Prof. Aimy Bazylak
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
aimy.bazylak@utoronto.ca
Expertise:
Fuel Cells; Electrolyzers; Porous Materials;
Mulitphase flows; X-ray and Neutron imaging
Research interests:
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, water electrolyzers, CO2RR, electrospinning, gas diffusion layer, porous transport layer, material synthesis, design, fabrication, and testing of new materials, machine intelligence
Research description:
Our research is focused on tailoring the porous materials and architectures of clean electrochemical energy technologies to customize the multiphase flows (liquids and gases) and optimize electronic, ionic, and thermal transport for high performance fuel cells and electrolyzers for clean energy storage and power.
Current funded research projects:
NRC-NRCan Carbon capture, utilization and storage strategy (CCUS)
NRC-UofT Collaboration Centre on Green Energy Materials (CC-GEM)
UofT McLean Award
CRC Tier II Thermofluidics for Clean Energy
Main equipment and infrastructures:
- Electrochemistry: Potentiostats, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, fuel cell test stations, electrolyzer test stations
- Materials fabrication and characterization: catalyst layer fabrication facility, optical microscopy, X-ray computed tomography, electrospinning
