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Thomas Di Nardo (MSc) and Audrey Moores discovered a new method, based on mechanochemistry and aging, allowing to turn chitin into a new, long molecular weight chitosan. This new material has interesting mechanical properties and is envisaged for applications to biomedical, food packaging and high value fibers. This discovery was covered in a number of news outlets:

Classified as: plastic, discovery, Shell, lobster
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Published on: 20 Dec 2018

CRISPR has jumped to the forefront of gene editing, with game-۲ݮƵ applications like gene therapy, GMO-free designer crops, and synthetic organisms. It makes precise engineering and control of nearly any genome possible. But CRISPR is not perfect and its continued development relies on understanding and modifying the naturally occurring enzymes.

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Published on: 19 Dec 2018

Professor is the recipient of the prestigious for his exceptional contributions to Green Chemistry research in Canada. He is the third ۲ݮƵ professor to win the Steacie Prize, and the first ever ۲ݮƵ professor to win it for chemistry. The two previous winners from ۲ݮƵ are Vicky Kaspi, Physics and Astronomy (2006) and Phil Gold, Medicine (1973).

Classified as: Tomislav Friščić, chemistry, Green Chemistry, Faculty of Science, steacie award
Published on: 14 Dec 2018

Researchers from ۲ݮƵ University’s Department of Chemistry have found a cleaner, easier way to make biaryls, an important ingredient in synthetic chemistry with applications across a wide range of fields including pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, pigments, natural products and polymers. Conventional processes for making biaryls rely on stoichiometric metal reagents, resulting in large amounts of metal waste. In their paper published in Nature Communications in November 2018, the ۲ݮƵ scientists describe a new method for synthesizing biaryls using hydrazine (N2H4) as a metal surrogate.

Published on: 16 Nov 2018

A new type of cellulose nanoparticle, invented by ۲ݮƵ University researchers, is at the heart of a more effective and less environmentally damaging solution to one of the biggest challenges facing water-based industries: preventing the buildup of scale.

Published on: 31 Oct 2018

Aurélie Lacroix (currently PhD student in Dr Hanadi Sleiman lab) and Dr Maryam Habibian (former student from Dr Masad Damha lab and currently postdoc fellow at Stanford in Dr Eric Kool laboratory) were both awarded the for Early Career Women in Science.The award by is given to 3 women bi-annually in the field of nucleoside/tide and/or nucleic acid research a

Classified as: award, Graduate Students
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Published on: 6 Sep 2018

۲ݮƵ University chemistry professors Karine Auclair and Tomislav Friščićare following a promising lead on usingenzymes to recycle polyethylene terephthalate (PET), one of the world’s most widely used plastics.

Published on: 4 Sep 2018

The runaway popularity of personal electronic devices has led to a huge global demand for compact yet powerful rechargeable batteries. Since hitting the market in the 1990s, lithium-ion technology has taken the lead in meeting this need.

But concerns over the relative scarcity of lithium and the toxicity of other common lithium-ion battery ingredients such as cobalt are driving the search for an alternative. Sodium, around 1000 times more abundant than lithium, could be the answer.

Published on: 27 Aug 2018

A fundamental component of protein, nitrogen is the most common pure element on Earth, making up nearly 80 percent of our atmosphere. Yet despite its abundance, atmospheric nitrogen cannot enter the food chain without first being converted into a form that can be used by plants.

Published on: 20 Aug 2018

۲ݮƵ University chemistry professor Matthew Harrington is aiming to develop a renewable alternative to petrochemical plastics by mimicking the astonishing chemistry of the velvet worm –a creature that has made a name for itself through its projectile slime.

Inhabiting the forest floors of Australia and South America, velvet worms catch their prey by shooting out a jet of liquid that rapidly thickens to a sticky gel before hardening into polymer fibres comparable in stiffness to nylon.

Classified as: food and sustainability
Published on: 13 Aug 2018

Cellulose, one of the three major components of plants, is showing great promise as a renewable source for many convenience products. It is made of glucose, a molecule which can be fermented by microorganisms into virtually any desired small molecule of interest. More especially it can be converted to ethanol to make sustainable biofuels.

Classified as: mechanochemistry, press release, enzymes
Published on: 13 Jun 2018

The way individual atoms and molecules move in materials has important consequences on properties such as electrical conductivity, heat capacity and acoustics. Even in solids, atoms are always moving back and forth about some average position, and this motion occurs through specific wave-like modes called phonons. Phonons form elementary excitations in the material and can therefore carry energy in the form of heat. As temperature increases, so do the number of phonons and vice-versa. The group of Dr.

Classified as: press release, Siwick, ultra-fast
Published on: 12 Jun 2018

۲ݮƵ chemistry professors Hanadi Sleiman and Chao-Jun Li are among the six recipients of this year’s Killam Research Fellowships. The two-year fellowships, awarded to exceptional researchers working on groundbreaking projects of broad significance, are valued at $70,000 a year.
Classified as: Hanadi Sleiman, Chao-Jun Li, Department of Chemistry, Killam fellowships
Published on: 8 May 2018

۲ݮƵ University researchers have discovered the consequence of adding titanium and other stabilizing agents to high performing stainless steel on the material’s localized corrosion mechanism.

In a study published in npj Materials Degradation, the researchers describe a suite of electrochemical techniques used to characterize the material’s corrosion properties both on the macro and micro scale.

Classified as: Publication, corrosion
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Published on: 3 Apr 2018

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