Who we are

We are a young and enthusiastic team working hard on the development of tomorrow's multifunctional nanomaterials.
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We are also a member of uOttawa's Centre for Advanced Materials Research and Centre for Research in Photonics. Find out more about CAMaR and CRPuO by clicking on the logo.

What we do

We combine materials chemistry with physical and biomedical aspects to design and study novel lanthanide-based nanophosphors as multifunctional nanocarriers for near-infrared based bioimaging and energy conversion technologies.
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Lanthanide, cookie and chocolate lovers: Don't miss to check out Upconversion Photoluminescence and Materials Design Concepts for those with a Sweet Tooth!

News

  • 4 May 2021 - Welcome to Laura Kelly, RISE Summer Exchange Student
  • 1 May 2021 - Sinedu Dejene is starting her PhD studies at the Hemmerlab in collaboration with the Lessard Research Group. Best wishes for your studies, Sinedu!
  • 30 April 2021 - Congratulations to Jessica, Julia, Justin and Natalie for having successfully finished their Honour's projects! Well done and best wishes for your future endeavours. 
  • 08 April 2021 - Nikita's paper on hyperspectral imaging and optical trapping in collaboration with nanoBIG (Madrid, Spain) is now online at Advanced Optical Materials. Congrats, everyone!
  • January 2021 - Happy New Year! The HemmerLab welcomes Julia Bernard, Justin Crawford-Corriveau, and Natalie Millan to do their Honour's project with us!
  • November 2020 - Congratulations to Luciana for being selected to participate in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program!
  • Ready for the 2020 Fall Term? We are looking forward to meeting our new group members: undergraduate volunteers Nihar  and Luciana, Honour's student Jessica, and Master student Mike. Welcome to the HemmerLab! 
  • End of August 2020 - The new term is about to start with good news: Congratulations, Nan, for having won a PhD scholarship by the Chinese Scholarship Council!
  • June 2020 - Happy to see our collaborators' paper on light scattering effects on quantum yield of upconverters (including particles by Nikita Panov) being accepted for publication.
  • 31 May 2020 - Congratulations to Nan for having received an Oral Presentation Prize at CEMWOQ 6.5!
  • 14 May 2020 - Congratulations to Nikita for having successfully defended his Master's Thesis. Well done!
  • May 2020 - Congratulations to Nick, Parrish, Tina and Virginna for having successfully finished their Honour's projects! Well done and best wishes for your future endeavours.
  • 20 April 2020 - Congrats to honour's and PhD students as well as postdocs who worked hard towards our newest publication! Maybe rare-earth based fluoride nanoparticles are not as stable as we thought? Mind a possible NaFeF4-to-REF3 phase transformation!
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Announcements

UPCOMING CONFERENCES & EVENTS

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The RISE program supports summer student exchanges among many universities across Canada. The RISE Group is a collection of scientists at nineteen institutions in Canada, whose research emphasizes the study of chemical or biochemical reaction mechanisms. See attached information and application form.
For more information and the application form see http://www.risecanada.ca and click here.