Our People - Fuel cells

• 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)

• Emissions control using CO2 abatement technologies
• Hydrogen production
• Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) simulation and modeling

• 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)

• Alternative fuels
• Exergy analysis of energy conversion systems
• In-cylinder combustion diagnostics and engineering
• Life cycle analysis
• Thermodynamics of ecosystems
• Vehicle fleet/power plant/industry emissions impacts (local and regional)
• Window thermal performance modelling

Unversity of Waterloo Alternative Fuels Team (UWAFT)

• Analysis or conduction and breakdown mechanisms in insulating materials under high voltage stress
• Characterization analysis of batteries and supercapacitors
• High voltage and electrical insulation engineering
• Performance evaluation of energy storage elements
• Pulse power technologies
• Use of partial discharge and other high frequency components as diagnostic tools for insulation failure analysis

Power and Energy Systems Group

• Active power filters
• Battery electric, hybrid electric and fuel cell vehicles
• Current-source converter/inverter applications
• Distributed power generation
• Flexible alternating current (AC) transmission systems (FACTS)
• Fuel cell power conditioners
• Matrix converters
• Photovoltaic grid-connected inverters
• Power quality
• Pulse power applications
• Sustainable energy storage systems
• Utility interface of alternative energy sources

Power and Energy Systems Group

• Energy and exergy analysis
• Energy conversion technologies
• Fuel atomization and spray formation
• Fuel Cell performance modelling and optimization
• Heat transfer processes
• Life cycle analysis
• Modelling of transport phenomena in fuel cells
• Techniques for design and fabrication of fuel cell components

• 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

• Electrochemical Engineering
• Electrochemical techniques for fabrication of nanostructures
• Leaching, adsorption and ion exchange processes
• Metal and alloy electrodeposition
• Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) experimentation and modelling
• Process Modelling
• Simulation and optimization of oriented strand board manufacturing

• Advanced processing technologies for microelectronic devices and process modeling
• Low-permittivity dielectric films and device integration
• Low-thermal budget, rapid thermal, and optothermal processing in silicon
• Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, silicon micromachining
• Nanocrystalline semiconductors and nanostructures
• Silicon-based crystalline and thin-film photovoltaic devices: design and fabrication technology

Centre for Advanced Photovoltaic Devices and Systems

• Intermetallics
• Magnesium diboride (MgB2)-based nanostructured superconductors
• Nanostructured and amorphous materials for solid state hydrogen storage
• Solid state hydrogen refueling systems for vehicular applications
• Solid state hydrogen reservoirs for supplying Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell vehicles

• Biofuel Combustion
• CO₂ capture and storage
• Combustion generated particulates
• Energy utilization and storage technologies
• Nanotechnology-based energy devices

Laboratory for Emerging Energy Research