Ian Manners Research Group
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Last Seen Profiles
Check out Etienne's paper in
@J_A_C_S
on a Carbene-Stabilized (Diphospha)aminyl Radical and Its One Electron Oxidation and Reduction! Collaborations with Brian Patrick
@UBC
, Lara Watanabe and Jeremy Rawson
@UWindsor
, and Heikki Tuononen
@uniofjyvaskyla
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Our work on tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibres for visible-light-driven hydrogen production is now available in
@NatureChemistry
. This collaborative work involved 12 authors in 3 different countries!
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Congratulations to Huda on passing her PhD viva! A historic moment as she is the first of our group to receive her PhD from
@chemistryatuvic
!
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Our latest work on the seeded self-assembly of charge-terminated poly(3-hexylthiophene) amphiphiles to access low dispersity fiber-like micelles has just been published in
@J_A_C_S
!
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We enjoyed our first in-person get together in over two years - lots of fun including a hike and BBQ! Thanks to Ian and Deborah for hosting us!
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5
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Our work on dendritic micelles and their application as sensors was published today as an Editors' Choice in
@J_A_C_S
! This work was in collaboration with Arthur Blackburn & Cristina Cordoba
@chemistryatuvic
and Rob Harniman & Rob Richardson
@BristolChem
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7
80
Check out our collaborative work on platelet block comicelles with selective degradability with the groups of Rachel O'Reilly
@RORgroup
and Andrew Dove
@Dove_Group
at the University of Birmingham just published in
@NatureChemistry
!
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Congratulations to Dr. Charlotte Ellis
@lotteellis
on passing her PhD defense! 🎊
@chemistryatuvic
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1
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Check out our work by Etienne LaPierre published in
@J_A_C_S
on highly active Ti(III) catalysts for the broad scope polymerization of amine-boranes. This is our first paper based on research conducted entirely at
@uvic
!
@chemistryatuvic
@UVicResearch
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6
73
Check out our paper in
@angew_chem
on aluminum-catalyzed synthesis of polyphosphinoboranes in collaboration with Lutz Greb at the Freie Universitat Berlin with work by our group members Florian, Deborah
@d41124655
, and Matt
@MatthewWiebe17
!
0
4
75
Check out Matt's (
@MatthewWiebe17
) paper in
@ChemEurJ
on transition metal-free dehydropolymerization of phosphine-boranes at ambient temperature in collaboration with coworkers Subrata and Eitenne as well as Brian Patrick at
@UBCChem
!
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2
67
Check out our latest work published in
@J_A_C_S
on solid-state donor-acceptor coaxial heterojunction nanowires via living crystallization-driven self-assembly!
2
11
68
Check out Charlotte's
@lotteellis
paper in
@J_A_C_S
in collaboration with Diego
@JD_Garcia_H
on upscaled length tunable biodegradable nanofibers prepared by living polymerization induced crystallization-driven self-assembly (PISA and living CDSA combined!)
0
6
67
Congratulations to Nikki
@nicola_oldroyd
on passing her PhD viva at
@chemistryatuvic
@BristolChem
!
A historic moment, as she is the last of the Manners group to obtain a PhD from Bristol!
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1
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Our review on the emerging applications of living CDSA is out now in
@ChemicalScience
! This is also our group's 50th paper published since we joined
@uvic
@chemistryatuvic
in 2018! 🇨🇦
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8
58
Some past and present Manners Group members got together to socialize and share stories at
#CSC2023
! Thanks to everyone for a great night.
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Ian is the recipient of the 2023 E. W. R. Steacie Award, presented to a scientist who has made a distinguished contribution to chemistry while working in Canada.
Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment from the whole team, Ian!
@CIC_ChemInst
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7
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Check out Sam's paper in
@J_A_C_S
in collaboration with Rob Harniman at
@BristolChem
on living crystallization-driven self-assembly from surface-confined seeds using in situ AFM video analysis.
0
3
54
Check out Lei's (
@ShixingLei
) paper in
@J_A_C_S
on AIE-active, stimuli-responsive fluorescent 2D block copolymer nanoplatelets in collaboration with Jia, Yuetong (
@YuetongK
), and Yifan!
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6
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Ian is the recipient of the 2021 Henry Marshall Tory Medal
#RSC
@RSCTheAcademies
, awarded for outstanding research in any branch of chemistry, mathematics, physics, or allied science.
Congratulations on this amazing accomplishment from the whole team, Ian!
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3
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Mitch
@MitchellNas
presenting his poster on ring-expansions of P₃Tripp₃ at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day
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2
50
Check out our recent work by Hayley on the mechanism of action of antibacterial PFTMC-b-PDMAEMA nanoparticles made using living CDSA, just published in
@J_A_C_S
!
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Check out our recent work by Marcus on the fabrication of P3EHT nanofibers using living CDSA, just published in Macromolecules
@MacroJrnls_ACS
!
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Our 100th
@J_A_C_S
publication is now available! It describes the discovery of a new class of inorganic polymeric materials featuring a P-O main chain, obtained by ring-opening polymerization of cyclic phosphonates.
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The Victoria-based group enjoy a hike up Lone Tree Hill - a perfect, sunny opportunity for a group photo!
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5
43
Congratulations to Dr. Diego Garcia
@JD_Garcia_H
on passing his PhD defense! 🎉
@chemistryatuvic
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3
43
Congratulations to Dr. Nicola Oldroyd
@nicola_oldroyd
and Dr. Alastair Knights
@AliKnights_
for graduating from University of Bristol
@BristolUni
. They are our group's final members to graduate from Bristol!
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Congratulations to Charlotte
@lotteellis
who presented her PhD work at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day and won the prize for best PhD oral presentation!
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Congratulations to Charlotte
@lotteellis
who passed her Candidacy Exam today! The first of our group to complete the exam at
@chemistryatuvic
!
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Check out our recent work using cryo-TEM to elucidate the crystal structure of the core of a block copolymer nanofiber in Nature Materials by Jia Tian, Yifan Zhang and Shixing Lei with Ufuk Borucu (Bristol) and Song-Hai Xia (Fudan University).
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8
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Check out Charlotte's (
@lotteellis
) work just published in
@PolymChem
on scalable, low dispersity, and dimensionally tunable 2D platelets via living CDSA!
In collaboration with Arthur Blackburn & Cristina Cordoba
@uvic
@chemistryatuvic
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4
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Check out Nicola's (
@nicola_oldroyd
) paper in
@J_A_C_S
in collaboration with Saurabh (
@chitnislab
), Etienne, and Vince, and also Derek Gates and Henry Walsgrove at UBC on the catalytic depolymerization of polyaminoboranes with NHCs!
1
3
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Steve's
@Street_Research
paper,
our first on gene transfection using length-controlled nanofibers, is out in
@J_A_C_S
! Collaborations included the Willerth Group (
@DrWillerth
) at
@UVicScience
and Rob Harniman and others at
@BristolChem
in the UK!
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3
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Check out
@DiegoResndiz
, Vince, Ali, and
@chitnislab
's work on high molar mass poly(alkylphosphinoboranes), just published in
@MacroJrnls_ACS
Macromolecules!
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6
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Check out Diego and Steve's (
@Street_Research
) work in Macromolecules
@MacroJrnls_ACS
on fibers made via living CDSA which can load and deliver cargo by the use of a coaxial core approach!
1
4
38
Thanks to Dan Foucher for a brilliant talk on "Strategies towards Tuneable, Protected and Processable Polystannanes" at
@chemistryatuvic
today.
Dan was the first group member and PhD student in the Manners group in 1990! The group really enjoyed getting the chance to meet you!
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6
37
Congratulations to Mitch
@MitchellNas
on winning a prize for his poster on inorganic Click chemistry of P3R3 at the virtual
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
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0
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Check out Lei’s (
@ShixingLei
) paper in Macromolecules
@MacroJrnls_ACS
on the analogy between living CDSA and living covalent polymerizations, in collaboration with Jia & Tomoya in our group and Mitch Winnik at Toronto!
0
6
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We enjoyed a great Christmas dinner in Victoria. Always a good opportunity for a group photo, even despite the gloomy weather!
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Mitch
@MitchellNas
presenting his poster at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
0
2
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Steve's (
@Street_Research
) paper on modular length-controlled polyelectrolyte nanofibers as a platform for nanomedicine has now been published in Polymer Chem
@PolymChem
!
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4
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Check out our latest publication in
@NatureComms
:
@nicola_oldroyd
,
@chitnislab
and co-workers working on metal-free dehydropolymerisation of phosphine-boranes using CAACs as hydrogen acceptors!
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2
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Congratulations to Charlotte
@lotteellis
on winning a prize for her poster on uniform and scalable 2D nanoparticles by living CDSA at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
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Check out Hayley's paper in Polymer Chemistry
@PolymChem
on length-tunable antibacterial nanofibers with impressive activities against E. coli!
0
1
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The Manners group is giving a diverse range of talks on self assembly and main group chemistry at
#CSC2023
@CIC_ChemInst
in Vancouver next week! We look forward to seeing you all there!
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2
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Check out our latest paper in
@J_A_C_S
in collaboration with Renhua Deng and his group in Wuhan, China
@HuazhongUST
as well as coworkers Sam, Jia and Yifan on 2D platelets with distinct coronal surface patterns via seeded growth!
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2
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Congratulations to Mitch
@MitchellNas
who presented his PhD work at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day and won the prize for best PhD oral presentation!
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0
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Check out Liam's paper in collaboration with the group of Charl Faul
@FaulResearch
on efficient seeded growth of polythiophene-based nanofibers through suppression of homogeneous nucleation, just published in Macromolecules
@MacroJrnls_ACS
!
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3
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For this week's group meeting we had a presentation and discussion session on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion led by Charlotte
@lotteellis
.
It was an enlightening and thought-provoking discussion which will become an annual event in the Manners group!
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3
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Check out our recent publication in
@J_A_C_S
"Extending the Scope of “Living” Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly: Well-Defined 1D Micelles and Block Comicelles from Crystallizable Polycarbonate Block Copolymers"
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7
29
Congratulations to Marcus
@MarcusVespa
on winning a prize for his poster at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
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2
29
Check out our latest publication in
@Macro_ACS
:
@DiegoResndiz
and co-workers working on the catalytic synthesis of polyaminoborane homopolymers and random copolymers!
2
2
28
Want to learn about how low dispersity polymer nanofibers interact with cells? Check out our
#ChemSciHOT
paper just published in
@ChemicalScience
, the result of a great collaboration with
@PaulVerkade
and
@Bioimaging_Bris
!
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5
29
Some of the Manners group exploring the beautiful Goldstream Provincial Park, BC!
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3
29
Thank you to Rachel O'Reilly
@RORgroup
for a brilliant talk on "redesigning the world of polymers" at
@chemistryatuvic
today. The Manners group really enjoyed getting the chance to meet you for a chat too!
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1
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Our collaborative work by Tomoya with the groups of Richard Friend, Akshay Rao & David Beljonne, demonstrates long range exciton diffusion in films of polythiophene-based nanofibers by a novel transient delocalization mechanism! Now in
@ScienceAdvances
!
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2
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Congratulations to Mitch and Matt for presenting their PhD work at Graduate Student Research Day!
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The Manners group do virtual Friday pub!!
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2
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Ian gives 2019 Inaugural Ray and Dorothy Wilson Lecture at UCLA (May 8)
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Our first publication of the year, working with the Winnik group, is now available in
@ChemicalScience
!
"Synergistic self-seeding in one-dimension: a route to patchy and block comicelles with uniform and controllable length"
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5
27
Ian being presented the
@RoySocChem
2017 de Gennes Prize at
#MC14
for his pioneering work in the development of living crystallisation-driven self-assembly methods for the preparation of functional and complex micelles
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2
27
Great job to Diego
@JD_Garcia_H
who presented his PhD work at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
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0
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We enjoyed a great Christmas dinner in Victoria. Always a good opportunity for a group photo, even despite the gloomy weather!
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2
25
Ayesha
@Ayesha_Na
and Hayley gave some great presentations on their current research about large scale fabrication of nanofibers and length-tunable antibacterial nanofibers at
@Macro_2022
in Winnipeg!
0
2
25
Congratulations to Charlotte
@lotteellis
who was awarded the Dr. Elisabeth Dixon Scholarship in Chemistry!
@uvicgradstudies
@chemistryatuvic
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0
25
Check out Diego's (
@JD_Garcia_H
) latest paper in
@PolymChem
on cargo loading at the core-corona interface in nanofibers in collaboration with Yangyang Ren at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and work by our group members Hayley and Yifan!
1
3
23
Check out our collaborative work published in Science on crystallization-driven growth of functional micelle brushes with the group of Huibin Qiu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University!
@sciencemagazine
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3
24
Congratulations to Lei
@ShixingLei
on winning a prize for his poster at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day! 🎉
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2
24
Check out our latest work in collaboration with
@FaulResearch
at
@BristolChem
on the surface patterning of uniform 2D platelet block comicelles - published today in
@ACSMacroLett
!
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1
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Check out our collaborative paper on the first polyphosphinoborane block copolymers! Great work by Matt
@MatthewWiebe17
Diego
@JD_Garcia_H
Charlotte
@lotteellis
and Lei
@ShixingLei
in collaboration with James and Alex from
@WellerYorkChem
@ChemistryatYork
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3
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Best of luck to
@ArunavaMaity20
who leaves our group today!
One last coffee in Victoria with
@ArunavaMaity20
who leaves this weekend to join the
@Nazemi_Ali
group in Montreal. Good luck Arunava for your future endeavours :)
#BackToTheFuture
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Check out Chuanqi's paper in collaboration with Diego and the groups of Jeremy Rawson (Windsor) and Jianghong Rao (Stanford) on paramagnetic nitroxide-based nanofibers made by living CDSA for MRI applications!
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Check out Diego's (
@JD_Garcia_H
) paper in Macromolecules
@MacroJrnls_ACS
on the linking of nanofibers using B-A-B triblock copolymers with crystallizable polycarbonate B segments!
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2
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Congratulations to Charlotte
@lotteellis
who was awarded the Dr. Wilma Elias Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry!
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Check out Harrison's
@Itshksy
paper in ACS Macro Letters
@MacroJrnls_ACS
on oxidized polyferrocenes with promising magneto-optical properties for use in Faraday rotators in collaboration with Etienne
@EtienneLaPierre
and the Swager group
@SwagerGroup
.
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3
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Check out Ali
@AliKnights_
and Mitch's
@MitchellNas
paper in Polymer on investigating polyphosphinoboranes as flame-retardant materials!
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Jade and Martin presented the research they are doing for their undergrad theses
@UVicScience
Honours Fest!
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Congratulations to Hayley on winning the
@UVicCAMTEC
Breakthrough of the Month award for her work on length-tunable one-dimensional polymer-based nanofibers with antibacterial properties, published in
@PolymChem
! 🥳
Congrats May award winner: Hayley Parkin
Length-optimised, morphologically pure 1D nanofibers exhibit high antibacterial activity compared to other nanoparticle shapes.
@MannersResearch
@UVicScience
@chemistryatuvic
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Ayesha
@Ayesha_Na
presenting her poster at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day!
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Check out our work in
@ChemicalScience
in collaboration with the Houlton group in Newcastle on bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires!
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Congratulations to Huda who was awarded the David McGillivray Scholarship in Science!
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Huda presenting her poster on donor-acceptor heterojunction nanowires via living CDSA at the
@chemistryatuvic
Graduate Student Research Day
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