Most Viewed Article - Sulfonamide-based Deep-blue Emitter

Our recently published paper (ACS Omega 2016, 1(6), 1336-1342) on sultam-based deep-blue organic emitters has seen almost 1000 downloads in under three months, making it the most viewed article of Volume 1, Issue 6 (Dec 2016).  Link to article

Chan Research Group - 2016 in Review

2016 was an eventful year for the Chan Research Group. We had two graduate students and a visiting researcher join our team, major renovations done, instruments purchased, and our first paper published. Here's looking back at our first year of operation:

Feb 2016:   Dr. Chan was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant.
Mar 2016:   Renovations to our D'Iorio 327 and 320 labs began.
Apr 2016:   Thomas Brossier, visiting MSc student from Paris, arrived in Ottawa.
Jun 2016:   Guoxian and Craig joined us as grad students.
Aug 2016:   Lab renovations complete. The Chan Group moved in.
Dec 2016:   Published our 1st paper on sulfonamide emitters in ACS Omega [link].

Sulfonamides for Organic Electronics - Deep-Blue Emitter

My team recently reported a sulfonamide-based blue-emitting organic fluorophore that exhibits crystallization-induced emission enhancement.[1] Sulfonamides remain highly underutilized as functional groups in organic electronics and should be further explored as versatile molecular motifs for engineering structure-property-function relationships.

[1]  Sultam-Based Hetero[5]helicene: Synthesis, Structure, and Crystallization-Induced
      Emission Enhancement, ACS Omega 2016, 1, 1336-1342. [link]