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May 6 2024
Congrats to Nima and Akshat! Their paper was accepted in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
May 3 2024
Congrats to Peter for his paper in collaboration with the Ajayan group being accepted in Small!
April 24 2024
A big contragulations to Peter for being named a Schmidt Science Fellow! Read his feature in the Globe and Mail.
April 23 2024
Congrats to Boran for winning Best Poster Award at the MRS 2024 Spring Meeting!
March 27 2024
Congratulations to Brian who was awarded a Korean Canadian Scholarship!
March 27 2024
Congrats to Peter whose paper with the Lee group has been accepted in ACS Applied Polymer Materials!
March 15 2024
Peter's paper with the Sargent Group at Northwestern has been accepted in Science - congratulations! Read about the work in Northwestern Engineering News here.the Toronto Integrated Platform for Materials under Extreme Conditions (TIME).
March 13 2024
Congratulations to Professor Filleter for his $2.8M CFI grant with Prof. Zou (MSE) to develop the Toronto Integrated Platform for Materials under Extreme Conditions (TIME).
March 11 2024
Congratulations to Peter for his paper with the Lee group being accepted in CEJ!
March 5 2024
Congratulations to Peter for being awarded a University of Toronto Student Leadership Award for Outstanding University Volunteerism!
February 21 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Serles for successfully defending his PhD! After 6.5 years in the NanoM2 lab we are so excited to see what you will do next!
February 15 2024
Congratulations to Peter for being awarded Banting & NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships!
February 2 2024
Congratulations to Alex for passing his PhD qualifying exam, great work! The committee was very excited about the proposed projects!
February 1 2024
Congratulations to Peter! His paper in collaboration with the Park Group was accepted in the Journal of Materials Science and Technology!
January 22 2024
Congrats to Peter whose paper in collaboration with the Yip Group was accepted in HardwareX!
January 3 2024
Congrats to Akib! His paper in collaboration with the Park Group was accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal!
December 15 2023
The NanoM2 Group at the MIE Holiday Luncheon!
December 7 2023
The NanoM2 group celebrated the Holidays at Par Tee Putt!
October 3 2023
Congratulations to Peter, his work on triboelectric mats with the Toronto Smart Materials Group was accepted in Materials Today Energy!
September 28 2023
Congratulations to Peter for his recent paper accepted in Nature in collaboration with the Sargent Group at Northwestern! Read about it here from EPFL News.
September 7 2023
Congratulations to Akib, his paper in collaboration with RMIT University was accepted in Advanced Functional Materials!
August 29 2023
Congratulations to Boran for being awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
August 24 2023
Congratulations to Keith for passing his MASc defence! The committee was very happy with his exam and we wish him all the best in his new job at MDA Space!
August 2 2023
Congratulations to Peter for winning 1st place in the Advanced Materials category at the University of Toronto Engineering Research Conference!
July 17 2023
Congratulations to Brian for winning the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology And Congratulations for Fast-Tracking to the PhD Program!
July 7 2023
Congratulations to Boran for his paper with the Thompson group being accepted in Carbon Trends!
June 27 2023
Congrats Peter for winning 1st prize overall at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Research Symposium!
June 6 2023
Boran's paper in collaboration with Jane Howe's group has been accepted in Micron, congrats!
May 29 2023
Congratulations to Boran! His paper on defect engineering of graphene has been accepted for publication in Small!
May 25 2023
Congratulations to Akib whose paper on fatigue damage of graphene-PDMS interfaces has been accepted in Advanced Engineering Materials!
May 11 2023
Peter's paper in collaboration with the Park Group has been accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal!
May 9 2023
Stone has joined our group as a MASc Student, welcome!
May 2 2023
Peter's paper in collaboration with the Golovin Group has been accepted in Small, congrats!
April 27 2023
Congratulations to Boran for being awarded a FRQNT Doctoral Scholarship!
April 2 2023
Congratulations to Peter for being a finalist for the Course Instructor Teaching Excellence Award!
March 30 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Filleter, his paper in collaboration with R. Bennewitz at INM was accepted in PRR!
March 17 2023
Congratulations to Peter whose paper in collaboration with the Sargent Group has been accepted in Nature Communications.
January 6 2023
Alex has joined our group as a PhD student, welcome!
December 16 2022
Congratulations to Haleh who has been awarded the APSC GSEF Award!
December 15 2022
Akshat successfully defended his PhD qualifying exam and gained Candidate status, congrats!
November 23 2022
Congratulations to Peter for winning Best Presentation at ENGE 2022 in Jeju, Korea!
November 2 2022
Haleh has joined our group as a co-supervised student with Prof. Duduta, welcome!
October 14 2022
A big congratulations to Peter. His paper in collaboration with the Sargent Group has been accepted for publication in Nature!
September 14 2022
Congratulations to Yaoping for her paper being accepted to Materials Characterization!
September 7 2022
Peter's paper on 2PP-derived pyrolyzed carbon has been accepted for publication in Carbon. Congrats!
September 2 2022
The NanoM2 group celebrated the end of the summer term for Peter and Kat, and welcomed Brian to the group at Basecamp Rockclimbing!
August 8 2022
NanoM2 Alumnus Dr. Mahdi Hamidi has accepted a faculty position at the University of Alberta! We are so excited for Mahdi and wish him all the best in starting this new role.
August 1 2022
Brian has joined the group as a M.A.Sc. Student, welcome to the NanoM2 team!
July 15 2022
Akib, Peter, and Boran's review paper on Exfoliation Mechanisms of 2D Materials and Their Applications was accepted for publication in Applied Physics Reviews, congrats!
July 8 2022
Congratulations to Peter for his review paper with Rice University on non-van der Waals 2D materials being accepted for publication in Materials Today!
June 27 2022
Teng's work on the mechanical reliability of MoS2 and WSe2 was featured in U of T Engineering News!
June 10 2022
Congratulations to Boran for being selected as a Junior Fellow of Massey College!
June 10 2022
Congratulations to Peter for being named a Connaught PhDs for Public Impact Fellow for 2022-2023!
May 25 2022
Congratulations to Teng and other NanoM2 members for their newest paper accepted in Matter!
May 16 2022
Peter's work on high performance space lubrication of MoS2+Ta has been selected as a journal cover for Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
May 1 2022
Katherine and Peter have joined the group as undergraduate research students for the summer, welcome!
March 23 2022
Peter's paper with the Golovin Group in MIE has been accepted in Chemical Engineering Journal, congrats!
March 18 2022
Congratulations to Peter - his paper on MXene Friction has been accepted in Nano Letters without revision!
February 2 2022
Teng's paper with the Sargent Group has been accepted in Nature Photonics, congrats!
January 24 2022
Guorui's paper has been accepted for publication in Macromolecules, great work!
January 14 2022
Akshat has joined the group as a PhD student co-supervised with Prof. Veer Singh in MSE, Welcome!
January 13 2022
Peter's paper with INSA Lyon and the French Space Agency has been accepted in Advanced Functional Materials, congrats!
December 14 2021
Mahdi's paper has been accepted for publication in ACS Macro Letters, congrats!
November 25 2021
Guorui has accepted a faculty position at the University of Science and Technology of China, we are delighted for his new opportunity and he will be missed!
November 19 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Filleter for winning the NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation!
November 17 2021
Peter's paper in Science Advances has been featured by UofT News
November 16 2021
Mahdi and Aly have both had papers accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Congrats!
November 3 2021
Congratulations to NMML Alumni Mahdi for his paper being accepted in Carbon!
November 3 2021
Congratulations to Peter for winning Silver in the Nanoscience and Technology Division Grad Student Competition at AVS67!
October 21 2021
Congratulations to Teng for accepting a postdoctoral position at Stanford with Prof. Wendy Gu. We are very excited for him and he will be missed in NMML!
October 12 2021
Congratulations to Nima for passing his PhD qualifying exam! He did a great job and there was lots of great discussion.
October 4 2021
Congratulations to Peter for his paper in collaboration with Prof. Ajayan's group from Rice University being accepted for publication in Advanced Materials!
September 30 2021
Congratulations to Boran for passing his PhD qualifying exam! His thesis proposed: "Defect and Strain Engineering of Functional 2D Materials" was enjoyed by the committee and there was lots of great discussion.
September 15 2021
A huge congratulations to Peter for his paper being accepted for publication in Science Advances!
September 2 2021
Keith and Yaoping have joined the group! Welcome!
July 22 2021
Congratulations to Guorui and Teng for their paper with Prof. Singh's group being accepted for publication in Carbon!
July 20 2021
Prof. Filleter has been promoted to full professor! Congratulations!
July 16 2021
Congratulations to Peter for his paper in collaboration with Eric from Prof Singh's group being accepted for publication in Applied Surface Science!
July 15 2021
Congratulations to Guorui and Taib for their paper being accepted in Tribology International!
July 8 2021
Congratulations to Akib for winning an oral presentation award at the U of T Engineering Research Conference!
May 21 2021
Peter has been named as a Junior Fellow of Massey College for 2021-2022, congratulations!
May 20 2021
Congratulations to Taib and Guorui whose new paper has just been accepted for publication in Tribology Letters!
May 6 2021
Taib's paper in collaboration with Prof. Ajayan's group from Rice University has been accepted for publication in Science Advances, congratulations!
May 4 2021
Teng's paper in collaboration with Prof. Sargent's group has been accepted for publication in Nature Communications, congrats!
April 1 2021
Darya has accepted a postdoctoral position at MIT. Congratulations and we wish you the best in your new position!
March 1 2021
Mahdi has accepted a postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge. We wish you the best in your new position!
February 26 2021
Recent lab alumni Darya has been awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!
February 10 2021
Akib has passed his PhD qualifying exam!