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Tiny Ribbon Cutting for a Large New Facility

Can we create artificial leaves to harness solar energy? How can we make car parts that will protect passengers in even the worst collision? What if medical implants never needed replacing?

These are just some of the questions that researchers will be addressing in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering’s exciting new advanced materials lab, the Ontario Centre for Characterization of Advanced Materials (OCCAM).

This cross-disciplinary centre is co-led by Professors Charles Mims (ChemE) and Doug Perovic (MSE) and houses a collection of advanced analytical instruments for surface and structural studies that brings a unique and powerful combination of cutting-edge technology to the University of Toronto.

The centre held its opening ceremony in the Wallberg Building on July 17 with the help of three-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves (pictured at left with Doug Perovic) and what could be the world’s tiniest ribbon cutting that showcased one of the centre’s new electron microscopes.

July 18, 2014

Volume 31, Issue 16

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Offices

Research Office

The magnitude and spatial range of current-use urban PCB and PBDE emissions estimated using a coupled multimedia and air transport model
Csiszar, S.A., Diamond, M.L., Daggupaty, S.M.,
Environmental Science and Technology 2014, 48 (2) pp. 1075-1083

Development and characterization of gene silencing DNA cages
Fakhoury, J.J., McLaughlin, C.K., Edwardson, T.W., Conway, J.W., Sleiman, H.F.
Biomacromolecules 2014, 15 (1) pp. 276-282

Modulation of reactive oxygen species photogeneration of bacteriopheophorbide a derivatives by exocyclic E-ring opening and charge modifications
Roxin, A., Chen, J., Paton, A.S., Bender, T.P., Zheng, G.
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2014, 57(1) pp. 223-237

Mapping of microscopic strain distributions in an alloy 600 C-ring after application of hoop stresses and stress corrosion cracking
McIntyre, N.S., Ulaganathan, J., Simpson, T., Qin, J., Sherry, N., Bauer, M., Carcea, A.G., Newman, R.C., Kunz, M., Tamura, N.
Corrosion 2014, 70(1)pp. 66-73

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