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Since the inauguration of our project on Solar Fuels at the University of Toronto, the Solar Fuels research team has made significant strides towards artificial photosynthesis materials, which can mimic the production of energy rich fuels by biological photosynthesis. This … Continue reading →

In his latest essay, Professor Ozin addresses the difficult problem of reproducing synthesis results in nanochemistry  The full essay can be found on the MaterialsViews website

Professor Ozin recently celebrated his 70th birthday in Munich, Germany. He presented a lecture outlining some of the significant research accomplishments of the group to mark the occasion. The full chronicle powerpoint presentation will be available for download shortly.

Professor Ozin’s latest NanoChannel Materials Views article on solar fuels has been posted online. The full essay can be read here.

Our group’s invited review on catalytic nanomotors has just been published in ChemCatChem. The full article can be accessed here

Congratulations to Laura R. and Peter for winning awards at the recent 2013 Sustainable Chemistry Conference in Montreal, Quebec hosted by Green Centre Canada. Laura won for Most Commercializable Technology and Peter won for best overall poster. Well done!

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.