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Congratulations to Professor Wu winning the Ontario Early Researcher Award. Professor Wu is one of nine researchers at Waterloo to be named a 2025 Early Researcher Award recipient. The program supports the development of outstanding new researchers by helping them build their teams and expand the impact of their work.

https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/researchers-earn-provincial-awards-innovation

Congratulations to Zuolong Chen, who has successfully defended his PhD. His thesis title is "Model Materials and Reactor System for Artifical Leaves in Solar Energy Conversion Applications". Well done, Dr. Chen!

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!

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 as first author in Nature communications and Advanced Energy Materials on CO2 reduction.

Congratulations to Xiyang Wang publishing on Advanced Materials on the role of water in catalytic reactions. Congratulations to Tao Guo on publishing on Nature communications on Interspecies-chimera machine vision with polarimetry for real-time navigation and anti-glare pattern recognition.

Congratulations on Zhilei Zhang and Zhe Su for passing their Master thesis defense! Zhilei's topic is "Hydrogel-Based Flexible Electronic devices as Human Motion Sensors and Triboelectric Nanogenerators" and Zhe's topic is "Temperature-resistant hydrogel wearable sensors and thermoelectric devices", congratulations!

Congratulations on Professor Yimin Wu being selected as WIN research leaders award for 2023. Congratulations on Jeffrey Zuolong Chen won the 2023 prestigious WIN Nanofellowship.

Congratulations to the team who published on Nature communications. Our work are highlighted by the Waterloo news, CBC news, BNN bloomberg. Please check out the below links.

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/greenhouse-gas-green-energy

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/this-uwaterloo-professor-is-converting-carbon-dioxide-into-clean-fuels~2800257

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/university-waterloo-carbon-capture-clean-fuel-technology-yimin-wu-1.7018064

Congratulations to Tao Guo, who is the finalist of Alumni Gold Medal. He is the one of the six doctoral students across all departments at the University of Waterloo, who will receive this honor at 2023 convocation. The Alumni gold metals recognize top graduate students for outstanding academic achievements.