Tuesday, February 16, 2016
A Waterloo Engineering researcher has received an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his work in developing new materials that make batteries and fuel cells smaller, lighter and longer lasting.
Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor and the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, leads a team of engineering graduate students that is producing low-cost nanomaterials for fuel cells, batteries and supercapacitors. Their technology has the potential to lower the costs of fuel cells by reducing or even eliminating the need for precious metals such as platinum and palladium.