About QCAM

The Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials is a strategic group, financed by Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies, working in the field of functional materials for biomedical, environmental and energy applications supported by fundamental research axes in the topics of self-assembly, nanotechnology and polymers.

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QCAM 5th annual meeting

We are pleased to announce that the fifth annual meeting of the Quebec Center for Advanced Materials will take place virtually on May 27^th and 28^th, 2021. Please save these dates on your agendas.

This year, it will be an honor to host Julia Greer (Caltech), Ian Manners (U. of Victoria), Xia Li (Concordia), Bart Kahr (NYU), Élodie Boisselier (U. Laval) and Kamat Prashant (U. of Notre Dame) for 6 thrilling plenary presentations!

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News and job opportunities

Brilliant Matters Job offers

Brilliant Matters is enabling the lab-to-fab transition of printed electronic technologies by offering reliable and scalable materials with cutting-edge performance. With our unique platform, we can rapidly incorporate material design innovations, […]

Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, December 2020

Casey Platnich (McGill, joint PhD between the Sleiman and Cosa groups) wins the Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize! Congratulations! “Casey Platnich explains how single-molecule […]

Silver nanoparticles with anti-microbial effects

Our member Kevin Wilkinson (UdeM) has secured major funding from NSERC and PRIMA for his collaborative project “Novel silver nanoparticles as antibacterial agents” with industrial partner

Photo contest “La preuve par l’image”

Congratulations to Jacopo Profili on winning the jury prize at the photo contest “La preuve par l’image” organised by Acfas. Jacopo is a researcher in Gaétan […]

Postdoctoral offer in organic chemistry and polymers at Concordia University

The project explores a new paradigm for gene delivery, requiring the synthesis of modified nucleic acids and multifunctional copolymers. This joint project between the laboratories […]