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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News

• 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!
  
• 14 April 2020 - Our video article on Hyperspectral Imaging with Phton Etc is now online. Well done, Emille and Nelson!

• March 2020 - Our QuantaMaster Spectrofluorometer is up and running! While being in home office for now, we are looking forward to get back to the lab after the virus crisis to play with our new instrument.
• 06 February 2020 - Congratulations, Ilias, for a successfully defended Master's Thesis!
• January 2020 - Happy New Year! And a very warm welcome to volunteer Amanda and Honour's student Virginna. 
• 16 November 2019 - Congrats, Ilias, Emille and Co, for your just accepted paper in J. Mater. Chem. C. Pick your precursor! 
• 31 October 2019 - Nan defended her Master's thesis. Congratulations!
• October 2019 - Through an NSERC ENGAGE Grant, we have initiated a collaboration with Mirexus Inc. to develop an inorganic-organic nano-assembly bioimaging platform.
• 1 September 2019 - The HemmerLab welcomes our new Honours Students Nicholas, Parrish and Tina, as well as Master's Student Fathi!
• 27 August 2019 - The RISE summer ended with a wonderful RISE 2019 Meeting at the University of Ottawa. For more about RISE, check out here.
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Announcements

UPCOMING CONFERENCES & EVENTS

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS, don't miss the chance!

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.

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