Michel L. Trudeau
Over the last four decades, Prof. Michel L. Trudeau has made advances in metastable materials and nanomaterials in many energy related fields such as Li batteries, hydrogen electrolysis, hydrogen storage, catalysis, new soft magnetic materials and fuel cells. His contribution had always for central goal to relate the fundamental properties of these materials to their unique composition and microstructures and to their potential industrial applications. At Hydro-Quebec, Michel L. Trudeau played a key role in the development of one of the best industrial materials characterization laboratories in the Canada, with equipment rarely seen for an electrical utility such as an Environmental High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope used for the synthesis and understanding of new battery materials. He co-invented 4 patents, written 4 book chapters and edited a MRS Bulletin on Energy Related Materials. He co-authored 200 peer-reviewed research papers (cited 9400 times H-factor of 51). He co-chaired eight international conferences on nanostructured materials as well as the first American Physical Society symposium on nanostructured materials in 1991.
In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for his work on nanostructured materials. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics. In 2023, he was awarded the CAP Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics.
