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Article courtesy of Chemical Engineering.

The third Sustainable Future Perspectives discussion was held in November and hosted by the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) and the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Twelve University of Waterloo faculty members have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2023 list from Clarivate. 

See the full list here.

In addition, one former postdoctoral researcher and a PhD candidate also made the list.

Article courtesy of Media Relations.

Professor Wu was also featured by CBC and BNN Bloomberg.

Article courtesy of Media Relations.

A team of University of Waterloo researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots.

On 22 September 2023, WIN Executive Director, Sushanta Mitra, visited Sister Nivedita University (SNU) to finalize the Memorandum of Understanding to kickstart collaboration between our two institutions.

Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element, could be the best renewable energy source to fuel vehicles of the future. 

Dr. XiaoYu Wu, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, and his team of graduate and post-doctoral students are investigating the use of ammonia as a safe and efficient storage cell for hydrogen transportation.

Waterloo Engineering professors Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn and WIN Member, Dr. Aiping Yu have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) class of 2023, as announced today by the prestigious society.

Nature Water – 20 July 2023

Biomimetic surface engineering for sustainable water harvesting systems

Yi Wang, Weinan Zhao, Mei Han, Jiaxin Xu, and Kam Chiu Tam

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00109-1