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Students learn about water insecurity on Ghana trip
University of Waterloo students from the faculties of Engineering and Environment spent four weeks in Ghana on a field course to explore issues of water insecurity and apply systems design thinking to complex environmental challenges.
The 12 undergraduate Waterloo students were hosted by Ashesi University. Through a range of immersive experiences and hands-on learning, the cohort investigated how technical, social and ecological systems affect the connection between water and health.
New electrodes could pave way for safer green energy storage
Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have designed a new electrode with potential impact on the way energy generated on wind and solar farms is stored in the future.
The electrode was inspired by shapes found in nature and took advantage of the design freedom of 3D printing to help optimize redox flow batteries as safer alternatives to the lithium-ion batteries now used in many energy-storage systems.
Professor’s paper on better batteries published in top journal Nature
Work by a Waterloo Engineering researcher that could make batteries safer, better and longer lasting was recently published in a leading academic journal.
Dr.Teng Cui, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, was lead author of a paper in Nature on research he conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California.