01/11/12

Welcome to the Jerkiewicz Research Group's Website

 Prof. Gregory Jerkiewicz

PhD   University of Ottawa (1991)

         Chemistry, under the supervision of the late Prof. Brian E. Conway

MEng Technical University of Gdansk (1984)

         Engineering Chemistry (double accreditation)

Editor-in-Chief, Electrocatalysis, a Springer journal

For more information about the journal go to:  www.springer.com/chemistry/electrochemistry/journal/12678

Group News

Congratulations to Rebecca Holmberg who has successfully completed her M.Sc. and will join the University of Ottawa as a PhD student in January 2012.

Rebecca in Section News of Interface

http://www.electrochem.org/dl/interface/fal/fal11/fal11_p074.pdf 

Congratulations to Mohammad Alsabet, a former Ph.D. student, who has just been appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Kuwait University.

The Jerkiewicz Laboratory has been awarded a Research Tools and Instruments Grant by NSERC. The funds will be used to acquire a new potentiostat and a new electrochemical quartz-crystal nanobalance.

Dr. Jerkiewicz featured in Queen's News

http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/finding-answers-century-old-questions-about-platinums-catalytic-properties

Graduate Student Positions Now Open!  -->  Go to "Join Us"

We study phenomena driven by the application of an external electric field that occur at the electrode surface (single-crystal and polycrystalline surfaces) and within the electrode's 3D matrix (micro- and nano-structured materials). Kinetics and mechanisms of electrochemical processes depend not only on the nature of the reagent to be transformed or the product to be generated, but also on the electrode's chemical composition, physical properties, and atomic-level structure. Electrochemical reactions can change the electrode's: (i) chemical composition, (ii) 2D and 3D structure, (iii) electronic, magnetic, mechanical, and optical properties, and (iv) other characteristics ---> surface and materials electrochemistry, molecular-level corrosion science

We study the mechanisms and kinetics of electrochemical reactions (e.g. electrolytic H₂ and O₂ generation, ethanol electro-oxidation, electrocatalytic hydrogenation of achiral and prochiral unsaturated organic compounds) at the the atomic/molecular level ---> molecular electrocatalysis

Currently, our current research is funded by:

• NSERC of Canada: (i) Discovery Grant, (ii) Strategic Research Grant, and (iii) Research Tools and Instruments Grants

• Canada Foundation of Innovation: Leaders Opportunity Fund

• Canada Foundation of Innovation: Infrastructure Operation Fund

• Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation

• Ontario Centres of Excellence, Centre for Materials and Manufacturing

• Vale Inco

• Nissan North America Research Center

• Queen's University