Mar. 24, 2023
Brian defends his PhD! No words can describe the joy of seeing this final milestone - reached by the first group member. Congratulations!
The biggest news of 2022 so far - Anthony defends his PhD and is recommended for the thesis prize! Congratulations!!
Belated update due to the pandemic.. Brian was awarded a Larry Calvert travel fund to attend the XRD workshop (2021). New and outgoing group members for the past two years: Yong Cao (PDF, 2021), Aisha Attar (PDF, present), Nicole Ritter (returning PDF) and new graduate students Bohan, Bruce and Yuwei!
Brian is awarded QEII-GSST scholarship! Congratulations!
Anthony (Nguyen Le) wins 3rd prize in poster presentation at ICES 2019! Congratulations!
Jennifer receives Fred Beamish Award in analytical chemistry from Chemical Institute of Canada
Sonu (Gurbrinder Ghotra) successfully defends his MSc. Congratulations!
Several group members were honoured at the Faculty of Science Awards Ceremony on Jan. 16. They include Anthony, Brian and Chris for graduate scholarships, Sukhbir, Jin and Shakiba for undergraduate awards, and Jennifer for early career research award. Congratulations everyone!!
Jennifer wins the Award for Outstanding Early-career Achievements in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Ontario from Nano Ontario.
Jennifer is named as one of Top 40 under 40 by the Analytical Scientist magazine.
Sukbir joins us for his undergraduate thesis project and Rithu returns to pursue her MSc. Welcome!
July 10, 2018
Chris' paper on effects of trap states on photoinduced charge transfer at the polymer-metal oxide interface is accepted in JPCC! Congratulations!
July 1, 2018
Jennifer is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Thanks to everyone who's made it possible!
May 6, 2018
We welcome undergraduate students Shakiba, Jin and Rutva to our group this summer!
Congratulations to Brian for receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology!
Anthony's paper on rapid analysis of cell lysate using core-satellite plasmonic assemblies is published in ACS Sensor. Congratulations!
Our paper on photoinduced charge transfer in polymer-metal oxide inverse opal is accepted in JPCC! A big congratulations to Nick and Chris!
Brian returns to pursue his PhD and Nick joins us for his undergraduate thesis work!
Our group presented at CSC in Toronto in various symposia.
Gurbrinder and Fred join our group for their graduate studies. Doneique joins us for undergraduate research. Welcome!
This summer we were lucky to have undergraduate students Yasmin and Karim to help out in our lab.
Kim is awarded a Faculty of Science Silver Medal at the convocation! Sitting on stage watching the graduates is a rewarding and emotional experience! Best wishes to everyone!
Nick successfully defends his MSc thesis! Congratulations!
Kim presents at Sunnybrook Research Prize competition that recognizes excellence in undergraduate research (see her interviews on YFile and InsideToronto. Well done Kim!
Dec. 15, 2015
Brian's 2nd paper on polyelectrolyte-aptamer based sensing is published in Analyst!
Dec. 11, 2015
Brian successfully defends his thesis and becomes our group's first M.Sc. graduate! Congratulations!
Sept. 29, 2015
Jennifer gives an invited talk at SciX 2015 on microRNA detection using plasmonic nanoparticle dimers.
Jun. 14-16, 2015
Our group gives three oral presentations at CSC in Ottawa.
May 9, 2015
Kim and Julia help out at Science Rendez-vous with the solar car race activity. Check out the photo gallery here.
Mar. 21, 2015
Kim, Julia and Chris present their undergraduate research at the Southern Ontario Undergraduate Chemistry Conference. Kim took home first prize in oral presentation in the Analytical division! Congratulations to all for their efforts!
Dec. 5, 2014
Our paper on microRNA detection with plasmonic nanoparticle dimer appears in Analyst! This work saw contributions from three undergraduate students. Congratulations!
Dec. 4, 2014
Bach Kim shares her research experience at Science@50 Chemistry celebration.
Dec. 1, 2014
Brian and Nick present their posters at the Fall MRS conference.
Sept. 2, 2014
Nguyen, Julia and Chris join our group! Welcome!
May 10, 2014
Our solar car race activity at this year's Science Rendez-vous was another success! Thanks to Elspeth and Nguyen Le for volunteering!
May 6, 2014
Bach Kim and Rabia join our group as summer NSERC students! Welcome!
Apr. 30, 2014
We thank Craig and Julia for volunteering over the Fall and Winter semesters in our lab.
Feb. 25, 2014
Yang will be presenting a poster at York's Undergraduate Research Fair in the Scott's Library from 12pm to 3:30pm.
Oct. 1, 2013
Our group's first paper (by Brian) appears in JACS!
Sept. 2, 2013
Brian and Nick begin their graduate studies in our group!
Aug. 20, 2013
Yang defends her 4th-year thesis with flying colors!
June 1, 2013
Siwei and Elspeth join our group, effectively doubling our group size!
Apr. 30, 2013
Brian successfully defends his 4th-year thesis with distinction! Well done!
Apr. 29, 2013
Yang joins our group! Welcome!
Jan. 3, 2013
Aristides joins our group! Welcome!
Sept. 17, 2012
Vladimir and Mark join our group! Welcome!
Sept. 4, 2012
Brian joins our group! Welcome