CSACS Bulletin du CRMAA

Centre de recherche sur les matériaux auto-assemblés Centre for self-assembled chemical structures Sept. 2015 Volume 68

1) Colloque Étudiant 2015 Student symposium

P r ésen t at io n s or a les/Ta lks: ( 1 0 a m - 5 p m) Davin Tan (McGill): Cocrystallization of steroid sex hormones with arenes: using solid

-state chemistry to understand biomolecules and drugs Abdullah Khan (Concordia): Impact of nanoparticles on lung surfactant functioning

Michael Landry (McGill): Self-assembled Azobenzene-Modified Silk Polymer Gels

for Photolithography Julia Schneider (McGill): Novel use of the Hemetsberger Reaction in the Synthesis

of Diazabenzopyrene. Pardis Rofouie (McGill): Surface Undulations of Chiral Liquid Crystals with Water-

induced Pitch Gradient Janane Rahbani (McGill): Dynamic DNA Nanotubes: Reversible Switching Between

Single and Double-Stranded Forms, and Effect of Base Deletions

Timothy Mack (McGill): EPR measurements of the Atmospheric Pressure Glow Dis

charge Torch cold plasma generated radical species in liquid media

Nicole Avakyan (McGill): Reprogramming the assembly of unmodified DNA with a

small molecule

Masayuki Miyaji (Montréal): The catalytical photoincuced hydrogen production acti

vity of RuPt-based molecular device tethered to viologen moiety

Ghulam Jalani (McGill): LiYF4:Yb3+

/Tm3+

NIR to UV-Vis-NIR upconverting nanopar-

ticles: a multifunctional theranostic platform for controlled drug delivery & NIR imaging

Conférencier principal / Keynote speaker - Prof. Gilles Bourret

Electrochemical approaches for controlling plasmonic nanostructures

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Table des matières:

Colloque Étu-diant p.1

Bourse interuni-versitaire du CRMAA p.2

Séminaire: Omenetto p.3

Publications: été 2015 p.4

Table of contents:

Student Sympo-sium p.1

CSACS inter-university scholarship p.2

Seminar: Omenetto p.3

Publications: summer 2015 p.4

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Bourse interuniversitaire pour étudiant gradué conjointement supervisé

A. L'étudiant doit soumettre son curriculum vitae et un bref plan de recherche

avant le 1er décembre 2015. La bourse entrera en vigueur à partir de la session

d'hiver 2016.

B. L'étudiant à la maîtrise devrait être dans sa première année d’étude et celui

au doctorat dans sa 1-3 années d’étude au moment de la demande. L'utilisation de

la bourse peut avoir lieu avant ou pendant la dernière année de recherche. Les étu-

diants qui sont déjà en collaboration interuniversitaire sont admissibles à cette

bourse.

C. La bourse est d’une somme de 1000 $ et peut être renouvelée pour une deu-

xième année dans le cas d’un étudiant aux études doctorales.

CONDITIONS D'ADMISSIBILITÉ

i. Le plan de recherche devrait clairement indiquer quel travail sera effectué

dans chacun des laboratoires.

ii. L'étudiant devrait régulièrement assister aux réunions d’équipe de chacun

des deux superviseurs et présenter ses résultats de recherche aux deux groupes.

iii. Un rapport sur le progrès établi sera soumis. Afin de renouveler cette bourse,

une preuve que le travail produira une publication commune est préalable

(ex., l'étudiant a présenté ou présentera le travail à un colloque, ou une pré-

publication).

Jointly supervised inter-university graduate student scholarship

A. The student must submit his CV and a short research plan before Decem-

ber 1st, 2015. The award will become effective starting the Winter term 2016.

B. The student should be in the first year for M.Sc. and for Ph.D. in 1-3 yr at

the time of the application. The actual use of the award can be before or during the

last year of research. Students who are already being co-supervised are eligible to

apply for the award.

C. The award is for $1000 and can be renewed for a second year for a Ph.D. stu-

dent.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

i. The research plan should clearly outline what work will be done in which

lab.

ii. The student should regularly attend group meetings for both supervisors

and presents his research results to both groups.

iii. A progress report will be submitted. For renewal of the award there needs to

be an evidence that the work will produce a joint publication - the student has or

will present the work at a conference, or a actual preprint.

2) Suppléments des bourses/Scholarship supplements

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Visit: UdeM (Sept. 16)/ INRS (Sept 17)

Titre: Matériaux vivants: une vie à l'interface

Title: Living materials: a life at the interface

Fiorenzo Omenetto (TuftsU.)

Résumé/Abstract:

Biomaterials offer opportunities for devices that operate seamlessly at the

interface of the biological and technological worlds. Stringent requirements

on material form and function are imposed when operating at the nanoscale

or when interfacing such materials with microelectronic circuitry. Silk fibro-

in is a very attractive biopolymer for use as the starting point for nanostruc-

tured optical materials and thin-film electronics. Devices such as silk-based

photonic crystals, lasers, wireless antennas and resorbable electronics will

be described as some examples of the possibilities that this water-processed,

biocompatible material offers.

3) Séminaire/Seminar: Fiorenzo Omenetto

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tre d’avant-

garde!

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ACS Editors’ Choice!

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Effet Rosei!

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4) Summer Publications d’été

Graham Hamblin,

Janane Rahbani

and Hanadi Slei-

man. Sequential

growth of long

DNA strands with

user-defined pat-

terns for

nanostructures

and scaffolds, Nature Communications Volume: 6, Article number: 7065.

Christina Calver, Hsiao-Wei Liu and

Gonzalo Cosa. Exploiting Conjugat-

ed Polyelectrolyte Photophysics to-

ward Monitoring Real-Time Lipid

Membrane-Surface Interaction Dy-

namics at the Single-Particle Level,

Langmuir, Article ASAP.

Cristina Mottillo & Tomislav

Friščić. Supramolecular im-

idazolium frameworks: di-

rect analogues of metal

azolate frameworks with

charge-inverted node-and-

linker structure, Chem. Com-

mun., 2015,51, 8924-8927.

J. MacLeod, J.

Lipton-Duffin,

D. Cui, S. De

Feyter and F.

Rosei. Sub-

strate Effects

in the Supra-

molecular As-

sembly of 1,3,5-Benzene Tricarboxylic Acid on Graphite and Graphene,

Langmuir, 2015, 31 (25), pp 7016–7024.

Travail d'équipe!

Team work!

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4) Summer Publications d’été

Majid Soleimani,

Reghan Hill and

Theo van de

Ven. Capillary

Force between

Flexible Filaments, Langmuir, 2015, 31 (30), pp 8328–8334.

Sébastien Roland , Cé Guinto Gamys ,

Josué Grosrenaud, Stéphanie Boissé ,

Christian Pellerin, Robert Pru-

d’homme and Geraldine Bazuin. Sol-

vent Influence on Thickness, Composi-

tion, and Morphology Variation with

Dip-Coating Rate in Supramolecular PS

-b-P4VP Thin Films, Macromolecules,

2015, 48 (14), pp 4823–4834

Katherine Castor , Kim Metera ,

Ushula Tefashe , Christopher

Serpell , Janine Mauzeroll and

Hanadi Sleiman. Cyclometalat-

ed Iridium(III) Imidazole Phe-

nanthroline Complexes as Lumi-

nescent and Electrochemilumi-

nescent G-Quadruplex DNA

Binders, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54 (14), pp 6958–6967.

Ghulam Jalani, Rafik Naccache,

Derek Rosenzweig, Sophie Lerouge,

Lisbet Haglund, Fiorenzo Vetrone

and Marta Cerruti. Real-time, non-

invasive monitoring of hydrogel deg-

radation using LiYF4:Yb3+/Tm3+

NIR-to-NIR upconverting nanoparti-

cles, Nanoscale, 2015,7, 11255-11262.

Hang Hu, Linda Reven and Alejandro Rey. DFT

Study of Gold Surfaces–Ligand Interactions: Al-

kanethiols versus Halides, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119

(21), pp 11909–11913.

Auto-Assemblage

à U. de M.

Self-Assembly at

U. of M.

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4) Publications con’t

Ludwig Vinches, Stéphane Hallé, Caroline Peyrot,

Kevin Wilkinson. Which Gloves Are Efficient To

Protect Against Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles In

Work Conditions? International Journal of Theo-

retical and Applied Nanotechnology. Volume2

Issue1 Pages24-29.

Marie Richard-

Lacroix and Christian

Pellerin. Orienta-

tion and Partial Dis-

entanglement in In-

dividual Electrospun

Fibers: Diameter De-

pendence and Corre-

lation with Mechanical Properties, Macromolecules, 2015, 48 (13), pp 4511–

4519.

Murugan Veerapandian, Nicolas Lévaray, Min-Ho Lee, Suzanne Giasson

and X. X. Zhu. Glucosamine-Anchored Graphene Oxide Nanosheets: Fabri-

cation, Ultraviolet Irradiation, and Electrochemical Properties, ACS Appl.

Mater. Interfaces, 2015, 7 (27), pp 14552–14556.

Kim-Ly Nguyen, Eric Dionne

and Antonella Badia. Redox-

Controlled Ion-Pairing Asso-

ciation of Anionic Surfactant

to Ferrocene-Terminated Self

-Assembled Monolayers,

Langmuir, 2015, 31 (23), pp

6385–6394.

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