Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, September 2020

Laura Hernandez (McGill, Tufenkji group) wins the Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize! Congratulations!

“Laura Hernandez aimed to characterize and estimate the release of plastic particles during brewing. She showed that a single plastic tea bag could release billions of plastic microparticles and nanoparticles”. Read her article, Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea

Four other QCAM researchers have recently won this prize: Yao-Yu Xiao and Zhi-Chao Jiang (March 2020), Qingzhe Zhang (January 2020) and Fan Yang (June 2019).