CO2 and the cyclic economy
CATALYSIS
University of Toronto doctoral student Phil De Luna has always liked the idea of carbon sequestration, but he acknowledges that it needs some help.
Read More >>Get your head out of the chain link fence
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Q & A with James McLellan. When he graduated with an undergraduate engineering degree from Queen’s University and a Master’s in engineering from the University of Waterloo...
Read More >>Inviting researchers to resolve the weak link in 3D printing
MANUFACTURING
The federal government has put out a call for researchers to work on a major problem in additive manufacturing...
Read More >>CIC Fellows join the Order of Canada
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Michael Sefton and Molly Shoichet, who are fellows of the Chemical Institute of Canada will be invested as Officers of the Order of Canada. The Governor General grants this honour as acknowledgement of major lifetime contributions...
Read More >>National network backs eastern Ontario fire-fighting start-up
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is making a strategic investment in FireRein Inc., a small firm that has been introducing Canada’s fire-fighting community to Eco-Gel, a new, environmentally benign fire-suppression...
Read More >>Small numbers address some bigger questions
RADIOISOTOPES
In the seven years since a tsunami demolished three Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Japan, the radioactive isotopes that spread from this event to Canada’s west coast have dwindled to levels that can only...
Read More >>Ontario’s new Chief Science Officer member of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
University of Toronto researcher and Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering member Molly Shoichet has become the first Chief Science Officer to the Ontario government.
Read More >>Assessing the aging of aerosols
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Our planet’s lower atmosphere is one very busy place, chemically speaking, as climate researchers have discovered. They are developing a new appreciation of complex processes such as cloud formation and radiative forcing, which determines how much light from the sun can reach the earth’s surface and how much heat can escape.
Read More >>Hold your nose
BIOCHEMISTRY
Humanity’s use of essential oils goes back thousands of years, with natural agents such as frankincense playing...
Read More >>Rubbing a venerable polymer the right way
POLYMERS
Rubber polymers have been capturing the attention of chemists and the wider public since at least 1770, when pioneering chemist Joseph Priestley coined the term for a material that could remove lead pencil marks from paper.
Read More >>Is diesel’s dirty reputation for pollution undeserved?
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Which is cleaner, diesel or gasoline? It’s a complex question. While diesel emits more greenhouse gases per gallon, it is also more energy dense and can result in greater fuel economy, lowering emissions...
Read More >>Revealing the knotty roots of natural products
NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY
Naturally occurring complex molecules make attractive research targets, especially if they have some compelling property like antibiotic behaviour. University of British Columbia chemistry professor Katherine Ryan...
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