Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate wins prize

Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate, Sharon Abner, recently won the J.P. Hobson Prize for the best oral presentation at the 2023 Surface Canada Forum. Her presentation looked at fabricating and inexpensive, yet efficient catalysts for CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR to combat the drastic increase in greenhouse gas emissions). Using electrochemical conversion of captured CO₂ to create industrial low-carbon chemicals and synthetic fuels can provide a way to repurpose CO₂ gas.