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 […]
Group says goodbye to summer visiting researchers
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 […]
Advanced Light Source Users Meeting in Berkeley, CA
Adrien and Prof. Zenyuk travel to Berkeley, CA (I know very far!) for Advanced Light Source (ALS) Users Meeting, where Adrien presented her poster and Prof. Zenyuk gave a keynote talk. The meeting resulted in learning about new beamline capabilities and also in some future collaborations.
Group Attends Gordon Research Conference in Fuel Cells
Several group members attended Gordon Research Conference in Fuel Cells in RI. Prof. Zenyuk was a chair of the conference (along with Prof. Stamenkovic). The conference went smoothly with a lot of exciting new research developments presented. The UCI professors were represented well too: We had a chance to have a progress report meeting for […]
Plug Power Tech Conference in NY
Luis, Robert and Prof. Zenyuk presented their collaborative work with Plug Power at Plug Power Tech conference in NY in late July. The group got to interact with Plug Power researchers and get a fuel cell manufacturing facility tour. It was helpful to learn about industrial breakthrough and challenges. Robert and Luis gave a tandem […]
Summer 2024 group retreat – Big Bear
The Zenyuk group spent a weekend at Big Bear! The weekend was filled with many group activities including board games, volleyball, cooking and hiking (pictures from hike below). Check out this awesome view of Big Bear Lake! Most people made it to this point of the hiking trail Some group members even went off-roading and […]