Seminar

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is pleased to present a Seminar Series talk by Professor David H. Waldeck, a distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering.

Adventures with Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 for a guest lecture by Seonghwan Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Calgary. He will be speaking on "Recent progress on the development of multi-modal chemical sensors with metal-organic frameworks".

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology on Monday, September 20, 2019 for a industry seminar by Professor Ronald Li, Co-founder and CEO of Novoheart. He will be speaking on "Advances of Stem Cell Biotechnology for Development of Bio-artificial Human Heart".

A Monochromatic Atom-wide Electron Probe for Nanoscale Materials Excitations

Maureen Joel Lagos
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy
McMaster University, Ontario, Canada

Wednesday, October 2, 2019
2:30 p.m.
C2-361 (Reading Room)

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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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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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High-performance Backplane Devices for LED Video Walls

Dr. Doug Dykaar

Founder of DifTek Lasers Inc.

Abstract: [Poster] Large area electronics with high performance has application in LED video walls, where no active backplane technology exists, relegating all large LED displays to passive pixel designs.

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday May 9, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Hongbo Zeng from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. He will be speaking on "Hydrophobic Interactions in Water and Hydrophilic Interaction in Oil of Polymers, Emulsions and Bubbles".