As we reflect on the year, we’re filled with gratitude for the collaboration, curiosity, and innovation that have propelled our work forward. This season reminds us of the importance of connection, community, and shared purpose—values that inspire our research every day. The Zenyuk lab wishes you a joyful holiday season and a new year filled […]
Hung-Ming’s defense festivities
Dr. Hung-Ming Joseph Chang successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers: Understanding Anode Processes for Hydrogen and Cement Production”. His presentation was well-received by colleagues and committee members, they complimented him on the extensive work that he accomplished during his studies. Special acknowledgments were given to Dr. John Stansberry et al. The […]
Student visit to Berlin, Germany
Third year PhD student, Cliffton Wang, finished his two-month beamtime trip at the Bessy II synchrotron in Berlin, Germany. Huge thank you to Doctor Arno Bergmann and Doctor Beatriz Roldán Cuenya for all their help and hospitality. This trip was funded through NSF-IRES program. Great operando data was collected and many friends were made! Cliff […]
Prof. Zenyuk Travels to AICHE Conference in San Diego
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 […]
The Group Hosts Various Visitors
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, Hung-Ming, Obeen, Morimoto-san and Prof. Zenyuk travel to ECS PRIME in Hawaii
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.
NFCRC organizes IEA Task Force 30 at UCI
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 travels to Europe for various events
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 […]
Alumni visits to the lab
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 […]
Prof. Zenyuk and Masao travel to International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Montreal, CA
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 […]