Sadaf defends her thesis!
Sadaf has successfully defended her PhD thesis! After a long five years she’s produced an absolutely outstanding body of work that will lead to the design on non-fluorinated finishes for fabrics in the coming years. Textile scientists take note. Congratulations Dr. Shabanian!!
Mehdi wins the Barbara and Frank Milligan Graduate Fellowship!
Mehdi has been awarded the Barbara and Frank Milligan Graduate Fellowship for his research on developing anti-fouling coatings for urinary catheters. Excellent work Mehdi!!
New Publication on Antimicrobial Textiles!
In an excellent collaborative work with the Pakpour group at UBC Okanagan, as well as our industrial collaborators at PRE Labs Inc., we’ve just published our latest work looking into the efficacy of various antimicrobial compounds when applied to real PPE fabrics. Check out Advancing Antimicrobial Textiles: A Comprehensive Study on Combatting ESKAPE Pathogens and Ensuring… Read more »
New publication! Salty…
With former undergraduate researcher Wenting Luo at the helm, we’ve now published our latest study understanding how salinity affects the adhesion of frozen water droplets. This work has major implications for the design of anti-icing surfaces that will come in contact with ocean water. Check out Influence of Salinity on Surface Ice Adhesion Strength!
Lisa and Parnian graduate!
A huge congratulations to now DREAM alumni Parnian and Lisa, after successfully graduating from the MEng program at U of T. We wish you all the best in your future careers!
New DREAM Publication!
Sadaf’s latest work on perfluoropolyether-based (PFPE) fabric finishes has now been published! She’s found that PFPE can offer the same performance as the banned, long-chain PFAS but with substantially less harmful degradation products. And the finish is very durable, so degradation is going to take quite some time! Excellent work Sadaf and co-authors! Check out… Read more »
New ice paper published
Our work understanding different materials’ interfacial toughness with ice continues. Turns out extremely durable, erosion resistant materials like tungsten carbide, silicon carbide, and alumina are not too bad in terms of their toughness with ice! Excellent work Qimeng getting to the bottom of this. Check out the full publication: Erosion-resistant materials demonstrate low interfacial toughness… Read more »
Water and energy harvesting paper published
Our collaborative work with Ning Yan’s group in Chemical Engineering has now been published. Excellent work former DREAM Team member Araz Rajabi, and current superstar Mohammad Soltani! Imagine harvesting wasted energy and water from greenhouses using wettability patterning and some clever surface design. Well, you don’t actually need to imagine, just read Nature-inspired surface for… Read more »
Superoleophobic fabric paper published
Majid and Sudip’s work on developing durable, comfortable, superoleophobic fabrics without the use of short- or long-chain PFAS (those “forever” chemicals) has now been published! Excellent work team. Check out Durable and comfortable superoleophobic fabrics utilizing ultra-short-chain fluorinated surface chemistry
Two new publications
The DREAM Lab has two new publications out today. Kamran’s work on skin-inspired ice-phobic surfaces has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. He’s developed a metallic system that can repel ice, survive impact, and even keep its temperature substantially warmer than the ambient. Check out Skin-Inspired Nanofluid-Filled Surfaces with Tunable Icephobic, Photothermal, and Energy Absorption… Read more »
