Electrochemical Materials Lab
Dr. E. Bradley Easton
Research Excellence Chair in Electrochemical Energy Materials
Professor of Chemistry, Ontario Tech University
Research Interests
electrochemistry
materials chemistry
fuel cells
Lithium ion batteries
breath alcohol sensors
electrochromic films
conductive metal oxides
carbon surface chemistry
hydrogen production
News
Accepting Graduate Students: I currently have openings for highly qualified graduate students starting September 2023 in the MSc. and PhD Materials Science programs (Materials Chemistry specialization). Stipends will be competitive with those offered at other Canadian Universities. Interested students are invited to contact me directly.
January 2023: The Easton lab welcomes Marjan Saeidi as a new PhD student.
December 2022: Congrats to Keen Black-Araujo for successfully defending his MSc thesis. Good luck with the PhD at Waterloo!
September 2022: The Easton lab welcomes Nathalie Mapue as a new MSc student.
May 2022: The Easton lab welcomes 4 new group members - Fanqi, Ali, Sanjana and Hira.
May 2022: The Easton lab bids a fond farewell to Dr. Holly Fruehwald and wish her all the best as an NSERC PDF at Waterloo in Prof. Smith's lab.
April 2022: Congrats to Rana Ahmad for successfully defending her MSc thesis. Best wishes at your new job at Trusscore!
Sept. 2021: Congrats to Mason for successfully defending his MSc thesis. Good luck at you new job with Flex-Ion!
June 2021: Congrats to Holly for being named the 2021 recipient of the ECS Canada Section Student Award.
May 2021: Our work on using EIS to understand how the counter electrode influences electrochromic device stability was recently featured on the cover of ChemElectroChem. Great work Rana!
April 2021: Our work with the Zenkina group on using electrochromic materials as energy storage devices was recently featured on the cover of ACS Applied Energy Materials. Great work Nadia!
March 2021: Prof. Easton is named the 2020 Recipient of the Ontario Tech Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.
January 2021: Our work on M-N3/C catalysts for oxygen reduction was featured on the cover of ChemElectroChem. Great work Holly!
July 2020: Congrats to Keenan for winning an award for his outstanding talk at SOUSCC.
December 2019: Our work on novel Ru@graphene oxide catalysts for water oxidation was featured on the cover of the Catalysis Science & Technology.
October 2019: PhD student Holly Fruehwald wins first prize in the Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells & Electrolyzers poster competition at the 236th ECS Meeting in Atlanta.
September 2019: Our work with the Zenkina group on mercury detection and removal was featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
April 2019: Prof. Easton is named the 2018 Ontario Tech Research Excellence Award winner in the Senior Researcher category
March 2019: Our university is now known as Ontario Tech University.