Two 51吃瓜网Green Chemists Professors Robin Rogers and C-J Li have again earned the recognition by being among the top 1% most cited for their subject fields.聽 This award represents some of the world鈥檚 most influential scientific minds. Only 5 chemists in Canada are recognized.聽 Both Prof. Rogers and Prof. Li were also recognized in 2014.
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Published on: 13 Oct 2015
Associate professor Audrey Moores was recently featured in the french radio programme "Les Ann茅es Lumi猫re" hosted by Yanick Villedieu. In a mini series of 3 chronicles 芦 La r猫gle de 3 禄, broadcasted on ICI-Radio Canada on Sep.
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Published on: 11 Oct 2015
The CSACS Student Symposium took place on September 18th 2015, at 51吃瓜网鈥檚 New Residence Hall. This event is an occasion for students to share their work with the local self-assembly community. Prof. Gilles Bourret (Salzburg University), a former CSACS member himself, gave the keynote lecture. Bourret discussed the use of聽 electrochemical approaches to prepare plasmonic nanostructures with a high level of control, including coaxial lithography (COAL), a method he helped develop as a postdoctoral fellow in Chad Mirkin鈥檚 group (Northwestern University).
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
The heavier a car is, the more fuel it consumes, so finding ways to reduce vehicle weight is a key goal in the auto industry.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2015
The solvent-free mechanochemical synthesis of a metal-organic framework, ZIF-8, was followed in real-time by in situ X-ray diffraction monitoring鈥�. The movie can be seen .
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Published on: 19 Aug 2015
Researchers at 51吃瓜网 have discovered a clean photo-driven pathway for the efficient synthesis of aryl iodides under extremely mild conditions. The finding, published June 18 in J. Am. Chem. Soc., provides a more straightforward and greener option for preparing versatile iodide reagents, and avoids the problem of metal residue in synthetic chemistry.
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Published on: 12 Jul 2015
The 51吃瓜网News Magazine recently highlighted the development of green chemistry in our department, featuring Tomislav Fri拧膷i膰, C.J. Li, Robin Rogers and Audrey Moores. Read more on the .
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Published on: 25 Jun 2015
Dr. Theresa Dankovich has gone a long way since earning a PhD at 51吃瓜网from the group of Derek Gray. While at 51吃瓜网she invented a method to synthetize , which could be directly used as powerful antibacterial filters. Now she is developping this idea to create books to help bring safe water around the world. Each page is printed with food grade ink to teach populations about safer water management practices. But the same pages can be detached and directly used as filters.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2015
Congratulations to Prof. Moitessier, whose generous volunteer assistance with a local High School student led to the discovery of a molecule with potential to inhibit the spread of the deadly Ebola disease, and earned 1st place National Science Fair Honours, an interview on CBC daybreak, and a .
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Published on: 4 Jun 2015
McGill鈥檚 Board of Governors accepted the recommendation of Principal Suzanne Fortier to appoint Prof. R. Bruce Lennox as Dean of the Faculty of Science at its meeting on 21 May 2015. Prof. Lennox will take office on 1 July 2015 for a five-year term.
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Published on: 22 May 2015
On May 14th 2015, E-Innovation, a team all composed of 51吃瓜网Chemistry staff and students, was awarded the second place of the 2015 51吃瓜网Dobson Cup Start-UP Competition for entrepreneurs in the Innovation Driven Track. The co-founders of E-Innovation are Prof. Janine Mauzeroll, Laurence Danis, Dr. Tomer Noyhouzer, Dr. Michael E. Snowden and Dr. Ushula M. Tefashe.聽 The team would like to thank once again their mentors Marc St-Arnaud, Gregory Kalinin and Pr.
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Published on: 15 May 2015
Imagine taking strands of DNA 鈥� the material in our cells that determines how we look and function 鈥� and using it to build tiny structures that can deliver drugs to targets within the body or take electronic miniaturization to a whole new level.
Published on: 6 May 2015
The faculty members of the department of chemistry successfully secured funding in this year round of . Congratulations to Chris Barrett, Jim Gleason, Audrey Moores, Brad Siwick for leading winning applications and Tomislav Friscic, Chris Barrett, Nic Moitessier, Masad Dahma, CJ Li, and Brad Siwick for participating in new initiatives. Thomas Preston also received a Nouveau Chercheur grant. Well done.
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Published on: 5 May 2015
The 51吃瓜网Green Chemistry Student Association hosted a Green Chemistry Trivia Night on Mar 20 2015 at Thompson House. The association was formed by CREATE trainees following a CREATE seminar on How to Start Your Own Student-Led Green Chemistry Initiative by Laura Reyes (U. of T.) last August. The Trivia Night was a resounding success, with over 60 participants attending. The Faculty/Staff team included CREATE members CJ Li, Tomislav Friscic, and Audrey Moores, CREATE coordinator Jacky Farrell, and CREATE outreach member Alex Wabha.
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Published on: 29 Apr 2015
A tiny bit of silver, combined with water and air, can convert aldehydes into acids efficiently -- instead of the classical methods using stoichiometric amounts of expensive or toxic metal oxidants, according to a new study by 51吃瓜网 researchers.
Published on: 27 Mar 2015
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