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Nanomaterial Catalysts for
Sustainable Energy Technologies
LAB NEWS
October 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Storm Gourley who successfully defended his PhD on the Design and Development of Practical Zinc-Ion Battery Cathode Materials for Stationary Energy Storage! Thanks to Chair Dr. Li Xi, Supervisors Dr. Drew Higgins, Dr. Gillian Goward, Dr. David Latulippe, and external examiner Dr. Steen Schougaard.
August 2025
Congratulations to Drew who received his tenure as Associate Professor!
August 2025
Research communications workshop run by Dr. Lisa Leung from the University of Toronto as part of the CANSTOREnergy project!
July 2025
Invited speaker Dr. Laurel Besco from the University of Toronto presenting on Canadian environmental law policy as a member of the CANSTOREnergy project!
June 2025
Happy to have invited speaker Dr. ChungHyuk Lee from Toronto Metropolitan University presenting on Transport Phenomena in Electrochemical Energy Devices!
April 2025
Congratulations to Katrina and Rebecca who completed their undergraduate thesis projects!
March 2025
Congratulations to Katrina who won the Oral Presentation Prize for the Environmental Division at the SOUSCC!
December 2024
Congratulations to Storm who won first prize for poster presentation at AIChE Battery and Energy Storage Conference in NYC!
December 2024
Congratulations to Matt for defending his Masters thesis!
December 2024
Shout out to Storm, Nate, and Alastair for presenting their recent work on batteries at the BMIR seminar!
September 2024
Shout out to Amir and Drew on their news article about the prospects of CO2 to fuel conversion.
August 2024
Maddie, Katrina, Inder, and Tolu presenting their undergraduate summer research!
May 2024
Congratulations to several of our lab members for representing our lab team Team at the 245th ECS Conference Meeting in San Francisco, USA
April 2024
Congratulations to Storm, Alejandra, and Navid who won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place respectively in oral presentations, and Kholoud who won 3rd place in poster presentations at MUCEC 2024
February 2024
Shout out to Ahmed who was recently interviewed for his newly published work in Nature Communications
September 2023
Congratulations to several of our lab members for representing our lab team Team at the 244th ECS Conference Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
September 2023
Shout out to our undergrad Elliot for sharing his reflection of his summer research experience
August 2023
Congratulations to Kholoud for winning the 2023 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
April 2023
McMaster researches awarded over $24 million for climate and pandemic research.
April 2023
Developing energy technology for a green future: Q&A with expert Drew Higgins
October 2022
Congratulations to Kholoud for winning the best poster award at the KAUST Research Conference
October 2022
Congratulations to Alejandra for representing the Zinc Ion Battery Team in New York City
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