The Materials Interface Foundry (MIF) is a lab in the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering department, at the University of Waterloo. MIF focuses on research, design, and sustainable manufacturing of novel materials interfaces for energy, climate, and electronics.
MIF is most well-known for its groundbreaking work creating the first 'artificial leaf' that turns carbon into fuel which converts harmful carbon dioxide into useful alternative fuel.
MIF is interested in partnering with companies for the following research:
- Sustainable manufacturing for energy, climate, and environment
- Machine intelligence for sensing and computing
Renowned researcher, award-winning, patent-holding, scientist, and professor, Yimin A. Wu is the Principal Investigator and leader of the lab. Professor Wu’s research focuses on the design of new energy materials for solar fuels and batteries, and novel electronic, photonic, responsive materials for flexible electronics and soft robotics, and energy-efficient neuromorphic computing through a deep understanding of energy transduction processes at interfaces. Wu has authored and co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal papers, which include Nature, Nature Energy (x2), Nature communications. Wu is also listed as an inventor on one US/international patent. Wu has delivered over 20 invited lectures across the world in the last five years. Read more about Yimin A. Wu
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The Materials Interface Foundry currently partners with the following companies, government, and organizations:
These examples are only several of our projects. There are many more types of opportunities and research. If you'd like to discuss partnering or sponsoring a research project in Materials Interface or would like more details please navigate to the Contact Us page to contact us directly.
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Congratulations to Lei Wang who has successfully defended his PhD!
Congratulations to Lei Wang who has successfully defended his PhD! His thesis title is "Modulation Strategies of Cu-based electrocatalysts for enhancing electrocatalytic CO2 conversion". Well done, Dr. Wang!
Congratulations to Xiyang Wang on publishing on Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials!
Congratulations to Xiyang Wang on publishing on Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials!
Unraveling the Oxygen Vacancy–Performance Relationship in Perovskite Oxides at Atomic Precision via Precise Synthesis :https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.4c08643
Embedding Reverse Electron Transfer Between Stably Bare Cu Nanoparticles and Cation-Vacancy CuWO4 :https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202412570
Congratulations to Lei Wang publishing in Nature communications and Advanced Energy Materials
Congratulations to Lei Wang publishing as first author in Nature communications and Advanced Energy Materials on CO2 reduction.