Team CERT advances to final round of $20M Carbon XPrize
Carbon Electrocatalytic Recycling Toronto (CERT), a team composed of researchers from the groups of Prof. Ted Sargent and Prof. David Sinton were just announced as finalists in the $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPrize – a competition to capture and convert the most carbon dioxide into a usable valuable good.
Team CERT has spent the last year scaling up carbon dioxide reduction reaction technologies from lab to prototype with the help of partners and contractors CO2 Solutions, Ontario Centres of Excellence, and Xerox Research Canada. CERT is 1 of 5 finalists worldwide in the natural gas stream and the only Ontario team to ever advance in an XPrize to the final round.
You can read about the team here: http://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/cert-team-advances-to-finals-of-carbon-xprize/
CERT website: https://co2cert.com/
CERT Twitter: https://twitter.com/CO2CERT
Ted Sargent congratulates four Sargent Group Winners of the 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad
In a ceremony at the Chinese Consulate in Toronto on April 7th, Ted Sargent congratulated four Sargent Group Winners of the 2017 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Student Abroad.
These included:
- GONG Xiwen, who also won the 2017 Extraordinary Potential Prize worth $10k USD
- LIU Mengxia
- XU Jixian
- LI Jun
Sargent congratulated fully seven UofT students at the ceremony – UofT students won half of the awards presented at today’s ceremony. He thanked Consul General HE Wei and Education Consul ZHANG Yiqin for holding this beautiful ceremony and for celebrating the achievements of China’s brightest and most dedicated students and researchers.
Ted Sargent to give special seminar at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Friday April 13th, 12pm, Pierce 209
Ted will be giving a special seminar, “Engineered nanomaterials and devices for light sensing, optical sources, and energy storage” at the Rowland Institute at Harvard on
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Innovations in materials chemistry have enabled impressive control over size, monodispersity, shape, and surface chemistry of nanoparticles, including colloidal quantum dots, reduced-dimensional perovskites, and metal nanoparticles. I will discuss advances in photodetectors and infrared cameras (including the story of InVisage
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Mahmoud, Reza, and Mahla publish “Single-cell mRNA cytometry via sequence-specific nanoparticle clustering and trapping” in Nature Chemistry
Mahmoud, Reza, and Mahla publish “Single-cell mRNA cytometry via sequence-specific nanoparticle clustering and trapping” in Nature Chemistry.
Congratulations to Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik, collaborator and newly announced Canada 150 Research Chair, on joining University of Toronto
Congratulations to Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik who has recently been announced as one of 20 Canada 150 Research Chairs, announced today by Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan.
Aspuru-Guzik is a tenured professor at Harvard University, world-leading researcher in theoretical and computational chemistry and a Senior Fellow in CIFAR’s Bio-inspired Solar Energy program. He is jointly appointed to the departments of chemistry and computer science as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical & Quantum Chemistry. This summer, he will arrive at U of T, which is internationally known for its strengths in chemistry and artificial intelligence.
We are excited to welcome Alán. You can read about his story in the Globe and Mail here: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-150-research-chairs-draw-scientists-fleeing-trump-guns-and/
Our recent paper in Nature linking the Sargent group and Aspuru-Guzik group on machine learning for materials discovery can be read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07820-6
Science publishes interview with PhD student Phil De Luna, “Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution”
Science has published a recent interview with PhD student Phil De Luna in an article titled, “Scientists say we’re on the cusp of a carbon dioxide–recycling revolution“. This interview feature was part of
You can read the Science interview here, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/scientists-say-we-re-cusp-carbon-dioxide-recycling-revolution
You can read the Joule perspective here, http://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(17)30076-4
New Materials for Consumer Devices Workshop 9am – 4pm, Thursday March 29, 2018, Hart House Music Room. Register Now!
Please join us for the NEW MATERIALS for CONSUMER DEVICES WORKSHOP!
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New Materials for Consumer Devices
Sponsored by Huawei
Thursday, March 29, 2018
9am – 4pm (Registration at 8:15am)
Hart House Music Room
This workshop will showcase the emerging research of nanomaterials and their applications in practical electronic devices. The event will include:
1. A plenary talk by Prof. Stephen Forrest of U Mich, a pioneer in organic electronics
2. Seminars by University of Toronto researchers;
o Ted Sargent – Perovskite and quantum dot light emitters
o Zheng-Hong Lu – Organic LEDs
o Dwight Seferos – Organic Materials for Flexible, Printed Batteries
o Mark Wilson – Solid-state organic/nanocrystal films for excitonic, infrared↔visible photon conversion
o Chandra Veer Singh – Computational design of energy and electronic materials
o Gisele Azimi – Design of sustainable advanced materials
o Hani Naguib – Smart Materials for Flexible Electronics and Wearables
o David Duvenaud – Automatic chemical design using a continuous, data-driven representation of molecules
3. A spotlight of local start-up companies;
o Including OTI Lumionics, Pliant Power Devices, FlexCap, Printem , and more
4. A networking session with industry and academia
o Confirmed attendance from representatives of Huawei, Magna, Xerox, IBM, and more!
Space is limited – please register by March 23rd by sending an e-mail to Jeannie Ing (jeannie.ing@utoronto.ca) with the following information:
i) Please put NMCD Workshop in the subject line
ii) Include your name, title, department, and supervisor
PhD student Wendi Zhou featured in Rogers article, “Four trailblazing women in tech”
Wendi Zhou, an ECE
You can read the article here: https://connected.rogers.com/tech-and-gadgets/posts/four-trailblazing-women-in-tech-17660287
Xiyan, Yongbiao, and colleagues publish “Bright colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diodes enabled by efficient chlorination” in Nature Photonics
Bright colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diodes enabled by efficient chlorination pp159 – 164
Xiyan Li, Yong-Biao Zhao, Fengjia Fan, Larissa Levina, Min Liu, Rafael Quintero-Bermudez, Xiwen Gong, Li Na Quan, James Fan, Zhenyu Yang, Sjoerd Hoogland, Oleksandr Voznyy, Zheng-Hong Lu & Edward H. Sargent
DOI: 10.1038/s41566-018-0105-8
Green light-emitting diodes with a brightness of 460,000 cd m–2 and a low turn-on voltage of 2.5 V are enabled by the use of a chlorination treatment to provide conductive passivation of the devices.
