Western Nanofabrication Facility

Paul Bazylewski, Sheldon Van Middelkoop, Ranjith Divigalpitiya, Giovanni Fanchini
Few-layer molybdenum disulfide nanosheets functionalized with L-cysteine for selective capture of Cd2+ ions
FlatChem 11, pp.15–23 (2018)
doi: 10.1016/j.flatc.2018.11.001

Coady, Matthew J; Wood, Michael; Wallace, Gregory Q; Nielsen, Kent E; Kietzig, Anne-Marie; Lagugné-Labarthet, François; Ragogna, Paul J
Icephobic Behavior of UV-Cured Polymer Networks Incorporated into Slippery Lubricant-Infused Porous Surfaces: Improving SLIPS Durability
ACS applied materials & interfaces. 10(3), pp.2890-2896 (2018)
doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b14433

J. Glasing, P.G. Jessop, P. Champagne, and M.F. Cunningham
Graft-modified cellulose nanocrystals as CO2-switchable Pickering emulsifiers
Polym.Chem., 9, 3864 (2018)
doi: 10.1039/C8PY00417J

Madalena S. Kozachuk, Tsun-Kong. Sham, Ronald R. Martin, Mike Robinson, and Andrew J. Nelson
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy in the Study of the Chemistry of a Daguerreotype Surface
HERITAGE SCIENCE (6) 12 (2018)
doi: 10.1186/s40494-018-0171-8

Madalena S. Kozachuk, Maria O.Aviles, Ronald R.Martin, Brianne Potts, Tsun-Kong Sham, and Francois Lagugne-Labarthet
Imaging the Surface of a Hand-Colored 19th Century Daguerreotype
Applied Spectroscopy, 72(8), pp. 1215-1224 (2018)
doi: 10.1177/0003702818773760

Renjie Hou and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Second harmonic generation microscopy from non-centrosymmetric gold half-coated polystyrene spheres
Surface Science 676 (2018) 46–50
DOI: 10.1016/j.susc.2018.01.014

Janice Gomes,  Fabrice Lucien,  Tyler T. Cooper, Yohan Kim, and Karla C. Williams, XinYang Liao, Lauren Kaufman, Francois Lagugné-Labarthet, Oliver Kenyon, Justin Boysen, Neil E. Kay, Christopher W. McIntyre, Hon S. Leong
Analytical Considerations in Nanoscale Flow Cytometry of Extracellular Vesicles to Achieve Data Linearity
Thrombosis and Haemostasis Vol. 118 No. 9/2018
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1668544

Danielle M. McRae, Keuna Jeon, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Plasmon-Mediated Drilling in Thin Metallic Nanostructures
ACS Omega 2018, 3, 7269−7277
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00774

Gitanjali Kolhatkar, Alexandre Merlen, Jiawei Zhang, Chahinez Dab, Gregory Q. Wallace, François Lagugné-Labarthet and Andreas Ruediger
Optical near-field mapping of plasmonic nanostructures prepared by nanosphere lithography
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1536–1543.
DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.9.144

Michelle S.M. Li, Fraser P. Filice, and Zhifeng Ding
Submicron probes for scanning electrochemical microscopy
Can. J. Chem. 96: 328–335 (2018)
DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2017-0611

Gregory Q. Wallace, Stuart T. Read, Danielle M. McRae, Scott M. Rosendahl, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Exploiting Anisotropy of Plasmonic Nanostructures with Polarization Modulation Infrared Linear Dichroism Microscopy (μPM-IRLD)
Adv. Optical Mater. 2018, 6, 1701336
DOI: 10.1002/adom.201701336

Zhutian Ding, James M. Stubbs, Danielle McRae, Johanna M. Blacquiere, François Lagugné-Labarthet, and Silvia Mittler
A Mass-Producible and Versatile Sensing System: Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Excited by Individual Waveguide Modes
ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 334−341
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.7b00736

Dibakar Mondal, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Kibret Mequanint, and Amin S. Rizkalla
Bioactivity, Degradation, and Mechanical Properties of Poly(vinylpyrrolidone-co-triethoxyvinylsilane)/Tertiary Bioactive Glass Hybrids
ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2018, 1, 1369−1381
DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.8b00344

Jared S. Gleberzon, Yinyin Liao, Silvia Mittler, Harvey A. Goldberg, Bernd Grohe
Incorporation of osteopontin peptide into kidney stone-related calcium oxalate monohydrate crystals: a quantitative study
Urolithiasis (2019) 47:425–440
DOI: 10.1007/s00240-018-01105-x

Paul A Charpentier, Chao Chen, Koosha Azhie, Bernd Grohe, Md Abdul Mumin, Adria F Lotus, Patrick Therrien and Silvia Mittler
Photocatalytic and antibacterial activities of silver and iron doped titania nanoparticles in solution and polyaspartic coatings
Nanotechnology 30 (2019) 085706 (13pp)
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aaf512

Karina Ambrock, Bernd Grohe, Silvia Mittler
Controlling the hydrophilicity and cohesion during deposition of highly oriented type I collagen films: An approach for biomedical applications
Thin Solid Films 656 (2018) 75–82
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2018.04.043

Zhutian Ding, James M. Stubbs, and Silvia Mittler
Narrowing of Plasmon Resonance Peaks as an Ensemble Effect
J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 10167−10172
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b02301

Zhutian Ding, James M. Stubbs, Silvia Mittler
Au-nanoparticles strip-loaded channel waveguide
Opt. Eng. 57(10), 100504 (2018)
DOI: 10.1117/1.OE.57.10.100504

Qiang Wang, Chris Cochrane, Fei Long, Hongbing Yu, Mark R. Daymond
Micropillar compression study on heavy ion irradiated Zr-2.5Nb pressure tube alloy
Journal of Nuclear Materials 511 (2018) 487-495
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2018.09.021

Reg Bauld, Dong-Yup William Choi, Paul Bazylewski, Ranjith Divigalpitiya and Giovanni Fanchini
Thermo-optical characterization and thermal properties of graphene–polymer composites: a review
J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 2901
DOI: 10.1039/c7tc01719g

Exploring tarnished daguerreotypes with synchrotron light: XRF and μ‑XANES analysis
M. S. Kozachuk1, T. K. Sham1, R. R. Martin, A. J. Nelson, and I. Coulthard
Kozachuk et al. Herit Sci (2018) 6:12
DOI: 10.1186/s40494-018-0171-8

B. Ibrahim, D. Zagidulin, M. Behazin, S. Ramamurthy, J.C. Wren, D.W. Shoesmith
The corrosion of copper in irradiated and unirradiated humid air
Corrosion Science 141 (2018) 53–62
DOI: 10.1016/j.corsci.2018.05.024

Liane Loiselle, Michael A. McCraig, M. Darby Dyar, Richard Léveillé, Sean R. Shieh and Gordon Southam
A Spectral Comparison of Jarosites Using Techniques Relevant to the Robotic Exploration of Biosignatures on Mars
Life 2018, 8, 61
DOI:10.3390/life8040061

J. Turnbull, R. Szukalo, M. Behazin, D. Hall, D. Zagidulin, S. Ramamurthy, J.C. Wren, and D.W. Shoesmith
The Effects of Cathodic Reagent Concentration and Small Solution Volumes on the Corrosion of Copper in Dilute Nitric Acid Solutions
CORROSION (2018) 74 (3): 326–336.
https://doi.org/10.5006/2655

Richard O. Oviasuyi, Robert J. Klassen
Anisotropic deformation of Zr ion irradiated Zr–2.5%Nb micro-pillars at 25C
Journal of Nuclear Materials 421 (2012) 54–57
DOI:10.1016/j.jnucmat.2011.11.054

Akhil Vohra, Kory Schlingman, R. Stephen Carmichael, and Tricia Breen Carmichael
Membrane-Interface-Elastomer Structures for Stretchable Electronics
Chem 4, 1673–1684, July 12, 2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.chempr.2018.04.019

Jennifer Ronholm, Jacqueline Goordial, Haley M. Sapers, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Daniel M. Applin, Alexandra Pontefract, Christopher R. Omelon, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon, Edward A. Cloutis, and Lyle G. Whyte
Characterization of Microbial Communities Hosted in Quartzofeldspathic and Serpentinite Lithologies in Jeffrey Mine, Canada
ASTROBIOLOGY Volume 18, Number 8, 2018
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2017.1685

Willson Arifin, Takashi Kuboki
Effects of Thermoplastic Elastomers on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Glass Fiber Reinforced Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) Composites
Polymer Composites, 39(S3), pp E1331-E1345 (2018)
DOI 10.1002/pc.24188

W. Jeffrey Binns, Fareshta Zargarzadah, Vahid Dehnavi, Jian Chen, James J. Noël, and Dave W. Shoesmith
Physical and Electrochemical Evidence for the Role of a Mg Hydride Species in Mg Alloy Corrosion
CORROSION (2019) 75 (1): 58–68
DOI: 10.5006/2918

Jessica M. Stromberg, Erik Barr, Neil R. Banerjee
Early carbonate veining and gold mineralization in the Timmins camp: Depositional context of the Dome mine ankerite veins
Ore Geology Reviews 97 (2018) 55–73
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.04.022

Paul Bazylewski, Sheldon Van Middelkoop, Ranjith Divigalpitiya, Giovanni Fanchini
Few-layer molybdenum disulfide nanosheets functionalized with L-cysteine for selective capture of Cd2+ ions
FlatChem 11 (2018) 15–23
DOI: 10.1016/j.flatc.2018.11.001

Jenine McCutcheon, Gordon Southam
Advanced biofilm staining techniques for TEM and SEM in geomicrobiology: Implications for visualizing EPS architecture, mineral nucleation, and microfossil generation
Chemical Geology 498 (2018) 115–127
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.09.016

Andre Sutrisno, Bryan E. G. Lucier, Lu Zhang, Lihong Ding, Yueying Chu, Anmin Zheng, and Yining Huang
Inspecting the Structure and Formation of Molecular Sieve SAPO-34 via 17O Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. C 2018, 122, 7260−7277
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b00746

R. Manwar, Todd Simpson, Aref Bakhtazad, and S Chowdhury
Fabrication and characterization of a high frequency and high coupling coefficient CMUT array
MICROSYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES-MICRO-AND NANOSYSTEMS-INFORMATION STORAGE AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS, 23(10), pp. 4965-4977 (2017)
doi: 10.1007/s00542-016-3225-4

A. Z. M. Ariful Islam and Robert J. Klassen
Effect of a Surface Constraining Layer on the Plastic Deformation of Au Microspheres
MRS Advancesa 3(8-9), pp425-430 (2017)
doi: 10.1557/adv.2017.644

Ross, Matthew A. S.; Coady, Matthew J.; Guterman, Ryan; Ragogna, Paul J
Patterned Phosphonium-Functionalized Photopolymer Networks as Ceramic Precursors
Chemistry of Materials., 29(20), pp.8884-8891 (2017)
doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b03674

Gregory Q. Wallace, Hayden C. Foy, Scott M. Rosendahl, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Dendritic Plasmonics for Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121 (17), pp 9497–9507
doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b02039

AZM Ariful Islam and Robert J. Klassen
Kinetics of length-scale dependent plastic deformation of gold microspheres
Journal of Materials Research 2017
doi: 10.1557/jmr.2017.223

Khaled Al-Aribe and George K Knopf
Graphene doped ZnO films for photoelectrowetting on microchannels
Proc. SPIE 10061, Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems XV, 1006105 (28 February 2017)
doi: 10.1117/12.2252148

Khaled Al-Aribe and George K Knopf
Biofunctionalized Photoelectric Transducers for Sensing and Actuation SPIE Spotlight (2017)
doi: 10.1117/3.2283084

Tetyana I. Levchenko, Christian Kübel, Bahareh Khalili Najafabadi, Paul D. Boyle, Carolyn Cadogan,
Lyudmila V. Goncharova, Alexandre Garreau, François Lagugné-Labarthet, Yining Huang, and John F. Corrigan
Luminescent CdSe Superstructures: A Nanocluster Superlattice and a Nanoporous Crystal
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 1129−1144
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b10490

Dibakar Mondala,d, S. Jeffrey Dixonb,c,d, Kibret Mequaninta,⁎, Amin S. Rizkalla
Mechanically-competent and cytocompatible polycaprolactoneborophosphosilicate hybrid biomaterials
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 75 (2017) 180–189
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.07.010

Anastasia Pasche, Bernd Grohe, Silvia Mittler, Paul A. Charpentier
Zr-doped TiO2 as a thermostabilizer in plasmon-enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells
J. Photon. Energy 7(3), 035504 (2017),
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.7.035504.

Anastasia Pasche, Bernd Grohe, Silvia Mittler, and Paul A Charpentier
Zr-doped TiO2 nanoparticles synthesized via a sol–gel route and their application in dye-sensitized solar cells for thermo-stabilization
Mater. Res. Express 4 (2017) 065501
DOI 10.1088/2053-1591/aa742d

Paul Bazylewski, Sabastine Ezugwu and Giovanni Fanchini
A Review of Three-Dimensional Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy (3D-SNOM) and Its Applications in Nanoscale Light Management
Appl. Sci. 2017, 7, 973
DOI: 10.3390/app7100973

Ian M. Power, Paul A. Kenward, Gregory M. Dipple, and Mati Raudsepp
Room Temperature Magnesite Precipitation
Cryst. Growth Des. 2017, 17, 5652-5659
DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00311

Anastasia Colomba, Mark C. Biesinger, Ranjith Divigalpitiya, Frank A. Brandys, and Joe B. Gilroy
Dye rejection membranes prepared from oxidized graphite particles
Can. J. Chem. 95: 1103–1109 (2017)
DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2016-0628

Haley M. Sapers, Jennifer Ronholm, Isabelle Raymond-Bouchard, Raven Comrey, Gordon R. Osinski, and Lyle G. Whyte
Biological Characterization of Microenvironments in a Hypersaline Cold Spring Mars Analog
Front. Microbiol. 8:2527.
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02527

Linda Wu, Dan Guo, Mi Li, Jiju M. Joseph, James J. Noel, Peter G. Keech, and J. Clara Wren
Inverse Crevice Corrosion of Carbon Steel: Effect of Solution Volume to Surface Area
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (9) C539-C553 (2017)
DOI: 10.1149/2.0511709jes

Jeremiah Shuster, Frank Reith, Geert Cornelis, John E. Parsons, John M. Parsons, Gordon Southam
Secondary gold structures: Relics of past biogeochemical transformations and implications for colloidal gold dispersion in subtropical environments
Chemical Geology 450 (2017) 154–164
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.12.027

X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOY IN THE STUDY OF THE CHEMISTRY OF A DAGUERREOTYPE SURFACE
Madalena S. KOZACHUK, Tsun-Kong SHAM, Ronald R. MARTIN, Mike ROBINSON, Andrew J. NELSON, Mark C. BIESINGER
INT J CONSERV SCI 8, 4, 2017: 675-684

Mehrnaz Salarian, William Z. Xu, Richard Bohay, Edmund M. K. Lui, Paul A. Charpentier
Angiogenic Rg1/Sr-Doped TiO2 Nanowire/Poly(Propylene Fumarate) Bone Cement Composites
Macromol. Biosci. 2017, 17, 1600156
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201600156

Thalia E. Standish, Mehdi Yari, David W. Shoesmith, and James J. Noel
Crevice Corrosion of Grade-2 Titanium in Saline Solutions at Different Temperatures and Oxygen Concentrations
Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 164 (13) C788-C795 (2017)
DOI: 10.1149/2.0941713jes

Biogeochemical Cycling of Silver in Acidic, Weathering Environments
Jeremiah Shuster, Frank Reith, Matthew R. M. Izawa, Roberta L. Flemming, Neil R. Banerjee and Gordon Southam
Minerals 2017, 7, 218
DOI: 10.3390/min7110218

Peipei Jia, Zhaoliang Yang, Jun Yang, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Quasiperiodic nanohole arrays on optical fibres as plasmonic sensors: fabrication and sensitivity determination
ACS Sensors, in press, 2016.
doi: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00436

Mingjun Hu, Qiuquan Guo, Tengyuan Zhang, Shaolin Zhou, and Jun Yang
SU-8-induced strong bonding of Polymer Ligands to Flexible Substrates via In Situ Cross-Linked Reaction for Improved Surface Metallization and Fast Fabrication of High-Quality Flexible Circuits
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8(7), 4280.
doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b10406

Alexandre Garreau, Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Renjie Hou, Gregory Wallace, Peter Norton, François Lagugné-Labarthet
Probing the Plasmonic Properties of Heterometallic Nanoprisms With Near-Field Fluorescence Microscopy
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, in press.
doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06287

Gregory Q. Wallace, Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Renjie Hou, Matthew J. Coady, Peter R. Norton, Todd W. Simpson, Scott M. Rosendahl, Alexandre Merlen, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Superimposed arrays of nanoprisms for multispectral molecular plasmonics
ACS Photonics, 2016, 3 (9), pp 1723–1732
doi: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00388

Jun Li, Chang-Hai Liu, Xia Li, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Yu-Cheng Shao, Sui-Dong Wang, Xue-Liang Sun, Way-Faung Pong, Jing-Hua Guo, and Tsun-Kong Sham
Unraveling the Origin of Visible Light Capture by Core–Shell TiO2 Nanotubes
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (12), pp 4467–4475
doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b01673

J.A. Paquette, J.B. Gilroy
Synthesis, Characterization, and Preceramic Properties of Pi-conjugated Polymers based on Ni(II) Complexes of Goedken's Macrocycle.
J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2016,  54, In Press, 
doi: 10.1002/pola.28211

Michal M Klak; Grzegorz Zatryb; Jacek Wojcik; Jan Misiewicz; Peter Mascher; Artur Podhorodecki
Mechanism of enhanced photoluminescence of Tb ions in hydrogenated silicon rich silicon oxide films
Thin Solid Films 611, 62-67 (2016)
doi: 10.1016/j.tsf.2016.04.050

J. M. Ramírez, A. Ruiz-Caridad, J. Wojcik, A. M. Gutierrez, S. Estradé, F. Peiró, P. Sanchís, P. Mascher, and B. Garrido
Bright and tunable luminescence from Ce3+ and Tb3+ codoped SiOxNy thin films: Role of nitrogen content, annealing temperature and sample morphology
Journal of Applied Physics 119, 113108 (2016)
doi: 10.1063/1.4944433

Farshid Pashaee, Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Fabiana A. Caetano, Stephen S.G Ferguson, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: Plasmid-Free vs. Plasmid-embedded DNA
Analyst, 2016, 141, 3251-3258.
doi: 10.1039/C6AN00350H

Renjie Hou, Vasyl Shynkar, Clément. Lafargue, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Joseph Zyss, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Second Harmonic generation from gold meta-molecules with three-fold symmetry
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 7956-7965.
doi: 10.1039/C6CP00154H

Gregory Q. Wallace, Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Mariachiara S. Zuin, Mark S. Workentin, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
A nanoaggregate-on-mirror platform for molecular and biomolecular detection by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 2016, 408, 609-619.
doi: 10.1007/s00216-015-9142-z

Mohammadali Tabatabaei, Gregory Q. Wallace, Fabiana A. Caetano, Elizabeth R. Gillies, Stephen S.G. Ferguson, and François Lagugné-Labarthet
Controlled positioning of analytes and cells on a plasmonic platform for glycan sensing using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Chemical Science, 2016, 7, 575-582.
doi: 10.1039/C5SC03332B

Carolyn C. Cadogan, Lyudmila V. Goncharova, Peter J. Simpson, Peter H. Nguyen, Zhigang Q. Wang, T.K. Sham
The influence of hydrogen passivation on the luminescence of Si quantum dots embedded in Si3Nx
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 2016 34(6) p061202
doi: 10.1116/1.4963369

Z. S. Lin, Y. Huang
Tetraalkylammonium Salt/Alcohol Mixtures as Deep Eutectic Solvents for Syntheses of High-Silica Zeolites
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2016, 224, 75-83. 
doi: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2015.11.008

Z. S. Lin, Y. Huang
Syntheses of high-silica zeolites in urea/choline chloride deep eutectic solvent
Canadian Journal of Chemistry, 2016, 94, 1-8.
doi: 10.1139/cjc-2016-0115

Balakrishnan, S., Najiminaini, M., Singh, M.R., & J.J.L. Carson
A study of angle dependent surface plasmon polaritons in nano-hole array structures
J Appl Phys 2016, 120: 034302.
doi: 10.1063/1.4958870

Pontefract A., Osinski G. R., Cockell C. S., Southam G., McCausland P. J. A., Umoh J., Holdsworth D. A.
Microbial diversity of impact-generated habitats
Astrobiology in press, 2016

Z. Dong, F. Xiao, A. Zhao, L. Liu, T.K. Sham and Y. Song,
Pressure Induced Structural Transformations of Anatase TiO2 Nanotubes Probed by Raman Spectroscopy and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction
RSC Adv. 2016, 6, 76142 – 76150.
doi: 10.1039/C6RA15614B

F. Xiao, Z. Dong, H. Mao, J. Liu, X. Sun and Y. Song,
Morphology and Lattice Stability Dependent Performance of Nanostructured Li4Ti5O12 Probed by in situ High-Pressure Raman Spectroscopy and Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction
CrystEngComm, 2016, 18, 736 – 743.
doi: 10.1039/C5CE02301G

Heygaan Rajakumar and Robert J. Klassen
Combined Effect of Irradiation and Temperature on the Mechanical Strength of Inconel 800H and AISI 310 Alloys for In-Core Components of a Gen-IV SCWR
Journal of nuclear engineering and radiation science.. 2(2) (2016)
doi: 10.1115/1.4031015

Shengtai Zhou, Andrew N. Hrymak, Musa R. Kamal
Electrical and Morphological Properties of Microinjection Molded Polystyrene/Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Nanocomposites
Polym Eng Sci, 56: 1182-1190
DOI 10.1002/pen.24352

GOLPIRA ELMI ASSADZADEH, IAIN M. SAMSON AND JOEL E. GAGNON
IDENTIFICATION OF FLUID INCLUSION SOLID PHASES USING A FOCUSED ION BEAM SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE WITH ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETING MICROTHERMOMETRIC DATA AND COMPOSITION OF FLUIDS IN Sn (-W-Mo) DEPOSITS
The Canadian Mineralogist
Vol. 54, pp. 737-754 (2016)
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.1500065

Dibakar Mondal, Amin S. Rizkall and Kibret Mequanint
Bioactive borophosphosilicate-polycaprolactone hybrid biomaterials via a non-aqueous sol gel process
RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 92824–92832
DOI: 10.1039/c6ra08339k

Amir Rabiee Kenaree and Joe B. Gilroy
Synthesis and characterization of metal–rich phosphonium polyelectrolytes and their use as precursors to nanomaterials
Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 18229
DOI: 10.1039/c6dt02541b

Jaewoo Park, Paul Bazylewski and Giovanni Fanchini
Porous graphene-based membranes for water purification from metal ions at low differential pressures
Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 9563
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr09278g

Hydrolytic liquefaction of hydrolysis lignin for the preparation of bio-based rigid polyurethane foam
Nubla Mahmood, Zhongshun Yuan, John Schmidt, Matthew Tymchyshyna and Chunbao (Charles) Xu
Green Chem., 2016, 18, 2385
DOI: 10.1039/c5gc02876k

Nikole Bingham-Koslowski, Cameron Tsujita, Jisuo Jin, and Karem Azmy
Widespread Late Devonian marine anoxia in eastern North America: a case study of the Kettle Point Formation black shale, southwestern Ontario1
Can. J. Earth Sci. 53: 837–855 (2016)
DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0227

Peipei Jia, Zhaoliang Yang, Jun Yang, and Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
Quasiperiodic Nanohole Arrays on Optical Fibers as Plasmonic Sensors: Fabrication and Sensitivity Determination
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00436
ACS Sens. 2016, 1, 1078−1083

Xuzhao Zhao, Yining Huang, and John F. Corrigan
Facile Preparation of Wurtzite CuInE2 (E = S, Se) Nanoparticles Under Solvothermal Conditions
Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 10810−10817
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02177

JIAN LIU, SUMIT K. AGRAWAL, HANIF M. LADAK, AND WANKEI WAN
Fiber Arrangement in the Rat Tympanic Membrane
THE ANATOMICAL RECORD 299:1531–1539 (2016)
DOI 10.1002/ar.23461

Jeremiah Shuster, Maggy Lengke, María Florencia Márquez-Zavalía, and Gordon Southam
FLOATING GOLD GRAINS AND NANOPHASE PARTICLES PRODUCED FROM THE BIOGEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING OF A GOLD-BEARING ORE
Economic Geology, v. 111, pp. 1485–1494

Jaewoo Park, Arash Akbari-Sharbaf, Sabastine Ezugwu, Reg Bauld, Giovanni Fanchini
Direct synthesis of highly conducting graphene nanoribbon thin films from graphene ridges and wrinkles
Acta Materialia 107 (2016) 96-101
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.01.029

Manal O. Dafara, Matthew W. Grolb, Peter B. Canhama,S. Jeffrey Dixonb,c,e, Amin S. Rizkalla
Reinforcement of flowable dental composites withtitanium dioxide nanotubes
Dental Materials 32 (2016) 817–826
DOI: 10.1016/j.dental.2016.03.022

Aaron Langdona, Bernd Grohe
The osteopontin-controlled switching of calcium oxalatemonohydrate morphologies in artificial urine provides insights intothe formation of papillary kidney stones
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 146 (2016) 296–306
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.06.030

Jenine McCutcheon, Luke D. Nothdurft, Gregory E.Webb, David Paterson, Gordon Southam
Beachrock formation via microbial dissolution and re-precipitation of carbonate minerals
Marine Geology 382 (2016) 122–135
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.10.010

K. Farokhzadeh, A.Edrisy
Transition between mild and severe wear in titanium alloys
TribologyInternational94(2016)98–111
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2015.08.020

Ryan P. Morco, Ahmed Y. Musa, Mojtaba Momeni, J.C. Wren
Corrosion of carbon steel in the [P14666][Br] ionic liquid: The effects of -radiation and cover gas
Corrosion Science 102 (2016) 1–15
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Amanda M. Leclair, Stephen S.G. Ferguson, François Lagugne-Labarthet
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Bernd Grohe, Brian P. H. Chan, Esben S. Sørensen, Gilles Lajoie, Harvey A. Goldberg, Graeme K. Hunter
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Ruohong Sui, Amin Rizkalla, Paul A. Charpentier
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PM Diakowski, HB Kraatz
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Mohtashim H. Shamsi and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz
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Weathering of Post-Impact Hydrothermal Deposits from the Haughton Impact Structure: Implications for Microbial Colonization and Biosignature Preservation
ASTROBIOLOGY Volume 11, Number 6, 2011
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Fartash Vasefi, Mohamadreza Najiminaini, Bozena Kaminska, Jeffrey J. Carson
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Ruohong Sui, Amin Rizkalla, Paul A. Charpentier
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Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 142 (2011) 688–695
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Amanda M. Leclair, Stephen S.G. Ferguson, François Lagugné-Labarthet
Surface patterning using plasma-deposited fluorocarbon thin films for single-cell positioning and neural circuit arrangement
Biomaterials 32 (2011) 1351e1360
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K. Daub, X. Zhang, L. Wang, Z. Qin, J.J. Noël, J.C. Wren
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D. Fu, X. Zhang, P.G. Keech, D.W. Shoesmith, J.C. Wren,
An electrochemical study of H2O2 decomposition on single-phase γ-FeOOH films
Electrochim. Acta, 2010
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A.L. Brady, G.F. Slater, C.R. Omelon, G. Southam, G. Druschel, D.T. Andersen, I. Hawes, B. Laval, D.S.S. Lim
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Chemical Geology 274 (2010) 56–67
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D. Shakhvorostov and M. H. Muser
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EPL, 93 (2011) 36002
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Dmitry Shakhvorostov, Peter R. Norton, Martin H. Müser
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Angular domain fluorescence lifetime imaging: a tissue-like phantom study
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Mohamadreza Najiminaini, Fartash Vasefi, Bozena Kaminska, and Jeffrey J. L. Carson
Experimental and numerical analysis on the optical resonance transmission properties of nano-hole arrays
Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 21, pp. 22255-22270 (2010)
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Angular domain transillumination imaging optimization with an ultrafast gated camera
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Eldon Ng, Fartash Vasefi, Bozena Kaminska, Glenn H. Chapman, and Jeffrey J.L. Carson
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Fartash Vasefi, Michelle Belton, Bozena Kaminska, Glenn H Chapman, Jeffrey JL Carson
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A.K. Mudraboyina, J. Markowski, J. Sabarinathan
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A. Bakhtazad, J. Sabarinathan, J.L. Hutter
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Benedict Lau, Mohamed A. Swillam, and Amr S. Helmy
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Behnaz Hojjati, Paul A. Charpentier
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A. Hassanzadeh, M. Nitsche, S. Armstrong, N. Nabavi, R. Harrison, S. J. Dixon, U. Langbein and S. Mittler
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Lijia Liu, Jeffrey Chan, and Tsun-Kong Sham
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S.M.Z. Khaled, Paul A. Charpentier and Amin S. Rizkalla
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Hao Liu, Yong Zhang, Ruying Li, Xueliang Sun, Sylvain Desilets, Hakima Abou-Rachid, Mounir Jaidann, Louis-Simon Lussier
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Hao Liu, Yong Zhang, David Arato, Ruying Li, Philippe Mére , Xueliang Sun
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Christine Seguin, Jessica M. McLachlan, Peter R. Norton, Francois Lagugne ́-Labarthet
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Sarvesh Varma, Jessica McLachlan, Amanda M. Leclair, Betty C. Galarreta, Peter R. Norton, François Lagugné-Labarthet
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Betty C. Galarreta, Etienne Harte, Nicolas Marquestaut, Peter R. Norton, Francois Lagugne ́ -Labarthet
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Dmitry Shakhvorostov, Peter R. Norton, and Martin H. Müser
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Gyuhyon Lee, Ju-Young Kim, Arief Suriadi Budiman, Nobumichi Tamura, Martin Kunz, Kai Chen, Michael J. Burek, Julia R. Greer and Ting Y. Tsui
Fabrication, structure and mechanical properties of indium nanopillars
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Mohamed Y. El-Naggar, Greg Wanger, Kar Man Leung, Thomas D. Yuzvinsky, Gordon Southam, Jun Yang, Woon Ming Lau, Kenneth H. Nealson, and Yuri A. Gorby
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J. Chen, Z. Qin, and D. W. Shoesmith
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Asad Rezaee, Anne Kathrena A. Aliganga, Laura C. Pavelkab and Silvia Mittler
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Annabell Tenboll, Behafarid Darvish, Weimin Hou, Anne-Sophie Duwez, S. Jeffrey Dixon, Harvey A. Goldberg, Bernd Grohe, and Silvia Mittler
Controlled Deposition of Highly Oriented Type I Collagen Mimicking In Vivo Collagen Structures
Langmuir 26(14) (2010) 12165–12172
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DW Hamilton, CJ Oates, A Hasanzadeh, S Mittler
Migration of Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts on Nanometric Topographical Patterns: Influence of Filopodia and Focal Adhesions on Contact Guidance.
PLoS ONE 5(12) (2010) e15129
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Ruth Barth, Florian Staier, Todd Simpson, Silvia Mittler, Stefan Eisebitt, Michael Grunze, and Axel Rosenhahn
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Danielle M. Lapierre, Natsuko Tanabe, Alexey Pereverzev, Martha Spencer, Ryan P. P. Shugg, S. Jeffrey Dixon and Stephen M. Sims
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P.M. Diakowski, Y. Xiao, M.W.P. Petryk, H.-B. Kraatz,
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B. Bose, R.J. Klassen
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Danielle M. Lapierre, Natsuko Tanabe, Alexey Pereverzev, Martha Spencer, Ryan P. P. Shugg, S. Jeffrey Dixon, and Stephen M. Sims
Lysophosphatidic Acid Signals through Multiple Receptors in Osteoclasts to Elevate Cytosolic Calcium Concentration, Evoke Retraction, and Promote Cell Survival
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Bedilu A. Allo, Amin S. Rizkalla, and Kibret Mequanint
Synthesis and Electrospinning of ε-Polycaprolactone-Bioactive Glass Hybrid Biomaterials via a Sol-Gel Process
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Lijia Liu, Jeffrey Chan, and Tsun-Kong Sham
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Piotr M. Diakowski, Yizhi Xiao, Michael W. P. Petryk, and Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz
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Khadijeh Bayat, Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi, Sujeet K. Chaudhuri and Safi eddin Safavi-Naeini
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S.M.Z. Khaled, Paul A. Charpentier, Amin S. Rizkalla
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Donna T. Padavana, W.K. Wan
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S.M.Z. Khaled, Richard J. Miron, Douglas W. Hamilton, Paul A. Charpentier, Amin S. Rizkalla
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A.L. Brady, G.F. Slater, C.R. Omelon, G. Southam, G. Druschel, D.T. Andersen, I. Hawes, B. Laval, D.S.S. Lim
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Hao Liu, Yong Zhang, Ruying Li, Xueliang Sun, Sylvain De´silets, Hakima Abou-Rachid, Mounir Jaidann, Louis-Simon Lussier
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Vladimir Dounin, Anthony J. Veloso, Holger Schulze, Till T. Bachmann, Kagan Kerman
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Dmitry Shakhvorostov, Andreas Lachenwitzer, Leighton Coatsworth, William Lennard, Peter Norton
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Bernd Grohe,, Adam Taller, Peter L. Vincent,^ Long D. Tieu, Kem A. Rogers, Alexander Heiss, Esben S. Soerensen, Silvia Mittler, Harvey A. Goldberg,and Graeme K. Hunter
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Hao Jiang, Jan Markowski, and Jayshri Sabarinathan
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J.B. Markowski, Hao Jiang, J. Sabarinathan
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Valérie Guieu, Patrick Garrigue, François Lagugné-Labarthet, Laurent Servant, Neso Sojic, and David Talaga
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Valerie Guieu, David Talaga, Laurent Servant, Neso Sojic, and Francois Lagugne-Labarthet
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Debashis Chanda, Nicole Zachari, Moez Haque, Mi Li Ng, and Peter R. Herman
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Kenneth Kar Ho Wong, Jeffrey L. Hutter, Martin Zinke-Allmang, and Wankei Wan
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Ruohong Sui, Jason L. Young and Curtis P. Berlinguette
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Michael A. Ginsburg, Kalin Penev, Dimitre Karamanev
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Fartash Vasefi, Bozena Kaminska, Glenn H. Chapman, and Jeffery J. L. Carson
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Nicolas Marquestaut, Amanda Martin, David Talaga, Laurent Servant, Serge Ravaine, Stephane Reculusa, Dario M. Bassani, Elizabeth Gillies, and Francois Lagugne ́-Labarthet
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Jinlong Zhang, Qiuquan Guo, Mei Liu and Jun Yang,
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Renkang Zhu, Songbo Xu, Ganna Podoprygorina, Volker Bohmer, Silvia Mittler,and Zhifeng Ding
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Renkang Zhu, Ziqiang Qin, James J. Noel, David W. Shoesmith, and Zhifeng Ding Analyzing the Influence of Alloying Elements and Impurities on the Localized Reactivity of Titanium
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Axel Rosenhahn, Ruth Barth, Florian Staier, Todd Simpson, Silvia Mittler, Stefan Eisebitt, and Michael Grunze
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L. Armelao, F. Heigl, A. Jurgensen, R. I. R. Blyth,T. Regier, X.-T. Zhou, T. K. Sham, M. Liu, W. M. Lau and J. Yang
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Songbo Xu, Ganna Podoprygorina, Volker Böhmer, Zhifeng Ding, Patrick Rooney, Chitra Rangan and Silvia Mittler
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Adam Taller, Bernd Grohe, Kem A. Rogers, Harvey A. Goldberg, and Graeme K. Hunter,
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Jigang Zhou, Christina Booker, Ruying Li, Xingtai Zhou, Tsun-Kong Sham, Xueliang Sun, and Zhifeng Ding
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Renkang Zhu, Catherine Nowierski, Zhifeng Ding, James J. Noel, and David W. Shoesmith
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Ruohong Sui, Amin S. Rizkalla, and Paul A. Charpentier
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Maggy F. Lengke, Michael E. Fleet, and Gordon Southam
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Yousef Bakhbakhi, Paul A. Charpentier, Sohrab Rohani
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