Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, QNC 3606
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West,
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
519-888-4567, ext. 38654
win-office@uwaterloo.ca
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 — 11:30 AM EST to Tuesday, April 18, 2017 — 12:30 PM EDT
The WIN Nano Graduate Student Seminar Series provides an opportunity for nanotechnology graduate students of WIN members to present and disucss their research, to help foster knowledge exchange and dialogue between researchers across disciplines.
Previous seminars
Winter 2017
| February 7, 2017 |
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"Corrosion Study of Silver Nanowires" |
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"Surface Functionalization for Precise Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Deposition" |
| February 21, 2017 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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"Photocatalytic decomposition of estrogens and associated estrogenic activity using immobilized TiO2" |
| April 4, 2017 |
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Binding Kinetics of Mucoadhesive Nanoparticles |
| Molecular Imprinting on Inorganic Nanozymes for Substrate Selectivity and Enhanced Activity Speaker: Zijie Zhang Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu |
| April 18, 2017 |
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Dispersive Gate Readout in Silicon Qubits |
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Integrating molecular nanomagnets with carbon-based nanoelectronics |
Fall 2016
| October 12, 2016 |
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| "Simultaneous Alignment and Length Sorting of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" Speaker: Serxho Selmani Supervisor: Professor Derek Schipper |
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"Nitrogen Doping TiO2 by Plasma Assisted Atomic Layer Deposition" |
| October 26, 2016 |
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| "Molecular Imprinting for Substrate Selectivity and Enhanced Activity of Enzyme Mimics" Speaker: Zijie Zhang Supervisor: Professor Juwen Liu |
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"Entropic Segregation of Short Polymers to the Surface of a Polydisperse Blend" |
| November 9, 2016 |
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| "Cellulose Nanocystals Incorporated Nancocomposites for Water Treatment Applications" Speaker: Nishil Mohammed Supervisor: Professor Michael Tam |
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"3D Printing of Soft Hydrogels Incorporating Functional Nano Materials" |
| November 23, 2016 |
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| "Flexible GaN nanowire flexible blue light emitting diodes and trend for micron LED displays" Speaker: Mohsen Asad Supervisor: Professor William Wong |
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"Cellulose Nanocrystal based adsorbents and their application in water treatment processes" |
| December 7, 2016 |
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| "Theoretical Investigation of MoS2 FETs for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications" Speaker: Richard Gyuchull Han Supervisor: Professor Youngki Yoon |
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"Simulation-based design of liquid crystal elastomers" |
Winter 2016
| March 1, 2016 |
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| "Fabrication of high aspect ratio nano-pores in silicon using photo-assisted electrochemical etching" Speaker: Ferhat Aydinoglu Supervisor: Professor Bo Cui |
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"DNA adsorption by ZnO nanoparticles near its solubility limit and its implication for DNA function and fluorescence quenching" |
| March 8, 2016 |
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| "Hydrophobically modified starch nanoparticle for drug delivery" Speaker: Damin Kim Supervisor: Professor Jean Duhamel |
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"Using pyrene to probe polymer diffusion between latex nanoparticles" |
| March 15, 2016 |
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| "Photoluminescence decay dynamics in gallium oxide nanocrystals" Speaker: Brian Fernandes Supervisor: Professor Zoran Miskovic |
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"Modeling the interaction of graphene with a liquid electrolyte" |
| March 22, 2016 |
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| "Electrically conductive textiles enabled by silver nanowires" Speaker: Nupur Maheshwari Supervisor: Professor Irene Goldthorpe |
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"Graphene oxide gel synthesis by pulsed laser irradiation" |
| March 29, 2016 |
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| "Proximity semiconducting nanowire junctions from Josephson to quantum dot regimes" Speaker: Kaveh Gharavi Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Baugh |
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"Novel methods for conjugated polymer synthesis" |
| April 5, 2016 |
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| "Opportunities and challenges of black phosphorus transistors" Speaker: Demin Yin Supervisor: Professor Youngki Yoon |
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"Multifunctional organometallic nanovesicles in aqueous solutions" |
Fall 2015
| November 3, 2015 |
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| "Correcting the Sanchez-Lacombe Equation of State for Polymeric Mixtures" Speaker: Kier von Konigslow Supervisor: Professor Russell Thompson |
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"Chemical Sensing in NV Doped Diamond" |
| November 10, 2015 |
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| "Current Challenges of Aprotic Metal-O2 Batteries" Speaker: Robert Black Supervisor: Professor Linda Nazar |
| November 24, 2015 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "The Treatment of Conducting Polymer PEDOT:PSS for Hybrid Solar Cells" Speaker: Donald McGillivray Supervisor: Professor Tong Leung |
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"Structural Colour Generation and Refractive Index Sensing using Vertical Silicon Nanowire Arrays" |
| February 10th, 2015 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "The Study of Polymeric Composite Membrane for Potential Artificial Kidney Application" Speaker: Limin Lu Supervisor: Professor John Yeow |
| March 31st, 2015 |
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| 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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "Adsorption of DNA by nanomaterials" Speaker: Biwu Liu Supervisor: Professor Juewen Liu |
| March 25th, 2014 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
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| "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 |
Event website
Cost
Free
Location
QNC - Quantum Nano Centre
1501
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada