News

Sanam Sanii presented her paper "Novel Pd Anodes for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells" at the 218th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 14, 2010. [picture]

Amin Aziznia presented his paper "Kinetic Analysis of Electro-reduction of N2O over Pd and Pt Electrodes" at the 218th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 14, 2010. [picture]

Sanam Sanii presented her poster "Novel Pd Anodes for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells" at the 217th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Vancouver, BC, Canada, April, 2010.

Alex Bauer presented his paper "Surfactant Assisted Catalyst Layer Deposition for PEM Fuel Cells" at the 214th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Honolulu, HI, USA, October 16, 2008.

Vincent Lam presented his paper "High Performance Anode Catalysts for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells " at the 214th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Honolulu, HI, USA, October 16, 2008. [ppt]

Derek Cheng presented his paper "Application of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) as a Characterization Tool for PEM Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Electrode" at the 58th Annual ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry) Meeting in Banff, Canada, September 14, 2007.

Alex Bauer presented his paper "Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with Extended Reaction Zone Anode: PtRu and PtRuMo Supported on Fibrous Carbon" at the 58th Annual ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry) Meeting in Banff, Canada, September 14, 2007.

Tommy Cheng presented his paper "Extended Reaction Zone Anode for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells: Enhancing Catalyst Utilization" at the 58th Annual ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry) Meeting in Banff, Canada, September 14, 2007.

Tommy Cheng is going to present his paper "Extended Reaction Zone Anode for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells: Enhancing Catalyst Utilization " at the 58th Annual ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry) Meeting in Banff, Canada, September 9-14, 2007.

Alex Bauer is going to present his poster "Extended Reaction Zone Anode for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells" at the 58th Annual ISE (International Society of Electrochemistry) Meeting in Banff, Canada, September 9-14, 2007.

Alex Bauer presented his paper "Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with Extended Reaction Zone Anode" in 210th Meeting of The Electrochemical Society in Cancun, Mexico, on 2nd November 2006.

Events

On November 12, 2011, Clare Escano, a PhD candidate from Osaka University, Japan, visited our research group at UBC. She presented her novel research on theoretical modeling of borohydride oxidation and O2 activation based on density functional theory and Monte Carlo simulation . Part of the workshop, also Dr. Eben Dye from NRC-IFCI , introduced his work on development of doped TiO2 support catalyst. After workshop, research group spent the evening together at Mahony's restaurant on UBC campus.

Persons in the picture form right to left: Dr. Elod Gyenge, Clare Escano, Vincent Lam, Andrew Wang, Winton Li, Dr. Eben Dye, Amin Aziznia, Amir Mehdi Dehkhoda.

On March 30th 2009 , after Tommy Cheng defense, all of the research group went to the Modern Club in Dunbar and enjoyed the Okonomyiaki (Japanese pizza).

Persons in the picture, left to right are: Alex Bauer, Derek Cheng, Dr. Colin Oloman, Sanam Sanii, Anna Ignaszak, Amin Aziznia, Dr. Elod Gyenge, Alan Young, Vincent Lam, Tommy Cheng

On June 15, 2007, over 50 delegates from western Canada and the United States descended upon the University of British Columbia (UBC) for its inaugural hosting of the ECS Young Author Symposium. The single-day event involved 21 presentations from students representing UBC, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, University of Calgary and the University of Washington. The topics primarily focused on fuel cell related research in the area of PEM and SOFC fuel cells.

	ECS Young Author Symposium 2007 organizing committee: (left to right) Tommy Cheng, Alex Bauer, Vincent Lam, Mauricio Blanco, and Alfred Lam.
	Tommy Cheng presenting at the ECS Young Author Symposium 2007 on “Enhancing Catalyst Utilization of DMFC and DFAFC with Catalyzed Graphite Felt”.
	Profs. Elod Gyenge (left) and David Wilkinson (right) having a discussion at the ECS Young Author Symposium 2007.
	Fuel cell vehicle demonstration at the ECS Young Author Symposium 2007.
	ECS Young Author Symposium 2007 organizing committee celebrating with professors: (left to right) Alfred Lam, Tommy Cheng, Prof. Elod Gyenge, Vincent Lam, Mauricio Blanco, Prof. Dan Bizzotto, Alex Bauer, Prof. David Wilkinson.