Congratulations to PhD student Viet Cuong Dang who is the first author on this valuable review https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2026.240771. published in the Journal of Power Sources. This is the first paper arising from our collaboration with Professor Van-Duong Dao from PHENIKAA Universitym Vietnam.

Josh published his work on “High-Performance Symmetric Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Using Three Oxidation States of TEMPO” in the Chemical Engineering Journal. Congrats!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894725028773

PhD student Drew Sellathurai in collaboration with Dr. Mahmoud Khademi and undergraduate thesis students Bo Zhang and Munya Al-Hamdani published a paper titled: “Mitigation of Dendrite Formation on Zinc Electrodes in Mildly Acidic Electrolytes: The Influence of Self-Assembled Graphene Surface Coatings and Electrolyte Additives” in Langmuir. Congrats!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5c01550

Farshid and Ej published their work on “High performance asymmetric redox capacitor utilizing all oxidation states of vanadium” in the Journal of Power Sources. Congrats Farshid and Ej.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775325016738

PhD student Mohammad (Farshid) Bandpey published a review paper titled: “Effects of interlayer space engineering and surface modification on the charge storage mechanisms of MXene nanomaterials: A review on recent developments” in RSC Nanoscale. Congrats Farshid!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/nr/d4nr01317d

M.A.Sc. student Josh Chamberland successfully defended his thesis with the title: “Material Development for Improved Supercapacitor and Battery-Supercapacitor Hybrid Performance “. Congratulations Josh and all the best for your career!!

M.A.Sc. student Ej Lung successfully defended his thesis with the title: “Supercapacitor-Battery Hybrid Based on Multivalent Vanadium”. Congratulations Ej and all the best for your career.

MASc student Mohammadreza Azarshab (Reza) defended his thesis with the title “Glycerol electro oxidation towards formate using nickel/copper hydroxide nanoneedle electrocatalysts” Congrats Reza!

In collaboration with Professor Cao Thang Dinh and Grafoid Inc., we investigated making hydrogen peroxide for wastewater treatment with an electrochemical process. Here, the presence of surfactants, as we find them in grey water (from sink, laundry machine, shower etc) inhibits the hydrogen peroxide production. In our paper, we show that hydrophobization of the electrode surface leads to increased surfactant tolerance and to high and stable hydrogen peroxide production rates

The group, in collaboration with Dr. Parent, worked diligently to make graphene hydrogels from aqueous graphene nanoplatelet solutions stabilized with small amounts of graphene oxide. This binder-free electrode material is used for supercapacitors with much higher volumetric performance than conventional reduced graphene oxide hydrogels while being more economical. Congratulations to Josh and Andrew for publishing the work in Journal of Power Sources https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.234435 .