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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 →

Our recent research news article on monodisperse silicon nanocrystals has been featured on the front cover of Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. 2012, 24(43), 5890-5898). You can read the full article here

Geoff’s latest Materials Views Nanochannel essay discusses biomimetics, the field of synthetic nanomaterials inspired by structural motifs found in Nature Read the essay here.

Our group’s review article on using shape for self-assembly has been highlighted in the Materials Witness section of Nature Materials. Read the highlight here and the article here.

Dr. Ozin gave the plenary lecture at the recent Micro and Nanomotors Workshop in Dresden, Germany. The abstract from his lecture is given below. The full presentation is also available for download here.     It is an honour, a … Continue reading →