We are a part of the Chemistry Department at Université du Québec à Montréal at the heart of the beautiful and lively Montreal. Research in our group focuses on the design and synthesis of new organic and inorganic macromolecules (namely polymers and dendrimers) of varying architectures and functions as well as the fabrication of soft- and metallic nanomaterials for applications in nanomedicine and in optoelectronics. More details on the projects can be found in the Research page.
The multidisciplinary nature of our research provides the students with a unique opportunity to receive extensive hands-on training in organic, inorganic, macromolecule, and nanomaterial synthesis, purification, and characterization as well as to closely collaborate with experts in other fields to investigate the applications of our materials. The group members are trained in handling air- and moisture-sensitive compounds using glovebox and schelenk line techniques. They also receive training to independently acquire and analyze data using methods such as NMR, UV-vis, SEC, DSC, TGA, and DLS as well as more specialized microscopy techniques such as TEM, SEM, AFM, and CLSM.
Group News
May 2025 – Congratulations to Lucas for winning the best poster presentation at 9th QCAM/CQMF Annual Meeting. Well done Lucas 👏
June 2024 – Congratulations to Nesrine for winning a Surface Science Poster Award at CSC2024 in Winnipeg ! Bravo Nesrine 👏
April 2024 – Félicitations à Noémie pour avoir reçu la Bourse Québécor – Maitrise de la Fondation UQAM 👏 C’est une bourse d’excellence appuyée par Québecor depuis plus de 30 ans.
April 2024 – Noémie receives an NSERC-CGS M scholarship for her MSc studies. Well done Noémie!
November 2023 – Nadjib defends his PhD thesis with flying colors! Well done Dr. Kihal👏👏
May 2023 – Diep does a fantastic job defending her PhD thesis👏 Congrats Dr. Nguyen 🍻 All the very best for your future adventures! First Dr of the group!
March 2023 – The group has been awarded a NSERC+FRQNT NOVA grant to develop inorganic cage-rich polymers and explore their applications in collaboration with Saurabh Chitnis (Dalhousie University) and Audrey Laventure (Université de Montréal). Very exciting!
November 2022 – Lucille wins the first place prize for the best oral presentation at the 50th Ontario-Quebec Physical Organic Mini-Symposium (POMS) held for the project that she did jointly with us and Prof. Frenette as a CQMF-funded summer student. Bravo Lucille !
October 2022 – The research that Eya did with us as her Mitacs Globalink project during summer was selected as the best honors project in Tunisia in chemical engineering in 2022. Way to go Eya!, congrats!
March 2022 – Congrats to Marilyne for winning best oral presentation award in the CQMF/QCAM Annual Meeting. There, Marilyne presented her work on amphiphilic Janus dendrimer that form fluorescent size-tunable dendrimersomes via AIE. Well done!
August 2021 – Marilyne is awarded the best oral presentation award in her symposium in the CCCE-IUPAC conference. Congrats Marilyne!
February 2021 – Marilyne is awarded a Mitacs Globalink Research scholarship to carry out an international internship with Prof. Titel Jurca at the University of Central Florida. Well-deserved Marilyne!
January 2021 – Arunava joins the group as a postdoctoral fellow (one of the five recipients of Faculty of Science’s postdoctoral fellowship scholarship) . Welcome abord Arunava!
August 2020 – Our group website is finally up!