2026

Mathieu Bouthillier (ULaval), Greener/Cao
Robust materials and design for interdigitated microelectrodes on silicon for chemical sensing under controlled electric fields

Philippe Lafrance (UQAM), Goubert/Frenette
Answers via Raman microscopy + modelling

Laeticia Pozniak (UdeM), Badia/DeWolf
AI-Assisted Experimental Formulation of a Model Pulmonary Surfactant Film

Ousmane Mbengue (UQAM), Nazemi/Perrault
Degradable PN-Cage Hybrid Polymers: From Advanced Materials to Environmental Fate

Mathilde Lauzon (UdeM), Wuest/Rochefort
Redox-Active Organic Materials Derived from Renewable Resources

2025

William Stroebel (UdeM), Skene/Cuccia
Sustainable and degradable triboelectric nanogenerators

Ahlem Boughaba (UQAM), Frenette/Perreault
The oxidation of organic materials and the surprisingly dark side of antioxidants

Edouard Dray (UdeM), Hanan/Cibian
Terpyridine based Ruthenium(II) complexes for Hydrogen and Artificial Photosynthesis

Michael Belis Kofinke (UQAM), Byers/Nazemi
Understanding th erole of composition in Ag, Au and Ag-Au nanoparticles for ORR using operando ATR-SEIRAS

Joanie Villeneuve (UdeM), Pellerin/Laventure
Polaritonic Polymer Materials

2024

Carter Zwirz (Mount St. Mary), Perepichka/Orgiu
New Building Blocks for 2D pi-Conjugated Polymers

Charles-Antoine Massad (ULaval), Greener/Taghavi
A microfluidic technique to measure mechanical properties of electroactive biomaterials and determine their maximum electrical outputs

Javier Vargas (UdeM), Laventure/Nazemi
Study of the self-healing properties of poly(urea vinyl ether ester)s

Maeve Holm (McGill), Kakkar/Oh
Unraveling the role of bio-nano interactions in designing smart nanoformulations

Rebecca Maksoud (Concordia), Oh/Li
Non-isocyanate synthesis of dual dynamic sustainable networks and high performance Li-S batteries

Sara-Jane Bédard (UQAM), Frenette/Siaj/Byers
Porous Carbon Support for Electrocatalysis

2023

Adi Orlov (McGill), Cerruti/Vetrone
Light-Controlled Delivery of Chemotherapy Drugs for Aggressive Brain Cancer

Alexandre Jean (UdeM), Zhu/Giasson
New thermoresponsive polymers: Synthesis and characterization

Laurier Gauvin (McGill), Hoesli/Fortin
Developing Oxygen-Generating Biomaterials for Islet Transplantation Devices

Mirolla Tadrous (UQAM), Izquierdo/Siaj
Developing sensitive nitrite sensors for early UTI diagnosis

Nazim Boudjerada (UdeM), Badia/Cuccia
Detection of flavor compounds in coffee and e-cigrattes using gold nanoparticles

William Varroy (UL), Greener/Changhong
Improved energy densities microbial fuel cells using nano-scale electrode modifications

2022

Cédrick Boisvert (UQTR), Nguyen-Tri/Brouillette
Preparation of hybrid Ag-TiO2 and Ag-ZnO nanoparticles for photocatalytic inactivation of bacteria under LED light

Erika Younk (UdeM), Wuest/Rochefort
New Redox-Active Organic Materials for Use in Green Batteries

Justin Laroche (UdeS), Ayotte/Soldera
Study of confinement effect on mechanisms and conversion rates of H2O nuclear spins

Laïka Perron (UQAM), Izquierdo/Siaj
Green Graphene Inks Toward Developing Printed and flexible Smart Sensors – part2

Lucille Kuster (UQAM), Nazemi/Frenette
Unequivocal characterization of N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) bonding to catalytically active metal nanoparticles by Raman spectroscopy

2021

A-Jay Alkarim Khanmohamed (UdeM), Badia/Rochefort
Langmuir-Blodgett Films of Redox Polyelectrolytes

Jessica Bennett (McGill), Kakkar/Oh
Multi-tasking through smart nanoformulations: Drug delivery using star polymer based stimuli-sensitive hydrogels

Meghan McNeil (UdeM), Laventure/Bazuin
3D Printing of Photoactive Polymer Materials

Sam Hamroff (McGill), Cosa/Friscic
MOF encapsulation of fluorogenic sensors for biosensing

Laïka Perron (UQAM), Izquierdo/Byers
Green Graphene Inks Toward Developing Printed and flexible Smart Sensors

2020

Michaël Berteau-Rainville (Concordia), Salzmann/Orgiu
Characterization of the Electronic and Structural Properties of Strongly-Coupled Organic Semiconductor

Jiayi Chen (UdeM), Pellerin/Bazuin
Ultraoriented nanofibers of polymer blends

Tom Dufresne (Grenoble INP PHELMA, France), Plamondon/Izquierdo
Printable electrodes to measure solutions

Priyesh Patel (Concordia), Oh/Ye
Exploration of dual location dual acid/glutathione-degradable dendrimer-based block copolymers for cancer therapy

Renata Sabini (Concordia), Cuccia/Perepichka
The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) Effect for Directing Crystal and Molecular Chirality

2019

Asselah Islam Samah (UQAM), Schougaard/Mauzeroll
Batteries au lithium-ion

Frederic Langlois (UdeM), Zhu/Oh
A study of  Poly(acrylonitrile-co-acrylamide) synthesis by nitrile hydratase and applications

Kariane Larocque (UQTR), Duong/Brouillette/Bénard
Application de ligands de Diaminotriazine-Pyridone en science forensique

Marie Dessoude (INSA, France), Badia/Pellerin
Effet pair-impair dans les monocouches auto-assemblées d’alcanethiolates

Nesrine Amiri (UdeM), Wilkinson/Tufenkji
Aging of nano-enhanced surfaces in the Canadian environment

Toussaint Soraya Manya (Concordia), Howarth/Naccache
Encapsulation of Carbon Dots in Metal-Organic Frameworks Towards Applications in Sensing

2018

Jennifer Coulombe (Concordia), DeWolf /Badia
The role of cholesterol in lung surfactants in the presence of charged silica nanoparticles.

Jean-Claude Chartrand (UdeS), Ayotte/Soldera
Effets du confinement sur la conversion des isomères de spin nucléaires dans H2O

Jean-Philippe Denis (UQAR), Gagnon/Chabot
Développement de nouveaux matériaux d’adsorption à base de chitosane hautement substitués

Kimberly Côté-Vertefeuille (Laval), Greener/Tagahvi
Viscoelastic  properties of bacterial biofilms  using microfluidics, vibrational spectroscopy and time lapse imaging

Tatianna Kubrak (McGill), Cerruti/Mantovani
Elastin Mineralization

Vanessa King (McGill), Cosa/Blum
Controlled attachment of Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) disks to surfaces for single structure measurements