Congrats to Prof. Zenyuk on winning 2022 Mid-Career Research Award, granted by School of Engineering. Thank you to all of the group members for your hard work and productivity. Without you this award would not be possible.

The group is very proud of research accomplishments of Divija, Ariya, Chris, Jesus, Dominic, Jack and Andrea. You have made impact during your research experience with our group and we are so fortunate to have you. 5 of your are continuing to graduate school. Good luck in your next steps and don’t forget to visit […]

Congratulations to Yongzhen Qi on successfully defending his PhD thesis. Yongzhen has been with the group for over 5 years and has been instrumental in all the fuel cell studies. Good luck on your next position at Electric Hydrogen!      

The group welcomes Tim Wittmann, a PhD student from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Tim will stay with the group for 6 months and will work on PEM fuel cell integration into aviation project. Welcome Tim! The group welcomes Ziliang Gao, a PhD student at Xian Jiaotong University, China. Ziliang will stay with the group for […]

Prof. Zenyuk, Devashish and Hung-Ming travel to Telluride Innovation Workshop on Cement Decarbonization. Prof. Zenyuk co-organized the workshop with Prof. Mo Li (CEE department, UCI). The workshop featured 23 participants and was conducted in hybrid format. Participants from industry, academia and national labs took place spanning both electrochemistry and cement production fields. A lot of […]

The group is saying goodbye to Dr. Andrea Perego, senior research scientist. Andrea has been instrumental for us for close to 3 years and we are immensely grateful for everything he has done for the group and NFCRC. Andrea was instrumental in setting up the labs and getting day-to-day operations running, supervising students and conducting […]

The group and NFCRC welcomes Dr. Yu Morimoto, who will be a Chief Scientist in Electrochemical Devices. Dr. Morimoto comes after a long and very successful career at Toyota Toyota Central R&D labs., Inc., Japan. His research efforts were critical to launching Toyota Mirai. At UCI Dr. Morimoto will be conducting and supervising research in […]

The group welcomes Ariya, Patrick and Sean as new undergraduate students. Ariya will work on building and benchmarking fuel cell test station for short-stacks. Patrick works on understanding metal corrosion for applications of bipolar plates and metal meshes. Sean will work on high-temperature fuel cells.

The group welcomes new M.S. students Ken and Anthony. Ken will work on electrolysis project and Anthony will look into ways to recycle batteries more efficiently. Welcome!