BC Nanotech Researchers & Capabilities

Surname, First Name, Institution

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Barth Johannes, UBC

The study of functional molecules and supramolecular architectures at the nanoscale. Temperature-controlled scanning tunneling microscopy. Molecular engineering of low-dimensional materials exploiting controlled self-assembly and positioning of individual molecules or nano-objects at surfaces. Novel bottom-up fabrication techniques.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/barth/index.shtml

Branda, Neil

Organic materials, molecular switches, photochromism and electrochromism, photodynamic therapy, optoelectronic devices.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/branda.html

Brolo, Alexandre

Development of new surface spectroscopic methods, study of optical and spectroscopic properties of metallic nanostructures, development of new substrates for nano optics and plasmonics, study of nanostructured electrochemical interfaces, development of sensors based on surface plasmon resonance, and characterization of modified electrodes.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/brolo/brolo.html

Eikerling, Michael

Computational modeling of proton conducting membranes and composite electrodes. Electrochemical energy conversion in fuel cells. Molecular mechanisms of proton and water transport. Electrocatalytic processes and percolation in composite electrodes. Impact of nano- and mesostructures on fuel cell performance.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/eikerling

Feng, Martin

Research on wood adhesives and their applications in wood composite products, including the development of new generation of wood adhesives using nanotechnology.

www.forintek.ca

Frisken, Barbara

Structure and dynamics of soft condensed matter. Novel fuel cell membrane materials from nanoparticles. Relation between microstructure and rheology of yield-stress fluids. Properties of lipid vesicles made by extrusion.

www.sfu.ca/physics/faculty/frisken.html

Gates, Byron

Chemical routes to creating nanostructured materials and manipulating surface chemistries. Simple approaches for the fabrication of nanostructured materials. Electronic and optoelectronic properties of nanostructures and nanostructured materials. Nanostructures as probes for imaging complex biological systems.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/gates/index.htm

Harrington, David

Single-crystal electrochemistry, adsorption, monolayers, and thin films formed by electro deposition in solution. Micro-scale fuel cells. Micro fluidic electrochemistry. Oxidation of small organic molecules.

web.uvic.ca/~dharr/

Herring, Rodney

Characterization of nanostructures using electron microscopy. Invented electron holography to characterize nanostructures used in electronic and magnetic devices. Electron holography to measure the properties of materials for the development of nanostructures. Bulk and surface plasmon characterization.

www.me.uvic.ca/Faculty/RHres.html

Huber, Trisha

Synthesis and characterization of conducting polymer-carbon nanotube composites.

Jensen, Erik

Dynamics of chemical reactions at surfaces, electron and photon stimulated desorption, photochemistry of molecules at surfaces.

www.unbc.ca/physics

Knudson, Robert

Composite wood products and processes. Implementing technology transfer to industrial operations. Recommending and implementing process and product improvements based on technical data and business needs.

www.forintek.ca

Leznoff, Danny

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www2.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/leznoff/group/

Li, Paul

Bioanalytical chemistry, single-cell assay, micro fluidic bioarrays (DNA, RNA, cell), therapeutic phytochemicals.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/li

MacFarlane, Andrew

Electronic and magnetic properties of solids, in the bulk, near a surface and in heterostructures.

bnmr.triumf.ca/

Madden, John

CNTs, saturatable absorbers, CNT electronics, optical properties. Conducting polymers as artificial muscle. Designing molecules that undergo large shape changes. Organic electronics, polymer electronics.

mm.ece.ubc.ca/

Michal, Carl

Studying materials such as spider silk, nanocomposites, polyproles. Solid state NMR for monolayer studies.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~michal

Mitchell, Keith

Surface analysis using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning auger microscopy (SAM) with nanometer resolution.

www.chem.ubc.ca/personnel/faculty/mitchell/index.shtml

Morris, Paul

Short-term protection of wood during harvesting, transport and storage, and long-term durability in service. Treatments to enhance decay, termite and UV resistance. Test methods for evaluating durability.

www.forintek.ca

Nojeh, Alireza

Nanostructures (especially carbon nanotubes), controlled nanofabrication, electron emission phenomena, electron microscopy, modeling and simulation of nanoscale systems.

www.ece.ubc.ca/~anojeh/

Rottler, Joerg

Soft condensed matter and computational physics. Far-from-equilibrium dynamics and mechanical properties of noncrystalline (glassy) solids. Electrostatic effects in complex fluids and biomolecular systems, development of fast algorithms for Coulombic interactions. Stochastic growth phenomena, kinetic processes and microstructural evolution. Polymer physics, computational approaches to modeling materials on different length scales.

www.physics.ubc.ca/~jrottler/

Sinton, David

Microfluidics, nanofluidics, optofluidics, surface effects, electrokinetics, fundamental numerical modeling, microfabrication.

www.me.uvic.ca/~dsinton

Troczynski, Tom

Engineering ceramics, coatings, biomaterials, sensors, hydrogen technologies and other applications.

ceramics.mmat.ubc.ca

van Veggel , Frank

Luminescent nanoparticles for telecommunications, optical amplifiers, displays, and LEDs, Biomedical applications, optical biolabels and MRI applications. Nanoparticles based on Ln3+ ions, gallium nitride, or quantum dots.

www.chemistry.uvic.ca/fvv.html

Wang, Alexander

Theoretical chemistry studies of complex systems, zeolites, enzymes, biosystems, nanotubes, molecular adsorption for chemical sensors. Nanocrystals.

www.chem.ubc.ca/faculty/wang

Wang, Rizhi

Biomaterials, processing of polymer and ceramic composites for biomedical applications, surface modifications of biomedical implants including orthopaedic implants, nanomechanical characterization of materials.

www.orthosurgery.ubc.ca/faculty_bios/wang.html

Wasan, Kishor

Lipid-based drug delivery, lipoprotein-drug interactions, cholesterol and lipid metabolism.

www.wasanlab.ubc.ca

Wong, Darrell

Wood machining, tool material development and testing. Surface analysis, quality control, production analysis. and process simulation and optimization.

www.forintek.ca

Ye, Zuo

Dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials. Synthesis by various techniques and characterization. Relaxor-based piezoelectric and ferroelectric single crystals for applications in next generation electromechanical transducers. Ferroelectric non-volatile random access memories. Crystalline oxides for microelectronics. Magnetically ordered ferroelectric/ferroelastic materials for sensor and actuators. Materials for solid oxide fuel cells.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/ye.html

Yu, Hogan

DNA chips, ultrahigh density microarrays. Modification of semiconductor materials (hybrid organic/inorganic). Molecular electronics. Superhydrophobicity and self-cleaning surfaces.

www.sfu.ca/chemistry/faculty/yu.html