Monthly Archives: June 2016

The latest issue of ACCN features Professor Ozin, highlighting his past work and how he ended up as a Professor at UofT tackling the CO2 challenge. The full article can be found on the ACCN website with a subscription.

In honor of Anton Vilsmeier’s 1926 discovery of one of the most useful reactions in organic chemistry, the formylation of aromatics, Geff delivered the prestigious Vilsmeier Lecture at the University of Regensburg on the 7th July 2016

In a review authored by Wei Sun, Chenxi Qian, and Kenneth Chen of our Silicon team, recent studies in the literature on size dependent properties of mono-disperse Silicon nanocrystals is summarized. The full article can be found on the ChemNanoMat … Continue reading →

Laura’s investigation on the effect catalyst precursors play in the photocatalytic activity of In2O3 is described in her recent Chemistry of Materials paper. It was observed that the active form, a defected In2O3-x(OH)y is formed upon thermal decomposition of In(OH)3, … Continue reading →

Iron oxide thin films modified with a monolayer of a molecular iridium co-catalyst has shown an improvement in oxygen evolution. Using electrochemical methods, Jon was able to attribute this improvement to enhanced interfacial charge transfer and oxygen evolution kinetics provided … Continue reading →