Prof. Golovin wins award
Prof. Golovin has been selected for a Sustainable Action Award (Individual Faculty) from the University of Toronto. More details here.
Samuel awarded an endowed fellowship!
A huge congratulations to DREAM Lab member Samuel, who has been awarded the Barbara Ann Ward Endowed Fellowship. I’ve tasked Samuel with the ambitious but much needed task of developing surface chemistries that are more oleophobic than PFAS…but without PFAS. Really important work, and it appears others agree! Keep it up Samuel!!
Fariba wins prestigious fellowship!
A super big congratulations to Fariba for being awarded the Best Wasmund Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Energy. Fariba’s work is tackling one of the most energy intensive surface-related phenomenon worldwide: corrosion. Keep up the great work Fariba!
Behrooz successfully becomes a doctor!
Congratulations to Behrooz, now Dr. Khatir, who successfully defended his PhD thesis! Behrooz did a great job uncovering the structure of omniphobic PDMS brushes and published many seminal papers on the topic. We wish you all the best in your future career Dr. Khatir!!
Superhydrophobic LIT paper published!
After several years of attempting to identify a superhydrophobic surface that exhibited a low interfacial toughness with ice, we’ve finally found one! Qimeng’s excellent study on a durable coating with high graft density of the low surface energy layer has enabled us to measure a LIT superhydrophobic surface for the very first time. Great work… Read more »
Holiday Party 2024
Another year in the books for the DREAM Lab. 2024 had quite a few milestones. Mohammad and Sadaf both successfully defended their PhDs, Yalda and Amanuel joined the lab, we were visiting by Isaac Gresham, Takuya Matsumoto and (briefly) Glen McHale, and several good studies were published. The annual MIE holiday party is always a… Read more »
Autophobicity? What’s that and what’s it got to do with PDMS brushes !New Paper Alert!
For years the DREAM Lab has investigated PDMS brushes and their ultra-low contact angle hysteresis (CAH) properties. One attribute leading to low CAH is smoothness down to the molecular level. So imagine our surprise when we stuck PDMS brushes under an AFM and saw large clusters on their surface! Weird, right? Behrooz did some digging… Read more »
Mohammad –> Dr. Soltani
Mohammad successfully defended his PhD today! We were lucky enough for Prof. Glen McHale to pop over from the UK and join us as the external examiner. It was a fantastic defence and we wish Dr. Soltani all the best as he moves on to a postdoctoral fellow position with Prof. Aimy Bazylak down the… Read more »
Mohammad’s talk wins at NISE 2024
Mohammad Soltani’s talk on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) just won a “Best Presentation Award” at the 3rd International Conference on Nature Inspired Surfaces in 2024. Great job representing the DREAM Lab Mohammad!
New paper uncovering the structure of PDMS brushes!
One of the major themes currently in the DREAM Lab is developing replacement technologies for PFAS. PDMS brushes are one promising candidate, but little is known about their nanoscale structure. That’s why I challenged Behrooz to figure it out as part of his PhD. And now, he’s done just that. Some very interesting findings from… Read more »
