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Congratulations to Joel Mills, Cheng Du, Zuolong Cheng, and Tao Guo's paper published on Applied Materials Today.

The paper is “Catalyst design strategies for aqueous N₂ electroreduction” Joel P. Mills, Cheng Du, Zuolong Chen, Tao Guo, Yimin A. Wu*,Applied Materials Today, 2021, 25, 101184

Congratulations to Professor Yimin Wu win the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund.

https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/researchers-awarded-874000-tools-equipment

Welcome Lei Wang and Youchao Teng join the group as PhD students. Welcome Siyan Lu and Baizhou Zhang join the group as Master students

Professor Yimin Wu gave a keynote speech at the 13th International Green Energy Conference.

http://www.iage-net.org/igec2021-plenary-speaker

Congratulations to Professor Wu join the Young Leaders Committee of the Editorial Board of Energy and Environmental Materials (Impact factor 15.122).

The journal website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/25750356/homepage/editorialboard.html

The link of departmental news: https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/news/mme-professor-selected-editorial-board-high-impact-journal

Congratulations to Zuolong Chen who has been awarded a WIN Nanofellowship for 2021. He joins Tao Guo, who has been awarded a WIN Nanofellowship in 2020. WIN Nanofellowship winners are students of the highest quality, who have demonstrated excellence in academic performance and research, and are outstanding candidates for a graduate degree.

Welcome Vlad Paserin as a research associate and Jingyan Zhang as a visiting PhD student to join the group

Dr. Yimin Wu recently got a grant from the Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE) on materials recycling and advanced manufacturing.

Dr. Yimin Wu gets a grant from Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo. He will work as PI to develop artificial leaves for Canada carbon economy.

When Yimin Wu set his sights on finding a solution that would impact both sustainable energy and climate change, he turned to nature for his inspiration.

“Green house gases and CO2 are a big problem that lead to climate change,” says Wu. “I looked at how we could mimic plants and nature. Plants absorb CO2 and water and use sunlight to convert them to glucose — fuel for the plant. I wanted to look at the possibility of using a catalyst with CO2 and water to convert into a useful fuel for human use.”