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Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have created a new material that can go from a soft gel to a hard solid and back again at the same temperature.

The switchability of the material - a combination of supercooled melted salt and polymers that the researchers call sal-gel - means it has two stable and reversible solid states for potential use in a range of technologies including soft robotics, adhesion and adhesives, and aeronautics.

A startup company co-founded by Waterloo Engineering professor and WIN member Michael Pope recently won $25,000 in seed funding in a pitch competition meant to encourage Canadian innovation.

Evercloak, a cleantech startup that specializes in manufacturing ultra-thin graphene and other 2D nanomaterial films, took first place in the environment and electrification development category of the Ontario Power Generation Ignite contest.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have created a powder that could be used to reduce greenhouse gases at factories and power plants that burn fossil fuels.

The advanced carbon powder, developed using a novel process in the lab of chemical engineering professor and WIN member Zhongwei Chen, could filter and remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from emissions with almost twice the efficiency of conventional materials.

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Chemistry on Friday November 17, 2019 for a guest lecture by Zachary Hudson, PhD, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. He will be speaking on "Mutliblock Nanofibers from Organic Electronic Materials".

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Three WIN members have been named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

They are among 93 new fellows elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific, and artistic achievement and 46 new members of the College across Canada announced today.

Waterloo’s new RSC fellows and members are:

Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) will be hosting their WISE Energy Day 2019 on Thursday, September 26, 2019 at the Federation Hall of UWaterloo. Head over to their website for full event details and to register!

Monday, September 9, 2019 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Nanotechnology Graduate Student BBQ

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Graduate Student Society is holding their annual BBQ on Monday, September 9th on the QNC 3rd floor patio. Come out to meet new WIN graduate students, socialize and enjoy free burgers! There will be vegetarian options.

Please see the following link for food options so they can ensure they have enough for everyone: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YGYKKDF

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday, September 5, 2019 for a guest lecture by Jian Ji, Professor in the Department of Polymer Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University. He will be speaking on "Surface Engineering of Biomedical Materials via Bio-Inspired Strategy".[Poster]

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Applied Mathematics on Thursday, July 29, 2019 for a guest lecture by George W. Hanson, PhD, Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He will be speaking on "Gyrotropic Graphene and Substrate Models, and Faraday Rotation with Nonreciprocal Quasi-Two-Dimensional Structures".[Poster]

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on Monday, July 15, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Sven Achenbach from the University of Saskatchewan. He will be speaking on "High Aspect Ratio Polymer and Metal Patterning at the Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND), Canadian Light Source". [Poster]

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Current students

Hard or soft? State-shifting new material can be both

Cleantech startup takes $25,000 pitch contest prize

New powder could reduce greenhouse gas emissions

WIN and Chemistry Joint Seminar: Multiblock Nanofibers from Organic Electronic Materials

WIN members named Royal Society of Canada fellows and members

WISE Energy Day

Nanotechnology Graduate Student BBQ

WIN Seminar: Surface Engineering of Biomedical Materials via Bio-Inspired Strategy

WIN and the Department of Applied Mathematics Joint Seminar: Gyrotropic Graphene and Substrate Models, and Faraday Rotation with Nonreciprocal Quasi-Two-Dimensional Structures

WIN and Electrical and Computer Engineering Joint: High Aspect Ratio Polymer and Metal Patterning at the Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND), Canadian Light Source