dr. Morimoto was a session moderator and also an invited speaker for GRS. Congratulations to Kaustubh for winning Best Poster Award!
Summer Travel Updates
Prof. Zenyuk has delivered a tutorial presentation on Li-metal solid-state batteries at PlugVolt conference in Plymouth, MI. Prof. Zenyuk visited Toyota Research Institute North America (TRINA) in Ann Arbor, MI for project review and delivered a general seminar. Prof. Zenyuk, Devashish and Jack visited NEL Hydrogen, Wallingford, CT for project review.
Visiting student Tim’s impressions about UCI
An article that Tim wrote about his stay at UCI (it is in German! and thank you google translate!). Nice impressions and photos. Visiting students out there – you could be the next one! https://magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/m-post/post-aus-irvine/
Six students travel to Berlin, Germany for research under NSF-IRES award
Six UCI students travel for 10 weeks to Berlin, Germany to conduct research at Technical University of Berlin (Strasser group) and Fritz Haber Institute of Max Planck Society (Roldan Cuenya group) as part of awarded NSF-IRES grant (Zenyuk PI). These students are: Magnolia Pak, Gio Ferro, Eamonn Murphy, Hung-Ming Chang, Chris Liu and Patrick Yang. […]
Prof. Zenyuk gives an invited lecture at NGENE school
Prof. Zenyuk traveled to Chicago to give an invited presentation at NGENE annual school meeting organized by Dr. Jordi Cabana at University of Illinois Chicago. The school brought together some 30 electrochemistry PhD students to learn about decarbonization of energy sectors. https://energyinitiative.uic.edu/ngene/ Student participants from UCI were Adrien Stejer, Celine Chen and Eamonn Murphy (Atanassov […]
The group celebrates end-of-the-year with BBQ at the beach
The group along with Atanassov and Stamenkovic groups celebrates the end-of-the-year. This year the pineapple awards for research achievements were awarded to Eamonn Murphy and Devashish Kulkarni. Great job!
The group says goodbye to visiting student Tim
Our visiting student from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, Tim Wittmann is heading back home. Time developed models for PEM fuel cells in aviation and we will miss you Tim!
Congratulations to Arezoo on successful Ph.D. defense!
The group congratulates Dr. Arezoo Avid on successful defense with honor and wishes all the best in her career. Arezoo will join Bosch, Sunnyvale, CA as a postdoctorate fellow. Arezoo has developed ionic liquids for fuel cell catalyst layers to improve ionic conductivity and durability. This work will be fundamental for future catalyst layer designs.