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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The difference between varnish and impregnation?
Ici Radio-Canada visits our member Véronic Landry’s laboratory! Listen again to this radio report broadcast on the programme Les années lumière, highlighting the research of PhD students Solène […]
Energy: nanoscopic solution to macroscopic issues
Among the 17 sustainable development goals, three are the main ones: clean energy, environment, and health”, explains Federico Rosei. But how can materials science contribute to attaining these […]
New hope for the destruction of chemical warfare agents
by Victor Quezada-Novoa
The author is the winner of the QCAM Science writing competition “Stories of materials“
Let’s think about firearms, just by dismantling them they […]
Canadian Academy of Engineering 2022
Our members Fiorenzo Vetrone and Shuhui Sun have been appointed Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering for 2022 after a highly competitive process! Congratulations! […]
ACES-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award
The prestigious ACES-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award presented to Qingzhe Zhang, former QCAM student member. During his PhD, he carried out his research with INRS professor Dongling Ma […]