Multifunctional Materials | Micro-and-Nanostructuring Laboratory

Congratulation to Mohammadmehdi Aghelinejad of winning the Best Presenter Award among Ph.D. students in the 1st Graduate Seminar Day in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His findings in developing novel strategies to promote thermoelectric polymer nanocomposites’ energy conversion efficiency had demonstrated some promising advancements in the research field. Besides Mohammadmehdi, Maryam Fashandi (i.e., 1st year Master’s student) was also […]

A team of Mechanical Engineering professors, Prof. Pouya Rezai, Prof. Siu Ning (Sunny) Leung, and Prof. Nima Tabatabaei, have received a Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) grant in the amount of $105,000. The John R. Evans Leaders Fund will support the team to acquire state-of-the-art research tools to develop multifunctional miniature devices. This represents an […]

Prof. Leung and his research team, including Dr. Guo, Mehdi, and Maryam, will present three papers in 2016 Society of Plastics Engineers ANTEC Conference in Indianapolis, IN, USA during May 23 – 25. ANTEC is one of the largest international technical conferences in the field of plastics engineering that is held annually in U.S.A. This […]

Prof. Leung has been invited to give a talk at the Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting on Carbon Nanostructures on March 30, 2016 in Hawaii, USA. He will disseminate new micro-and-nanostructuring techniques to simultaneously promote CNT/polymer nanocomposite’s electrical conductivity and suppress its thermal conductivity in order to enhance the efficiency to harvest waste heat using thermoelectric […]

We are seeking innovative, energetic, and motivated students to start in September 2015 to conduct cutting-edge pioneering research in advanced manufacturing and materials (e.g., biobased materials, energy materials, multifunctional materials, smart materials, etc.). Students in Mechanical, Material Sciences, Polymer, Electrical, Chemical, and Biomedical Engineering as well as Applied Physics are encouraged to apply.