December 2020 - Our paper "A chelate like no other: exploring the synthesis, coordination chemistry and applications of imidoyl amidine frameworks" has been featured in the Materials Advances HOT Article Collection! Congrats to Alex and Niki. Visit our publications page to read it today, and check out the rest of the collection here!
Our paper "Relaxation Dynamics in See-Saw Shaped Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets" is featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Issue 24! Read it here
Our paper "Relaxation Dynamics in See-Saw Shaped Dy(III) Single-Molecule Magnets" is featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers Issue 24! Read it here
September 2020 - Roberto Diaz-Rodriguez joins the group as a Ph.D. Student, from Dalhousie University. Welcome to the team!
Max Zimmermann joins the group as a volunteer. Welcome, Max!
Max Zimmermann joins the group as a volunteer. Welcome, Max!
August 2020 - Our research on pancake bonding in dysprosium-based single-molecule magnets has been featured all over the web! See the links below:
Citizenside.fr ChemEurope Lotgain University of Jyväskylä Science Daily AZoMaterials EurekAlert! Science Codex
Citizenside.fr ChemEurope Lotgain University of Jyväskylä Science Daily AZoMaterials EurekAlert! Science Codex
March 2020 - Garbriel Brunet successfully defends his Ph.D. Congratulations, Dr. Brunet! He will be moving on to a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley.
January 2020 - Sébastien Marcotte and Hussein Canoe join the group. Welcome to the team!
October 2019 - Hongshan Ke joins us from Northwest University Xi'an, China. Welcome Hongshan!
Angewandte Chemie International Edition publishes "Shining new light on multifunctional lanthanide single-molecule magnets" online, on October 9, 2019. Visit our publications page to read it today!
Angewandte Chemie International Edition publishes "Shining new light on multifunctional lanthanide single-molecule magnets" online, on October 9, 2019. Visit our publications page to read it today!
September 2019 - Muralee Murugesu joins the board of Nano Ontario. Congratulations!
Publication milestone: "A polynuclear lanthanide single‐molecule magnet with a record anisotropic barrier," published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2009) hits over 500 citations on Monday Sept. 23, 2019!
Wenxin (Willa) Wu joins us as a Ph.D. Student, from Beijing University. Welcome Willa!
Ellen Chang-Richardson joins the group as our technical writer. Welcome Ellen!
Publication milestone: "A polynuclear lanthanide single‐molecule magnet with a record anisotropic barrier," published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2009) hits over 500 citations on Monday Sept. 23, 2019!
Wenxin (Willa) Wu joins us as a Ph.D. Student, from Beijing University. Welcome Willa!
Ellen Chang-Richardson joins the group as our technical writer. Welcome Ellen!

Our research on using nanoporous materials to capture nuclear waste is featured on our departmental website! Check it out here: https://science.uottawa.ca/en/using-nanoporous-materials-capture-nuclear-waste.
Alexandros Kitos joins the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome Alex!
Darren Herweyer joins the group a M.Sc. Student. Welcome to the group, Darren!
Alexandros Kitos joins the group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome Alex!
Darren Herweyer joins the group a M.Sc. Student. Welcome to the group, Darren!
August 2019 - Walace Doti do Pim joins us from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Welcome Walace!
June 2019 - Gabriel Brunet receives the Molecular Materials Graduate Student Award for his outstanding oral presentation at the Dynamic Molecular Materials Symposium (CSC, 2019). Congrats Gabe!
June 2019 - Linda Zuckerman joins the group from Boston University for the summer. Welcome to the group, Linda!
May 2019 - Milad Hamwi and Hilarie Stein - both previous Murugesu group NSERC-UGD recipients - join the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine. Congratulations you two! You join the roster of Murugesu Group alumni (>15) to enter into medical school.
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CBC Listen: All in a Day with Alan Neal
"Random periodic table: Praseodymium" - aired January 21, 2019. Dr Muralee Murugesu, professor of chemistry at University of Ottawa. And Ahmad Ghahreman, professor of mining engineering and chemical engineering, as well as an expert in rare-earth minerals, at Queen's University. Listen here. |
The Royal Society of Canada
College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Interview - released 2016. |
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