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Imagine life in a “clean house gas” rather than a “green house gas” world; this will require a change of human behavior from that practiced in the Anthropocene era where the Earth’s ecosystems have been negatively impacted by humans to … Continue reading →

The Canadian Journal of Chemistry has published a special issue dedicated to Prof. Ozin on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The issue contains several articles from group alumni and a tribute to Geoff by Prof. George Whitesides from Harvard … Continue reading →

Prof. Ozin and collaborators/group alumni Prof. Georg Von Freymann, Prof. Bettina Lotsch, and Prof. Vladimir Kitaev have written an invited review on Bottom-Up Assembly of Photonic Crystals as a part of a themed issue of Chem. Soc. Rev. on functional … Continue reading →

Our group’s collaborative work on nanocrystalline silicon light emitting diodes (Si-LEDs) has been highlighted in The Economist. You can read the full article here and the research paper here.

In his latest Nanochannel Materials Views essay, Dr. Ozin makes a case for a new kind of combinatorial strategy for making nanomaterials based on the idea of nanochemistry DNA. Artwork Credit: Tood Siler Read the essay here.

Our group’s collaborative work on nanocrystalline silicon light emitting diodes (Si-LEDs) has been featured in the latest issue of C&EN News. You can read the full highlight here and the research article here.

Our group’s recent article on the effect of capping ligands on the performance of nanocrystalline Si-LEDs has been featured on the front cover of Small (Small, 2012, DOI:10.1002/smll.201201242). You can read the full article here

Geoff’s essay on the current state of entrepreneurship in nanotechnology has been published as the front cover of a recent issue of Advanced Engineering Materials. The full essay is also available for download through the journal. Innovation in nanotechnology often springs … Continue reading →

Dr.Ozin was recently in Oslo, Norway where he gave a lecture on green nanochemistry at the Kavli Symposium. The full lecture titled “Green Chemtronics” can be downloaded here.

Dr. Ozin was recently in Vancouver, BC where he gave two 2012 CIC Chemistry in Society lectures at Simon Fraser University’s Department of Chemistry and School of Business. The full lectures titled “Photonic Color: Lab-To-Market” and “Materiology: Past, Present, and … Continue reading →