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.

Student Symposium 2022

We would like to thank you all for attending the QCAM student symposium 2022, it was such a pleasure and honor to meet you all in person after this long absence !

News and job opportunities

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 […]