Research

Our research is focused on Green Chemistry, Energy storage, and Molecular Self-Assembly
Research
Group News
Inorganic Discussion Weekend will be hosted in Ontario Tech on November 8-10, 2019. Update your calendar!

October 17, 2019.
Holly wins 1st place and receives $1500 prize at 236th International Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 13-17, Atlanta, GA, USA. Congratulations!
August 23, 2019.
Our paper on mercury detection was featured on the cover image of J. Mater. Chem. C.
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August 1, 2019.
Our paper describing spacer conjugation and surface support effects in monolayer electrochromic materials is published in ACS Appl. Electronic Mater.
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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!
March 19, 2019. Lab members Nadia and Holly competed in #UOIT3MT heats today!
Enjoy the reading week!
Good luck with your exams and Merry Christmas!
November 10, 2018.
Holly presenting at ECS Canadian Section Fall 2018 Meeting held at the University of Quebec at Montreal .
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
PDF - Open Access
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