Our People - Batteries

• Battery charging systems
• Network/distributed and web-based programming applications in power systems
• Nonlinear systems theory and its applications to electricity markets
• Optimal power management in competitive electricity markets
• Smart charging systems

Power and Energy Systems Group

• Advanced nanostructured conductive polymers
• Nanocomposite membranes for fuel cell and water purification
• Nanostructured fuel cell catalysts
• Synthesis, functionalization and fabrication of nanostructured materials
• Zeolite nanoparticles and membranes

Applied Nanomaterials & Clean Energy Laboratory

Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)

• Conductive polymer blends
• Design and performance of fuel cell stacks and systems
• Development and testing of polymeric materials
• Fuel cell materials testing
• Fuel cell system reliability and modelling
• Hydrogen production and distribution
• Life cycle analysis

University of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT)

• Estimation of charge in batteries
• Control of smart materials
• Optimization of sensor and hardware placement

Infinite-dimensional Systems Research Group

• Design and analysis of advanced materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
• Development of new materials for enhanced energy storage and conversion
• Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cell Catalyst Materials
• Mesoporous metal oxides
• Solid state electrochemistry of metal oxides, metal phosphates and pnictides

NAZAR Group

• Heterogeneous integration
• Laser processing of materials
• Materials and devices for flexible electronics
• Materials and devices for solid-state lighting
• Nanofabrication for energy conversion and storage, sensing, and nanoelecronics

• Functionalization of carbon nanotubes and graphene
• Nanomaterials (nanotubes, wires, platelets, and particles) synthesis and processing
• Nanomaterials for engineering nanocomposites, solar cells, and sensors/actuators

Applied Carbon Nanotechnology Group