Date: November 15, 2023 | Time: 8:30 鈥� 4:30 PM | Free event
Location: New Residence Hall, 3625 Parc Avenue
Register by Friday, November 10
The McGill Institute for Advanced Materials (MIAM) and the Facility for Electron Microscopy Research (FEMR) invite you to Materials Research Day.听
Join us for an interdisciplinary celebration of materials research at McGill and beyond. With 14 distinguished speakers, including Professor Antonio Facchetti (Georgia Tech), this event offers insights into the multifaceted realm of materials research, spanning topics such as biomedical detection, advanced microscopy, and characterization techniques.听
You鈥檒l also discover the innovative capabilities of McGill's facilities and the cutting-edge techniques driving progress in the field.听
A poster session will be held for the final hour of the event. We invite attendees to prepare research posters, offering an excellent platform for sharing research findings, exchanging techniques, and exploring potential collaborations.
Agenda
| Time | Presentation type/topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 | Welcoming remarks and speaker introduction | 听 |
| 9:00 | Plenary presentation -听Organic semiconductors for optoelectronic applications | Antonio Facchetti, Georgia Tech |
| 10:00 | Research presentation -听Mechanical models and material architectures for soft robotics | Audrey Sedal, 香蕉视频 |
| 10:20 | Coffee break | 听 |
| 10:50 | Keynote presentation -听Exploring plasma-synthesized nanostructured materials through electron microscopy | Marc-Andr茅 Fortin, University of Laval |
| 11:20 | MIAM Nanotools Microfabrication Facility | Peter Grutter, 香蕉视频 |
| 11:35 | MIAM Characterization Facility | Pierre-Luc Girard-Lauriault, 香蕉视频 |
| 11:50 | Biomimetic Compartments in Chemistry | Lucas Caire da Silva, 香蕉视频 |
| 12:10 | Lunch | 听 |
| 13:30 | Keynote presentation -听Thermal Spray Processing of Advanced Materials | Christian Moreau, Concordia university |
| 14:00 | FEMR Research Facility -听Space-filling mineralization pattern in skeletal tissues studied by 3D FIB-SEM tomography at the microscale | Natalie Reznikov, 香蕉视频 |
| 14:15 | FEMR Research Facility -听Advances on electron microscopy techniques using the Talos F200X | Angel Vadez, 香蕉视频 |
| 14:30 | Research presentation -听听Resolving the In situ architecture of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type IV pilus machine by cryo-electron tomography | Shuaiqi Guo, 香蕉视频 |
| 14:50 | Flash talk -听(In)organic particles in the body: understanding causes and symptoms of diseases听through spatially resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) | Raphaela Allgayer, 香蕉视频 |
| 14:55 | Flash talk -听Structure analysis of high entropy thin films using GIXRD | Alejandra Encalada, 香蕉视频 |
| 15:00 | Flash talk -听Nanoscale Lithography: Metamaterials and Quantum Devices | Yacine Benkirane, 香蕉视频 |
| 15:05 | Flash talk听-听STEM-EELS and Electron Tomography: Enabling Nano-scale Understanding听of Plasmonic Au@THPG Heterodimer听for Hydrogen Generation | Wanting He,听听Institut national de la recherche scientifique |
| 15:10 | Flash talk -听Advances in Single-Instrument Multiscale Analyses of Hierarchical Biological Materials: A Case Study of the Cornea | Eran Ittah, 香蕉视频 |
| 15:15 | Flash talk -听A strong quick-release biointerface in mussels mediated by serotonergic cilia-based adhesion | Lucia Youssef, 香蕉视频 |
| 15:20 | Keynote presentation -听From Detoxifying Chemical Warfare Agents to Treating Nuclear Wastewater: Adventures in the Synthesis of Metal鈥揙rganic Frameworks | Ashlee Howarth, Concordia听University |
| 15:50 | Poster session | 听 |
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Plenary speaker: Antonio Facchetti, Georgia Tech
Antonio Facchetti is a Hightower Chair in MSE at the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Flexterra Corporation, an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University, and a Guest Professor at Linkoping University. He has published more than 560 research articles, 15 book chapters, and holds more than 120 patents. He received the ACS Award for Creative Invention, the Giulio Natta Gold Medal of the Italian Chemical Society, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Award, the corporate Flextech Award.
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Keynote speaker: Ashlee J. Howarth, Concordia University
Ashlee J. Howarth is an Associate Professor and Research Chair at Concordia University in Montr茅al. She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2009, and then went on to do her PhD in inorganic materials chemistry at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Michael O. Wolf. Before joining the faculty at Concordia, she completed an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University with Joseph T. Hupp and Omar K. Farha. At Concordia, the Howarth group is focused on the design and synthesis of rare-earth cluster-based metal鈥搊rganic frameworks targeting applications in pollution remediation, catalysis, drug delivery, X-ray detection, and chemical sensing.
Keynote speaker: Marc-Andr茅 Fortin, University of Laval
Professor Marc-Andr茅 Fortin, head of the Biomaterials for In Vivo Imaging Laboratory at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Qu茅bec (CR-CHU de Qu茅bec - Universit茅 Laval), is an expert in nano(bio)materials for in vivo imaging. He earned his doctorate at INRS-脡nergie et Mat茅riaux, followed by a postdoctoral position in biomedical imaging in Sweden. His research focuses on the development of nano(bio)materials for imaging, strategies for in vivo biodistribution imaging, additive manufacturing of biomedical polymers for enhanced visibility in biomedical imaging, and the synthesis of radioactive nanoparticles. He has published numerous articles and holds patents in plasma technologies.
Keynote speaker: Christian Moreau, Concordia University
Christian Moreau has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University since 2013. He holds a Tear 1 Canada Research Chair in Thermal Spray and Surface Engineering, and is Senior Advisor for Aerospace Research at Concordia. Since 2017, he has led the NSERC Strategic Network on Green Surface Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing (Green-SEAM). He is also the Director of Concordia Thermal Spray and Surface Engineering (TSSE) Research Centre. Prior to joining Concordia, he worked for 27 years at the National Research Council Canada as a materials processing expert in thermal spray processes.
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