2012-08-14
Vincent-Demers-Carpentier successfully defended his thesis ''Étude des mécanismes de transfert de chiralité à la surface d'un catalyseur''!
2012-08-11
Congratulations to Camille and Jean for their wedding!
2012-04-30
Vincent Demers-Carpentier won in the competition of Students-Researchers stars organised by FQRNT for the month of April 2012!
2012-04-23
Guillaume is awarded the Doctoral research scholarship en recherche of Fonds de recherche Nature et Technologies du Québec(FQRNT), 2012-2013
2012-03-05
A webinar of the article «STM Measurements of the Full Cycle of an Heterogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation Reaction on Chirally Modified Pt(111)» is available online in the Virtual Issue of « The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters». http://www.slideshare.net/jpcoffice/jpcl-jz2013853-mcbreen-presentation
2011-12-14
Jean-Chirstian is awarded the 2011 Bourse Paul-Antoine-Giguère Scholarship of the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
2011-12-9
Guillaume, Jean-Christian and Yi presented posters on their work at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Centre in Catalysis and Green Chemistry (CGCC), at Laval University on December 9.
2011-12-6
The SPIDER (Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of the Full Cycle of a Heterogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation Reaction on Chirally Modified Pt(111)) paper is published in The journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations to a fabulous collaborative effort between the McBreen and Hammer groups.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jz2013853
2011-11-28
Anton Havelund Rasmussen from Bjork Hammer’s group at iNano, Aarhus University, Denmark pays us a week-long visit to plan our future combine STM-DFT collaborative efforts.
2011-11-21
Yi and Jean’s Masters theses are both finalized and accepted. Congratulations!
2011-11-11
The SPIDER (scanning probe microscopy for the determination on enantiomer ratio) paper is published in Science. Congratulations to a fabulous collaborative effort between the McBreen, Hammer and Boukouvalas groups.
Abstract:
Reprint:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6057/776.full.pdf?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=8gtOXI5XhlLp2
Full Text:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6057/776.full?ijkey=8gtOXI5XhlLp2&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
2011-10-31
Yi begins her PhD degree.
2011-10-20
Jean’s first paper is published in Topics in Catalysis.
2011-09-01
Guillaume is awarded the 2011 Arthur-Labrie Scholarship of the Deparment of Chemistry.
2011-8-29
Vincent presents his SPIDER work at the ACS National Meeting in Denver. Vincent and Guillaume visit Colin Wolden’s laboratory at the Colorado School of Mines.
2011-6-21
Guillaume’s first paper in our group is accepted in Chem. Commun.
2011-6-9
Federico, Guillaume, Jean-Christian, Raphaël, Vincent and Yi all present their work at the CSC Conference in Montréal. Jean-Christian wins the prize for the best poster presentation in the Surface Science Division.
2011-5-30
Jean-Christian begins his Master’s degree.
2011-5-11
Guillaume and Jean present their work at the ACFAS Conference, Sherbrooke.
2011-5-2
Guillaume and Pascale welcome wonderful Mathilde to the world.
2011-3-25
Jean and Raphaël present their work at the CERPIC Annual Student’s Day.
2011-2-9
Vincent is chosen to present a Hot Topics 5 minute oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Reactions on Surfaces, held in Ventura.