Current Group Members
Laurent Goujon, Post Doctoral Fellow
Casey Gardner, Ph.D. candidate: Temporarily Reactive Polymers for Cell Encapsulation
Rachelle Kleinberger, Ph.D. candidate: Hydrogel Synthesis and Properties
Padraic Foley, Ph.D. candidate: Conformal coating of cells with reactive polymers
Alison Stewart, M.Sc. candidate: Hydrogel Networks through Diels-Alder Click Chemistry
Ankita Dubey, H.B.Sc. candidate: Synthesis and Characterization of Polyampholytes
Nick Burke, Ph.D., Thermally sensitive polymers and polyelectrolytes, Lab Manager
Jennifer Cooper, H.B.Sc., NSERC CREATE Administrator
Graduate Alumni
Sara Mohajeri, M.Sc. 2011, Core-Crosslinked Hydrogel Capsules (Ph.D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering, Queens U., Kingston)
Jeffrey (Jian) Li, Ph.D. 2010, Multi-layer polymer capsules (Senior Researcher, 3M Canada, London, ON)
Jafar Mazumder, Ph.D. 2009, Self-crosslinkable polyelectrolytes for cell encapsulation (Senior Researcher, Polymer Source, Montreal)
Janice Hickey, M.Sc. December 2008, Polyurea / Nanoclay composite capsules (LanXess, London, Ont.)
Yan Xia, M.Sc. August 2005, ATRP of NIPAM (Ph.D, CalTech, Dow, Michigan)
M. Mukkaram Ali, Ph.D. Sep. 2004, Interfacial ATRP of Amphiphilic Monomers (Boston Biotech)
Erica Robinson, M.Sc. August 2004, ATRP Grafting from Gel Coated Microspheres (Nova Chemicals, Calgary, AB).
Xiangchun Yin, Ph.D. July 2004, Designing novel Hydrogel Microspheres from Liquid-Liquid Phase Trasitions of Aqueous Polymer Solutions (Senior Researcher, Natrix Inc., Burlington, Ontario)
Lisa Croll, Ph.D. February 2004, Novel Polymer Capsules via Self-Assembly of Polymer Colloids. (Group Leader, 3M Canada)
Pauly Kavalakatt, M.Sc. Feb 2002, A Study of the Chemical Cleavage of Benzylic-Silicon Bonds (Lecturer, Cal. College, Ca).
Anna Shulkin, Ph.D. June 2002, Preformed Polymers as Building Blocks in Microencapsulations (Senior Researcher, Syngenta, Guelph).
Guodong Zheng, Ph.D. Sept. 2002, Polymer Microspheres with Surface and Interior Grafts. (Johns Manville, Denver, CO)
Ester Goh, M.Sc. 2001, A Study of Copolymer Networks formed from Methacrylic Acid and Poly(ethylene glycol) Methylether Methacrylate. (Senior Researcher, Global Latex, Singapore)
Jeffrey Downey, Ph.D. 2000, Precipitation Polymerization to Monodisperse Microspheres (Manager, Business Development, Kevlar Plant and Reinforced Materials, DuPont Canada)
Randy Frank, Ph.D. 2000, Functional Polymer Networks from Divinylbenzene and Maleic Anhydride (Director of Research, 3M Canada)
Janevieve Jones, M.Sc. 1999, Novel Polyelectrolyte Complexes (Tech. Research, AT Plastic).
Daryl Vanbesien, M.Sc. 1999, Polyurea Microcapsules (Xerox Research Centre Canada).
Karen Moffat, Ph.D. 1998, Synthesis and Evaluation of Model Initiator / reversible Terminating Adducts for the Stable Free Radical Polymerization Process (Manager, Xerox Research Centre Canada)
Quan Sheng, PhD. 1997, Functional Polymers derived from 4-Methylstyrene (Senior researcher, USA)
Fadi Asfour, M.Sc. 1997, Responsive Polymer Composites: LLDPE/Phenolphthalein Disodium Blends
Lorenzo Ferrari, M.Sc. 1995, Synthesis of Styrenic Polymers by Living Cationic Polymerization. (Research Manager, Syngenta Canada)
Kai Li, Ph.D. 1994, Functional Crosslinked Polymer Microspheres (Avery Dennison, USA)
Su Li, M.Sc. 1991, Living Polystyrene Anions terminated with Difulvene
Senior Thesis Alumni
Alison Stewart, 2011, Hydrogel films for cell studies
Onintza Ros, 2011, Itaconic Anhydride-based Polymers for Cell Encapsulation
Jared Wiseman, 2010, Design of Polymers for Microencapsulation
Jong-Wook Kim, 2009, Controlled Polymerization of Polyamines
Casey Mills, 2008, Polymers for Cell Encapsulation
Rachelle Kleinberger, 2007, Model Tectocapsules
Fletcher Agostino, 2007, Functional Polymers for Cell Encapsulation
TingTing Mu, 2006, Watersoluble Polymers for Therapeutic Cell Encapsulation
Mehul Haria, Polymer Microspheres with High Glass Transition Temperatures by Dispersion Polymerization, 2004
Steven Carew, Composition Control of thermally responsive polymers, 2002
Connie Tse, Responsive Polymer Capsules, 2002
Mark Marynowicz, The Use of Maleic Anhydriode Copolymers in Interfacial Reaction Microcapsule Formation, 2001
James Varghese, Microencapsulations of Poly(t-butylstyrene-alt-maleoic anhydride) with watersoluble polyamines, 2001
Kendra Flagler, Thermo-Responsive Polymers, 2000
Poonam Jain, Oxidation of Styrenic Polymers, 1999
Geoff McIsaac, Microgels: The Window between Highly Crosslinked and Linear Polymers, 1998
Mike Harrison, Microencapsulation by Complex coacervation and copolymerization of DVB and Maleic Anhydride, 1997
Ewan DeSilva, Design of New Materials by Emulsifier-free Emulsion Polymeriation, 1995
Ivan DeSouza, Novel Microspheres by Precipitation Polymerization, 1994
Robert T. Shaver, Functionalization of Poly(4-methylstyrene) Films and Membranes, 1992
Frank Lenzmann, Investigations of Thin Film Electroluminescent Display devices, 1993
Stephen Sundquist, Living Anionic Polymerization of Alkylmethacrylates, 1991
Lorenzo Ferrari, Cobalt-catalyzed Oxidation of Poly(4-methylstyrene), 1991
Carl Brown, Template Polymers based on Crown Ethers., 1990