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Our team and @ABSi_nano hanging out on the inside front cover of the current issue of Nanoscale journal family 🧪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Congrats to our 🇨🇦 colleague Chuck Lucy on being named to the The Analytical Scientist 2023 Power List among the top-10 "Mentors and Educators" in the analytical sciences over the past decade! 🎉🏆 theanalyticalscientist.com/power-list/202… Chuck is a pillar of the analytical community in Canada.

🤳*ring, ring, ring* You have reached the Algar Research Group. We are unable to answer the phone right now because we are using it for time-gated luminescence imaging & bioanalysis. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Please leave a message after the beep and read about it in ACS Analytical Chemistry Journals

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

Roll out the red carpet for our new paper in ACS Sensors. You might be green with envy, but don’t feel blue. Quantum dot assemblies make 14-color fluorescence multiplexing possible within the RGB color space of smartphone cameras! 🌈📱 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Serum albumin isn’t just a good carrier for small molecules—it also directly stabilizes fluorescent polymer dots, rendering them robust with low non-specific binding and facile bioconjugation for bioanalyses. 🐄🩸🔬 Check out our new paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Buy 3, get 11 free! Algar Research Group UBC Chemistry shows how supra-quantum dot assemblies enable up to 14-color multiplexed fluorescence detection within the RGB color space of smartphone cameras ACS Sensors pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Get the $%*& out of the way! Our new paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces is an extensive study of how surface chemistry and its steric effects alter the ability of an enzyme to hydrolyze substrate bound to a nanoparticle. Useful info for optimizing sensor designs. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A note for International Women's Day: 67% of the student and postdoctoral authors of papers published by our award-winning research group are women. ♀️ + (🧪🔬) =🏆🎉

Congrats to Agnes and Seth on receiving NSERC / CRSNG Postgraduate Scholarships! 🎉🏆 They are doing exciting and innovative research that will impact bioanalysis and imaging.

When we go fishing for🐟, we usually don’t catch anything… But we do know how to use nanoparticles to 'fish' for a protease and detect its activity with enhanced sensitivity and selectivity! 🎣 Check out our new work in ACS Nano pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… UBC Chemistry

Big shout out to Paul who's been teaching us about the role of hydrophobic interfaces in atmospheric ice nucleation throughout his PhD, and thank you also to our collaborators UBC Chemistry Algar Research Group for contributing their nanoparticle expertise to this project! Stay tuned!

It's a Bird... it's a Plane... it's Super-Nanoparticles!! 🦸‍♀️ Our latest paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces presents a generalizable method for amplifying and combining the size-dependent properties of nanoparticles. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thanks to our collaborators, @ABSi_nano, for their contributions to this great project! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Do molecules take selfies?! 🧪🤳 Our new review of smartphone-based chemical and biological analysis is now available online via Lab on a Chip. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our recent critical review on smartphone-based analyses is featured on the cover of Lab on a Chip for their annual reviews issue! 📑 Cover art by Yihao (Dominic) Wang using Blender. 🖌️

Please donate to a good cause! 💵➡️👩‍🎓➡️📚🧪➡️👩‍🔬 Donations will go toward the CEF Lionel Chemistry Scholarship fund. These scholarships are awarded to high-achieving high school students who need financial support for post-secondary studies in chemistry & chemical engineering.

Happy Pi Day! 🥧 What better way to celebrate Pi Day than by donating to the Chemical Education Fund! A pi-themed contribution of $3.14, $31.41, or $314.15 will help provide four-year scholarships to students who require financial assistance. buff.ly/pgi7i2w

Going to Pacifichem? 🌴🌊🧪 Submit your abstract to this great session on optically active nanoparticles and materials for bioanalysis and imaging! Abstracts due April 2.

🫧 ⬅️These things, but really, really small. We had a small role in an interesting collaboration with the Kimura-Hara Group at U. Calgary. We looked for the nanobubbles, they listened for them. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…