Life in the LRG

The LRG is proud to present our most recent graduate! Ralu successfully defended his Masters thesis and topped it off with an excellent paper in Advanced Functional Materials. We wish Ralu all the best in his future efforts!

Conference season continues. The LRG attended the Accelerate Conference in Vancouver to see what our alumni are accelerating, stole the show pretty in pink at ICPP in Niagara with old friends, and even brushed shoulders with organic semiconductor nobility in Dresden. And we're not done yet. Keep an eye out for the LRG at CSChE 2024 in Toronto!

The LRG kicked off the fall term with our annual BBQ chez Benoit. We're looking forward to the new academic year. Check back soon for exciting news about the LRG!

A big congratulations to our graduate students Bahar, Nic, Laura, and to our undergraduate student Édith who are all recipients of NSERC this year!

Our conference season is already off to a great start. Vittoria, Ben, and Benoît were out in Winnipeg at CSC to represent the LRG. Closer to home May and Nic took the stage at ACFAS to present on polymers. Keep your eyes out for more of our members as they head to ICSM in Dresden and to ICPP in Niagara. If you see May, Nic, Halynne, Bahar, Rose, Mél or Benoit, come say Hi!

Benoît and Joe took to the pages of Nature Reviews Materials to discuss the future of organic thin-film transistor research and how a little automation can go a long way. You can read the full article here

Benoît is now officially a full professor at the University of Ottawa. Congratulations Benoît!

José Barragán brought back a first place finish from the Robert G Auld Student Paper Competition at CSChE 2023 in Calgary. His joint work with the LRG and the NRC on embedding sensors in next generation composite materials has applications ranging from health sciences to aerospace engineering. Congratulations José!

Laura Dickson went all the way out to Calgary to present at her first conference. Thanks to all the organizers at CSChE 2023 for a great event. If you missed the chance to see her talk, don’t worry, you can read all about it in ACS AMI. Keep an eye out for her first author publication, out now!

The LRG was recognized twice by the RSC
for having highly cited articles in 2022.
Congratulations to Rose and Marie whose
work on metal phthalocyanines and
layer by layer deposition of OPVs are
definitely worth a read! For more of our work
check out the publications page!

The LRG hits its 150th publication! Congratulations to Rose for securing the spot with her work on soluble ruthenium phthalocyanines in collaboration with the Torres group!

Special thanks to Dr. Mario Vebber for the suggested TOC

Benoit returned to U of T to talk all things OTFTs at the 2023-2024 Lectures at the Leading Edge.

Some familiar faces in the crowd including the LRG’s own Dr. Owen Melville and our friends and collaborators in the Seferos and Bender groups. Thank you for the invite and the great turnout!

Benoit was a guest on The Evan Bray Show to discuss how we’re building new materials for the future and how The Canadian Light Source and Saskatchewan play a key part in our research. The LRG is looking forward to our upcoming visit to CLS in March! You can listen to Benoit’s full interview here

A huge congratulations to all our graduates! Dr. Benjamin King, Dr. Samantha Brixi, Dr. Nicholas Boileau, Dr. Mathieu Tousignant (PhDs), Sophia McKillop (BSc & BASc), and José Barragán (BASc) took to the stage for convocation. We wish them all the best in their future efforts!

Congratulations to Halynne for receiving the 2023-24 Faculty of Engineering TA Award! This marks the second time in several years that a member of the Department of Chemical Engineering has received this award! The last was held by the LRG’s own (now Dr.) Samantha Brixi.