Greg Bahun’s latest collaborative paper with Prof. Jean Duhamel (U of Waterloo), entitled “Studying Pyrene-Labelled Macromolecules with the Model Free Analysis” was accepted in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

The long-awaited collaborative paper between Lukas Sadowski and Ferdinand Gonzaga (Brook Group) was accepted for publication in the Journal of Polymer Science A: Polymer Chemistry. The paper is entitled “Highly efficient divergent synthesis of dendrimers via metal-free “click” chemistry.”

The Brooman Bursary is awarded to top MSc level students in our department. This year, Sabrina VanGyzen was nominated and received this prestigious award. Congratulations Sabrina!

Ryan Chadwick was recognized by the department with an Impact Award, which is given to graduate students who have published high-impact papers in the past year. Ryan’s paper entitled “Polymer Grafting to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Effect of Chain Length on Solubility, Graft Density and Mechanical Properties of Macroscopic Structures” was published in the journal Small.

Welcome to Chris Colaneri and Vlad Kardelis, as they start their 4GO9 thesis projects in the group. Chris will work on dendrimer synthesis for targeted diagnostic imaging, while Vlad will work on new polymers for carbon nanotube functionalization.

Two new graduate students have begun studies in the Adronov Group. Shuai Liang did his MSc thesis at Memorial University prior to coming to McMaster. Stuart McNelles completed his BSc at UOIT prior to arriving at McMaster. Welcome to Shuai and Stuart!

Ryan’s paper, entitled “Polymer Grafting to Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Effect of Chain Length on Solubility, Graft Density and Mechanical Properties of Macroscopic Structures” was accepted in Small. Congratulations Ryan!

Spencer Knight successfully defended his Master’s thesis, entitled “

The Synthesis of Dendrimer-based Radioimaging Agents”. Congratulations to Spencer! We wish Spencer all the best in Teacher’s College, and his future career as a teacher.

Kirill Skupov completed his postdoctoral studies in the Adronov Group.

Xin Pang, who has been a postdoctoral fellow in the Adronov Group for nearly 3 years, has accepted a position at CANMET, the national materials research laboratory in Hamilton, ON. Congratulations to Xin! We wish her all the best in her career at CANMET.

Congratulations to Patigul and Mokhtar for having their paper, entitled “Supramolecular Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs) with a Photoisomerizable Conjugated Polymer”, accepted in Macromolecules.

Sophie Liogier, a visiting student from France, joined the group and will be working on the synthesis of new conjugated polymers. Welcome Sophie!

Lukas, Victoria, and Mokhtar attended the CSC meeting in Calgary, AB, and presented their research projects. They also found some time to enjoy the mountains around Banff and Lake Louise.

Ryan Chadwick was awarded an OGS fellowship for 2012/2013. Congratulations to Ryan!

Mack Richardson and Sara Stonehouse, both first-year undergraduate students at McMaster, have joined the group as summer students. Welcome Mack and Sara!

Lukas Sadowski successfully passed his comprehensive exam. He celebrated with the traditional champagne in the lab, along with a trip to the rock-climbing gym (which he sorely missed during the month-long exam process). Congratulations Lukas!

Callisto MacIsaac was awarded a DAAD RISE Fellowship to enable her to work in the lab of Prof. Stefan Hecht at the Humbolt University in Berlin, Germany. She will spend 8 months in Berlin learning about the chemistry of graphene nano-ribbons. Congratulations Callisto!

Callisto and Brian presented their undergraduate thesis project results at this past Saturday’s Southwestern Ontario Undergraduate Student Chemistry Conference, which was held at the University of Guelph. Callisto won first prize for her talk on covalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes with PEG to improve water solubility, and Brian won second prize in the same symposium for his talk on the supramolecular functionalization of carbon nanotubes with conjugated polymers. Congratulations Callisto and Brian!

Nicole Rice successfully passed her comprehensive exam. The traditional celebration with a bottle of champagne followed, with Nicole demonstrating outstanding technique in popping the cork! Congratulations to Nicole!

Ryan Chadwick successfully passed his comprehensive exam, and celebrated with the traditional opening of champagne in the lab (along with some nice “pass/fail” cupcakes provided by Callisto). Congratulations to Ryan!

The paper is entitled “Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Complexes with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Amperometric Detection of Glucose with Inherent Anti-Interference Properties” and describes the latest results of Patiul’s polymer-nanotube complexes being used in Xin’s biosensors, including the analysis of real blood samples. Congratulations to Xin and Patigul for continued great results in their collaboration.

Pang, X.; Imin, P.; Zhitomirsky, I.; Adronov, A. “Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Complexes with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Amperometric Detection of Glucose with Inherent Anti-Interference Properties” J. Mater. Chem., accepted.

Mokhtar was successful in his application for a travel award to attend the CSC meeting in Calgary this coming May. Congratulations to Mokhtar!

Matt Parrott completed his Ph.D. in the Adronov Group (co-supervised by John Valliant) in 2009 and has been a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Joe DeSimone since leaving McMaster. Last week his appointment to the Department of Radiology at UNC’s School of Medicine was announced. He will be carrying out research on novel polymer structures as radio-imaging agents, and on novel methods for delivery of nano-particles as drug carriers. Congratulations to Matt!