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Congratulations Engelbert, Danny, Eric and Leo!!

Dr. Engelbert Redel won the Post-Doctoral Humboldt Fellow Award!! Dr. Danny Puzzo and Dr. Eric Henderson won the NSERC Post-doctoral fellow award!! Dr. Danny Puzzo also won the DIC award from Canadian Society of Chemistry!! (Dr. to-be) Leonardo Bonifacio has … Continue reading

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Opal Circuits of Light — Top Ten AFM Papers

Ozin’s group’s 2002 Adv. Funct. Mater. paper Opal Circuits of Light – Planarized Microphotonic Crystal Chips, has been selected to be one of the top ten AFM papers in its special 10 year anniversary issue. Read the perspective from Prof. … Continue reading

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Professor Ozin Wins the Premier's Discovery Award

Check out this award video. The citation reads: A pioneer of nanochemistry, Ozin has inspired innovative, transformative, technological advances around the world. He was one of the first scientists in the field to identify the importance of a chemical approach … Continue reading

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Concepts of Nanochemistry: A Superb Guide — Angew Chem Int Ed.

“The book Concepts can serve as a superb guide into nanochemistry for university teachers, students, and the interested general public. It can be emphatically recommended. Read it, or you will be missing something extraordinary.” –Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Read the … Continue reading

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Front Cover: The Photonic Nose!!

Photonic Sensors: Towards the Photonic Nose: A Novel Platform for Molecule and Bacteria Identification Leonardo D. Bonifacio 1, Daniel P. Puzzo 1, Simon Breslav 2, Barbara M. Willey 3, Allison McGeer 3, Geoffrey A. Ozin 1 * On p. 1351, … Continue reading

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Cited 1000 times!! Nanochemistry: Synthesis in Diminishing Dimensions

Professor Geoffrey Ozin’s visionary paper, Nanochemistry: Synthesis in Diminishing Dimensions, has been cited 1000 times!!!

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Front Cover: Nanolocomotion

Nanolocomotion – Catalytic Nanomotors and Nanorotors Do the nanolocomotion with me: while it is well known that solution-phase chemistry provides a powerful means to synthesize nanostructures with controlled size and shape it is only very recently that chemistry has been … Continue reading

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Nanomachine Dream

Prof. Ozin writes about his nanomachine dream on CIFAR website. Dear Friend of CIFAR, My dream of building useful nanomachines might sound futuristic, maybe even far-fetched. But Nature has created and relied on nanomachines for millions of years. Take a … Continue reading

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Books Reviewed

Read the excellent reviews from Wiley. Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials “Thus, the book provides, in my opinion, a comprehensive overview about the revolutionary developments and most of the important current topics in nanochemistry, -science, and -technology. It may … Continue reading

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Best of AM: Front Cover: Ultrathin Inorganic Nanowire

Top Two Papers of Advanced Materials 2008-2009 Ultrathin Inorganic Nanowires By Ludovico Cademartiri and Geoffrey A Ozin Advanced Materials cover graphic illustration of a high resolution transmission electron micrograph image of ultrathin bismuth sulphide nanowires with unprecedented diameter of only … Continue reading

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