Sustainable Chemistry Conference 2013

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!
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Fuel From the Sun: NanoChannel Materials Views

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 the “Sustanocene” age where humans strive to heal the Earth through renewable technologies to make things better.
Read the essay here.
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Can. J. Chem. Special Issue Dedicated to Prof. Ozin

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 University.

The full issue is available from the publisher and Prof. Whitesides’ tribute letter can be accessed here.

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Chem. Soc. Rev. Tutorial Review on Photonic Crystals

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 nanomaterials. 

The full review is available from the publisher’s website

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Si-LEDs Featured in The Economist

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.

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Nanomaterials Kaleidoscope – Building a Nanochemistry Periodic Table!

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.
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Si-LEDs Collaboration Featured in C&EN News

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.

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nc-Si LED’s Featured on Cover of Small

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

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Spin of a Nanotech Spin-Off Essay

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 journalInnovation in nanotechnology often springs from ideas birthed in universities yet the attitudes of stakeholders towards entrepreneurship in our seats of knowledge is underappreciated. In this article I explore the challenges faced by academics and students when confronted with the collision between fundamental research in the pursuit of knowledge and applied research directed at the creation of products, jobs, and wealth.

 

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Kavli Symposium Lecture on Green Chemtronics

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.
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