WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 11:30 am - Tuesday, April 18, 2017 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
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Previous seminars

Winter 2017
February 7, 2017

"Corrosion Study of Silver Nanowires"
Speaker: Geoffrey Deignan
Supervisor: Professor Irene Goldthorpe

"Surface Functionalization for Precise Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Deposition"
Speaker: Monika Kulak
Supervisor: Professor Derek Schipper
February 21, 2017
"Synthesis, characterization and applications of laser treated graphene-based nanomaterials"
Speaker: Paola Russo
Supervisor: Professor Norman Zhou
"Imaging and quantitative analysis of amyloid deposits found in the retina of subjects in association with Alzheimer's disease"
Speaker: Tao Jin
Supervisor: Professor Melanie Campbell
March 7, 2017
"The optical blur on the retina and cone spacing during normal emmetropization and lens-induced myopia"
Speaker: Mengyuan Ke
Supervisor: Professor Melanie Campbell
"Simulations of field-switching dynamics of liquid crystal droplets for smart glass applications"
Speaker: Fred Fu
Supervisor: Professor Nasser Abukhdeir
March 21, 2017

"Photocatalytic decomposition of estrogens and associated estrogenic activity using immobilized TiO2"
Speaker: Maricor Arlos
Supervisor: Professor Mark Servos and Susan Andrews
April 4, 2017

Binding Kinetics of Mucoadhesive Nanoparticles
Speaker: Aaminah Ahmad
Supervisor: Professor Frank Gu
Molecular Imprinting on Inorganic Nanozymes for Substrate Selectivity and Enhanced Activity
Speaker: Zijie Zhang
Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu
April 18, 2017

Dispersive Gate Readout in Silicon Qubits
Speaker: Eduardo Barrera
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh

Integrating molecular nanomagnets with carbon-based nanoelectronics
Speaker: Sean Walker
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh

Fall 2016
October 12, 2016
"Simultaneous Alignment and Length Sorting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"
Speaker: Serxho Selmani
Supervisor: Professor Derek Schipper

"Nitrogen Doping TiO2 by Plasma Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition"
Speaker: Abdullah Alshehri
Supervisor: Professor Kevin Musselman & Professor Mustafa Yavuz
October 26, 2016
"Molecular Imprinting for Substrate Selectivity and Enhanced Activity of Enzyme Mimics"
Speaker: Zijie Zhang
Supervisor: Professor Juwen Liu

"Entropic Segregation of Short Polymers to the Surface of a Polydisperse Blend"
Speaker: Pendar Mahmoudi
Supervisor: Professor Mark Matsen
November 9, 2016
"Cellulose Nanocystals Incorporated Nancocomposites for Water Treatment Applications"
Speaker: Nishil Mohammed
Supervisor: Professor Michael Tam

"3D Printing of Soft Hydrogels Incorporating Functional Nano Materials"
Speaker: Yun Wu
Supervisor: Professor Shirley Tang
November 23, 2016
"Flexible GaN nanowire flexible blue light emitting diodes and trend for micron LED displays"
Speaker: Mohsen Asad
Supervisor: Professor William Wong

"Cellulose Nanocrystal based adsorbents and their application in water treatment processes"
Speaker: Nathan Grishkewich
Supervisors: Professor Michael Tam
December 7, 2016
"Theoretical Investigation of MoS2 FETs for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications"
Speaker: Richard Gyuchull Han
Supervisor: Professor Youngki Yoon

"Simulation-based design of liquid crystal elastomers"
Speaker: Ryan Neufeld
Supervisor: Professor Nasser Abukhdeir & Professor Boxin Zhao

Winter 2016
March 1, 2016
"Fabrication of high aspect ratio nano-pores in silicon using photo-assisted electrochemical etching"
Speaker: Ferhat Aydinoglu
Supervisor: Professor Bo Cui

"DNA adsorption by ZnO nanoparticles near its solubility limit and its implication for DNA function and fluorescence quenching"
Speaker: Lingzi Ma
Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu
March 8, 2016
"Hydrophobically modified starch nanoparticle for drug delivery"
Speaker: Damin Kim
Supervisor: Professor Jean Duhamel

"Using pyrene to probe polymer diffusion between latex nanoparticles"
Speaker: Remi Casier
Supervisor: Professor Jean Duhamel
March 15, 2016
"Photoluminescence decay dynamics in gallium oxide nanocrystals"
Speaker: Brian Fernandes
Supervisor: Professor Zoran Miskovic

"Modeling the interaction of graphene with a liquid electrolyte"
Speaker: Lindsey Daniels
Supervisor: Professor Zoran Miskovic
March 22, 2016
"Electrically conductive textiles enabled by silver nanowires"
Speaker: Nupur Maheshwari
Supervisor: Professor Irene Goldthorpe

"Graphene oxide gel synthesis by pulsed laser irradiation"
Speaker: Khaled Ibrahim
Supervisors: Professor Kevin Musselman & Professor Mustafa Yavuz
March 29, 2016
"Proximity semiconducting nanowire junctions from Josephson to quantum dot regimes"
Speaker: Kaveh Gharavi
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh

"Novel methods for conjugated polymer synthesis"
Speaker: Luke Vanderzwet
Supervisor: Professor Derek Schipper
April 5, 2016
"Opportunities and challenges of black phosphorus transistors"
Speaker: Demin Yin
Supervisor: Professor Youngki Yoon

"Multifunctional organometallic nanovesicles in aqueous solutions"
Speaker: Nimer Murshid
Supervisor: Professor Xiaosong Wang

Fall 2015
November 3, 2015
"Correcting the Sanchez-Lacombe Equation of State for Polymeric Mixtures"
Speaker: Kier von Konigslow
Supervisor: Professor Russell Thompson

"Chemical Sensing in NV Doped Diamond"
Speaker: Madelaine Liddy
Supervisor: Professor David Cory

November 10, 2015
"Current Challenges of Aprotic Metal-O2 Batteries"
Speaker: Robert Black
Supervisor: Professor Linda Nazar
November 24, 2015
"Isolation of a DNA Sequence that can Selectively Detect Silver Ions"
Speaker: Runjhun Saran
Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu
"Surface Induced Amorphous Solid Shell: A New Explanation for Melting of Nanoparticles Contradicting Surface Pre-Melting"
Speaker: Ehsan Marzbanrad
Supervisor: Professor Norman Zhou

Spring 2015
June 9, 2015
"Mass and Nanomaterial Transport in Biofilms and Porous Media Assesed by MRI"
Speaker: Maria Pia Herrling, Visiting Researcher from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Co-supervisor: Professor Frank Gu

Winter 2015
February 3rd, 2015
"The Treatment of Conducting Polymer PEDOT:PSS for Hybrid Solar Cells"
Speaker: Donald McGillivray
Supervisor: Professor Tong Leung

"Structural Colour Generation and Refractive Index Sensing using Vertical Silicon Nanowire Arrays"
Speaker: Jaspreet Walia
Supervisor: Professor Simarjeet Saini

February 10th, 2015
"Peptide-CNT Hybrid Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering"
Speaker: Ali Sheikholeslam
Supervisor: Professor Pu Chen
"Understanding and Optimizing Photothermal Conversion in Gallium Arsenide Nanowire Arrays"
Speaker: Jaspreet Walia
Supervisor: Professor Simarjeet Saini
February 17th, 2015
"Characterization and Application of Peptides as Small Interfering RNA Delivery Systems"
Speaker: Baoling Chen
Supervisor: Professor Pu Chen
"Nonlinear Quantum Optical Properties of Graphene"
Speaker: Behrooz Semnani
Supervisor: Professor Hamed Majedi
February 24th, 2015
"Traveling Wave Amplifier Based on Graphene"
Speaker: Naimeh Ghafarian
Supervisor: Professor Hamed Majedi
"Highly Controlled Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanowires using Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching and their Modal Analysis"
Speaker: Navneet Dhindsa
Supervisor: Professor Simarjeet Saini
March 3rd, 2015
"The Study of Polymeric Composite Membrane for Potential Artificial Kidney Application"
Speaker: Limin Lu
Supervisor: Professor John Yeow
March 31st, 2015
12:00-12:30pm
"Growth and Characterization of Single Crystalline Al(110) Layers on (001) GaAs"
Speaker: Julie Tournet
Supervisor: Professor Zbig Wasilewski
12:30-1:00pm
"Manganese Dopant Exchange Interactions in Gallium Nitride Nanowires"
Speaker: Manu Hegde
Supervisor: Professor Pavle Radovanovic
1:00-1:30pm
"Controlling the Mechanism of Phase Transformation of Colloidal Indium Oxide Nanocrystals"
Speaker: Lisa Hutfluss
Supervisor: Professor Pavle Radovanovic

Fall 2014
September 9th, 2014
"Exploring the interactions of gemini surfactant and lipid monolayers with atomic force and Kelvin probe force microscopy"
Speaker: Robbie Henderson
Supervisor: Professor Zoya Leonenko
"Construction and characterization of an HIV DNA-VLP vaccine using bacteriophage"
Speaker: Jessica Nicastro
Supervisor: Professor Roderick Slavcev
September 16th, 2014
"Silver nanowire transparent electrodes: can they replace ITOs?"
Speaker: Hadi Hosseinzadeh
Supervisor: Professor Irene Goldthorpe
"Wearable RF resonant sensor array for detection of DUI (driving under influence) violation"
Speaker: Scott Chen
Supervisor: Professor Raafat Mansour
September 23rd, 2014
"Modelling ellipsometry and electron energy loss specotropy (EELS) in graphene"
Speaker: Keenan Lyon
Supervisor: Professor Zoran Miskovic
"Nano-Li4Ti5O12 as anode material for lithium-ion battery with high-rate performance"
Speaker: Xiangcheng (Mike) Sun
Supervisor: Professor Bo Cui
September 30th, 2014
"Nano-structured hydride systems for gaseous hydrogen storage"
Speaker: Amirreza Shirani Bidabadi
Supervisor: Professor Robert Varin
"Gold nanostructured particles for biomolecule sensing and separation"
Speaker: Erin Bedford
Supervisor: Professor Frank Gu
October 14th, 2014
"Label-free microwave sensing and heating of nano-liter droplets in microfluidic devices"
Speaker: Gurkan Yesiloz
Supervisor: Professor Carolyn Ren
"Conductive cellulose nanocrystals for next generation energy storage"
Speaker: Xinyun (Debbie) Wu
Supervisor: Professor Michael Tam
October 21st, 2014
"Delivery of selectively expressed toxic topoisomerase mutant alleles to ovarian cancer cells by DNA ministrings"
Speaker: Shirley Wong
Supervisor: Professor Roderick Slavcev
"Multiple droplet merging for the control of micro-reactions on a microfluidic chip: application to single cell DNA analysis"
Speaker: Alexander Brukson
Supervisor: Professor Carolyn Ren
October 28th, 2014
"Time-resolved laser-induced incandescence: an in-situ nanoparticle sizing technique"
Speaker: Tim Sipkens
Supervisor: Professor Kyle Daun
"Charge detectors and spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots"
Speaker: Jeff Mason
Supervisor: Professor Jan Kycia
November 4th, 2014
"Hybrid nanowire/thin-film solar cells"
Speaker: Minoli Pathirane
Supervisor: Professor William Wong
"The synthesis and characterization of dissymmetrical gemini surfactants"
Speaker: Aula Al Muslim
Supervisor: Professor Shawn Wettig
November 11th, 2014
"Fabrication and characterization of nano-structured electrochemical capacitors"
Speaker: Jin Hee Kang
Supervisor: Professor John Wen
"Barium copper chalcogenide thermoelectrics: ZT and stability"
Speaker: Mohamed Oudah
Supervisor: Professor Holger Kleinke
December 2nd, 2014
"Characterization of the internal structure and dynamics of starch nanoparticles"
Speaker: Lu Li
Supervisor: Professor Jean Duhamel
"Printed electronics using nanocrystalline cellulose-based conductive inks"
Speaker: Lina Voloshin
Supervisor: Professor William Wong
December 9th, 2014
"Scalable optical detection: nanotechnology for the masses"
Speaker: Gordon Hall
Supervisor: Professor Chris Backhouse
"Removing interferences within electrothermal vaporization flame atomic emissions spectrometry"
Speaker: Victor Shadbolt
Supervisor: Professor Chris Backhouse

Spring 2014
May 6th, 2014
"Protein engineering of bacteriophage M13 for applications in bionanotechnology"
Speaker: Anthony Petrie
Supervisor: Professor John Honek
"Electrostatic properties of complex lipid mixtures: an AFM and FM-KPFM study"
Speaker: Elizabeth Drolle
Supervisor: Professor Zoya Leonenko
May 13th, 2014
"Sensitive magnetic moment detection with carbon nanotube resonators"
Speaker: Kyle Willick
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh
"Mucoadhesive nanoparticles for ocular drug delivery"
Speaker: Sandy Liu
Supervisor: Professor Frank Gu
May 27th, 2014
"Advanced anode materials for Li-ion battery application"
Speaker: Kun Feng
Supervisor: Professor Zhongwei Chen
"Synthesis, self-assembly, and material applications of stool chair amphiphilic molecules"
Speaker: Nimer Murshid
Supervisor: Professor Xiaosong Wang
June 3rd, 2014
"Characterization of alternative promoters to stagger and control complex protein expression in the baculovirus-insect cell system"
Speaker: Steve George
Supervisor: Professor Marc Aucoin
"Non-carbonaceous sulfur host materials for lithium-sulfur battery electrode"
Speaker: Quan Pang
Supervisor: Professor Linda Nazar
June 10th, 2014
"Migration insertion polymerization of CpFe(CO)2(CH2)3PPh2(FpP) for organometallic amphiphiles: a group of novel metal-containing building blocks"
Speaker: Kai Cao
Supervisor: Professor Xiaosong Wang
"Terahertz time domain spectroscopy"
Speaker: Chao Xu
Supervisor: Professor Dayan Ban
June 17th, 2014
"Characterization and quantification of starch nanoparticles"
Speaker: Duncan Li
Supervisor: Professor Scott Taylor
"Magnetoconductane signatures of subband structure in semiconductor nanowires"
Speaker: Greg Holloway
Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh
June 24th, 2014
"Single-chip CMOS MEMS scanning microwae microscopy"
Speaker: Mostafa Azizi
Supervisor: Professor Raafat Mansour
"Quantum dot sensitized solar cells based on ZnO nanowire arrays"
Speaker: Bita Janfeshan
Supervisor: Professor Siva Sivoththaman
July 8th, 2014
"Joining of silver nanowires and copper oxide nanoparticles for bio-detection"
Speaker: Peng Peng
Supervisor: Professor Norman Zhou
"Polymer mold material for nanoimprint lithography"
Speaker: Celal Con
Supervisor: Professor Bo Cui
July 15th, 2014
"Detection and identification of pathogenic bacteria using gold nanostars"
Speaker: Mohit Verma
Supervisor: Professor Frank Gu
"Electron beam lithography using polystyrene resist"
Speaker: Ripon Dey
Supervisor: Professor Bo Cui
July 22nd, 2014
"TiO2 nanomaterials for water treatment applications"
Speaker: Robert Liang
Supervisor: Professor Norman Zhou
"High electron mobility polymer semiconductor for organic thin-film transistors"
Speaker: Bin Sun
Supervisor: Professor Yuning Li

Winter 2014
March 11th, 2014
"The operating principles of simple and efficient fullerene-powered organic solar cells"
Speaker: Sibi Sutty
Supervisor: Professor Hany Aziz
"Repurposing multimeric protein complexes as novel components for bionanotechnology"
Speaker: Anton van der Ven
Supervisor: Professor John Honek
"Single molecule force spectroscopy for rapid drug testing in relation to Alzheimer's disease"
Speaker: Brenda Lee
Supervisor: Professor Zoya Leonenko
March 18th, 2014
"Adsorption of DNA by nanomaterials"
Speaker: Biwu Liu
Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu
March 25th, 2014
"Arborescent polymer-stabilized Pd nanocatalysts: synthesis, characterization and properties"
Speaker: Olivier Nguon
Supervisor: Professor Mario Gauthier
"Investigating nano-scale dielectric materials at low temperature"
Speaker: Martin Otto
Supervisor: Professor Adrian Lupascu
April 1st, 2014
"Chemical functionalization and reduction of graphene oxide"
Speaker: Xiguang Gao
Supervisor: Professor Shirley Tang
"Surface modification of cellulose nanocrystals for biomedical applications"
Speaker: Parinaz Akhlaghi
Supervisor: Professor Michael Tam
April 8th, 2014
"Enzyme-degradable self-assembled nanostructures for tumour targeted drug delivery"
Speaker: Daniel Bacinello
Supervisor: Professors Michael Tam and Sebastian Lecommandoux
"Nano structures: combining 0-1-2D properties"
Speaker: Long Pu
Supervisor: Professor Vivek Maheshwari
April 15th, 2014
"Organometallic supramolecular nanopolymers"
Speaker: Nicholas Lanigan
Supervisor: Professor Xiaosong Wang
"Novel TiO2-based composites with improved photocatalytic performance"
Speaker: Gregory Lui
Supervisor: Professor Aiping Yu
April 22nd, 2014
"Numerical modeling of solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) for kinetic analysis focusing on rapid sample preparation with reduced fiber diameter"
Speaker: Nazmul Alam
Supervisor: Professor Janusz Pawliszyn
"Using DNA to detect lanthanides"
Speaker: Po-Jung Jimmy Huang
Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu
April 29th, 2014
"Chalcogenides in thermoelectric materials"
Speaker: Mohamed Oudah
Supervisor: Professor Holger Kleinke
"Smart biomimetic micro/nanostructured surfaces based on liquid crystalline elastomers"
Speaker: Hamed Shahsavan
Supervisor: Professor Boxin Zhao
Location Information
Location Address: QNC - Quantum Nano Centre
200 University Avenue West
1501
Waterloo, ON, CA  N2L 3G1
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Additional Information
Host: Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Event website: WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series Cost: Free