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Newsletter- Fall 2024
QCAM Newsletter - November 2024 We’re excited to share the Fall 2024 Newsletter, highlighting the latest achievements, events, and opportunities within the QCAM community! This edition covers the 8th Annual meeting, recent international collaborations, [...]
FQMA 2025
FQMA - May 1-2, 2025 The Quebec Advanced Material Forum (FQMA) is a one-of-a-kind event bringing together Quebec’s advanced materials innovation ecosystem to foster collaborations between academic researchers and the industry. The program will [...]
Progress in Sustainable Development
Progress in Sustainable Development QCAM is pleased to support the 1st edition of the “ Progrès en Développement Durable “ conference, to be held from October 16 to 18, 2024 at the Université du [...]
Inter-cluster projects: 2024 results
Inter-cluster projects: 2024 results In order to promote research collaboration between co-researchers from various strategic clusters (SC) funded by the FRQNT, 6 of them - COPL, CQMF, INTRIQ, ReSMiQ, RQMP, STARacom, have jointly developed [...]
2024 Research professionals’ symposium
2024 Research professionals’ symposium QCAM, RQMP and CERMA are proud organizers of the « 2024 Research professionals’ symposium », taking place at Drummondville Le Dauphin hotel on 12 April 2024. This event will bring [...]
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET prize september 2023
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET prize september 2023 Jalal Rahmatinejad from Concordia (Zhibin Ye group) wins the Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize! Congratulations! In this project, Jalal and colleagues propose a simple method for the synthesis of [...]
QCAM newsletter – January 2024
QCAM newsletter - January 2024 Here is a special issue of the QCAM newsletter. You will find a comprehensive coverage of the events that marked the year 2023. In addition, there is also a [...]
Inside the laboratory
Inside the laboratory This year saw the launch of the first version of the QCAM science video competition entitled "Inside the laboratory". The four videos were presented at the 3rd student symposium at UQTR, after [...]
Electron Diffraction
Electron Diffraction workshop-Nov.17 You are warmly welcomed to attend a workshop that is a collaborative effort between the Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), Rigaku, and The Centre for NanoScience Research (CeNSR). This informative [...]
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET Prize August 2023
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET Prize August 2023 Ahmad Al Shboul from ETS (Izquierdo group) wins the Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize! Congratulations! The work of Ahmad Al Shboul and his collaborators proposes advanced and emerging materials [...]
TGA-FTIR-GC/MS
Hyphenation analysis workshop (TGA-FTIR-GC/MS) You are cordially invited to a workshop jointly organized by the Quebec Center for Advanced Materials, Perkin Elmer, McGill Chemistry Characterization laboratory (MC2) and Montreal Area PLatform for Electrochemical Systems [...]
EDI WORKSHOP: NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION
EDI workshop: Non-Violent Communication The QCAM organizes jointly with INTRIQ, COPL, RQMP, CGCC a series of public EDI training, open to the entire university community. The second training of the series takes place on [...]
Médaille Brockhouse 2022
Brockhouse Medal 2022 The prestigious Brockhouse Medal 2022 awarded to Federico Rosei (INRS)! This award of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) recognises exceptional contributions to condensed matter and material physics. Congratulations! [...]
Prix Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet, january 2023
Prix Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet, January 2023 Congratulations! Brenden Moeun is FRQNT’s star young researcher for January 2023! He is awarded the Louis-Berlinguet prize. His award-winning paper, “Improving the 3D Printability of Sugar Glass to [...]
EDI student workshop 7dec22
EDI student workshop Come and attend the first EDI initiative co-organised by several strategic clusters (QCAM, RQMP, INTRIQ, CGCC and COPL): it will address microaggressions and is taking place in French with slides in [...]
The Quebec Advanced Materials Forum
The Quebec Advanced Materials Forum Keen on collaborative research and advanced materials? Come and attend this one-of-a-kind event aiming to bring together all the stakeholders of Quebec’s advanced materials innovation ecosystem. The Quebec Advanced [...]
QCAM Newsletter – summer 2022
QCAM newsletter - summer 2022 Please find here the summer 2022 issue of the QCAM newsletter. In this issue: technology transfer and quantum materials. Wish you good reading! Our warmest thanks to the student [...]
The difference between varnish and impregnation?
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 [...]
Canadian Academy of Engineering 2022
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
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 on the development [...]
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET PRIZE, May 2022
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET PRIZE, May 2022 Congratulations! Daling Cui is FRQNT’s star young researcher of May 2022! He is awarded the Louis-Berlinguet prize. His award-winning ACS Nano paper, “Bidirectional Phase Transformation of Supramolecular Networks [...]
Samuel-de-Champlain grant
Samuel-de-Champlain grant Audrey Laventure and Rafik Naccache receive a Samuel-de-Champlain grant for collaborations with French research groups. The funded projects are the following (titles translated from the French original): Non-fullerene rigid acceptors for 3D-printed [...]
Travel grant to Bordeaux
Travel grant to Bordeaux Four QCAM students are awarded a travel grant to take part in the University of Bordeaux summer school MAterials to Technologies for advanced Energy Storages (MATES) Congratulations to Daniela Bellon [...]
Five NOVA grants awarded to our members!
Five NOVA grants awarded to our members! Early-career QCAM professors in the spotlight! The pilot programme NOVA (a FRQNT-NSERC partnership) aims to support early-career researchers. Among the 34 funded projects, 5 are led by [...]
Postdoctoral offer in Microbiology antimicrobial resistance
Postdoctoral offer in Microbiology Antimicrobial Resistance The Biocolloids Laboratory at McGill University is looking for a highly talented postdoctoral researcher to contribute to our research on the antimicrobial synergy of natural extracts and the [...]
Best presentations of the 6th QCAM annual meeting
Best presentations of the 6th QCAM annual meeting These prizes were named in memory of Dan Petrescu (1991-2021), former chair of the QCAM Student Committee (you can read an obituary of Dan on this [...]
New hope for the destruction of chemical weapons
New hope for the destruction of chemical weapons "New hope for the destruction of chemical weapons", by Victor Quezada-Novoa (PhD candidate, Concordia), is the winning entry for the English category of the 1st QCAM [...]
2022 Clara Benson Award
2022 Clara Benson Award Congratulations to Dongling Ma, the recipient of the 2022 Clara Benson Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada. In her own words: "I am proud to receive the Clara Benson [...]
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet Prize, November 2021
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet Prize, November 2021 Congratulations! Felix Rizzuto is this month's star young researcher! He is awarded the Louis-Berlinguet prize. His award-winning Nature Chemistry paper, "A dissipative pathway for the structural evolution of [...]
NSERC John C. Polanyi Award
NSERC John C. Polanyi Award The prestigious NSERC John C. Polanyi Award goes to our member Hanadi Sleiman, "in recognition of her ground-breaking advancements in the field of DNA nanotechnology". Congratulations! Catch up on [...]
Self-healing polymers
Self-healing polymers An end in sight for broken screens thanks to the self-healing polymers developed by Twinkal Patel, PhD student in the group led by our member John Oh. [...]
Walk in the park
Walk in the park Discover the watercolours by our member Marta Cerruti. During this “Walk in the park”, Marta captures and unveils for us what unifies the human and the natural world. Until 3 [...]
AN h-INDEX EQUAL TO 100
AN h-INDEX EQUAL TO 100 His h-index is now a three-digit number: congratulations to our member Mario Leclerc! […]
THE PRIX DU QUEBEC AWARDED TO FEDERICO ROSEI
THE PRIX DU QUEBEC AWARDED TO FEDERICO ROSEI Our member Federico Rosei has been awarded the prestigious Prix du Québec (2021 Marie-Victorin prize for scientific excellence in the natural sciences and engineering). Congratulations! “I [...]
Concordia University job offers (in Physics)
Concordia University job offers Two tenure-track professor positions available at Concordia University (Department of Physics). […]
Fiorenzo Vetrone honoured by the Royal Society of Canada
Fiorenzo Vetrone honoured by the Royal Society of Canada Fiorenzo Vetrone, professor at the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre has been awarded the 2021 Rutherford Memorial Medal for his outstanding research in chemistry. [...]
The polymer-electrolyte battery
The polymer-electrolyte battery The effect of defects: let’s discover the polymer-electrolyte battery developed by the Claverie group in collaboration with Hydro-Québec researchers. Thanks to statistical copolymerization, the battery can work at room temperature: a [...]
Brilliant Matters Job offers
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 [...]
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, December 2020
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 methods provide unique chemical and [...]
Silver nanoparticles with anti-microbial effects
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 Nano Brand. Congratulations! [...]
Photo contest “La preuve par l’image”
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 Laroche’s group [...]
Postdoctoral offer in organic chemistry and polymers at Concordia University
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 [...]
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, November 2020
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, November 2020 Mengyang Fan (INRS, Guay group) wins the Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize! Congratulations! “Mengyang Fan designed and synthesized a new generation of dendritic Bi modified porous Pb electrode, showing [...]
PDF offer in Green Chemistry of Nanocellulose-based Pigments
PDF offer in Green Chemistry of Nanocellulose-based Pigments Have you got experience in nanocellulose chemistry? Looking for a postdoc? Don't miss this chance to join Mark Andrews' group! A position within the McGill Sustainability [...]
Why is it so difficult to agree on COVID-19 modes of transmission?
Why is it so difficult to agree on COVID-19 modes of transmission? 16th October will mark the beginning of our QCAM seminar series and we will have the great pleasure to invite a prestigious [...]
Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize, September 2020
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 [...]
Funded projects, NSERC Alliance-COVID19 grants
Funded projects, NSERC Alliance-COVID19 grants Congratulations to the QCAM members who have been awarded a NSERC Alliance-COVID-19 grant! Our professors and researchers have received a total of 14 grants (12 of which as main [...]
Funding for research infrastructure
Funding for research infrastructure Prof. Nikolay Kornienkosecures funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (John R. Evans Leaders Fund – Funding for research infrastructure) for his research on electrocatalyst development and in situ spectroscopy for renewable [...]
Webinar on Scientific Writing
Webinar on Scientific Writing The Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM) student committee is delighted to organize a Webinar on Scientific Writing, hosted by Profs. Gregory Patience and Daria Boffito from Polytechnique Montreal. The [...]
Another success story for Anomera
Another success story for Anomera Mark Andrews, QCAM member and a co-founder of Anomera, a spin out of McGill’s Department of Chemistry, uses carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals to replace plastic and silica microbeads in cosmetics. [...]
FRQNT 2020 research professional award
FRQNT 2020 research professional award Bravo Pascale Chevallier! The research associate from QCAM of Laval University wins the first prize of excellence for research professionals from FRQNT 2020. Pascale, who has a Ph.D. in [...]
IRSST congratulates its awardees
IRSST congratulates its awardees QCAM expertise will once again contribute to Covid-19 research. Indeed, two QCAM members received a positive response to a call for proposals issued by the Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en [...]
research chair of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in “Advanced materials for health and safety at work”.
UQTR research chair in “Advanced materials for health and safety at work”. Our member Phuong Nguyen-Tri now holds a research chair of Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in “Advanced materials for health and safety at [...]
Federico Rosei has been elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE
Federico Rosei has been elected Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Federico Rosei has been elected Distinguished Lecturer of the Photonics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the only Canadian among [...]
Next-Generation Cell-Based Cancer Vaccines
Next-Generation Cell-Based Cancer Vaccines QCAM member Corinne Hoesli will contribute to this ambitious research project on cell-based cancer vaccines. The consortium also includes two industrial partners, Saint-Gobain Life Sciences and Kanyr Pharma Inc and [...]
Fruits and vegetables to fight the coronavirus?
Fruits and vegetables to fight the coronavirus? Can polyphenols extracted from fruits and vegetables protect our cells from SARS CoV2? To answer this question, Roger Gaudreault (QCAM associate member) and Theo Van de Ven [...]
Nathalie Tufenkji received the 2020 Award for the Support of Women in the Eng…
Nathalie Tufenkji received the 2020 Award for the Support of Women in the Eng... Congratulations! Nathalie Tufenkji received the 2020 Award for the Support of Women in the Engineering Profession of Engineers Canada. This [...]
First prize awarded by the jury of the ACFAS competition “Génie en affaires”
First prize awarded by the jury of the ACFAS competition “Génie en affaires” Well done Kalego! Our researcher Jacopo Profili (in laboratory of Prof. Laroche, U Laval) and his teammate Marine Queffeulou carry off [...]
Congratulations to our members for various 2020 Canadian awards!
Congratulations to our members for various 2020 Canadian awards! Prestigious prizes and fellowships awarded to QCAM members! Nathalie Tufenkji receives a Killam Fellowship for her project on the impacts of plastic pollution in northern [...]
Phd offer: Stem Cells
PhD offer: "Synthesis of bioactive hydrogels for the control of stem cell differentiation: impact on bone tissue engineering" This PhD program will be done in collaboration between Bordeaux University in France (Prof. Marie-Christine Durrieu) [...]
A vaccine against COVID-19
A vaccine against COVID-19 “Analysis of the COVID-19 virus has shown us that it has properties that are directly related to the molecules we develop at Glycovax Pharma. This discovery allows us to envision [...]
Nanotechnology to the rescue
Nanotechnology to the rescue! Our co-director Mohamed Siaj and Nadi Braidy in the spotlight on the Radio-Canada science programme “Années Lumières”! “I now feel that I can be more useful than ever before”, says [...]
3 years
Already 3 years! The QCAM celebrates 3 years. "We can all be proud of the work we've done. Our group is now clearly positioned as a leader in advanced materials research in Quebec and [...]
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET MARCH 2020
RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET MARCH 2020 The Relève Étoile Louis-Berlinguet prize awarded to Yao-Yu Xiao and Zhi-Chao Jiang of Université de Sherbrooke (Zhao group)! Congratulations! “As part of their research, Yao-Yu Xiao and Zhi-Chao Jiang [...]
Rapid coronavirus testing
Rapid coronavirus testing A team including QCAM member Prof. Jean-François Masson (UdeM) has secured CIHR funding to design an analytical device for rapid coronavirus testing : “In a matter of minutes, the device could [...]
The book Advanced Materials Volume 2 is out!
The book Advanced Materials Volume 2 is out! After publishing Functional Materials in 2014, QCAM members joined forces and published topics ranging from fundamental concepts in synthesis to applied research projects in the new [...]
Dima Award 2020: Nathalie Tufenkji
Dima Award 2020: Nathalie Tufenkji The Dima Prize of the Cheminst Environment Division awarded to Nathalie Tufenkji! […]
Cellophax: a plastic-like material made from cellulose
Cellophax: a plastic-like material made from cellulose Prof. Van de Ven presents a ground-breaking prototype of plastic straw in an interview with Les Affaires: “A paper straw looks like paper and feels like paper. [...]
Prof. Friščić parmi les 10 découvertes de l’année de Québec Science
Prof. Friščić among Québec Science's 10 discoveries Tomislav Friščić, professor in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University and member of the QCAM, is one of the authors of a success story published in [...]
AWARD RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET JANUARY 2020
AWARD RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET JANUARY 2020 Congratulations to Qingzhe Zhang, a PhD student in Professor Donling Ma's laboratory, at INRS, who won a $ 1,000 prize. The Relève étoile award (new name for the [...]
Dr. Masson in Top 100
Dr. Masson in Top 100 Jean-François Masson, a member of the QCAM, is one of the 100 most influential leaders in the world in the field of analytical chemistry, according [...]
Microfluidics by Jesse Greener
Microfluidics by researcher Jesse Greener Using advanced microscopy, the researcher was able to track these nanoparticles over time. […]
Prof. Lavoie made the headlines on the government’s international relations website.
Jean-Michel Lavoie made the headlines on the government’s international relations website. Jean-Michel Lavoie is determined to prove that international education can pave the way for small business acorns to grow [...]
AWARD RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET JUNE 2019
AWARD RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET JUNE 2019 Congratulations to Fan Yang, a PhD student in Professor Donling Ma and Professor Fiorenzo Vetrone's laboratory, at INRS, who won a $ 1,000 prize. The Relève étoile award [...]
ECS 2019
The 9th Annual ECS Montreal Student Symposium Register now for the 9th annual student organized symposium! The ECS Montréal Student Chapter is proud to announce a conference on various topics in electrochemistry on May [...]
AFM summer school
AFM Summer School The AFM summer school will take place from June 10 to June 11 at McGill. […]
Three AUDACE grants awarded to our members!
Three AUDACE grants awarded to our members! QCAM is delighted to announce that our members have been very successful in the AUDACE call for application of autumn 2018 (FRQ). Three QCAM researchers have been [...]
2019 “Génies en affaires” – ACFAS
2019 "Génies en affaires" - ACFAS QCAM is proud to announce that Prof. Cloutier's team (ÉTS) has been awarded the 1st prize by the evaluation panel of the 2019 "Génies en Affaires" competition (ACFAS) [...]
EUROPEAN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
EUROPEAN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS SUPPORT FOR PROPOSAL WRITING AND GRANT APPLICATION FOR EUROPEAN POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN “BIOBASED POLYMERS AND MATERIALS” – LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Fellowship: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA), a prestigious funding [...]
CEMWOQ
CEMWOQ The 6th Crystal Engineering and Emerging Materials Workshop of Ontario and Quebec (CEMWOQ-6) will be held at Concordia University in Montreal from May 30- June 1, 2019. CEMWOQ is an event that [...]
Thermal analysis workshop
Thermal analysis workshop You are cordially invited to a thermal analysis workshop jointly organized by the Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), Mettler Tolledo and McGill Chemistry Characterization (MC2) laboratory on March 20th 2019 [...]
Lauréat du prix Steacie: Tomislav Friščić EN
Tomislav Friščić awarded Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences Friščić becomes the third McGillian to win the prestigious prize, the first in the history of the prize for research in the field of Green Chemistry. [...]
Louis-Berlinguet January 2019
AWARD RELÈVE ÉTOILE LOUIS-BERLINGUET January 2019 Congratulations to Nariman Yousefi, a PhD student in Professor Nathalie Tufenkji’s laboratory at McGill University, who won a $ 1,000 prize. The Relève étoile award (new name for the [...]
Louis-Berlinguet November 2018
Award Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet November 2018 Congratulations to Shengyun Huang, a PhD student in Professor Donling Ma's laboratory at INRS, who won a $ 1,000 prize. The Relève étoile award (new name for the Étudiants-chercheurs [...]
Job opportunity at UQTR
Job opportunity at UQTR: Professeur en photocatalyse et/ou électrochimie Le Département de chimie, biochimie et physique de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) invite les personnes qualifiées à poser leur candidature pour le poste de [...]
Job opportunity at UQTR
Job opportunity at UQTR: Poste de professeur en matériaux quantiques Le Département de chimie, biochimie et physique de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) invite les personnes qualifiées à poser leur candidature pour le [...]
Summer program 2019
Summer program 2019 The submission for the summer undergraduate program is now open. Please submit the required documents no later than February 17, 2019. […]
FRQNT INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
FRQNT INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Please note that applications for the FRQNT internships program ends Wednesday, October 31, 2018 […]
Career opportunity at Nanobrand
Career opportunity at Nanobrand: Assistant de Recherche niveau III – Nanotechnologie NanoBrand est une entreprise spécialisée en nanobiotechnologie offrant ses produits et services aux entreprises du secteur pharmaceutique et sciences de [...]
Career opportunity at Nanobrand (French)
Career opportunity at Nanobrand (French) : Assistant de Recherche niveau II – Nanotechnologie NanoBrand est une entreprise spécialisée en nanobiotechnologie offrant ses produits et services aux entreprises du secteur pharmaceutique et [...]
Career opportunity at CTMP (French)
Career opportunity at CTMP (French) : Chargé(e) de projet du secteur plasturgie Situé au coeur de la région de Chaudière-Appalaches, le Centre de technologie minérale et de plasturgie (CTMP), est un centre de recherche dynamique formé [...]
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