NEWS

April 2024. Congratulations to Armaan for receiving a TMU Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO) Award!

April 2024. Undergraduate students Katelyn Sowden and Armaan Goraya present at the 2024 Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference (SOUSCCC) their projects titled "Exploring the Properties of a Novel Anthocyanin-MOF Complex for Smart Bacteria Sensing" and "Exploring the Potential of Expired Pharmaceuticals as a Precursor in the Synthesis of Luminescent Carbon Dots".

November 2023. Our laboratory ice rink is now fully operational! In October 2023, specialized cooling plates and computerized controls were built in BC and transported to TMU. Meanwhile, a 15-foot by 9-foot refrigerated chamber was built to maintain the temperature and humidity of the cooling plates. Ice conditions can now being monitored in real-time with sensors to measure all of the variables involved in high-performance ice making and energy consumption. This laboratory-sized, atmospherically controlled ice rink is the first of its kind ever built for academic research and will support effective risk management and inform optimal, evidence-based ‘green’ arena practices. Photographs available on https://www.torontomu.ca/water/freshwater-science---governance/research/jetice-miniature-ice-rink-enclosure/

July 2023. We are excited to announce that our project titled "Towards Greener Ice: A Collaborative Study on the Chemical Characterization of Hockey Ice and Meltwater to Inform Ice Rink Management" has received an NSERC Alliance Grant. This Project is part of our ongoing collaboration with Jet Ice. More at https://www.torontomu.ca/research/news-events/2023/07/greener--more-sustainable-ice-making-goal-of-nserc-funded-tmu-re/

June 2023. Check out this excellent article by Chemistry World, the monthly chemistry news magazine published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, on the importance of having a lab code of conduct and how it can help create a positive and inclusive work environment: https://www.chemistryworld.com/careers/welcoming-a-healthy-lab-culture-with-a-code-of-conduct/4017379.article

May 2023. We are thrilled to announce that Ph.D. student Emmanuel Fagbohun has been selected for the 2023 ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy! Congratulations!

May 2023. Welcome to the new group members Julien Gagnon, an Inorganic Chemistry Exchange (ICE) student from Université Laval, and Thrisha Swaminathan from IISER Bhopal who is visiting us as part of the
MITACS Canada Globalink program.

January 2023. Welcome to Dr. Ryan Hutchins (PDF).

November 2022. Our newest work is now out in Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry: "Single-Colour, Visible Light Activation and Excitation of the Luminescence of a ‘Switch-on’ Dye and Enhancement by Silver Nanoparticles" by Lavinia A. Trifoi, Nicholas P. Dogantzis, Gregory K. Hodgson, Pedro D. Ortiz, Sumaiya A. Soha, Costin N. Antonescu, Roberto J. Botelho, R. Stephen Wylie and Stefania Impellizzeri

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114369 A modern take on the classic photochemistry papers!

September 2022. Stefania Impellizzeri is appointed as the inaugural Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry. Thanks to a generous investment made by Jet Ice, the worldwide industry leader for ice-making and ice-painting technologies (including for the NHL, the World Curling Federation and the Olympic Games), she will lead cutting-edge research on the chemistry and nanotechnology-based approaches to improve the environmental impact of the ice-making industry products and practices.

September 2022. Welcome to the new group members Dr. Petro Ortiz (PDF), Armaghan Khosravi (PhD student), Ose Ibazebo (MSc student) and Reese Grandy (undergraduate thesis student).

August 2022. Congratulations to Aviya Akari, Lavinia Trifoi and Ali Yaghoubian for successfully defending their MSc theses!

June 2022. Stefania Impellizzeri will join the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) National Committee Working for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (WIDE). Read about WIDE's activities here, and follow WIDE on Twitter (@CSC_WIDE).

May 2022. Read the group's latest ChemRxiv Preprints:

"Facile Supramolecular Strategy to Construct Solid Fluorophore@Metal-Organic Framework Composites" Lavinia A. Trifoi, Gregory K. Hodgson, Nicholas P. Dogantzis, Sumaiya A. Soha, Roaya M. Dayam, Costin N. Antonescu, Roberto J. Botelho, R. Stephen Wylie and Stefania Impellizzeri https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-hrxvj (Now published in Materials Advances https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00548D)
"Direct Photochemical Route for Amine- and Catalyst-Free Synthesis of Azoxybenzene and Functional Azoxy Derivatives via Accessible Nitroarene Homocoupling under Ambient Conditions" Ali Yaghoubian, Gregory K. Hodgson, Marc J. Adler and Stefania Impellizzeri https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2022-3f333 (Now published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1039/D2OB01247B)

May 2022. Practicing equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) to create a sustainable lab work culture is challenging. Stefania discussed it with Art Blake: https://www.ryerson.ca/dimensions/dimensions-in-practice/2022/may/profile--dr--stefania-impellizzeri-/

April 2022. NEW PREPRINT ALERT! "Improved Imaging and Preservation of Lysosome Dynamics using Silver Nanoparticle-Enhanced Fluorescence" (by Sumaiya A. Soha, Araniy Santhireswaran, Gregory K. Hodgson, Michael Sugiyama, Costin N. Antonescu, Stefania Impellizzeri and Roberto J. Botelho) is now available on bioXriv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.26.489585

March 2022. Congratulations to Nick Dogantzis for successfully defending his MSc thesis!

January 2022. Stefania Impellizzeri is amongst this year's recipients of the Canadian National Committee for IUPAC (CNC/IUPAC) Travel Award. She will be presenting at the 28th IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry. Read the press release: http://www.cnc-iupac.ca/awards22_e.html

January 2022. Stefania Impellizzeri receives the 2022 Dean's Scholarly, Research and Creativity Activity Award. The Award recognizes faculty members for outstanding scholarly, research and creative activities achievements and impact on their disciplines.

January 2022. Celebrating the New Year and undergraduate students Talha Mahmood, recipient of the 2022 Chemistry & Biology Faculty Awards for Chemistry, and Valeria Morozova, recipient of the 2022 Robert A. Guerriere Scholarship. Congratulations!

31 October, 2021. Our lab has been chosen as the winner of the RU Molecular Science Halloween Spooktacular poster competition! BOO!

October 2021. Read our newly published works:

"Design and Engineering of a Dual-Mode Absorption/Emission Molecular Switch for All-Optical Encryption” Aaron D. Erlich, Nicholas P. Dogantzis, Lara Al Nubani, Lavinia A. Trifoi, Gregory K. Hodgson and Stefania Impellizzeri, just accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP03823K)
"Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer with Various Aqueous Mono/Hybrid Nanofluids in a Multi-Channel Heat Exchanger”, our latest collaboration with Prof. M. Ziad Saghir (Processes 2021, 9, 1932 https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9111932)

September 2021. The paper by Stefania Impellizzeri and Imogen Coe "The Complex Chemistry of Diversity and Inclusion: A 30-year Synthesis" published in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry is 2021 Editor's Choice! Read it free of charge at https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2021-0063

September 2021. Congratulations to Karol Golian, who successfully defended his MSc thesis!

June 2021. Stefania's profile is featured on the new website of KITE Research (UHN - Toronto Rehabilitation Institute). While you're there, check out the FIBRE initiative, the first of its kind academic research platform for textile-based technologies!

May 2021. Congratulations to Aviya Akari for being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and Valeria Morozova for a NSERC USRA!

January 2021. Read the latest work published by our group "Fluorescence Activation, Patterning and Enhancement with Photogenerated Radicals, a Prefluorescent Probe and Silver Nanostructures" https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA09565F.

December 2020. Stefania Impellizzeri wins the 2021 PCCP (Royal Society of Chemistry) Emerging Investigator Lectureship Award for outstanding contributions in physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry! Read the news on the PCCP Blog.

December 2020. Valeria receives the Chemical Institute of Canada Book Prize. Congratulations!

November 2020. New paper: "Single Molecule Techniques Can Distinguish the Photophysical Processes Governing Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence" published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (ACS). Read our latest work at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09157.

September 2020. Congratulations to Lavinia for receiving a Best Presentation Award at the Science at the Interface Symposium.

July 2020. Read the feature interview with Marc J. Adler and Stefania Impellizzeri by the Chemical Institute of Canada on the #eSOUSCC48 conference at https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/article/23473/.

July 2020. Congratulations to Aviya for receiving an Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the #eSOUSCC48 2020 conference.

June 2020. We have launched the first Virtual Southern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference! Follow us on Twitter @SOUSCC48 #eSOUSCC48.

June 2020. The revamped Nano Ontario website is live! Nano Ontario is a trusted source of information for all nanoscience and nanotechnology activity in Ontario. Read Stefania's profile at https://nanoontario.ca/#members and https://nanoontario.ca/diversity-in-nanoscience/.

June 2020. Our new paper titled "A reconfigurable, dual-output INHIBIT and IMPLICATION molecular logic gate" is now published in Frontiers in Chemistry. Read it at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2020.00470

May 2020. Big congratulations to Nicholas for being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship!

April 2020. New paper: "Experimental and numerical investigation of heat enhancement using a hybrid nanofluid of copper oxide/alumina nanoparticles in water", in collaboration with the group of Dr. M. Ziad Saghir (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at Ryerson) is published in Springer Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Read at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09639-2

March 2020. Congratulations to Lavinia for receiving a Ryerson URO fellowship!

March 2020. Aviya receives the 2020 Salad King International Student Award as Mental Health Outreach Champion. Congratulations!

February 2020. Our paper titled "Optical writing and single molecule reading of photoactivatable and silver nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence" is published on RSC Nanoscale Advances. Read at: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00049C

January 2020. We have been awarded MITACS funding for our project titled "Exploration of Hybrid Bio-Nanocomposite Materials for Smart Textiles and Wearable Health Technology". The project will begin in June 2020.

November 2019. Congratulations to Nicholas for receiving the Robert A. Guerriere Scholarship.

August 2019. Congratulations to Aviya and Laraa for receiving an Outstanding Presentation Award at the Science at the Interface Symposium.

May 2019. Gregory Hodgson has been selected to participate in the 2019 CAS Future Leaders program, representing Ryerson University. He joins a group of young scholars from 16 countries and a wide array of scientific disciplines. Read about it on C&EN. Congratulations!

May 2019. Dr. Impellizzeri is appointed as a Member of the Board of Directors of Nano Ontario.

April 2019. Undergraduates Iselina Cascone and Nicholas Dogantzis successfully defended their HBsc. Congratulations!

April 2019. Welcome to undergraduate student Laraa Al Nubani, who has been awarded a Ryerson URO fellowship.

March 2019. Congratulations to Nicholas Dogantzis for being awarded a NSERC USRA.

March 2019. Nicholas Dogantzis is one of the recipients of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Organic Division Undergraduate Award. Congratulations!

September 2018. Our proposed project for developing sustainable enzyme-based nanocellulose, and their application as high-performance green materials with antimicrobial and antifouling properties for marine infrastructures has been awarded a NSERC Engage grant.