Conveners
DCMMP Best Student Oral Competition
- Michel Gingras
From light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to solar cells, there is a large demand for developing new materials towards more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable optoelectronic devices. [1] Critical to all of these devices is an extensive knowledge on exciton photo-generation and carrier recombination processes. Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is a well-established tool that can used to evaluate...
Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of organic molecules are extensively used to functionalize surfaces for a wide range of applications from medicine to nanophotonics. However, creating a SAM that is sufficiently stable has been a persistent problem. Although thiols have been the gold-standard for thirty years, N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have recently been used to create SAMs that are more...
Phytoglycogen is a highly branched polymer of glucose produced as soft, compact nanoparticles by sweet corn. Properties such as softness, porosity and mechanical integrity, combined with nontoxicity and biodegradability, make phytoglycogen nanoparticles ideal for applications involving the human body. Many of these applications rely on the binding of small molecules onto phytoglycogen...
