DREAM Lab’s first review paper out
As my students will definitely tell you, I do not like writing review papers. I’d rather focus efforts on new and interesting results, rather than what’s already published. Looking forward rather than looking back. However, life isn’t fair and you don’t always get what you want 🙂 I am pleased to announce that our first… Read more »
Droplet triboelectrification paper now out
The final chapter from Dr. Soltani’s thesis has now been published online. We demonstrate the importance of controlling contact angle hysteresis in the design of droplet triboelectric nanogenerators. Excellent work Mohammad and the entire co-author team! Check out: Droplet triboelectrification on liquid-like polymer brushes
New members of the DREAM Lab
We’re excited to welcome the latest DREAM Lab members, Mohammad Hammoud (PhD), Mehrnoush Golbazi (PhD), Teresa Sabu (PhD), Gordon Jeon (COOP), and Siddhartha Challa (MASc). Behrooz has also been convinced to rejoin as a postdoc. Welcome all!
Samuel’s work is published!
In the DREAM lab’s continual quest to find replacements for PFAS, Samuel’s latest study and first first-authored DREAM Lab publication is the next big step. In his work he shows that we can achieve the performance of C4 to C6 PFAS using single perfluorocarbons attached to liquidlike PDMS. This breaks the decades-old coupling of PFAS… Read more »
Kamran’s TENG ice detection work is published!
After many cold days inside the walk-in freezer, and a few crashed drones, Kamran’s work on utilizing the triboelectric effect for ice sensing has now been published in Advanced Materials. A really great body of work from the large collaborative team, with Dr. Alasvand Zarasvand at the helm. Given how important drones are becoming worldwide,… Read more »
Tao’s silica engineering paper now out
Tao’s work on understanding how the underlying substrate affects the durability of grafted PDMS chains has now been published! Super important work, considering that most substrate materials cannot be readily bonded with omniphobic PDMS like glass or Si can. And a great collaboration with the Neto group from USydney. Check out Substrate Engineering for Durable… Read more »
New corrosion paper
Our latest work has just been published, with a focus of depositing PDMS brushes onto carbon steels and not causing the steel to corrode. Quite a challenge, considering both the silica layer used to smoothen out the rough substrate contains HCl, and our standard recipe for growing PDMS brushes also generates HCl. Luckily, Parnian and… Read more »
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!
