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July 1, 2025 – PhD Student Honored with Prestigious ACS Langmuir Graduate Student Award
Mohammadamin Rashidi has been named a winner of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Langmuir Graduate Student Award. This esteemed award recognizes outstanding graduate students in the field of colloid and surface chemistry. Amin’s research focuses on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for micropollutant analysis. We are incredibly proud of Amin’s achievement. He is a truly deserving recipient.
June 28, 2025 – Last week, University of Alberta proudly played host to the joint conference of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists (IACIS). The event brought together leading researchers and emerging talents from around the globe. Seven of our dedicated group members, including Kehinde, Boubakar, Engin, Sadman, Di, Hongyan, and Mohammadamin (also Finalist for the ACS Langmuir Graduate Student Award) presented their latest exciting findings. It was truly inspiring to meet new colleagues and reconnect with familiar faces within the international community of colloid and interfaces. We were incredibly thrilled to host our visitors and welcome them to our city in this beautiful season!
Our former postdoc Jae from South Korea
Friends Naoyuki Ishida and Shigeru Deguchi
Professor Kazue Kurihara's group at Earls
Great talk by Engin
Distinguished scientist (Professor Zhenghe Xu) listening to Sadman's talk
Sadman's outstanding talk
Bourbakar delivered a wonderful talk
Di, your presentation was truly impressive!
Great talk by Hongyan
Truly amazing talk by Kenny
Professor Ngai To met a litte friend from Hongkong, Herman
Friend Masashi Mizukami from Tohoku University
Dr Isaac Gresham from Sydney
Big thanks to our group members (Isuri, Tingting, Hongyan, Amin, Sithu, and Herman) who volunteered in the conference!
Tour at Alberta Distiller - Feb 11, 2025
An amazing tour at Alberta Distillers - what an incredible experience! From the rich history of Canada’s largest distillery to the intricate craftsmanship behind every bottle, it was impressive to see a fine art of separation inside massive distillation towers for the purest flavors. Huge thanks to the folks at Alberta Distillers for the warm welcome and their hospitality!
Congratulations to Professor Xuehua Zhang!
Congratulations to Professor Xuehua Zhang!
On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we are proud to announce that Professor Xuehua Zhang has been named one of the recipients of the IUPAC 2025 Awards for Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, recognizing her exceptional contributions and dedication to advancing scientific knowledge.
Congratulations, Professor Zhang, on this well-deserved honor!
(https://iupac.org/awardees-of-the-iupac-2025-distinguished-women-in-chemistry-or-chemical-engineering/)
End of Year celebration with the group on December 19, 2024: an evening filled with delicious Iranian food, dancing, and plenty of wonderful memories! Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2025!
Congratulations to Professor Xuehua Zhang!
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Zhang has received the prestigious 2024 Award for Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes her outstanding dedication to graduate pedagogy, exceptional teaching, and commitment to mentoring and supervision.
This well-deserved recognition highlights her invaluable contributions to the academic community.
Congratulations on this remarkable achievement!
Congratulation to Tanay!🎉🎉
Congratulations to Yanan and Kaiyu on their successful PhD defence!
Congratulations to Ziya and Kehinde on their successful MSc defence! July 2024.
Congratulations to Tanay for winning the Poster Award, to Ziya for winning the Best Presentation at Canadian Materials Science Conference (CMSC - 2024)!!
End of Year celebration with the group on December 1, 2023. Filled with good food, laughter & lots of memories!
On October 20, 2023, welcome our new PDF Dr. Deepak Panchal! He is an expert in wastewater treatment.
On September 18, 2023, congratulations to Yawen on her successful PhD defence!
On September 13, 2023, congratulations to Vishnu on his successful MSc defence!
On September 8, 2023, welcome our new MSc student Sadman!
On August 23, 2023, welcome our new PhD students Zahra and Amirreza, and the new post-doctoral fellow Dr. Xiang Yan!
On July 18, 2023, we are thrilled to announce that our research program on microbubble-enhanced cold plasma activation technology (MB-CPA) has received strong financial support from Alberta Innovates. We extend our deepest gratitude to our sponsors, and our seven industrial partners for recognizing the potential of our research project. Their generous support will play a pivotal role in driving our efforts and enabling us to address critical questions and challenges in cold plasma technology for large scale applications. As we embark on this exciting journey, we will keep our progress and outcomes through publications, conferences, and excellent thesis!
Welcome our three young research students (Edward Yan, Avery Bissell and Hannah Yu), and welcome our new MSc student Engin Deniz!
Welcome Dr. Shubham Sharma as a new post-doctoral fellow into our group!
Congratulations to Qiuyun for successfully defending her PhD thesis, June 2023. She officially joins the group as a Post-doc now!
On May 3, 2023, we are delighted to announce that our collaborative research program on developing slippery surfaces for drag reduction underwater has received strong support from NSERC. This exciting partnership has brought together experts from our team and our collaborators at the University of Sydney to advance the technology of functional surfaces.
On April 24, 2023, we warmly welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sidi Zhu!
The team tried the hotpot in December 23, 2022.
A day with a lot of fun and good memories. The team had a group outing on Oct 22, 2021.
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