102nd Canadian Chemistry Conference & Exhibition, Québec City

It was a nice week of chemistry at the CCCE 2019 in Québec City. Thankful to Thomas Baumgartner and Alex Adronov for inviting me as a guest speaker for the Innovative Concepts in Organic Materials Symposium. Some photos of the host city:

Winning the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)

I have been awarded the inaugural NFRF, which carries research funding of > $228K CAD. Very grateful to the Tri-Agency (SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR) for this generous grant. Synopsis of my research proposal:

Prof. Julian Chan, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science

"Probing Novel Molecular Designs for Organic Excitonic Superconductors"

The discovery of new materials that conduct electricity without resistance — and thus without power loss — would revolutionize the way we transmit, store and use energy. Dr. Julian Chan and his team are exploring novel chemistries to create exotic organic molecular structures that exhibit superconductivity at high temperatures.

[Official press release]  [University of Ottawa media release]

Pentafluorosulfanylated Polymer Electrets in OFET Memory Devices

Our paper on the use of SF5-functionalized polymers as electrets in nonvolatile OFET memory devices is now out in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.  [Read it here]

Bismuth Thiolate Coordination Polymers with CT Contrast Properties

Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Guoxian, who published his second paper as first author, this time in ACS Applied Bio Materials. This new work discusses the synthesis of bismuth thiolate network polymers with computed tomography (CT) contrast properties. [Link to article]

Pentafluorosulfanyl acceptors for enhancing two-photon absorption

Prabhat's research on our new two-photon dyes has just been published in Chemistry of Materials! [Link to article]

Pentafluorosulfanyl groups as electron acceptors in push-pull dyes

Prabhat's article on novel push-pull fluorophores has just been accepted in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. [Link to article]

Citation:  J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 11008-11020

Reversible thermochromism in metal-organic frameworks

Congratulations to Guoxian on publishing his research on bismuth-based metal-organic frameworks in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.  [Link to article]

Citation:  J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 10005-10015