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 […]
CIWE DOE Earthshot meeting in Berkeley
Several group members joined Dr. Professor Iryna Zenyuk at Berkeley for the CIWE DOE Earthshot meeting
Group says goodbye to graduating students
The group says goodbye to Shikai Sun who will be defending his MS thesis this quarter. Undergraduate students Ethan Kuo, Sean Chen, Khakim Asadov and Nergis Mahajar are also graduating with their B.S. in Chemical Engineering as class of 2024! Nergis will be continuing her PhD in the Zenyuk Lab starting this summer Thank you […]
Lab members attend ECS 245 conference in San Francisco
Professor Zenyuk and PhD students Nadia, Jesus, Cliff, Jack & Masao all gave talks at the 245th ECS conference held in San Francisco. The team proudly represented the Zenyuk Lab and showed some of the amazing work done in the group! We also had the opportunity to reconnect with lab alumni, Divija who is now […]
Group members attend TSRC Workshop
PhD students Hung-Ming & Jesus, Dr. Florian Chabot and Professor Iryna Zenyuk attended the TSRC Workhop in Telluride, Colorado. This workshop facilitated discussions on OER and HER catalysts, interfaces and interaction across various catalytic systems between many people ranging from academic institutions to industry leaders and national labs. We had the opportunity to ski as […]
John Stansberry defense celebration!
John Stansberry defended his dissertation titled “Hydrogen Gas Separation from Hydrogen/Natural Gas Mixtures by High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Electrochemical Hydrogen Pump” on March 7th, 2024! John highlighted the incredible work that he did and we all later celebrated his accomplishment along with his lovely family! Congratulations John <3