George Demopoulos' Research Group August 2025
Left side: PDF Andrea La Monaca, PhD Joon Kyung Koong, PDF Moohyun Woo, GPD, PDF Senhao Wang, PhD Arian Norouzi
Right side: MSc Valentina Nunez-Pava, PhD Tannu Garg, PhD Muskan Sharma, MSc Gokce Kilic, MSc Yihan Wang, RA Fan (Jason) Yu, PhD Nei-Mei (Alivia) Fang
VIDEO LINK: "McGill breakthrough brings all-solid-state lithium batteries for EVs closer to reality" (Fall 2024)
VIDEO LINK: MSSI Materials Research Program Presentation (November 2018)
VIDEO LINK: "Professor Demopoulos interviewed by the Canada Science & Technology Museum” (Fall 2017)
Professor Demopoulos is co-founder and Associate Director of the new McGill Energy Centre (MEC): www.mcgill.ca/energy-centre/
Our HydroMET-Hydrothermal Materials for Environmental and Energy Technologies Laboratory conducts research in the following areas:
- Aqueous processing of inorganic materials
- Electrodes, solid electrolytes and photocatalysts
- Electrolytic and electrophoretic deposition
- Solution synthesis and processing of energy nanomaterials and mesoporous electrodes
- Li-ion batteries (LIB) and All-solid-state lithium metal batteries (ASSLB)
- Direct recycling and upcycling of LIB cathodes
- Aqueous precipitation and crystallization
- Unit operations in hydrometallurgy
- Clean environmental technologies
Group and Current Projects
- Philip Gamboa, MSc, Aqueous electrolytic conversion of iron oxides (thesis pending)
- Gokce Kilic, MSc, Controlled reductive leaching in recycling of NMC cathodes (completed)
- Yihan Wang, MSc, Mechanochemical processing in direct recycling of NMC cathode materials
- Valentina Nunez-Pava, MSc, Development of BiVO4 photocatalyst for water splitting
- Arian Norouzi, PhD, Direct recovery of metallic iron from iron ore via low temperature alkaline electrolysis (co-supervised with K. Waters)
- Dr. Senhao Wang, PDF, Solid-state (garnet) electrolyte interfaces (completed)
- Dr. Fan (Jason) Yu, Research Associate, Monocrystalline TiNb2O7 anodes and solid-state batteries
- Dr. Moohyun Woo, PDF, High energy-density cathode materials
- Joon, Kyung Koong, PhD, Graded polyanionic cathode materials
- Tannu Garg, PhD, Multi-element polyanionic cathode materials
- Muskan Sharma, PhD, Direct recycling of spent NMC cathodes
- Nei-Mei (Alivia) Fang, PhD, Upcycling of NMC cathode materials
- Han Wang, PhD, Thin film CZTS solar cells (co-supervised with N. Quitoriano) (thesis pending)
- Dr. Andrea La Monaca, PDF, Development of Li-ion battery materials and hydrogen photocatalysts
Recent PhD completed projects
- Konstantina Chalastara, PhD 2022, Synthesis and application of nano-TiO2/ZVI composites for detoxification of waste waters; recipient of the 2021 MetSoc Gordon Ritcey Doctoral Award in Hydrometallurgy (MEDA Award recipient; 1st Place Award for Materials Chemistry Oral Presentation awarded at the 29th Can. Materials Sci. Conf., Ottawa, June 2017) (now Process Engineer with Hatch).
- Senhao Wang, PhD 2024, Development of hybrid (polymer-in-porous garnet) solid electrolytes (now Faculty member, Northeastern University, China).
- Moohyun Woo, PhD 2024, Defect-free oriented LiCoPO4 crystals as high-V cathode (MEDA award recipient) (now PDF in our group)
- Fan Yu, PhD 2025, Ultra-fast charging TiNb2O7 anodes (FRQNT Award recipient) (now Research Associate with our group)
- Rana Yekani, PhD 2023, Electrochemical probing of the interfacial properties of perovskite solar cells; (MEDA award recipient) (now R&D scientist with 5N Plus Inc., Montreal, QC)
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