More Group News
July 17, 2023
A new issue of Canadian J. Chem. in honour of Prof. Cathleen M. Crudden is now online. We are excited to dedicate our mini-review on smart electrochromic and energy storage materials to Cathy, an outstanding scientific leader and amazing person.
June 13, 2023
Vittoria received a first place award for her poster presentation as part of the Division of Surface Science Student Poster Competition at the CSC 2023 conference (CSC 2023: June 4-8, Vancouver, BC )
May 17, 2023
Vittoria wins the Undergraduate Presentation Award at the 26th Canadian Conference on Surfaces (May 14-17, 2023, McMaster University, ON).
January 9, 2023
Marjan Saeidi is a new PhD student who is co-supervised by Profs. Zenkina and Easton. She’ll be working on materials for energy conversion and storage. Welcome to the lab Marjan!
November 13, 2022
Vittoria wins the CIC Materials Division Oral Presentation Prize at the 53rd Inorganic Discussion Weekend Conference.
June 9, 2022
Today, during OntarioTechU Convocation Ceremony, Rana has been officially recognized on stage as a Master of Science, while Nadia and Holly as Doctors of Philosophy. Congratulations and welcome into the academy of scholars!
October 11, 2021.
Our paper on the effect of lighting on colour perception of electrochromic devices was featured on the Frontispiece in Advanced Electronic Materials
September 1, 2021.
Holly Fruehwald Receives 2021 ECS Canada Section Student Award and a $1,500 USD prize at an ECS Canada Section meeting. Link.
June 21, 2021.
Holly's paper that describes the application of Ni on graphene oxide as a highly active and stable alkaline oxygen evolution catalyst is featured on the Front Cover in Catalysis Science & Technology. Link.
December 20, 2020.
Our new paper on Multiple electrochemically assessible colour states in surface-confined metal-organic monolayers is featured on the Back Cover in Materials Advances. Link.
December 04, 2020.
The Front Cover of ChemElectroChem shows an artistic depiction of our treasure map quest for unique M-N3 non-platinum-group metal fuel cell catalysis. Link.
March 3, 2020
Holly wins the Second place in the #RSCEnergy section of RSC Poster Twitter conference
December 07, 2019.
Catalysis Sci & Tech featured our collaborative (with EastonLab) work on the Front Cover. Link.
Inorganic Discussion Weekend was hosted in Ontario Tech University on November 8-10, 2019.
October 17, 2019.
Holly wins 1st place and receives $1500 prize at 236th International Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 13-17, Atlanta, GA, USA.
June 12, 2019
Nadia wins the Presentation award, sponsored by Polyanalytik, for her presentation in the Materials for Flexible and Printed Electronics symposium at CCCE 2019.
April 2, 2019.
Nadia wins NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral (PGS D.) for 36 months! Congratulations!
March 29, 2019.
Holly wins Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2019-2020! Congratulations!
March 29, 2019.
Nadia wins Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2019-2020! Congratulations!
March 27, 2019.
Congratulations on B.Sc. thesis defence:
Rana Ahmad, Paola Canas, and Sulaiman Torakhel are our new graduates!
March 20, 2019.
Nadia wins the People's Choice award at UOIT3MT-2019!
November 9-11, 2018.
Zenkina group members have presented their science at IDW-2018 held at the University of Waterloo.
September 19, 2018.
Our manuscript in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (impact factor 8.1) is now available online Link
Holly wins again! Her new poster is recognized as The Top Poster at ECS Canadian Section - 2018 (May 26, 2018, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB). Awesome job, Holly!
Holly Fruehwald wins the first place for poster presentation at the 9th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference (May 3, 2018, UOIT, Oshawa, ON). Congratulations Holly!
April 20, 2018.
Our manuscript in RCS Advances is now available online Abstract
April 15-21, 2018
Olena and Adaobi volunteering at DC-UOIT Science Rendezvous.
April 12, 2018
Dr. Z's proposal wins CFI competition. Over $250k from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund created to help institutions attract and retain the very best of today’s and tomorrow’s researchers by investing in state-of-the-art infrastructure that enables world-class research was awarded. See UOIT news
Jade Poisson wins first place for oral presentation at the Inorganic Chem./ Materials session of SOUSCC (March 24, 2018, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON).
Congratulations Jade! This is the first UOIT student award at SOUSCC since 2010!
Alex Deckert wins second place for oral presentation at the Analytical Chem. session of SOUSCC (March 24, 2018, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON). Congratulations Alex!
February 05, 2018.
Our manuscript in J. Phys. Chem. C is now available online Link
November 10-12, 2017.
Our group was presenting at the 45th Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Minisymposium held at Wilfrid Laurier University Link
November 3-5, 2017.
Our group at the 50th Inorganic Discussion Weekend, Ryerson University
October 27, 2017.
Our manuscript in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (impact factor 8.1) is now available online Link
June 9, 2017.
Congratulations to our new graduates!
June 1, 2017.
After successful defense of her BSc diploma (honors), Jacquelyn Egan decided to stay and do her Masters in our group!
March 2017.
Congratulations to Nadia Laschuk for winning both NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship and Ontario Graduate Scholarship awards!
March 2017.
Congratulations to Jacquelyn Egan and Heather Geoffrey on their successful theses defence. We wish the bests in their careers!
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