Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

THE PAST 6 YEARS | REFLECTING BACK, MOVING FORWARD

January 2013 – December 2018 Table of Contents Executive Summary ...... 1 1.0 Governance and Administrative Framework ...... 2 1.1 Board of Directors ...... 2 1.2 International Scientific Advisory Board ...... 3 1.3 WIN Committees ...... 5 1.3.1 Space Committee ...... 5 1.3.2 QNC Health and Safety Committee ...... 5 1.3.3 Special Projects and Research Committee (SPARC) ...... 6 1.3.4 Nanofellowship Committee ...... 7 1.4 Administrative Framework ...... 7 2.0 People ...... 10 2.1 Principal Investigators ...... 10 2.1.1 WIN Endowed Chair ...... 13 2.2 Graduate Students and Post‐doctoral Fellows ...... 13 2.2.1 WIN Nanofellowships ...... 14 2.3 Undergraduate Students ...... 17 2.3.1 Waterloo Nanotechnology Conference (WNC)...... 17 2.3.2 WIN‐Mitacs Initiative ...... 18 2.4 Visiting Scholars ...... 19 2.5 WIN Faculty Lounge ...... 20 3.0 Research Excellence ...... 21 3.1 Thematic Areas ...... 21 3.2 Publications, Citations and Impact...... 23 3.2.1 Bibliometric Analyses ...... 23 3.2.2 Societal Impact of Research ...... 26 3.2.3 Economic Impact of Research ...... 29 3.3 Focus on Interdisciplinary Research ...... 29 3.3.2 Interdisciplinary Research Mixers ...... 30 3.3.3 Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program ...... 31 3.3.4 Engaging the Faculty of Mathematics ...... 31 3.4 WIN Research Leaders Gala ...... 32 4.0 Innovation and Entrepreneurship ...... 33 4.1 Industry Engagement ...... 33 4.2 WIN Corporate Partnerships Program (CPP) ...... 34

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page i 4.3 WIN Executive in Residence ...... 34 4.4 Invention Disclosure and Patent Applications ...... 34 4.5 WIN Industry Series ...... 37 4.6 WIN Innovation Series ...... 37 5.0 Research Funding ...... 38 5.1 Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina ...... 38 5.2 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) ...... 38 5.3 Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) ...... 38 5.4 Canada Foundation for Innovation ...... 39 5.5 International Research Funding ...... 39 6.0 Connecting with the Global Research Community ...... 40 6.1 International Partners ...... 40 6.1.1 Brazil ...... 40 6.1.2 China ...... 41 6.1.2.1 Soochow University and the Suzhou Industrial Park ...... 41 6.1.2.2 Tsinghua University‐University of Waterloo Joint Research Center for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology ...... 44 6.1.3 France ...... 45 6.1.4 Germany ...... 45 6.1.5 India ...... 46 6.1.6 Israel ...... 46 6.1.7 Japan ...... 47 6.1.7.1 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) ...... 47 6.1.8 Netherlands ...... 49 6.1.8.1 MESA+ Research Institute at the University of Twente ...... 49 6.1.8.2 AMOLF Institute ...... 49 6.1.9 Poland ...... 50 6.1.10 Taiwan ...... 50 6.1.11 United Kingdom ...... 51 6.1.11.1 University of Bristol, Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials ...... 51 6.1.11.2 University of Cambridge, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics ...... 51 6.1.12 USA ...... 52 6.1.12.1 State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY‐B), Center for Research & Education in eNergy, Environment & Water (RENEW) ...... 52 6.2 WIN Rising Star Award ...... 52 7.0 Knowledge Dissemination ...... 54

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page ii 7.1 WIN Distinguished Lecture Series ...... 54 7.2 WIN Seminar Series ...... 54 7.3 NanoOntario Industry Showcases ...... 54 7.4 Research Day Symposia ...... 55 7.5 International Symposium on Frontiers of NanoScience and Nanotechnology ...... 56 8.0 Financial Management ...... 58 8.1 Financial Model ...... 58 8.2 Expenditures ...... 58 8.3 Revenues ...... 59 8.3.1 International Research Partnerships Grant ...... 59 8.3.2 NSERC Connect Grant ...... 61 8.3.3 WIN CPP Membership ...... 61 8.4 Adjustment of Operating Grant ...... 61 8.5 Projected Budget over the Next Five Years ...... 62 9.0 Moving Forward: Strategic Plan 2019 – 2023 ...... 65 9.1 Consultation Process ...... 65 9.2 Thematic Leads / co‐Leads ...... 66 9.3 Partnering with Other UW Institutes ...... 66 9.4 Communications Strategy ...... 67 9.5 Advancement Activity ...... 67 9.6 Industry Engagement and Commercialization ...... 67 9.7 Government Engagement ...... 68

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page iii Executive Summary

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is Canada’s largest nanotechnology institute and one of the global leaders in the broader areas of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is truly an interdisciplinary research enterprise representing nine Departments/Schools spanning across the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Mathematics. In the past six years, it has undergone significant changes in its operation under three different Executive Directors (Arthur Carty until September 2016, Holger Kleinke from September 2016 to August 2017, and Sushanta Mitra August 2017 to present) and also evolved its research directions into four key thematic areas: Smart & Functional Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems, and Therapeutics & Theranostics. With an impressive publication record of 3,177 papers published in top tier journals over the past six years, numerous invention disclosures and patents filed along with creation of spin‐off companies, WIN has been instrumental in creating economic benefits for all Canadians. WIN has renewed its focus on sustainability by aligning its four thematic research areas with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. WIN has been able to attract more than $4M of research funding almost half of it through its international partnerships, which is critical for the success and growth of the institute. Moving forward, it has created committees and other governance structures to create transparency in its operation along with empowering theme leads and co‐leads to drive key initiatives within WIN.

WIN is one of the two university led institutes/centres which has a physical infrastructure that houses 22 faculty research laboratories, more than 200 graduate students, post‐doctoral fellows and Co‐op students, seminar and conference rooms, and faculty offices in its state‐of‐art Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum‐Nano Centre. The complex operation of the institute demands additional resources to manage its space and provide efficient services to its members. In addition, WIN has launched a number of new initiatives for its members to achieve excellence in research and scholarship. Hence, an increase in its operating budget by an amount of $110,000 per year on an on‐going basis is requested in the renewal process. This is critical for the success of the institute and its ambition to be the leader in nanoscience and nanotechnology creating both economic and societal benefits in a sustainable manner. With the support from the university community and its stakeholders, WIN is truly positioned to capitalize on Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 and will be a formative player in solving the global challenges of the twenty‐first century.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 1 1.0 Governance and Administrative Framework 1.1 Board of Directors Within the last six years spanning January 2013 – December 2018, the Institutes and Centres at the University of Waterloo went through changes in governance. The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is governed at the highest level by the Board of Directors (BOD), chaired by Vice‐President Research and International, consisting of members of the private sector, government, external Canadian universities and within UW, and the WIN Executive Director (ED). Prior to October 2014, the WIN BOD was chaired alternately by the Dean of Engineering or Dean of Science (each for a two‐year term) and the Executive Director of WIN reported to the Dean of Engineering as WIN was within the organizational unit of the Faculty of Engineering

In accordance with Policy 44 established on 22 October 2014, the Vice‐President of University Research assumed the position as the Chair of the Governing Body of each University Centre and Institute. Based on this Policy, WIN and the Executive Director report directly to the Vice‐President, Research and International. As mandated by Policy 44, the current Board of Directors for WIN includes the following members:

Charmaine Dean, Vice‐President, Research and International, University of Waterloo (Chair) Chris Backhouse, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo Rina Carlini, President, Optimal Innovation Group Inc. Lora Field, Team Leader, Cleantech and Advanced Manufacturing Branch, Ontario Investment Office Karin Hinzer, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa Holger Kleinke, Professor, Chemistry, University of Waterloo Bob Lemieux, Dean, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo (or designate) Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), University of Waterloo Linda Nazar, Professor, Chemistry, University of Waterloo Carolyn Ren, Professor, Mechanical and Mechantronics Engineering, University of Waterloo David Sinton, Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto Pearl Sullivan, Dean, Faculty of Engineering (or designate) Michael Tam, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo Shirley Tang, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Science, and Professor, Chemistry, University of Waterloo (Legend: New Members appointed in 2018 in green, Currently Serving Members appointed prior to 2018 in black)

For the first time in 2018, we are able to achieve gender parity in the WIN’s governing board. WIN governing board meets twice a year. The full board meeting takes place in June and the half yearly meeting is with only UW members. The Board Members are recruited by a Nomination Committee, which is currently chaired by Bob Lemieux and the committee members include Holger Kleinke and Chris Backhouse.

In Fall 2017, WINcreated a transparent nomination process. The nomination committee works in

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 2 partnership with the Executive Director to bring forward appropriate candidates for Board membership. The selected individual would meet with the ED either in person or by telephone to discuss the roles and responsibilities of WIN’s BOD. Once agreed, ED and the Chair of the Nomination Committee informs the decision to the BOD Chair, who then takes the final decision in accepting the nomination and issuing the invitation letter to the accepted candidate.

The following Board Members who from 2013 to 2017: Terence McMahon, Dean of Science, University of Waterloo, (2013 – 2015) Atul Asthana, Director, Project‐1 Inc, Toronto (2013 – 2016) Hany Aziz, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (2016 – 2018) Steven Bloembergen, Chairman and CEO, GreenMark Biomedical Inc, co‐founder EcoSynthetix (2013 – 2017) Marie d’Iorio, Senior Strategy Advisor, University of Ottawa, former Executive Director, National Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Alberta, (2013 – 2017) Richard Florizone, President, Dalhousie University, (2013 – 2016) Raafat Mansour, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (2013 – 2014) Edward (Ted) Sargent, Vice President International, University of Toronto, and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, (2013 – 2017) Jeff Young, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, (2013 – 2016)

1.2 International Scientific Advisory Board The International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) is an external expert committee that is advisory to the Executive Director and to the WIN Board of Directors. The role of the ISAB is to provide advice to the Executive Director and the Board of Directors on:  The excellence, relevance and impact of research programs carried out by WIN members  The degree to which the research programs reflect the vision and objectives of the institute  Strategic positioning of the institute and the identification of promising new areas of focus  Identification of potential synergies and partnerships with other major players in nanotechnology  Other issues of scientific importance that may affect WIN’s progress and goals

Since January 2013, three WIN‐ISAB meetings have been held on the following dates: 1. 21‐22 October 2013 2. 15 September 2014 3. 5 June 2018

The most recent ISAB meeting marked the sixth time the external expert committee has convened to assist WIN with guidance and provide high‐level strategic scientific advice and direction.

The ISAB consists of internationally renowned experts in the field of nanotechnology selected to provide expertise covering the main theme areas of the Institute. The present ISAB consists of the following members: Fernando Galembeck, Professor, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Kazuhito Hashimoto, President, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan Iain Klugman, CEO, Communitech Eugenia Kumacheva, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Functional Materials, University of Toronto

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 3 Richard Martel, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Electrically Conductive Nanostructures and Interfaces, Université de Montréal Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), University of Waterloo Albert van den Berg, Scientific Director of MESA+, University of Twente, Netherlands Ajay Sood, President, Indian National Science Academy, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, India Chen Wang, Director of the National Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, China Sir Mark Welland, Head of the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine’s College Cambridge (Legend: New Members appointed in 2018 in green, Currently Serving Members appointed prior to 2018 in black)

Fig 1.1: WIN International Scientific Advisory Board Members at 5th June 2018 Meeting: (left to right) Chen Wang, Iain Klugman, Sushanta Mitra, Richard Martel, Kazuhito Hashimoto, Eugenia Kumacheva, Albert van den Berg, Savvas Chamberlain

The following ISAB members served from 2013 to 2018: Savvas Chamberlain, ISAB Chair; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo, CEO and Chair of EXEL Research Inc; founder and CEO of DALSA Corporation (2013 – 2018) David Reinhoudt, Chair of Board of NanoNed, University of Twente, Netherlands (2013 – 2014) Mauro Ferrari, Professor and Director, Division of Nanomedicine, University of Texas Health Centre, Houston Texas (2013 ‐2014) Teruo Kishi, past President, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan (2013 – 2014) Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (CNR) Rao; Linus Pauling Research Professor and Honorary President, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) (2013 – 2018) Samuel Thomas‐Picraux, Chief Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratories (2013 – 2014)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 4 1.3 WIN Committees Since Fall 2017, WIN has established new committees to provide transparency, better and efficient services to its membership.

1.3.1 Space Committee WIN is directly responsible for the allocation and management of the Nanotechnology space within the Quantum‐Nano Centre (QNC) in consultation with key stakeholders, the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science. The WIN Space Committee was created to plan, allocate, track, manage and report on all assignable space in the most efficient, transparent and equitable manner.

The WIN Space Committee is currently composed of the following members:

 WIN Member representing the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering: Michael Pope (Chair)  WIN Member representing the Dean of the Faculty of Science: Vivek Maheshwari  Executive Director, WIN: Sushanta Mitra  Manager, Space Planning, UW: Scott Nicoll  Technical Services Manager, WIN (non‐voting): Chris Kleven  Secretariat – Operations Assistant, WIN: Charlotte Armstrong

The Space Committee is chaired by one of the Deans’ representatives, and serves for two years with the first chair serving three years for continuity. The current committee chair will rotate off at the end of his term, and will alternate between Science and Engineering.

The mandate of the WIN Space Committee is to develop policy on management of space and communicate such policy to the WIN and QNC stakeholders involving office spaces, laboratories, common space, student areas, and accessibility infrastructure (keys, FOBs, elevators, etc). The committee will also make recommendations on space usage and allocation within WIN, and moderate resolution of competition for space, proposal for major renovations and the creation of new space.

1.3.2 QNC Health and Safety Committee The Quantum Nano Centre (QNC) Health and Safety Committee is designed and assembled to review issues across the QNC facility (i.e., including common areas that are under WIN and Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)) related to the safety of workers, including preventative safety measures, work practices, compliance and overall safety awareness. The committee keeps records of all health and safety inspections conducted by the associated departments within Nanotechnology. The committee supports the Health and Safety Coordinators (HSC) in carrying out their duties under the Health, Safety and Environment Management System and contributes toward the building of a “safety first” culture.

The QNC Health and Safety Committee activities include:  Recording of all health and safety inspections conducted in all laboratories housed in QNC building  Coordinating with Department inspections, assisting with the completion of risk assessments, reviewing incident investigations, and assisting with the identification of hazards and controls  Making recommendations to the Department Heads, as appropriate, with respect to hazard control, safe work procedures, and training needs  Reporting to Institute Directors and Department Heads on incidents, concerns identified or brought forward that have not been addressed, and any issues related to compliance

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The Health and Safety Committee currently consists of the following individuals:  Dean’s Representative from the Faculty of Engineering: Tom Dean, Director of Technical Operation, Department of Chemical Engineering (Chair)  Dean’s representative from the Faculty of Science: Mike Ditty, Faculty of Science Infrastructure, Special Projects and Facilities  WIN Member: Leonardo Simon, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering  Safety Officer, IQC: Roberto Romero, Electronics & Instrumentation Technologist, Health, Safety & Environment, IQC  Safety Officer, WIN: Chris Kleven, QNC Facility Technician  Representative from the UW Safety Office: Dhananjai Borwankar, Senior Safety Officer,  Secretary (non‐voting): Charlotte Armstrong, Operations Assistant, WIN (to rotate with Administrative Assistant, IQC)

The QNC Health and Safety Committee is chaired by one of the Deans’ representatives, serving for two years with the first chair serving three years for continuity. The current chair will rotate off at the end of his term, and will alternate between Science and Engineering.

1.3.3 Special Projects and Research Committee (SPARC) The Special Projects and Research Committee (SPARC) serves as an advisory committee to the Executive Director of WIN on the strategic development of research areas at the institute, including prioritization and funding of research projects and opportunities.

The mandate of the SPARC includes:  Review and identify priority interdisciplinary areas where WIN can invest resources to become recognized experts, and recommend teams to submit proposals around themes areas  Oversee the transparent, equitable competitive research grants process and awards from WIN’s SPARC account  Provide feedback and recommendations regarding internal research programs, processes and coordination of WIN programs with those of the Office of Research and Faculties  To be an advisory committee for the Executive Director, to consult on research‐related policy and ensure the interests of WIN stakeholders are represented (Members, Office of Research and Faculties).

The SPARC Membership currently consists of the following personnel:  Senior Associate Vice‐President Research (Committee Chair): John Thompson  Associate Vice‐President Interdisciplinary Research: Bernard Duncker  Associate Dean of Research and External Partnerships, Faculty of Engineering: David Clausi  Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Science: Shirley Tang  WIN Faculty Member, representing the Faculty of Engineering: Zbigniew Wasilewski  WIN Faculty Member, representing Faculty of Science: TBA  Secretariat – WIN Assistant Director of Research Programs: Lisa Pokrajac

In 2018, SPARC provided technical guidance and research support for the following funding opportunities: 1. NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects (January 2018)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 6 2. Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program (WIN‐IRFP) (March 2018): A total of $300,000 to four proposals for high‐risk, high‐reward interdisciplinary research projects 3. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) – Innovation Fund (September 2018): $1M WIN allocation to two projects

1.3.4 Nanofellowship Committee The WIN Nanofellowship Committee was founded to steward the fair and optimal disbursement of funds for the annual Nanofellowship competition for graduate students engaged in nanotechnology research.

In 2018, Nanofellowship Committee Terms of Reference were formalized to perform the following functions and a Committee Chair was nominated to create an overall transparent process:

 Review and understand all information pertaining to the Nanofellowship competition, including the original Memorandum of Understanding, competition guidelines and application procedure  Provide sound advice and guidance on competition execution  Evaluate applicants and nominate awardees based on approved evaluation criteria and eligibility  Provide guidance on strategic use of Nanofellowships for student recruitment and identify new opportunities for graduate student recruitment within Canadian and international universities  Ensure best practices for competition for compliance with all UW regulations and those set forth by other scholarship agencies

The present Nanofellowship Committee consists of the following individuals:

 Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Engineering: Bruce Hellinga  Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Science: Shawn Wettig  WIN Faculty Member representing the Dean of Engineering: Yuning Li  WIN Faculty Member representing the Dean of Science: Moira Glerum (Chair)  WIN Executive Director, Sushanta Mitra  Assistant Director Research Programs, WIN (non‐voting member) as support staff for the committee: Lisa Pokrajac In 2018, the Nanofellowship Committee met three times to discuss fellowship competition details and strategy, and for application evaluation and awardee selection. For adjudication purposes, a designate was appointed by the Associate Deans of Graduate Studies for both the Faculties of Engineering and Science.

1.4 Administrative Framework In the past six years, WIN has gone through a significant leadership change with three different Executive Directors, each having a different staff complement. Details about these changes are provided below in chronological order:

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 7 Arthur Carty (2013 – Sept. 2016): Executive Director

Holger Kleinke (September 2016 to August 2017): Interim Executive Director

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Sushanta Mitra (August 2017 – present): Executive Director

When the new WIN ED came on board in August 2017, through a consultation process with the WIN members, he created a flat organization structure with each individual having a functional role. WIN created following new positions, with specific roles and responsibilities: (a) Financial Assistant: For a full‐time role, hiring completed in September 2017; as part of the restructuring of WIN, consideration has been made to reduce this role to 0.5 FTE (b) Business Development Manager: Hiring completed in January 2018 (c) Communications and Events Coordinator (contract position): Hiring completed in December 2017. The individual (Matthew Rae) resigned from this position on July 2018 to assume other opportunities. Since then, this position is vacant waiting for hiring approval from the Office of Research. (d) Operations Assistant: Hiring completed in May 2018 (e) Executive Assistant: Caroline Brookes on secondment to the Faculty of Arts until January 2020.

To create a transparent hiring process, each above hiring was conducted by a Staff Hiring Committee consisting of representative from Human Resources, WIN members, existing WIN Staff Members, Office of Research (in case of Business Development Manager) and WIN ED. It is expected that with this new flat organization structure, WIN will be able to run efficiently, saving significant salary cost and at the same time deliver more value addition to its members.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 9 2.0 People

2.1 Principal Investigators An interdisciplinary research institute like WIN thrives on its people and the research excellence they bring to the mix. Currently, WIN has two types of membership categories – Regular Member and Fellow. The Regular Member must meet the following criteria:

 Full‐time tenured faculty at the University of Waterloo engaged in research in micro/nanotechnology  Active research program in nanotechnology as demonstrated by a recent record of publications, presentations, and ongoing support of research in the area  Ongoing commitment to and participation in the research, education and outreach activities of the institute Currently the regular WIN members belong to the following nine departments/units spanning across three Faculties:

(a) Biology, Faculty of Science (b) Chemistry, Faculty of Science (c) Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering (d) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering (e) Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics (f) Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering (g) School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science (h) Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science (i) Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

The WIN Fellow category is a new membership category that has been rolled out in 2018 to include individuals who are not currently UW employees but would provide significant intellectual capital and collaborative efforts towards the research intensity at WIN. Currently, only one WIN Fellow has been awarded, to Professor Frank Gu, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto.

The entire WIN membership list is provided in Appendix A.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 10 Chart 2.1 illustrates the growth of WIN membership since 2013. Here “Research Chairs” indicates faculty members who hold either an NSERC Canada Research Chair (Tier 1 or Tier 2), a University Chair or a WIN Endowed Chair position.

Chart 2.1: WIN Members and Research Chairs 2013 ‐ 2018 120

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Legend: # Members 2013‐2016 (grey); # Chairs 2013‐2016 (mauve): A. Carty ED WIN # Members 2017 (aquamarine); # Chairs 2017 (orange): H. Kleinke, Interim ED WIN # Members 2018 (green); # Chairs 2018 (red): S Mitra ED WIN

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 # Members 50 61 59 63 64 78 # Chairs 20 15 19 19 20 18 Total 70 76 78 82 84 96

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 11 Chart 2.2 shows the proportion of WIN Membership by Faculty between 2013 (a) and 2018 (b)

Chart 2.2a: WIN Members by Faculty 2013

Science: 37.1% Engineering: 61.4%

Mathematics: 1.4%

Chart 2.2b: WIN Members by Faculty 2018

Science: 40.8% Engineering: 54.1%

Mathematics: 2.0%

Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Science 2013 43 (61.4%) 1 (1.4%) 26 (37.1%) 2018 53 (54.1%) 2 (2.0%) 40 (40.8%)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 12 2.1.1 WIN Endowed Chair With a very generous donation of $4.5M CAD by Douglas Fregin (matched by a contribution from the University of Waterloo), WIN wa able to establish three chairs in Nanotechnology. The goal of the WIN Endowed Chair is to strengthen nanotechnology research by attracting the best talent in the world to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and bring unique expertise not currently found at UW. This position is for a five‐year term, with a possible renewal of an additional five years.

Presently, two positions are filled: 1) Zbigniew Wasilewski (ECE) who is an expert in molecular beam epitaxy, quantum dot and quantum well devices, and GaN‐based optoelectronics (appointed in 2012 and renewed in 2017); and 2) Raffi Budakian (Physics), an expert in magnetic resonance force microscopy for superconductivity measurements (appointed in 2014)

One position remains unoccupied. WIN is currently reviewing and updating terms of reference for the WIN Endowed Chair, creating a fair and transparent process for the appointment and the renewal of such Endowed Chair.

2.2 Graduate Students and Post‐doctoral Fellows Currently in the QNC WIN houses 88 Masters and 97 PhD students, and 35 postdoctoral fellows (PDF). Between 2013 and 2018, in the QNC alone, it is estimated that there were approximately 515 graduate students supervised and co‐supervised by WIN members. These are in addition to other graduate students and post‐doctoral fellows that are supervised by WIN members (as per list in Appendix A) and are typically located in their home departments. WIN provides a welcoming environment to new graduate students and PDFs each term, managing key allocation, and also support their extracurricular activities through the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Graduate Student Society (WINGS2).

Since its inception in 2014, WINGS2 increases networking and collaboration between graduate students pursuing nanotechnology research (over 200 graduate students across science and engineering). WIN has enabled this club to flourish via financial support (approximately $10,000 CAD in total since 2014) as well as collaborate directly with the club via ideas and processes on how to promote and facilitate events.

The WINGS2 Career Night is a noteworthy annual event where financial ($2,000) and administrative support from WIN has been instrumental to bring in industry, government, and academic personnel to participate in a panel geared toward nanotechnology graduate students. The impact of this event helps guide current and future students in discovering all the possibilities offered by the nanotechnology field.

WIN also helps with other events throughout the year such as the annual community BBQ held each September (financial support by WIN approximately 600$). These actions help contribute to the positive and collaborative atmosphere for current and newly enrolled nanotechnology graduate students. Monthly coffee and donut events also support the WINGS2 network, providing an avenue for casual interactions between lab groups that may sometimes spark research collaborations in the future.

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(a) (b) Fig 2.1 (a) WINGSS social mixer; (b) WINGSS Career Night event with industry‐academia panel

2.2.1 WIN Nanofellowships WIN provides significant funding to attract and retain graduate students in the form of scholarships made possible from a generous donation from Douglas Fregin. Interest from the $10.5M endowment has provided funds for 210 scholarships in nanotechnology since 2013, also known as “Nanofellowships”. Each unit of the fellowship is valued at $10,000.

The Nanofellowships are awarded to outstanding students conducting nanotechnology research through an annual competition open to international, permanent residents and Canadian students. This scholarship program is designed to recruit students from external Canadian and international universities, as well as retain exceptional talent from UW’s undergraduate science and engineering programs. Charts 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 illustrate the total number of awards given by year, the citizenship, and home departments of the awardees, respectively. A complete list of Nanofellows since 2013 can be found in Appendix B.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 14 Chart 2.3: Nanofellowships per Year

Year 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2017 Number of Awards 36 32 33 33 37 39

Chart 2.4: Nanofellowships awarded by Citizenship

Year Canadian Citizen Permanent Resident International Student 2013 22 4 10 2014 18 3 11 2015 16 4 13 2016 15 1 17 2017 14 3 20 2018 17 3 19

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Chart 2.5: Nanofellowships Awarded by Department (total 2013 – 2018)

Pharm: 1.4% SDE: 0.5% Bio: 2.4% MME: 12.4%

ChE: 31.4% Phys: 5.2%

ECE: 25.2%

Chem: 21.4%

Chemical Engineering Chemsitry Electrical and Computer Engineering Physics Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Systems Design Engineering Pharmacy Biology

Department 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 TOTAL Chemical Engineering 12 8 16 9 13 8 66 Chemistry 7 8 7 7 5 11 45 Electrical and Computer Engineering 9 9 6 10 11 8 53 Physics 4 2 1 2 2 0 11 Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering 2 4 2 3 6 9 26 Systems Design Engineering 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Pharmacy 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 Biology 0 1 1 2 0 1 5

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 16 2.3 Undergraduate Students Although WIN is not involved in delivering undergraduate programs, it supports the research and related activities for the undergraduate students.

2.3.1 Waterloo Nanotechnology Conference (WNC)

A group of Nanotechnology Engineering students founded the Waterloo Undergraduate Nanotechnology Conference (WUNC) in 2015. The conference has been held yearly since then, most recently on November 10, 2018. It is now called the Waterloo Nanotechnology Conference (WNC), expanding its scope to include all students involved in the nanoscience and nanotechnology. The conference is organized entirely by the students enrolled in the Nanoengineering program with support from WIN.

Chart 2.6: Attendance at WNC 20+ Majors 200+ Students 278 Nanotechnology Engineering Number of Attendees Materials and Nanosciences 240 Biomedical Engineering Computer Engineering 195 Mechanical Engineering Chemistry Electrical Engineering Honours Biology Astrophysics 106 Chemical Engineering Computer Science Economics Science and Business Accounting and Financial Management Biotechnology Civil Engineering Engineering Science 2015 2016 2017 2018 Financial Analysis and Risk Management High School

Each year, exceptional keynote speeches are given by world‐renowned researchers in Nanotechnology, often a WIN Distinguished Lecturer (WIN‐DLS: details about this lecture series are provided in Section 7.1). Below lists the keynote invited speakers since 2015:

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 17 2015 Dr Mark MacLachlan, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada, Professor, the University of British Columbia

2016 Dr Vladimir Bulović, Associate Dean for Innovation, MIT Dr. Steven Bloembergen, CEO, GreenMark Biomedical Inc.

2017 Joanna Aizenberg, Professor, Harvard University (also WIN Distinguished Lecturer) Duncan Stuart, Director General, Security and Disruptive Technologies Research Centre, National Research Council

2018 Max Mankin, Co‐founder and CTO, Modern Electron Inc. Stuart Shaklan, Principle Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Elena Polyakova, co‐founder and CEO, Graphene Laboratories Inc. (also WIN Industry Seminars speaker)

In 2018, WIN also held an exhibition booth during the WNC conference shared with Collaborative Nanoscience Graduate Program.

Going forward, WIN and the organizing committee of WNC have agreed to expand the conference into a two‐day event. The first day, termed as “Research Day”, will showcase research done by graduate students, as well as host a series of research talks by faculty and invited guests. Day Two will be organized similarly to what was done previously.

2.3.2 WIN‐Mitacs Initiative In September 2017, WIN Executive Director Sushanta Mitra met with Mitacs CEO & Scientific Director Alejandro Adem and Chief Research Officer & Associate Academic Director Ridah Ben‐Mrad to discuss a program for student led entrepreneurship and innovation. This program is intended to connect our Canadian senior undergraduate and graduate students with the ecosystem of emerging global markets using the vehicle of international student training and at the same time providing an enriched experience for the international undergraduate students to be engaged in developed markets.

Based on the Mitacs Globalink program, this initiative provides two‐way mobility of students from the University of Waterloo and selected partner countries to advance leading‐edge innovation and identify demands and access large and growing markets, especially in Asia. This joint venture represents a unique model with international bridges at the undergraduate level, targeted towards those students who have an entrepreneurial bent and at the same time are ready to work in a diverse work environment where research and start‐up activities go hand‐in‐hand.

In February 2018, an agreement between WIN and Mitacs was signed committing funding to support up to 10 UW nanotechnology students to travel and work abroad and up to five international students to work in a WIN researcher‐based start‐up company per year for a period of three years. The award is $6,000 for each 12‐26 week placement, with Mitacs making the full contribution for UW outbound students. The funds supporting international inbound students to WIN is shared equally between Mitacs and WIN.

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Fig 2.2: Signing of WIN‐Mitacs MoU in 2018. From left: Representative from Ministry of Human Resources and Development, India; Dr. Alejandro Adem, CEO Mitacs; WIN ED; Shastri‐Indo Canadian Institute Executive Director.

WIN is championing this initiative, working with UW Faculties, departments, and students as well as industrial partners. The first year (2018‐2019 academic cycle) focuses on WIN’s partner institutions in India’s IIT educational and entrepreneurial ecosystems as its trial period. For the upcoming academic years, the WIN‐Mitacs agreement is currently being amended to include all Mitacs partner countries for both outbound and inbound students.

The first cohort of UW undergraduate Co‐operative Education students travelling to IIT‐Kharagpur (KGP) for the first round placements for the January to April 2019 work term cycle. Senior undergraduate students from IIT‐KGP will visit WIN laboratories from May to July 2019 to work in WIN laboratories with an existing startup company.

2.4 Visiting Scholars In 2018, WIN launched a new Visiting Scholar program to catalyze research collaboration and provide an opportunity for national and international scholars to receive first‐hand experience of the research excellence at WIN.

Guests are invited to visit UW for one month, hosted by a WIN member, to conduct exploratory research and to scope future research collaborations. The guest will also give lectures and a seminar presentation as part of the WIN Seminar Series. The visit is supported jointly by WIN and the faculty host to cover accommodation and travel expenses. The guest is provided shared office space at the QNC Flex Office (QNC 3609).

WIN’s first Visiting Scholar was Professor Anandaroop Bhattacharya, Associate Dean, International Relations and Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, IIT‐Kharagpur. Professor Bhattacharya visited UW from 15 May to 15 June 2018, where he conducted exploratory

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 19 research in microscale transport phenomena, thermal management of electronics and electrical systems, and heat transport through porous media. During this one‐month Visiting Scholar appointment, Professor Bhattacharya also gave presentations, seminars, and guest lectures at WIN and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 2.5 WIN Faculty Lounge A sense of community is very important to everyone, and is especially significant in a multi‐disciplinary research institute such as WIN. A faculty lounge was opened in October 2018 on the 3rd floor of the QNC with a fully‐equipped kitchen with Kuerig coffee and tea bar, welcoming all WIN members to meet, relax, and connect with colleagues for lively discussion on the day’s current events and hot topics. This space will encourage an even tighter‐knit nanotechnology community and expand interdisciplinary collaboration within WIN.

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3.1 Thematic Areas Until 2017 WIN had four thematic areas, as described below: 1. Nanomaterials: Processes and Manufacturing; Energy and Environment 2. Nanoelectronics: Quantum Optics & Nanophotonics; Materials, Modelling & Fabrication 3. Nanoinstrumentation: Metrology & Nanopositioning; Nanofluidics, Lab‐on‐Chip & Micro‐ Electro‐Mechanical Systems 4. Nanobiosystems: Life Sciences & Healthcare

Starting in Fall 2017, WIN did an extensive consultation among its members, Department Chairs, Deans and other external stakeholders (government, industry) and came up with four new thematic thrust areas:

1. Smart & Functional Materials: This includes but is not limited to fundamental condensed matter physics, soft matter, materials characterization, nanomaterials, graphene and other 2D materials, quantum materials, nanoparticles, quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, DNA self‐assembly, biomaterial and nanocellulose, new materials for additive manufacturing (i.e., 3D printing), protein, enzymes, biopolymers, biomaterials, electronic and photo‐active materials.

2. Connected Devices: This includes but is not limited to sensors (quantum‐, nano‐ and microsensors), MEMS/NEMS, flexible electronics, wearable devices, lab‐on‐chip, use of internet‐ of‐things and artificial intelligence for sensors, human‐machine interfaces, photonic‐devices and other connected devices.

3. Next Generation Energy Systems: This includes but is not limited to fundamental understanding of transport processes in energy devices, battery, fuel cells, catalysis, solar cells, low‐carbon sustainable technologies, artificial photosynthesis.

4. Therapeutics & Theranostics: This includes but is not limited to targeted drug delivery, tissue engineering, minimally invasive treatment of diseases, immunotherapy, and medical imaging.

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Fig 3.1: Pictograph of the Key Theme Research Areas in Nanotechnology at WIN. The numbers in the circles indicate faculty members associated with each theme.

Appendix A provides the names of faculty members that are associated with each theme.

In 2018 through a consultation process within each thematic group, leads and co‐leads were identified to work closely with WIN staff to offer guidance and advice on the best ways to support and promote each research theme, particularly in terms of funding opportunities and external academic, industry or international partnerships. Theme leads and co‐leads serve a 2‐year term. The Smart & Functional Materials theme has the largest number of faculty members associated with it and hence instead of having only leads and co‐leads, it was felt that a Working Committee model would be best suited for this thematic group.

Theme leads and co‐leads: 1. Smart & Functional Materials Committee: Michael Tam (ChE), Hany Aziz (ECE), Boxin Zhao (ChE), Chris Backhouse (ECE), John Honek (Chem), Yuning Li (ChE), Carolyn Ren (MME) 2. Connected Devices: Lead – Vassili Karanassios (Chem); Co‐lead – Na Young Kim (ECE) 3. Next Generation Energy Systems: Lead – Linda Nazar (Chem); Co‐lead – Eihab Abdel‐Rahman (SDE) and Michael Pope (ChE) 4. Therapeutics & Theranostics: Lead – Karim Karim (ECE); Co‐lead – Alfred Yu (ECE)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 22 3.2 Publications, Citations and Impact WIN members have an impressive record of publications in reputable scientific journals, with an equally impressive number of citations.

3.2.1 Bibliometric Analyses In 2018, WIN championed bibliometric analyses within the University of Waterloo through the use of tools such as SciVal and Scopus (Elsevier). It allowed WIN to identify key strengths based on global comparative indices such as field‐weighted citation impact (FWCI*). Table 3.1 provides the key comparable indicators for WIN publications since 2013, including impact metrics and collaborations. The FWCI is calculated based on all publications by WIN members taking into account all categories of peer‐reviewed journals.

Table 3.1: Total publications, citations and collaborations from 2013 to 2018, based on SciVal (Scopus) data WIN Total Total FWCI Collaborations Collaborations Collaborations Membership Publications Citations National International Industry All WIN 3,177 44,775 1.67 264 (8.3%) 1,489 (46.9%) 126 (4%) Members (total) Smart & 2,028 31,049 1.68 159(7.8%) 966 (47.6%) 69 (3.4%) Functional Materials Connected 1,538 15,968 1.32 119 (7.7%) 710 (46.2%) 60 (3.9%) Devices Next 1,070 22,597 2.29 71 (6.6%) 506 (47.3%) 61 (5.7%) Generation Energy Systems

Therapeutics 1,094 14,789 1.55 94 (8.6%) 482(44.1%) 19 (1.7%) & Theranostics

*FWCI: Field‐weighted citation impact compares the number of citations received by a researcher with the average number of citations received by all other similar publications indexed in the Scopus database (ie: a score of 1.44 means the publications have been cited 44% more times than average)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 23 Chart 3.1: NanoScience and Technology* Journals Metrics UW compared to Canada U15

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It is to be noted that in Charts 3.1 and 3.2 the FWCI is calculated based on the compiled list of the top 60 journals in materials and nanoscience as opposed to the FWCI mentioned in Table 3.1, which encompasses all publications by WIN members. These bibliometric analyses clearly suggest that WIN is the leading powerhouse in Canada in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology and definitely one of the world leaders in the broader area of nanotechnology.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 25 3.2.2 Societal Impact of Research To achieve societal impact and sustainable future, WIN has now mapped its thematic areas with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Fig 3.2: UN SDGs mapped to WIN thematic research areas

In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the Agenda for Sustainable Development for 2030, providing a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and planet. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were formulated to help end poverty and other deprivations but adopting strategies to improve global challenges such as improving health and living conditions, leading to sustainable development, economic growth and environmental protection.

WIN is directly in tune with these global challenges, seeking solutions to ensure good health (SDG 3), clean water and energy (SDGs 6 & 7), industry & innovation (SDG 9) and climate action (SDG 13). Below are several examples of how WIN members’ research maps with several UN SDGs.

Good Health and Well‐Being: Overcoming disease and ill health is a major global challenge, and requires significant effort and focus on both infectious and not‐communicable diseases, with a special need to focus on remote regions.

Karim Karim from Electrical & Computer Engineering is making medical care more accessible to many, by developing a low‐cost, efficient X‐ray machine. The innovative micro‐computed tomography (CT) system for cardiovascular imaging research is a more accessible alternative to magnetic resonant imaging, using

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 26 lower radiation doses with higher resolution of soft tissues. The device is also compact and portable, bringing the clinic to the patient – allowing quality medical analysis to the remotest regions on earth.

HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed over 35 million lives since the 1980’s according to the World Health Organization. To slow these statistics, Emmanuel Ho from the School of Pharmacy unveiled an important new product in the fight against HIV/AIDS – a vaginal implant that decreases the number of cells HIV can target in a woman’s genital tract. The implant is a hollow tube that slowly releases hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) a drug that helps resist HIV infection into the vagina. Dr Ho’s team identified the potential of HCQ to stave off infection by altering the response of the helper T‐cells when in contact with the virus. The design of the implant allows for release directly at the site, providing a more reliable and inexpensive method to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in women, especially crucial in the developing world.

Clean Water & Sanitation: Water is essential for life. The amount of fresh water on earth is limited, and its quality must be protected for drinking, food production and many other essential uses. With the goals of safely managing and treating wastewater, WIN researchers are using nanotechnology to detect trace amounts of contamination or bacterial pathogens in water, and providing tools for clean‐up.

Shirley Tang in the Department of Chemistry, received a Grand Challenges Canada Grant in 2013 for the project entitled, “A Handy Device for Rapid Screening of Diarrheal Pathogens in Water: preventing diarrhea at its source”. More recently her lab is designing single‐walled carbon nanotubes (CNT) bio‐hybrid structures with specific functionalities to provide new tools for analyses, disease diagnostics, therapy and targeted drug delivery.

WIN researcher Norman Zhou and his team in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering have successfully developed an advanced oxidation process based on titanium dioxide to degrade organic contaminants using ultraviolet radiation. Heavy metals are of particular concern as well, especially lead and mercury that can cause severe health problems. Additionally, Juewen Liu from the Department of Chemistry has developed sensor technology allowing for on‐site, real time detection using hydrogel‐based sensors with functionalized DNA to simultaneously detect and remove these metals from water. These gel‐based sensors have extremely high sensitivity to detect low concentrations of metals, and can be altered for detection of other water contamination such as organic matter and biological pathogens.

Affordable and Clean Energy: WIN members are finding new ways of providing reliable, modern energy systems for power generation, harvesting, storage and conversion, and also addressing the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. Linda Nazar, Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Solid State Energy Materials, is a world leader in metal‐ion batteries and has recently published a breakthrough article in Science, demonstrating stability and increased capacity of their rechargeable lithium‐oxygen battery technology. By using a stable inorganic molten salt as an electrolyte, and a bifunctional metal oxide catalyst cathode, the battery increased its storage capacity by 50%. This translates to longer ranges for electric cars and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels for transportation needs. In 2015, Professor Nazar was named a top‐cited Materials Scientist by Thompson Reuters.

Xianguo Li heads the Fuel Cell and Green Energy Lab in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, finding new sources of energy conversion via proton‐exchange membrane fuel cell technology. His team for the first time showed the operation of most efficient fuel cell based on systematic

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 27 transport modeling of the fuel cell components, which consists of understanding fluid and mass transport coupled with electrochemistry in micro and nanoscale confinements.

One main challenge with devices and sensors is finding appropriate sources of energy. Micro‐ and nanogenerators are tiny powerhouses developed to provide just the right amount of energy to run the devices. WIN researchers have developed piezoelectric energy‐harvesting devices able to extract energy from ambient sources, such as light, heat and vibration. Armaghan Salehian from the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering has pioneered the 3D folded piezoelectric design, or the ‘folded zigzag’ to produce a much higher power output compared to conventional designs. Additionally, Dayan Ban from Electrical & Computer Engineering is conducting seminal research at the intersection of nanoelectronics and quantum photonics. His group has developed prototypes based on nanogenerators and light‐emitting diodes (LED) to collect and store energy from ambient sources, such as heat, vibration, sound and the sun, and perhaps may even collect energy from remote sources such as radio frequency or acoustic beacons. The ability to harvest energy from new sources will also drastically reduce carbon emissions associated with traditional forms of energy production

Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure, and Sustainable Cities and Communities: WIN is proud to be part of the Industry 4.0 Revolution, with a large pool of talented researchers constantly developing new tools and systems for data collection, communication and connectivity enabling IoT/AI to improve all aspects of daily life – making products and systems more efficient, increasing factory efficiency, and finding ways to save energy at work and at home. New sensor technology is a key strength as WIN making it possible to collect valuable data in almost any environment, such as changes in temperature, light, humidity, chemical gas and motion. Some of the renowned researchers at WIN leading the field include Simarjeet Saini (ECE), Patricia Nieva (MME), Peter Levine (ECE), Chris Backhouse (ECE), Eihab Abdel Rahman (SDE) and Raafat Mansour (ECE), just to name a few.

Vassili Karanassios in the Department of Chemistry has worked many years on developing smart devices to improve chemical analyses and signal recognition. Dr Karanassios has developed technology to test nano‐volumes for metal/elemental testing using a microplasma capable of inductively‐coupled plasma (ICP) testing. The device is operated via smartphone with internet connectivity, allowing for AI and deep‐ learning to actively remove noise from spectra and giving improved testing efficiency and contaminant identification and concentration. His research has led to miniaturized laboratory equipment, “taking the lab to the samples” which is critical for time‐sensitive analyses or remote locations with a broad range of applications, from water/environment to medical, agriculture and industry.

WIN expertise can also ensure our population’s safety. Zbigniew Wasilewski (ECE) and Jonathan Baugh (Chemistry) are working on the next generation of radar – quantum radar. With state‐of‐the‐art molecular beam epitaxy facilities at the QNC, Dr Wasilewski is able to create the structures needed for quantum illumination, allowing detectors to see ‘hidden’ objects such as stealth aircraft and other irregularly‐ shaped objects invisible to regular radar systems. Made possible by the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, where Dr Baugh is an expert, this technology works by separating two entangled light particles. Although still in its infancy, it is promising: the Canadian Department of National Defence has invested $2.7M CAD to its development, with the goal of demonstrating its capability in the field.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 28 Climate Action: Greenhouse gas emissions are an urgent concern, with WIN researchers actively seeking ways to diminish the release of CO2 into the atmosphere from large and industrial chimneys and smokestacks. WIN researchers Zhongchao Tan and Zhongwei Chen are actively seeking nano‐sized solutions to global warming. Zhongchao Tan, Director of the Research Lab for Green Energy & Pollution Control in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, and Executive Director of the Tsinghua University – University of Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technologies, focuses on filtration and separation of CO2, NO and other combustion by‐products in the atmosphere.

Zhongwei Chen, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, heads the Applied Nanomaterials and Clean Energy Lab in the Department of Chemical Engineering. In the recent publication in Carbon, Chen describes glucose‐based nanospheres with nano‐channels which act as CO2 sponges with better absorption than most carbon‐based materials used for CO2 capture available today. Further development of this technology aims to increase the nanospheres’ potential in water purification, energy storage and more.

3.2.3 Economic Impact of Research WIN researchers are shaping the future of technology by translating their research into economic impact for all Canadians and beyond. Below is a small selection of exemplary research‐based innovations that the reached marketplace.

Smart & Functional Materials: Leonardo Simon’s research involves the use of bio‐derived nanomaterials as additives for industrial applications. His long‐term collaboration with the Ford Motor Company has resulted in large‐scale production of plastic interior components for cars using agricultural by‐product sources.

Connected Devices: NanoDevice Solutions Inc is a spin‐off company resulting from research in Bo Cui’s group. The company manufactures consumable probes for Atomic Force Microscopy, and has reached commercial success in the last 2 years in terms of worldwide sales. The company is in the process of constructing its new manufacturing facility.

Next Generation Energy Systems: John Wen has collaborated with Canadian Solar Corporation, a world leading Canadian manufacturer of solar panels, on a project aimed on retrofitting municipal operations electric vehicles with roof solar panels. Such an upgrade allows charging vehicle batteries while idling, and results in about 20% improvement of mileage before recharge in a Canadian summer conditions.

Therapeutics & Theranostics: KA Imaging Inc, a company founded by Karim Karim, produces X‐Ray imaging detectors capable of resolving soft tissue in medical images. This technology is on track to replace MRI imaging in many medical procedures at a fraction of the cost. KA Imaging Inc has received Series A investment funds and is working on fulfilling product pre‐orders from within Canada and around the world.

3.3 Focus on Interdisciplinary Research Interdisciplinary research has always been a central component of nanoscience and nanotechnology at WIN. Since the institute’s inception, both the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo have played a dominant role. However, today’s problems are so complex, be it

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 29 global challenges in energy, water, public health, that a single disciplinary approach is not good enough.

WIN has significant foundational strengths in the disciplines of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering, Pharmacy, Systems Design Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. Under the leadership of the new ED, WIN is poised to unleash its true potential by integrating discipline‐specific fundamental research with interdisciplinary knowledge spanning across the Faculty of Arts, Environment, and Applied Health Sciences. This will enable our brightest minds to collaborate as a team and solve the daunting global challenges with a 360‐degree perspective.

3.3.2 Interdisciplinary Research Mixers Towards the effort to increase interdisciplinary cooperation, interdisciplinary mixers with non‐STEM faculties were organized and designed to provide an opportunity to engage in conversation on multifaceted themes, diversified teams, and network‐building, this program will help UW researchers identify large‐scale problems and practical solutions.

The first WIN interdisciplinary research mixer was held with the Faculty of Arts in October 2017, entitled “Nanotechnology and Society” to help integrate perspectives and expertise from the social sciences and humanities with science and engineering. This was followed by a mixer with the Faculty of Environment in February 2018, providing an opportunity for researchers on both sides to discuss ways to solve challenges pertaining to environmental remediation, protection and future resource planning. The mixer with the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences (AHS) in April 2018 allowed WIN and AHS researchers to discuss areas of cooperation for disease detection and prevention. In addition, issues such as quality medical treatments, advances in drug delivery and design, policy planning and other problems on global health were discussed. Table 3.2 lists the WIN‐Interdisciplinary Mixer partners and presenters.

Table 3.2: WIN Interdisciplinary Mixers and Speakers Mixer Title Participating Faculty Date Speakers Nanotechnology & Faculty of Arts 30 October 2017 From WIN: Society Emmanuel Ho (Pharm) Vassili Karanassios Na Young Kim Juewen Liu German Sciaini Boxin Zhao Nanotechnology & Faculty of 7 February 2018 From Environment: the Environment Environment Dawn Parker Merrin MacRae Claude Duguay

From WIN: Vassili Karanassios Sushanta Mitra Luis Ricardez Sandoval Nanotechnology & Faculty of Applied 5 April 2018 From Applied Health Sciences: Health Health Sciences Ken Stark Plinio Morita John Hirdes

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 30 From WIN: Shawn Wettig Melanie Campbell Zoya Leonenko Karim Karim

3.3.3 Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program The research mixers helped form the foundation of the WIN‐ Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program (IRFP), a program designed to provide seed funding for interdisciplinary research not typically supported by traditional granting agencies. The IRFP aims to help WIN researchers work on “high risk‐high reward” blue‐sky discovery research providing initial data and insights enabling researchers to target various large scale, established funding programs. Table 3.3 lists the recipients of the 2018 IRFP awards.

Table 3.3: Recipients of the 2018 WIN‐Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program Grant WIN Member Co‐PI Co‐PI Faculty Project Title Funding Karim Karim (ECE) Robin Duncan Applied An Innovative New Micro‐CT $100,000 (Kin); Peter Levine Health System for Cardiovascular (ECE) collaborator Sciences Imaging Research John Honek Ken Stark (Kin) Applied Hydrophobic Engineering of $99,031 (Chem) Health Nanodimensional Protein Sciences Capsules for Therapeutics Luis Ricardez Ricardo Fukasawa Mathematics A Novel Theoretical $50,000 Sandoval (ChE) (Appl Math) Framework for the Prediction of Non‐equilibrium Systems: A Combinatorial Approach Germán Sciaini Michaela Devries‐ Applied Mapping Lipid and $50,000 (Chem) Aboud (Kin) Health Mitochondria Depots in Fully Sciences Hydrated Tissue with Nanometer Resolution

The University of Waterloo has allocated $1.5M CAD to WIN for this new initiative. The project duration is one year from fund issue, with expectations to apply for significant external funding programs within two years of project start date.

3.3.4 Engaging the Faculty of Mathematics Nanotechnology greatly benefits from mathematical disciplines such as data science, informatics and computational modeling, assisting with theoretical and experimental approaches to designing materials with novel physical and chemical characteristics, optimizing device design, and predicting behaviour of complex biological‐pharmaceutical systems. WIN is proud to have two outstanding researchers from the Faculty of Mathematics as part of its membership, including Professor Zoran Miskovic (WIN member since 2008), and most recently Professor Anita Layton, both from the Department of Applied Mathematics.

In 2018, Professor Layton was named Canada 150 Research Chair for her work in mathematical biology and medicine, with $350,000 per year for seven years to support research on mathematical and computational modelling of blood flow dynamics and kidney function. Her work is at the interface of applied mathematics, computation, and biological science, which has directly and positively impacted

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WIN aims to attract more exceptional researchers in mathematics to help bridge disciplines to meet fundamental research goals and provide solutions to real‐world problems.

3.4 WIN Research Leaders Gala As part of WIN’s 10 Year Celebration, the “WIN Research Leaders Gala and Reception” was held on 5th June 2018 to recognize our outstanding researchers who have made significant contributions during the 2017‐2018 fiscal year. These contributions include: a) Any individual or group receiving major grants with a value equal to or greater than $500,000 b) Major national or international awards c) Published books or other major scholarships and creativity

For 2018, the following WIN members were recognized:

Jonathan Baugh | Zhongwei Chen | Kyle Daun | Marianna Foldvari | Michel Gingras | Karim Karim | Xianguo Li | Juewen Liu | Adrian Lupascu | Raafat Mansour | Kevin Musselman | Linda Nazar | Janusz Pawliszyn | Luis Ricardez Sandoval | Michael Tam | Adam Tsen | William Wong | Youngki Yoon | Alfred Yu | Boxin Zhao| Norman Zhou

This event will be held annually, to continue to recognize the outstanding achievements of WIN members.

Fig 3.3: 2018 WIN Research Leaders Gala Reception, 5 June 2018

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 32 4.0 Innovation and Entrepreneurship

4.1 Industry Engagement The fundamental research conducted by our WIN members provides the strong foundation to connect with key industry leaders, both large‐scale multi‐nationals and small and medium enterprises (SMES), allowing WIN to provide innovative solutions to industry problems. Appendix C provides the list of industry partners with whom WIN members are currently engaged, which have been disclosed voluntarily.

Research partnerships with industry is an ongoing strength of WIN. At least 109 companies were engaged in 129 projects with WIN researchers over the last 6 years. Prominent relationships have been established with Canadian Solar Inc (the world’s second largest manufacturer of solar panels), Lockheed Martin, Teledyne‐DALSA, Maxxam Analytics, and General Motors, to name a few. The addition of the Business Development Manager (BDM) in March 2018 to the WIN team has led to new opportunities for such networks and partnerships. More than 20 new relationships were fostered by the BDM, with about half progressing towards new projects. New engagements include companies in Europe, China and the United States.

To further intensify the interaction, WIN held a one‐day workshop to bring academics and industry together. The topic of the event was “Nanotechnology for Advanced Manufacturing” held on 17 October 2018. There were 46 participants in total, from industry, government organizations, UW faculty and graduate students. The event featured three keynote speakers: Peter Voss, CEO and President of Shimco Inc (smart, connected shims for aerospace applications), Danny Yalcin, Smart Manufacturing Manager at Magellan Aerospace Inc (use of sensors in aerospace manufacturing), and Michaela Vlasea, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (overview of current state of metal additive manufacturing). The event also featured 5‐minute presentations from WIN faculty members and industry representatives. The event resulted in three new research partnerships. The event was financially supported by WIN and an NSERC Connect grant (see Section 8.3.2 for more details).

Fig 4.1: WIN Industry Seminar Series, October 2018

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 33 4.2 WIN Corporate Partnerships Program (CPP) In early 2018, WIN initiated its new Corporate Partnership Program. This industry membership program is designed for companies whose long term goals are strategically aligned with WIN’s research capacity. To qualify for membership, the company is to identify at least one project that fits with expertise of WIN members, and its potential for collaboration with more than one researcher.

The fee scheme involves an annual membership fee of $7,000 for each corporate partner. From this membership fee, the corporate partner the is expected to contribute an initial $5,000, to be held in a holding account and used as matching funds for future grant applications, such as NSERC Engage and OCE VIP‐I (for Ontario companies only). The remaining $2,000 is collected as a service fee from the corporate partner.

Since the launch of the program in March 2018, WIN has recruited one member (Sigma Industries Inc.) with active discussions taking place with another member. The services provided to corporate members include:

1. Up to one day of consulting with a member professor ($500 value) 2. BDM works closely with the corporate member to scope the problem statements and project plans 3. BDM facilitates grant applications to funding agencies 4. BDM provides project management support to ensure successful project delivery 5. Corporate members have preferred pricing for access to state‐of‐the‐art facilities, on a case by case basis 6. Corporate members gain exclusive introduction to WIN startup companies and other members 7. Members retain rights to mention membership in marketing materials 8. Members are invited to attend and present (when appropriate) at WIN events 9. WIN team facilitates introductions and recruitment for new Masters and PhD graduates

4.3 WIN Executive in Residence In September 2018, WIN initiated the Executive‐in‐Residence (EIR) program, where an industry expert visits WIN to provide guidance and consultation to faculty members looking to adapt their research results to market needs, which may eventually lead to a spin‐off company. This is a voluntary position with a typical term of one year. Dr Rina Carlini was nominated to be WIN’s inaugural EIR (also a WIN BOD member). Dr Carlini worked at the Xerox Research Centre for a number of years as lab scientist and manager and most recently as Executive Director of HaltonTech, a business incubator for technology companies from Halton Region of Ontario. As of December 2018, four researchers have used Dr Carlini’s services. WIN plans to recruit other EIRs according to the needs of the WIN members.

4.4 Invention Disclosure and Patent Applications WIN members were asked to share information about inventions disclosures and patent applications. Invention disclosures included disclosures to the Waterloo Commercialization Office (WatCo) at UW or other technology transfer offices in case of collaborative inventions. Patent applications were limited to provisional applications for independent standalone inventions completed either through technology transfer offices, independently, or by industry partners. (The data does not include follow‐up patent applications, e.g. PCT or international filings.) Of the 24 respondents, and a total of 32 invention disclosures were filed within the reporting time period, and total of 61 patent applications were filed. One

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 34 researcher reported contribution of their innovation to the open source project. The Appendix D provides the list of selected patent applications disclosed voluntarily by the WIN members.

4.5 Nanotechnology Entrepreneurship Two distinct streams of entrepreneurship exist among UW‐based nanotechnology entrepreneurs: (1) undergraduate students primarily from the Nanotechnology Engineering program take a lead in new business creation; and (2) spin‐off companies from WIN research groups.

For the majority of undergraduate‐student led startups, the Velocity Science Program housed at the UW main campus offers valuable guidance and a first home to these fledgling enterprises. The most successful ones then incubate at Velocity Science (UW’s main campus) or Velocity Garage (the Tannery, Downtown Kitchener). Nanoengineering startups make up the majority of science‐based companies in the Velocity program, a credit to the interdisciplinary nature of the program.

To support the second group of nanotechnology entrepreneurs, launched in September 2018, the WIN Start‐up Catalyst Program has been created to supplement existing entrepreneurship programming at the Waterloo campus, and expose faculty members, graduate students and postdocs to entrepreneurship. This program is a way to develop an enterprise‐based community starting at the early stages, and stay connected with companies as they grow. Below is the list of services this program provides:  Preferred pricing for access to analytical equipment  Free access to WIN’s meeting and event spaces at QNC  Use of the WIN name/logo in marketing materials  Introductions to investors  Connections with world partners  Facilitated access to WIN researcher expertise  Assistance in talent acquisition  Access to WIN’s Executive‐in‐Residence Table 4.1 lists the researcher‐led startups with whom WIN has a relationship through the Startup Catalyst Program.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 35 Table 4.1: WIN Startup Catalyst Program Entities

Company Name and Logo Description of Product or Service Rafaat Masour (Connected Devices), ICSPI Inc: manufactures portable, CMOS chip based Atomic Force Microscopes. The company now has worldwide sales, with distributors and customer

in North America, Europe and China. Bo Cui (Connected Devices), NanoDevice Solutions Inc: manufactures cantilever probes for Atomic Force Microscopes. NDS has customers around the globe, and as of Summer 2018 has opened a pilot manufacturing facility in China. Karim Karim (Therapeutics and Theranostics), KA Imaging Inc: new, high‐resolution X‐Ray detectors. As of winter 2018, the company has raised private capital, received several large orders and undergoing a clinical trial in partnership with Grand

River Hospital located in Waterloo Region. The X‐Ray detectors are capable of imaging elements of soft tissue at unprecedented spatial resolution only achievable with MRI imaging. Boxin Zhao (Smart and Functional Materials), EverBond Interface Technologies Inc: novel, bio‐based adhesive suitable for a variety of industrial applications. One of the unique features is the innovative adhesive is a possibility of bonding

materials underwater Roderick Slavcev (Therapeutics and Theranostics), Mediphage Bioceuticals: genetic medicine technology based on the safest transgene delivery vector on the market, DNA ministrings (msDNA). msDNA is an efficient, customizable and re‐dosable vector for use in a range of applications including ex‐vivo and in‐

vivo gene therapies, CAR‐T immunotherapy, DNA vaccines, iPSC, and cell engineering, and CRISPR therapeutic applications. Shirley Tang (Smart and Functional Materials), LeNano: nanobiosensors based on carbon nanotubes capable of very rapid

detection of cardiac biomarkers in blood samples of patients undergoing open‐heart surgery. This reduces significantly the chances of post‐operative complications. Scott Hopkins (Therapeutics and Theranostics), Watermine Innovations: artificial intelligence to analyze terabytes of mass‐ spectrometry data to pinpoint specific drug structures and properties that will give rise to optimal therapeutic effectiveness. This results in getting new, more effective drugs to patients faster. Michael Pope (Next Generation Energy Systems and Smart & Functional Materials), Evercloak: patented technology for an economical and energy efficient manufacturing process to coat a continuous single layer of nanomaterials (such graphene) over large areas. The company’s initial market focus is in the area of water filtration and purification.

Frank Gu* (Smart and Functional Materials), H2NanO:

commercializes a new photocatalyst that allows efficient destruction of hard‐to‐degrade organics contaminants, including petrochemicals, surfactants, solvents, dyes, polymers and the recalcitrant organics. *Frank Gu appointed a WIN Fellow in August 2018.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 36 4.5 WIN Industry Series In 2018 WIN started a new seminar series focused specifically for industry. Within this program, companies are invited throughout the year to give a seminar presentation at WIN. Company representatives at high levels within the enterprise are invited, such as the Vice‐President of Research and Development (or equivalent). These seminars are designed to provide industry insights for our members, and have a high likelihood of future research collaborations.

The WIN Industry Seminars are accompanied by pre‐arranged one‐on‐one meetings with faculty members whose research has strong overlap of interests with the company’s R&D needs. In 2018, WIN hosted three Industry Series Seminars: 1. May 3, 2018. Jamal Zeinalov, Co‐Founder and CEO, Atomic Works Inc. The company develops software simulation platforms to assist in the discovery of new materials and structures on a molecular scale. 2. July 30, 2018. Michael Scott, Senior Vice‐President of Product Development, BlueRock Therapeutics Inc. Dr Scott has more than 20 years of experience in the field of cardiovascular medical devices and in the stem cell therapeutics landscape. Dr Scott’s R&D team focused on development of a cell therapy platform for delivery of dopaminergic neurons to treat Parkinson’s disease and cardiomyocytes to treat congestive heart failure. 3. November 9, 2018. Elena Polyakova, Founder and CEO, Graphene Laboratories Inc. Dr Polyakova has co‐authored papers with Nobel and Kavli prize winners. Founded is 2009, her company is 2009 is a pioneer in the commercial graphene production.

4.6 WIN Innovation Series In Fall 2017, WIN started the Innovation Seminar Series featuring academic and government presenters who are working in multidisciplinary research areas of nanotechnology and have broader interest in nanotechnology.

The first Innovation Seminar was held in November 2017, welcoming Dr Amit Goyal and Dr Thomas Thundat from the State University of New York‐University of Buffalo (SUNY‐UB) Center for Research & Education in eNergy, Environment and Water (RENEW). The second Innovation Seminar was held in May 2018, featuring Professor Patricio Mendez, Industry Chair in Welding and Joining from the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. The events were well received because of the subject matter and direct relevance and practical applications.

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WIN has championed some key funding opportunities for its members. The list below provides details of successful applications since January 2013:

5.1 Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina In April 2013, WIN invited a delegation from China’s Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development to UW to meet WIN members in energy and petroleum/petrochemical sciences. The delegation of six engineers from PetroChina was led by Senior Researcher Dr Qun Lei, who met with WIN members to discuss areas of R&D overlap, specifically in crude extraction and shale recovery technologies, and alternative energy discovery.

The delegation returned to WIN in June 2013 for a brief workshop, featuring presentations by Professors Jean Duhamel (“Polymer Chain Dynamics and Associative Polymers”), Flora Ng (“A Greener Process of Upgrading Oilsands Bitumen”), and Michael Tam (“Functional Colloids and Nanomaterials for Rheological Control and Emulsion Stabilization”). After several meetings and discussions, RIPED sponsored A project with Michael Tam entitled, “Study on Preparation of Specific Functional Materials” for $320,000 CAD over three years.

5.2 NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) In May 2014, the Canada‐Brazil workshop held at Belo Horizonte Brazil was the venue for discussions between Ecosynthetix (Canada) and Suzano (Brazil) on a two‐million dollar, four‐partner collaboration (with top academic research institutes in both geographical regions: UW, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, and National Nanotechnology Laboratories and partner laboratories in CNPEM for characterization of advanced materials). An NSERC‐CRD application for a university‐industry, Canada‐Brazil project was submitted in November 2014, by lead researcher Michael Tam and co‐PIs Leonardo Simon and Boxin Zhao, resulting in $1M CAD being granted for this initiative.

5.3 Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) The Department of National Defence (DND) announced a program totalling $9M for the creation of Innovation Networks for R&D in areas of interest to the DND. The first Innovation Networks call supports a series of micro‐networks (or Micro‐nets) of self‐organized multidisciplinary teams to generate a critical mass of knowledge and experience, aiming to solve specific defence and security challenges.

In October 2018, a team of WIN researchers submitted entitled Active Detection Avoidance for Personnel & Transport (ADAPT) a proposal focused on the development of advanced materials for detection avoidance. The team includes Lead Michael Pope, with WIN collaborators Na Young Kim, Kevin Musselman, Derek Schipper, and Shirley Tang with UW collaborator Safeiddin Safavi‐Naeini, and external partners from the University of Calgary, École Polytechnique de Montréal, and Myant Industries. Although this application did not pass the third stage evaluations, WIN is assisting the Lead and co‐PIs to reformat the proposal for submission to other funding programs in 2019.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 38 5.4 Canada Foundation for Innovation The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) was created in 1997 to ensure Canadian researchers have the tools they need to push the frontiers of knowledge in all disciplines, in the form of the cutting‐edge labs, facilities and equipment, to contribute to the full spectrum of research from discovery to technology development.

For the 2019 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Innovation Fund (IF) competition, WIN has received a confirmed allocation of $1M. To best utilize this envelope, WIN announced an internal competition inviting its members to submit an internal Notice of Intent (iNOI) describing the new infrastructure, equipment or renovations requested to enable a specific nanotechnology‐related research project.

Five iNOIs were submitted, with two being chosen to receive a portion of the $1M WIN allocation: 1. Waterloo Centre for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, submitted by WIN members Linda Nazar and Zhongwei Chen requesting $1M from WIN, receiving $800,000; 2. Advanced Nanotechnology Platform for Nanomedicine, Molecular & Quantum Biology Research, submitted by WIN members Zoya Leonenko and Michel Gingras requesting $200k from WIN and receiving the same. With this WIN allocation, the groups listed above applied to the UW Office of Research CFI‐IF call in October 2018 for the remainder of the requested funds for the projects.

The three applicants who did not receive WIN CFI‐IF allocation were encouraged to apply directly to UW Office of Research, or provided guidance in seeking a non‐WIN research group with similar research focus.

5.5 International Research Funding WIN has a large number of international partners, which has helped in receiving successful bi‐lateral funding with WIN partner institutes. The funding details are provided in Section 6. In summary, since 2013, WIN has received $2.3M CAD in funding by participating in international research opportunities.

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6.1 International Partners Over the years, WIN has nurtured a strong connection with global research communities to further enhance research excellence through joint supervision of graduate students, accessing collaborative funding, and organizing joint workshops. This has increased WIN’s global reputation and helped in its research excellence, as evident from the bibliometric analyses presented in Section 3.2.1. Figure 6.1 illustrates WIN’s current international partners:

Fig 6.1: WIN International Partnerships

6.1.1 Brazil Canada and Brazil share complementary economic aspects, namely large natural resource, petrochemical, and advanced manufacturing sectors, as well as a vibrant and expanding life‐sciences industry (pharma‐ and biopharmaceuticals, novel diagnostic tool, and therapy development). Both countries are well‐ positioned to produce world‐leading products and technologies to address unmet needs in these areas, and collaboration may lead to innovations that can further drive prosperity.

The Agreement for Research Exchange & Collaboration between WIN and the National Center for Research in Energy & Materials (CNPEM) was signed in 2013 for a 4‐year initial period with automatic extension for 4 years.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 40 There have been four WIN‐Brazil workshops since 2013 including: 1. Canada‐Brazil Workshop in September 2013 at WIN; specific focus: energy; sustainable nanomaterials; sensors and devices; computational materials science; and nanobiomaterials 2. Canada‐Brazil Start‐Up and 3.0 Web Conference in João Pessoa in December 2013: to explore pairing of Canadian and Brazilian accelerator centres and the Communitech Soft‐Landing Program 3. Canada‐Brazil Workshop in May 2014 at Belo Horizonte, Brazil: focus on “Sustainable Nanomaterials: Production and Applications of Nanocellulose”; to create common ground and a conducive environment for the joint development of products and processes from crystalline nanocellulose (CNC) and related materials 4. Canada‐Brazil Workshop in nanotechnology, October 2015 (at Brazil’s “Tech Week” event) in São Paulo: A new approach combining academic research talks with the Tech Week industrial trade show and networking activities joining academia and industry with over 70 representatives from government, industry, and research institutions from both Canada and Brazil.

6.1.2 China Economic growth in China has been remarkable over the past decade, now the second largest economy in the world, which has translated large investments in research and development in S&T. China is on its way to becoming a superpower in the key areas of science and innovation, recently reported as the second‐largest spender on research and development (R&D) after the US, accounting for 21% of the world’s total of nearly $2 trillion in 2015, and has made nanotechnology a major priority. Research and development is an indicator of investment in technology and future capabilities, and therefore plays a critical role in the innovation process and the creation of new products, processes and services. WIN is actively seeking strategic links into China for bright talent, new ideas and resources to foster close collaboration in all key theme areas of nanotechnology.

6.1.2.1 Soochow University and the Suzhou Industrial Park China has invested significantly in developing the nanotechnology industry and associated infrastructure at Suzhou with the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) and the Nanopolis Nanotechnology Commercialization Hub ($1.5B USD infrastructure investment and capacity for over 200 companies). Suzhou is now considered the "Nanotechnology Capital of China," with dedicated educational programs and infrastructure in Soochow University and its Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM).

The strong and productive research partnership between WIN and Soochow University initiated by Soochow University, the University of Waterloo and the Suzhou Industrial Park (SUN‐WIN‐SIP) commenced in 2011, and has continued throughout the past six years. The Joint Institute of Research and Education was formed to enable faculty at both institutions to engage in research collaborations, foster scholar exchange, and stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation in Nanotechnology and is a dynamic vehicle for this partnership.

MOUs and Agreements signed since 2013: 1. MOU for a Renewed, Comprehensive Collaboration in Nanotechnology Research, Education, Innovation & Entrepreneurship between Soochow University College of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNST) and the Institute for Functional and Soft Nanomaterials (FUNSOM); signed March 2016 2. Soochow‐Waterloo PhD Program for Doctoral Studies, signed 2014 (Faculties of Engineering and Science)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 41 3. Agreement for Undergraduate and Graduate Educational Collaboration in Nanotechnology between UW and Soochow University, signed 2015 (Faculty of Science) 4. A new initiative, UW‐Soochow Postdoctoral Training Program, for co‐supervision of a postdoctoral fellow between a UW/WIN member and a Soochow researcher with a minimum fellowship of ¥250,000 per year for two to three years is currently being finalized

A workshop held in summer 2013 brought Soochow/FUNSOM researchers to Waterloo to showcase success and allow an opportunity to expand the UW‐Soochow relationship to scientific fields other than Nanotechnology (ie: Environment, Energy, WISE, the Water Institute). Approximately 30 Soochow faculty members and students visited the University of Waterloo for the Third Reciprocal Workshop over three days (31 July – 2 August 2013).

In 2016 and 2018, several WIN faculty attended the CHINano Nanotechnology Conference and Exposition held in Suzhou China, a business‐themed conference to discuss advances in nanotechnology‐related disciplines. Invited industry leaders, academic experts, and governmental delegates from across the globe were invited to discuss latest trends in technology development, product promotion and commercialization potential.

For the October 2016 CHINano Conference, 14 WIN members were invited to attend and give presentations at the breakout WIN‐Soochow session for follow up and planning the next steps in joint research projects. Funds secured from the SUN‐WIN‐SIP Joint Research Institute Funding Program were utilized to cover the travel and accommodation expenses for the WIN delegation, totalling approximately $32,000 CAD.

Since arrival of the new ED, WIN’s approach to the participation in CHINano has pivoted to focus on late‐ stage applied projects and existing research‐based start‐up companies. At the most recent exhibition in October 2018, five start‐up companies were based on research conducted by WIN members. For the first time, WIN has partnered with the Waterloo Commercialization (WatCo) office to jointly coordinate WIN presence at the CHINano Business Exhibition.

The next research‐innovation workshop is scheduled for April 2019 in Suzhou entitled “The WIN‐Jiangsu Research and Industry Network: Nanotechnology Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Leading Academic Institutions and Commercialization Hubs in Jiangsu Province”.

In February 2013, ten joint proposals were submitted from WIN and Soochow PIs for the Second Round SUN‐SIP Funding Competition, with seven projects being awarded 450,000 RMB in June 2013. Five additional projects were awarded the same amount in 2015. The tables below list the jointly funded projects and award amounts:

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 42 Table 6.1: Joint Projects Funded in 2013 WIN SUN Funding Project Topic Participants Collaborator Amount Dayan Ban Qiaoliang Bao 450,000 RMB Graphene‐based Mode‐lock Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers Pu Chen Xiujuan Zhang 450,000 RMB High Drug‐Loading Nanomedicines for Effective Cancer Therapy Irene Jianxin Tang 450,000 RMB Transparent Plasmonic Silver Nanostructure Goldthorpe Electrodes Towards Flexible Polymer Solar Cells Mikko Lifeng Chi 450,000 RMB High Performance Field‐Effect Gas Sensors Karttunen Pavle Zhenghui Kang 450,000 RMB High Efficiency Catalyst Design Based on Radovanovic Silicon Nanostructures for Hydrocarbon Selective Oxidation Siva Wanli Ma 450,000 RMB Solution Processed Nanocrystal Solar Cells Sivoththaman Shirley Tang Yang Liu 450,000 RMB Carbon Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging and Cancer Therapy

Table 6.2: Joint Projects Funded in 2015 WIN SUN Funding Project Topic Participants Collaborator Amount Marianna Lichen Yin 450,000 RMB Development of Highly Effective Non‐viral Foldvari Transfection Reagent for in‐vitro and in‐vivo Gene Delivery Linda Nazar Yanguang Li 450,000 RMB Photoelectrically Rechargeable Zn‐Air Batteries Linda Nazar Lijun Gao 450,000 RMB Development of Sodium Manganate/Hard Carbon Prototype Sodium Ion Batteries Xiaosong Wang Feng Yan 450,000 RMB Electroactive and Multistimuli Responsive Supramolecular Ionic Liquid Functional Materials Based on Host‐Guest Interactions Lan Wei Hua Li 450,000 RMB Design and Synthesis of Pendent Polymers to Achieve Electro‐responsive Devices as Ultra‐ high Data Storage Utilities

Total WUN‐SIP funding for Joint Research Projects for 2013‐2015 = ¥5.4M ≈ $1.1M CAD

Educational Programs The WIN‐SUN collaboration allows the exploration of new opportunities for graduate student recruitments and PhD student co‐supervision with the development of joint education programs. Soochow University and WIN have signed agreements on collaborative educational programs for Soochow students interested in studying Nanotechnology at UW, including the UW‐Soochow Doctoral (co‐tutelle) program with a corresponding $10,000 USD scholarship for each year in residency at UW, and 3+1+1 joint Bachelor’s/Master’s program.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 43 A full list of Soochow students who have studied at UW as part of the SUN‐WIN Joint Education Programs can be found in Appendix E.

The UW‐Soochow Postdoctoral Program has been drafted, with full funding for a postdoctoral fellow for a 2‐3 year program, with split UW/Soochow residency, to begin in 2019.

Commercialization John Yeow spent one year at Soochow University on sabbatical leave as an adjunct professor teaching courses, conducting research with Soochow co‐PI Xuhui Sun, and preparing for commercialization procedures at SIP for the start‐up company, Core Technologies Inc.

6.1.2.2 Tsinghua University‐University of Waterloo Joint Research Center for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology The University of Waterloo is partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing, China on a research collaboration centre to advance areas of nanotechnology, energy, and pollution control. The centre, known as Tsinghua University–University of Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology, officially opened on March 29 2018.

The centre was launched in Beijing by a University of Waterloo delegation, led by Feridun Hamdullahpur, UW President and Vice‐chancellor, Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering, and WIN member Zhongchao Tan, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering professor along with Xu Chen, Chancellor of Tsinghua University.

WIN members contributing to the expertise of the joint centre include: 1. Zhongwei Chen (ChE) 2. Siva Sivoththaman (ECE) 3. Flora Ng (ChE) 4. Kyle Daun (MME) 5. John Wen (MME)

UW funding for the Tsinghua‐Waterloo Joint Research Centre includes:  Office of Research: $100,000 over 3 years  Faculty of Engineering: $30,000 over 3 years  Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering: $30,000 over 3 years  Department of Chemical Engineering: $30,000 over 3 years  Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology: $10,000 over 3 years

Tsien Excellence in Engineering Program (TEEP+) The TEEP+ Summer School is co‐organized by TEEP and the Centre for Micro and Nano Mechanics (CMNM) at Tsinghua U. In 2018 the theme for the summer school was “Nano‐X Innovation for Sustainability” with themes focusing on Nano‐mechanics, Nano‐biotechnology, and Nano‐AI for sustainability. WIN member Luis Ricardez Sandoval was invited to participate in the TEEP+ event, to help develop a dedicated program for student‐led innovation.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 44 6.1.3 France The University of Bordeaux (UB) is a key partner of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology in nanomaterials science and technology, and one of the top institutions in France in this area. UB has been chosen as one of a privileged group of seven universities in France to receive funding of almost 1B € over 10 years from the French Government Program “Investissements d’Avenir” (Investing in the Future) for advanced materials R&D.

In May 2014, University of Bordeaux researchers visited WIN for a workshop to showcase the International Doctoral Student Program in Functional Materials (IDS‐FunMat), a PhD program started in 2010, and allow an opportunity to expand the WIN‐UB relationship to include broader areas of nanotechnology including biomedical, water, aging and critical materials.

New projects started after 2013 were funded through local sources, where the University of Waterloo supported three IDSFunMat student scholarships to a total of $30,000 per year for three years. Two students joined the Faculty of Engineering and received this award, Yinghui He (ChE; Yuning Li) and Alexandra Madeira (ECE; Irene Goldthorpe), and one student joined the Faculty of Science, Zhen Zhang (Chem; Xiaosong Wang).

6.1.4 Germany The Centre for Nanointegration Duisburg‐Essen (CENIDE) is a research institute located within the University of Duisburg‐Essen (UDE). CENIDE was founded in 2005 and is considered one of the most important nanoresearch centres in Europe. Home to the unique €46M NanoEnergy Technology Centre (NanoEnergieTechnikZentrum or NETZ) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Analytics on the Nanoscale (ICAN) the infrastructure and facilities are considered state‐of‐the‐art, allowing for leading‐edge research in fundamental and application‐related development. Over 400 scientists are organized into 65 teams dedicated to work in key theme areas of nanotechnology including advanced materials design, nanobiomaterials and nanoenergy technology. The partnership was initiated by WIN member Kyle Daun (MME) with collaborator Christof Schulz (UDE) in 2013.

The Agreement for Research Exchange and Collaboration between CENIDE and WIN for faculty, student and information exchange and other activities to support research partnership was signed June 2016.

The first workshop was held at the University of Duisburg‐Essen in June 2017 in the following priority areas of research collaboration: advanced nanomaterials and technologies for energy and environmental technology; nanobiosystems and nanomedicine technology; and design and development of nano‐tools and nanoinstrumentation for materials characterization.

A second reciprocal workshop was hosted by WIN in June 2018 which focused on the following objectives: (1) development of a joint NSERC CREATE/DFG IRTG proposal focused on “Hybrid‐Architectures of 2D Materials with Interface‐Controlled Functionality”, a topic identified at the first workshop based on its growing importance in nanoengineering and that it is a common research priority of both WIN and CENIDE; and (2) establishing a cotutelle program between WIN and CENIDE that will enhance postgraduate training in nano‐engineering and facilitate knowledge transfer between these two institutions. Both objectives are currently under way, with the joint application to be submitted by CENIDE in Germany in Fall 2019 and the CREATE grant in 2020, and the first student for the PhD cotutelle program expected to be admitted in 2019.

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6.1.5 India Nanotechnology is an identified priority area for Canada‐India collaboration as outlined by the Canada‐ India Joint Science and Technology Cooperation Committee.

A Memorandum of Understanding for Educational and Scientific Cooperation between WIN and the Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CRNN) at the University of Calcutta for joint research activities of common interest in the general fields of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, exchange of faculty, students and information was signed in July 2018 to be in effect for a duration of five (5) years.

In Fall 2018, WIN hosted the Directors of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar and Tirupati, with the expectation that such interactions would facilitate the current university initiative under International Operations Council to shape the engagement with India.

WIN‐Mitacs Initiative for IIT As mentioned in Section 2.3.2, WIN and Mitacs formalized an agreement to support international student training opportunities in nanotechnology innovation and commercialization. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) academic system was chosen as the first WIN‐Mitacs partner to participate in this program, being an ideal testing ground for the program because of the high quality of students at IIT and dedication of the IIT partners. In February 2018, WIN Executive Director, Sushanta Mitra visited India for the signing ceremony of the agreement with Mitacs CEO Dr Alejandro Adem.

6.1.6 Israel A joint conference was held in Haifa Israel in March 2014, where an agreement was signed between the University of Waterloo and Technion‐Israel Institute of Technology. This event brought together some of the top minds in quantum information science, nanotechnology and water for pure and applied research.

This partnership agreement is designed to connect students and faculty from both institutions with global markets through technology transfer and commercialization opportunities with industrial partners in Canada and in Israel.

WIN members in attendance at the 2014 workshop include: Jonathan Baugh, Faculty (WIN/IQC); Adrian Lupascu, Faculty (WIN/IQC) ; Carolyn Ren, Associate Professor (WIN); and Zbigniew Wasilewski, Professor, WIN Endowed Chair .

A call for proposals for the Haifa‐Technion‐UW Research Award valued at $30,000 CAD for research and mobility was announced in May 2014. Ten new projects were awarded to advance research and innovation in Nanotechnology, eight of which went to WIN members for the following:  Adrian Lupascu (WIN), Jonathan Baugh (WIN), Aharon Blank (Technion), Tal Mor (Technion) and Itamar Kahn (Technion): Magnetic Resonance and Algorithmic Cooling‐theory and Applications of Small Quantum Information Processors (I) and (II)  Adrian Lupascu (WIN) and Eyal Buks (Technion): Non‐linear Dynamics and Back‐action Evading Measurements of Nanomechanical Resonators Coupled to Flux Qubits  Hamed Majedi (WIN) and Alex Hayat (Technion): Superconductor‐semiconductor Nanostructures for Quantum Technologies

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 46  Norman Zhou (WIN) and Yaron Paz (Technion): Removal of Organic Pollutants in Drinking Water using Plasmonic Photocatalytic Membranes  Derek Schipper (WIN) and Nir Tessler (Technion): The Simultaneous Sorting and Alignment of Single‐walled Carbon Nanotubes for Application in High Performance Organic Field Effect Transistors  Michael Tam (WIN) and Abraham Marmur (Technion): Development of Functional Cellulose Nanocrystals for the Stabilization of Pickering Emulsions  Holger Kleinke (WIN) and Yaron Amouyal (Technion): Formation of Periodic Defects at the Nanometric Length Scale in Thermoelectric Compounds for Energy Harvesting  Frank Gu (WIN) and Josue Sznitman (Technion): Mucoadhesive Nanoparticle Drug‐laden Liquid Instillations for Pulmonary Drug Delivery

A second funding program was announced in 2018 for PIs with existing projects requiring additional support, with a corresponding workshop held in Haifa‐Technion in November 2018. WIN members in attendance include: Jonathan Baugh; Na Young Kim; Michael Tam; Derek Schipper; Yuning Li; and Holger Kleinke. Awardees will be notified in the coming academic year.

6.1.7 Japan 6.1.7.1 National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Japan is a top priority for WIN, visiting the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) consistently every year for the past six years. Areas of common strength and vision include Electric/electronic materials, polymers and organic molecules, biomaterials, optical materials, sensors & actuators, quantum materials, and green research on energy & environmental materials.

The renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding between WIN and NIMS Japan was signed Nov 2016 with a duration of five (5) years. Additionally, the Cooperative Graduate Agreement between UW and National Institute for Materials Science Japan was signed in October 2018. This agreement is designed to provide a mechanism for PhD students from UW to engage in research by providing funding for living accommodations.

The Second Reciprocal Canada‐Japan Workshop was hosted in Japan in January 2013 to demonstrate the on‐going commitment and support of the Canada‐Japan Agreement on Cooperation in Science and Technology by the Governments of Japan and Canada. The primary objective for WIN at this workshop was to advance the partnership and projects define in the WIN‐NIMS agreement and explore further exploration of industry‐academic partnerships.

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Fig 6.2: Signing of UW‐NIMS Cooperative Graduate Agreement at the Canadian Embassy of Japan, Tokyo

WIN participated in the NanoTech Japan Exhibition and Tradeshow at Tokyo Big Sight every year since 2013‐2018, where WIN participated in the Canadian program with NanoOntario and NanoCanada, meeting with NIMS for programs on faculty exchanges and funding.

Every year NIMS hires UW Nanotechnology Engineering undergraduate students for a research internship program. The following is a list of Co‐operative Education students from UW visiting MANA/NIMS since 2013: 1. Eric Lee (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), 2018 2. Alysha SCHNEIDER‐YAMAMURA (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), 2018 3. Holden Beggs (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), UW, 2017 4. Sahad Vasanji (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), 2017 5. Thomas Jensen‐Large (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), 2017 6. Chelsea Kit‐Sze Leung (NIMS‐Japan, Co‐op), 2017 7. Manasa Kaniselvan, (co‐op), UW, Chem. Eng, NIMS, Japan‐UWaterloo Exchange Program, 2017 8. Kojo Adjei‐Afriyie (co‐op), UW, Chem. Eng, NIMS, Japan‐UWaterloo Exchange Program, 2015 9. Aravind Bathini Ramaraju (co‐op), UW, Chem. Eng, NIMS, Japan‐UWaterloo Exchange Program, 2015 10. Francis Nguyen (co‐op), Japan‐UWaterloo Exchange Program, 2014 11. Ricardo Jose Guerrero, Japan‐UWaterloo Exchange Program, 2014

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 48 6.1.8 Netherlands 6.1.8.1 MESA+ Research Institute at the University of Twente MESA+ is a renowned leader in many key fields of technology such as the physics of fluidics (ranked first in the world in this area) and has pioneered the "digital twin" platform for human health and disease prevention.

The Memorandum of Understanding for Educational and Scientific Cooperation between WIN and MESA+ University of Twente for general research collaboration, faculty and student exchange, information sharing and facilities was signed in June 2018 for a duration of 5 years.

Fig 6.3: Signing of MoU between WIN and MESA+ during the ISAB Meeting in June 2018

6.1.8.2 AMOLF Institute The AMOLF Research Institute is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research located at the Amsterdam Science Park. The research focus at AMOLF is fundamental research on the physics and design principles of natural and man‐made complex matter, the creation of novel functional materials, renewable energy, green ICT and healthcare.

AMOLF faculty Dr Bruno Ehrler visited WIN in June 2018 to receive the WIN Rising Star Award recognizing his achievements in his career, and also presented at WIN’s International Frontiers in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Symposium on 6th June 2018. This relationship will facilitate partnership and research collaboration with the institutes, and open future exciting opportunities.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 49 6.1.9 Poland In May 2013, a delegation from the University of Warsaw visited the QNC and WIN, and the Framework‐ Agreement between WIN of UW and the University of Warsaw Inter‐Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MISMaP College) in Warsaw, Poland, was signed. The Cooperation Agreement includes: joint research activities, publications and reports; faculty and student exchanges; workshops, conferences and seminars; and joint education and training programs.

Since 2013, nine graduate students from the University of Warsaw’s MISMaP College (the elite interdisciplinary college for exceptional students) visited WIN for 2‐month research internships working with faculty in the fields of nanobiotechnology, nanomaterials development and device design and fabrication.

Table 6.3: University of Warsaw Students for Summer Research Internship Program Date of Research Student WIN Faculty Supervisor Department Internship July‐August 2013 Witold Uhrynowski Pu Chen Chemical Engineering Sylwia Walczak Juewen Liu Chemistry Dawid Zygmunt Dayan Ban Electrical Engineering July‐August 2014 Zaneta Matuszek Juewen Liu Chemistry Dorota Sabat Moira Glerum Biology Ewa Sitarska John Honek Chemistry July‐August 2016 Olga Krysiak Michael Pope Chemical Engineering Agnieszka Starobrat Linda Nazar Chemistry Wojciech Wegner Holger Kleinke Chemistry

6.1.10 Taiwan Taiwan represents a significant and strategic opportunity for WIN in realizing its ambition of becoming a global centre of excellence in Nanotechnology. Taiwan is considered a global powerhouse in this area, with its government recognizing Nanotechnology as a top S&T priority, and investing in tools and infrastructure (such as the National Nanodevices Laboratory) in the nation’s top universities. As a result, these academic institutions have built up strong programs in fundamental nanoscience, advanced materials and nanodevices which can compete with the best in the world.

Several Memoranda of Understanding have been signed between UW/WIN and academic institutions since 2013, including: 1. Agreement for Research Exchange and Collaboration with National Chiao Tung University (NCTU); signed July 2010 for 5 years with an automatic 5‐year renewal 2. Dual Degree Co‐tutelle PhD program with NCTU signed in 2016 3. Memorandum of Understanding with National Cheng Kung University (NCKU); signed 2010 with renewal signed in 2018 for a duration of 5 years 4. Agreement for Research Exchange and Collaboration with National Tsing Hua University (NTHU); signed Sep 2010 for 5 years with an automatic 5‐year renewal 5. Dual Degree Co‐tutelle PhD program with NTHU (under revision)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 50 Additionally, two important workshops have been hosted by WIN since 2013: 1. The Third Reciprocal WIN‐Taiwan Workshop was held at UW’s QNC in August 2015, bringing together esteemed Taiwanese and WIN and other Canadian researchers from neighboring universities, including Dr Chung‐Yuan MoU, former Deputy Minister of Taiwan’s National Science Council and Professor of Chemistry at NTU 2. The WIN‐NCKU Workshop on Nanomedicine, Medical Imaging, and Electronic Devices hosted at the QNC on 28 August 2018, with the delegation led by Professor In‐Gann Chen, Director for Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology (CMNST) accompanied by Professor Dar‐Bin Shieh from the Institute for Oral Medicine and Deputy Minister of the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

These interactions led to following successful funding opportunities:  Juewen Liu (WIN) was granted $553,000 over three years for the NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants Program (joint submission with HT Chang (NTU) to NSC Global Partnerships Program, Taiwan) on the project entitled, “NSC‐Design and Screening of DNA‐Functionalized Hydrogels for Contaminants in Water”.  Frank Gu, William Wong (WIN) and CC Chang (NCTU) submitted an application to the National Science Council for the Distinctive Research Excellence Award in 2013 and were awarded $195,000 for one year

6.1.11 United Kingdom 6.1.11.1 University of Bristol, Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials University of Bristol was founded in 1876 with a predominant focus in science and technology, and has earned an international reputation for academic and research excellence in the STEM fields. Bristol is consistently ranked as one of the 10 best universities in the UK, and within the top 50 schools worldwide (ranked 9th in the UK by QS and THE, and 41st globally by QS for 2016). The university has also been associated with a very impressive list of alumni including Nobel Laureates with Paul Dirac, Sir Winston Churchill and most recently the 2015 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Angus Deaton.

WIN’s partnership with the University of Bristol commenced with research‐based workshops and graduate student training modules with the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials (BCFN), led by WIN member Zoya Leonenko. Since 2015, WIN members participated in three workshops in the areas of functional nanomaterials, nanophysics & soft matter, bionanoscience and medical nanotechnology, and quantum information. An MOU for Educational & Scientific Cooperation between UW and the University of Bristol was signed in June 2017 to expand collaboration. Unfortunately, BCFN’s 5‐year term ended in 2018 and was not renewed for the next cycle. WIN is in discussion with Bristol on what the next phase of doctoral training at UofB will involve in the areas of research overlap, including smart & functional materials, connected devices, and therapeutics & theranostics.

6.1.11.2 University of Cambridge, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics The University of Cambridge is one of the world’s oldest and most esteemed institutions, with a reputation for outstanding academic achievement and world‐class research. Indeed, Cambridge is invariably ranked

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 51 as the leading learning institution in Europe and one of the top five universities in the world according to the 2018 QS World University rankings.

WIN organized a workshop held in Cambridge in 2016 to identify areas of common vision and synergy, identifying obvious areas of overlap in the theme areas connected devices, and smart & functional materials (especially low‐dimensional novel materials) with faculty research excellence aligned with that at the Centre for Advanced Photonics & Electronics and the Cambridge Graphene Centre. WIN’s primary contact at the University of Cambridge who helped initiate the WIN‐Cambridge partnership is Professor Arokia Nathan who was then‐Division Head of Electrical Engineering (and previous faculty member at UW’s ECE department). Dr Nathan is currently CTO and co‐founder of the very successful company Cambridge Touch Technologies (CTT) in Cambridge UK, developing 3D multi‐touch sensor and data acquisition/AI technologies for LCD and OLED display mobile devices.

Both WIN and Cambridge are eager to have a second reciprocal workshop in the coming year to expand collaboration in all WIN research theme areas.

6.1.12 USA 6.1.12.1 State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY‐B), Center for Research & Education in eNergy, Environment & Water (RENEW) The RENEW Institute (Research and Education in eNergy, Environment and Water) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY‐B) is a university‐wide and interdisciplinary centre, focusing on complex energy and environmental issues, as well as the social and economic ramifications. RENEW is also instrumental in developing and coordinating innovative research, education and outreach programs for the school.

As the United States is the world leader in nanotechnology research and innovation, partnerships with nearby US schools is strategic, beneficial, and will allow inclusion into larger American networks. Collaboration with RENEW can lead to access to international funding programs by WIN members, recruitment of top graduate students, new commercialization initiatives, and promoting the international reputation of UW.

Research themes at RENEW align very well with those of WIN and specifically Smart & Functional Materials with a focus on theoretical modelling and informatics for materials design. As such, there is considerable overlap and complementarity between our two institutes, and the proposed agreement will allow opportunities for exploration and discovery for innovation in research and commercialization. A Memorandum of Understanding has been drafted for Educational and Scientific Cooperation between the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and Research & Education in eNergy, Environment and Water Center (RENEW).

6.2 WIN Rising Star Award In 2018, WIN announced an international call for submissions to the WIN Rising Star Award in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The competition is designed to be an annual event, to bring to UW a full‐time early career faculty member who has received their PhD in science or engineering within 10 years of application. This award is designed to introduce up‐and‐coming ‘rising stars’ in nanotechnology to WIN/UW leading to new partnerships and increase the international recognition of the research excellence at WIN.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 52 The candidate’s research interest must align with one or more of the thematic area(s) of WIN (Smart & Functional Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems, and Therapeutics & Theranostics). Along with an honorarium for $10,000 CAD the award recipient will present a featured research seminar in the symposium. Also, the award recipient will spend two days at WIN interacting with faculty members and graduate students.

Many qualified candidates submitted applications to the competition, and early‐career researcher, Dr Bruno Ehrler, Scientific Group Leader at the AMOLF Institute in Amsterdam Netherlands was chosen to receive the award for his expertise in and contribution to hybrid solar cell fabrication. Dr Ehrler gave a keynote presentation entitled “Beyond Solar Cell Efficiency Limits with Down‐Conversion and Tandem Solar Cells” at the Frontiers of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology International Symposium in June 2018.

The competition was advertised widely in number of scientific outlets including the March 2018 issue of Science and was publicized among WIN’s international partners and ISAB members.

Fig 6.3: WIN Rising Star Award to Dr Bruno Ehrler (centre) of the AMOLF Institute in the Netherlands with WIN ED Dr Sushanta Mitra (left) and UW VP Research, Dr Charmaine Dean (right)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 53 7.0 Knowledge Dissemination

One of the key functionalities of a research institute is to create a platform for knowledge exchange and dissemination that would help to enrich the WIN members and the associated highly qualified personnel. WIN has been organizing a number of such seminar/workshop series since 2013 to provide an opportunity for faculty and students to meet and interact with nanotechnology experts from around the world, and drive research collaboration.

7.1 WIN Distinguished Lecture Series Since 2013, WIN has hosted 24 world‐leading researchers in broad areas of Nanotechnology as WIN Distinguished Lecturers (WIN‐DLS). This is a prestigious WIN seminar series and the individuals who delivers WIN‐DLS are exceptional scientists who have made exceptional contributions in the broad fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Appendix F provides the details of the WIN DLS speakers.

7.2 WIN Seminar Series WIN also hosts regular seminar series inviting prominent researchers from the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology who deliver lectures and interaction with WIN members. A number of such seminars have resulted in new research collaborations for WIN members. Since 2013, WIN has hosted 110 Seminar speakers.

Appendix G provides the full list of WIN Seminar Speakers since January 2013.

Please refer to Sections 4.5 and 4.6 for details of the WIN Industry and WIN Innovation Series, respectively.

7.3 NanoOntario Industry Showcases NanoOntario is a not‐for‐profit organization founded to represent the interests of academic, government, industry and investor communities in nanotechnology in the Province of Ontario. Its vision and mission are similar and complementary to that of WIN, working to raise the profile of nanotechnology research and practice in Ontario, while attracting investment and bolstering economic growth in this field.

WIN has played an important role in the creation and stewardship of NanoOntario, founded in 2012 with former WIN ED Arthur Carty as its Inaugural Chair and WIN former Managing Director, Alain Francq as Treasurer, both serving from 2012‐2017. WIN has worked closely with the NanoOntario Board of Directors to promote the field in national and international arenas, link problem‐based needs of industry with technical expertise of academia, and coordinate public outreach to advocate the societal benefits enabled by nanoscience and technology. With this objective, two WIN‐hosted NanoOntario Industry‐University Showcases were held to develop greater industry awareness focusing on specific industries that directly benefit from nanotechnology research and development. The current WIN ED is also member of the NanoOntario Board.

The first NanoOntario Industry‐University Showcase was hosted by WIN on 13 May 2015, highlighting Ontario Nanofacilities for Emerging Technologies at the University of Waterloo. This event was well‐

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 54 attended by over 150 faculty, students, government officials, including 68 members from Industry. This event was imperative to raising awareness of the nanotechnology research expertise in and around Ontario, and connecting with the private sector to facilitate partnerships.

The second WIN‐hosted NanoOntario Industry Showcase was also held at UW’s QNC on 11 May 2017, intended to exhibit state‐of‐the‐art facilities for nano‐fabrication, nano‐characterisation, and nano‐ metrology at Ontario Universities to encourage use of these facilities and foster collaboration between companies and universities.

The agendas listing the workshop activities and invited speakers for both 2015 and 2017 University‐ Industry showcases are found in Appendix H and I, respectively.

7.4 Research Day Symposia This series is designed to connect faculty and students in all areas of Nanotechnology to provide a forum for discussion on the latest trends and developments in this constantly evolving field. Each term, WIN aims to host at least one Research Day Symposium in each of its four key thematic areas, namely Smart & Functional Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems, and Therapeutics & Theranostics. With the help of Thematic Leads and Co‐Leads, top researchers and academics in the world are being identified and invited to speak at this exciting, day‐long event.

The first Research Symposium was held on 6th November 2018, and focused on Next Generation Energy Systems. WIN welcomed Dr Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Professor from Stanford University who gave the WIN Distinguished Lecture (WIN DLS) presentation entitled, “Navigating the Turbulence of the Global Energy System”. The symposium also showcased research advances at WIN in energy, followed by a panel session themed, “Energy Landscape: 2020 and Beyond” with experts from university research in science and technology, environment, policy, economics and from government.

The symposium is intended to spark new ways of thinking about global problems, which will continue cross‐disciplinary collaboration to push the boundaries of scientific discovery. The agenda for the WIN Research Day Symposium on Next Generation Energy Systems held on 6th November 2018 is found in Appendix J.

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Fig 7.1: WIN Research Day Panel on Energy Landscape – 2020 and Beyond (left to right) Jatin Nathwani, ED Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy; Lora Field, Ontario Investment Office; Paul Parker, Associate Dean Strategic Initiatives Faculty of Environment; Juan Moreno‐Cruz, Professor School of Environment, Enterprise and Development; Ian Rowlands, Associate Vice President International; Arun Majumdar, Jay Precourt Professor of Energy Stanford University; Sushanta Mitra, WIN ED

7.5 International Symposium on Frontiers of NanoScience and Nanotechnology The first symposium held on June 6, 2018, where renowned researchers from around the world participated in the day‐long conference. The conference featured keynote speakers from the international scientific community, and showcased WIN excellence in each of the key theme research areas. The agenda for the 2018 International Symposium on Frontiers of NanoScience and Nanotechnology included:

Keynote Lectures: 1. Albert van den Berg, Scientific Director, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, Netherlands 2. David Sinton, University of Toronto 3. Carlos Bof Buffon, Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (LN‐Nano), CNPEM, Brazil 4. Quanshui Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

WIN Theme Lectures: 1. Boxin Zhao, Smart & Functional Materials 2. Vassili Karanassios and Na Young Kim, Connected Devices 3. Linda Nazar, Next Generation Energy Systems 4. Karim Karim, Therapeutics & Theranostics

Rising Star Keynote Lecture:  Bruno Ehrler, AMOLF Research Institute, Netherlands

The 2019 International Symposium on Frontiers of NanoScience and Nanotechnology will be a two‐day

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 56 event held on June 5‐6th 2019, with the focus on the Smart & Functional Materials thematic area. Invited international speakers for the symposium include:  Sir Mark Welland, Head of the Nanoscience Centre at the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine’s College Cambridge  Ajay Sood, President of the Indian National Science Academy and Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India  Kazuhito Hashimoto, President, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan  Hans‐Jürgen Butt, Director, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Physics, Mainz, Germany  Marija Drndic, Fay R and Eugene Langberg Professor of Physics, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

This will be an annual event, each year focusing on a different research theme area expected to grow in size and impact as the series continues.

Fig 7.2: Collage of images from the First Annual International Symposium on the Frontiers of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (from top‐left clockwise: Dr Linda Nazar (WIN); Audience members; Student Poster Session presentation; and Dr Quanshui Zheng, Tsinghua University)

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 57 8.0 Financial Management

8.1 Financial Model On an annual basis, WIN creates a pro‐forma budget in support of its annual plan, which is presented to the Board of Directors for review and approval. WIN currently receives an operating grant of $350,000 from the Office of Research and an additional $20,000 for the Financial Assistant position. Additional salary support comes from the Provost’s Office for the creation of the new position of the Business Development Manager (BDM), which was negotiated by the current WIN ED.

8.2 Expenditures Between 2013‐2016, the salary for the Executive Director was paid directly from the Provost’s Office in the amount of $200,000 per year as it was a non‐professorial appointment. After September 2016, the Interim and current Executive Directors have had a professorial appointment and are involved in teaching, research and scholarships at the university. Hence, they only receive a stipend, which is currently fixed at $40,000 per year. Chart 8.1 shows the salary expenditure from January 2013 – December 2018. This salary expenditure is divided into two parts – Provost’s support and WIN’s operating budget. The staff salary paid from WIN’s operating budget includes both full time and contract staff members, casual hires (Co‐op students, typically $10,000 per year) and stipend for WIN ED.

Chart 8.1: WIN Salary Expenditures by Year from 2013 ‐2018

WIN Salary 2013‐ 2018 600,000.00

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300,000.00 WIN Provost Support WIN Staff Salary 200,000.00

100,000.00

‐ Jan ‐ Dec Jan ‐ Dec Jan ‐ Dec Jan ‐ Dec Jan ‐ Dec Jan ‐ Dec 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

By creating a flat organization structure under the new WIN ED, WIN is able to reduce the overall salary cost for its operation, which reached almost to an unsustainable situation, leaving almost no money to provide value added services to its members. WIN ED is currently performing further restructuring, which

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 58 would make the salary expenses of WIN staff members (including WIN ED stipend) around $188,000 from WIN’s operating budget, but excluding the business development manager (BDM) position, which was previously funded from the base operation budget of $350,000. This will leave WIN with a significant amount available from WIN’s operating grant to support WIN members for various activities that would drive research excellence, promote collaboration and enable access to large‐scale funding opportunities.

Chart 8.2 shows the non‐salary expenses of WIN from 2013 to 2018. It is evident that by combining the WIN Staff Salary and non‐salary, the expenses exceed the current operating amount of $370,000. As mentioned in previous 5‐year WIN review report, WIN had a starting balance of $1,007,647. WIN has been drawing from this amount to pay WIN’s staff salary over the past years and currently this carry over amount left is around $100,000. Therefore, it is important that a proper organization restructuring been carried out to have sustainable operation of WIN along with request for additional operating funds from the Provost Office to serve WIN members more effectively through a number of new initiatives that have been rolled out in 2018.

Chart 8.2: WIN Expenditures by Year Excluding Salary from 2013 ‐2018 NON‐SALARY TOTAL $250,000.00

$200,000.00

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$‐ Jan‐Dec 2013 Jan‐Dec 2014 Jan‐Dec 2015 Jan‐Dec 2016 Jan‐Dec 2017 Jan‐Dec 2018

8.3 Revenues WIN members have appointments within their respective home departments, and the research funding that they attract per year is in the millions of dollars. However, with respect to revenues, only funding received in the WIN organization unit are presented here.

8.3.1 International Research Partnerships Grant The International Research Partnership Grants (IRPG) are internal seed grants that provide Waterloo researchers with incentives to develop new or existing international research collaborations with leading institutions known for high‐quality research and global ranking. Projects must demonstrate strong potential to leverage direct funding to Waterloo researchers from major Canadian and international

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 59 funding programs. Table 8.1 lists the funding raised through the IRPG program, from the Office of Research, UW stakeholders and international partners.

Table 8.1: International Research Partnerships Grant Funds for International Partnership‐Building Activities Number Country Workshop Date IRPG Funding Building a Strong Collaborative $8,000 IRPG University‐Industry Partnership with 1 Brazil May 2014 $38,000 total Brazil: Workshop on Sustainable ($5,000 WIN) Nanomaterials Building on a Firm Foundation of $15,000 IRPG 2 China Extended Collaboration with Soochow July‐August 2013 $88,000 total University and Suzhou Industrial Park ($5,000 WIN) WIN‐Jiangsu Research & Industry $15,375 IRPG 3 China Network Workshop for Nanotechnology April 2019 $30,750 total Innovation and Entrepreneurship ($5,000 WIN) The WIN‐CENIDE Partnership in $20,000 IRPG 4 Germany Nanotechnology Workshop at University June 2017 $40,000 total of Duisburg‐Essen ($6,500 WIN) Second Reciprocal WIN‐CENIDE $5,000 IRPG 5 Germany Workshop in Smart & Functional June 2018 $41,000 total Materials ($2,500 WIN) Building Extended Collaboration in $15,000 IRPG 6 Taiwan Nanotechnology with Taiwan’s Top August 2015 $50,500 total Academic Institutions ($5,000 WIN) Bilateral University of Bristol‐WIN United $20,000 IRPG Workshop in Nanotechnology Joint with 7 Kingdom June 2015 $54,400 total the First Annual Meeting of the Bristol ($2,500 WIN) Biophysics Society of Canada Second Bilateral University of Bristol‐ United $20,000 IRPG WIN Workshop in Nanotechnology (at 8 Kingdom June 2016 $67,000 total Bristol) with International Graduate Bristol ($2,000 WIN) Student Symposium United Strategic UW/WIN‐Bristol Meeting with $7,500 IRPG 9 Kingdom WIN and Bristol for Joint Research and June 2017 $44,700 total Bristol Student Training Programs ($1,500 WIN) Bilateral University of Bristol‐WIN $15,000 IRPG United Workshop in Nanotechnology Joint with 10 July 2016 $32,200 total Kingdom the First Annual Meeting of the ($5,000 WIN) Biophysics Society of Canada Funding Provided by the UW‐IRPG: $140,875 Totals: Total Funding raised for workshops: $486,550 WIN Contribution: $ 40,000

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 60 8.3.2 NSERC Connect Grant Connect Grants are available to support research‐based activities aimed at forming new partnerships between academia and Canadian companies, to enable mobility and meetings to develop valuable collaborations.

In August 2017, an NSERC Connect Grant was submitted to support the academic‐industry‐student networking sessions at the 18th Canadian Semiconductor Science & Technology Conference (CSSCT) held at UW. The conference was organized by WIN members Zbigniew Wasilewski and Dayan Ban, with WIN staff providing administrative support. The Connect Grant was valued at $5,000 to cover the catering and facilities rental costs for the networking sessions at the CSSTC. It is to be noted that this particular grant was not processed through the WIN operating account as the procedures in the Office of Research was not set up at the time to include such funding.

In May 2018, WIN received a NSERC Connect grant of $3,473 in support of an industry‐networking event that took place on October 17, 2018. See Section 4.1 “Industry Engagement” for more details.

8.3.3 WIN CPP Membership WIN received $5,000 from Sigma Industries Inc. as part of the WIN Corporate Partnership Program.

8.4 Adjustment of Operating Grant WIN is a large research institute with multi‐faceted activities catering to large number of members across the campus. As WIN is in urgent need of additional resources to ensure the proper management and operation of the institute, WIN is requesting an increased yearly allocation of $110,000.

WIN and IQC are unique among research institutes at UW, as they are housed in a direct‐purpose physical building – the QNC – responsible for building operations and facilities management. As such, WIN requires extra consideration and resources for proper and efficient administration. WIN must manage the physical space, which includes:  25 faculty laboratories (wet labs)  22 faculty offices and seven staff offices  209 student desk spaces distributed across 43 student offices  three conference rooms  one seminar room  four parking spots This involves allocating students (undergraduate, co‐op, graduate students and post doctoral fellows) and visitors appropriate desk space, taking inventory of their health and safety documents, issuing office and lab keys and fobs, and interfacing with other stakeholders on campus such as Telephone Services, and Plant Operations for smooth and efficient operation of the facilities. When researchers move, it adds additional workload in terms of arranging proper procedures to vacate laboratories and assigning them to new research groups. Such complex daily operation is unique to WIN and hence it needs to be resourced properly to serves its members efficiently.

At this time, WIN is critically under‐staffed. This, in addition to the increased workload and expectations of UW institutes to promote research excellence and attract the best and brightest talent, it is crucial that WIN’s annual support be increased by the requested amount to maintain the highest quality of service to

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Below is the breakdown of the requested amount for WIN’s operating budget, under two distinct categories – WIN Activity and Staff Salary: WIN Activity: (a) International Symposium on Frontiers of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (details provided in Section 7.5) ‐ $15,000 (b) WIN Research Gala (details provided in Section 3.4) ‐ $5,000 (c) WIN Rising Star (details provided in Section 6.2) ‐ $15,000 (d) WIN‐Mitacs Program (details provided in Section 2.3.2) ‐ $15,000 Therefore, a total of $50,000 is requested for these activity based items.

WIN Staff Salary: To manage the space issues in a more timely and efficient manner, WIN is requesting an additional staff position for “Office Assistant” with a salary commitment of $40,000. Typically, this workload has been handled by at least two co‐op students per term, which is very expensive and time consuming for training (and retraining) each term. It is more efficient and pragmatic for these tasks to be assumed by an on‐going staff complement such as the “Office Assistant”. Also, for the Financial Assistant role, an amount of $20,000, which was provided in 2017‐18 budget cycle, is requested on a continual basis. Therefore, a total of $60,000 is requested to cover the salary cost under WIN’s operating budget.

8.5 Projected Budget over the Next Five Years The itemized breakdown of the budget for the 2018 ‐ 2019 financial year (includes projected expenses between January 2019 – April 2019) is provided in Table 8.2. This gives guidance to project the 2019‐– 2024 anticipated budget expenses primarily in two major categories – salaries and non‐salary expenses (such as office, travel and hospitality, equipment, memberships and other miscellaneous items).

Table 8.2: Itemized Breakdown of the WIN 2018 ‐2019 Budget (includes projected expenses) Item May 2018 – April 2019 Total • Executive Assistant • Operations Assistant • Financial Assistant • Assistant Director, Research Programs Salary $263,839 • Communications Coordinator • Co‐op Student • Special Projects Assistant • Executive Director Stipend • Operations – WIN Distinguished Lectures, Seminars, Conferences& Workshops • Governance – BOD & ISAB Meetings • Promotional and Marketing Materials • Student & Faculty Support • WINGSS Sponsorship Total Office $124,518 • WIN Events – Thematic Days & Start‐up Catalyst Program & Nanofellowships Banquet • WIN‐NCKU Workshop • WIN Gala & Research Day • International Symposium • Visiting Scholar Accommodation

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 62 • Office Supplies • WIN Mixers • WIN‐Mitacs Program  WIN Visitors’ travel, airfare, accommodation, mileage, and misc. Travel  BOD & ISAB 2018 & 2019 $58,131  Invited Guests 2018 & 2019  WIN staff travel, airfare, accommodation, mileage

Equipment • Non‐capitalised computer equipment $3,639

 WIN Institute membership, professional Membership $3,000 development and conference registration fee

• WIN Visiting Scholar allowance Others $13,000 • WIN Rising star award

 Sign Installation fee Building $317  Name plate change fee

Total Expenses: $466,444

Total Budget Received:  Institute Operating Budget ($350,000) $450,000  Carry‐forward ($100,000)

As per Table 8.2, the salary expenses were $263,839 and non‐salary expenses were $202,605, which adds to $466,444. WIN had a carry forward amount of $100,000, which will help in balancing the expenses with respect to the budget received for the financial year 2018 ‐ 2019. It is to be noted that in addition, WIN receives the salary expense ($80,000 for 2018 – 2019 financial year) for the Business Development Manager (BDM) directly from the Provost’s office, as shown in Chart 8.1.

As mentioned in Section 8.2, through restructuring WIN expects to keep the annual salary expenses around $188,000 and the remaining portion ($162,000) to be used for providing value‐added services to WIN members (captured primarily under the “office” expense category). It is expected that the salary expenses for WIN staff members would increase by 2% yearly to cover the across‐the‐board salary increase and the performance component. WIN plans to hold the yearly Board meeting and the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) meeting, which involves bringing members from national and international institutes, and there will be cost involved in their travel and accommodation arrangements. This has been captured by a progressive increase in travel budget by an amount of $5,000. This travel budget also included bringing in internationally renowned researchers for WIN’s Distinguished Lecture Series and the annual International Symposium for Frontiers in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. In addition, as described in Section 8.4, WIN is requesting additional annual budget allocation of $110,000. Based on these premises, Table 8.3 illustrates the projected expenses for the next five years.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 63 Table 8.3: Projected Budget Expenses for 2019‐2024, the next 5 financial years Item 2019 ‐ 2020 2020 ‐ 2021 2021 ‐ 2022 2022 ‐ 2023 2023 ‐ 2024 Salary* $188,000 $191,760 $195,595 $203,497 $207,567 Office $172,000 $163,240 $154,405 $141,503 $132,433 Travel** $80,000 $85,000 $90,000 $95,000 $100,000 Equipment $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 $3,000 Membership $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 $2,000 Others $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 Total $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 Expenses Budget $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 $460,000 Requested *The salary allocation of $188,000 may be subject to 2% standard of living increase per year. Note that this salary expense does not include the BDM salary (currently set at $80,000 per year). **Travel costs may be subject to increase by $5,000 per year (taxes and fuel cost increases). Budget balance will be achieved by adjusting the office expenses by year.

The details under each item are already provided in bullet format under Table 8.2. As per Table 8.3, WIN will able to match its expenses with the budget received, which includes the additional budget request of $110,000. In the event, the additional requested budget amount is not made available, WIN will scale back the activities described in Section 8.4.

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9.0 Moving Forward: Strategic Plan 2019 – 2023

WIN is posed to be the world leader in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Interestingly this field is evolving in a rapid manner and society is seeing ample benefits of nanotechnology. Researchers at WIN are ready to take up the new challenges to integrate their efforts with the Industry 4.0 agenda that allows convergence of various technologies such as biotechnology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and others. At the same time, WIN is cognizant of the importance of Society 5.0, which envisions a humanistic approach to technology development that could lead to transformative solutions meeting UN’s SDGs. Therefore, it is a tremendous opportunity for WIN to accelerate its growth and be a global leader in the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology to solve some of the pressing issues faced by humanity at this time, which includes energy, water, public health, and many more. When the current WIN ED came on board, he conducted an extensive consultation process, that has helped to shape future strategic directions for WIN and is evident from the new activities that were rolled out in 2018. These activities reflect the key goals that are set for the next five years:

(a) To foster a science culture in the community (b) To enhance equity, diversity and inclusion (c) To strengthen the discovery‐innovation continuum (d) To go global

9.1 Consultation Process To engage the entire WIN membership in the structure, function and vision of the institute, several opportunities have been organized for faculty to offer opinions and observations on how WIN can be of continued, additional service and grow with the dynamics of national and worldwide research. Since 2013, periodic anonymous online surveys were assessed for member services and degree of engagement, satisfaction and experience, and strategic opportunities and other feedback pertaining to WIN.

Additionally, in‐person meetings were held by the current WIN Executive Director Sushanta Mitra in fall 2017, which includes WIN research groups (22 members), individual WIN members (with labs in QNC), other UW Stakeholders (Deans, Chairs, Board of Directors members, other institutes, co‐operative education staff) and external partners (international, government, industry and NGOs such as Mitacs). The candid interviews were centered around the following WIN directions and focus:  Vision & leadership  Facilities management  Promotion & communication  Funding programs  International engagements and networks  Industry partnerships  Faculty member support  Students The results of the 2017 online survey and in‐person consultation are listed in Appendix K and L,

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The feedback and results of the 2017 online surveys and in‐person meetings were presented at the first annual WIN Town Hall meeting in November 28, 2017, providing a venue for an open, transparent and collegial engagement process. An informal discussion followed covering many topics including large‐scale funding programs (especially the 2019 CFI‐IF), how to manage and promote the broad‐range of topics in nanotechnology while maintaining inclusivity and focus, and how nanotechnology research can be effective in Canada’s natural resource economy landscape (oil, water, natural products, etc).

Based on the internal consultation process at the 2017 Town Hall and WIN Internal Board Meeting, it was decided that the four nanotechnology research themes (nanomaterials, nanoinstrumentation, nanoelectronics and nanobiomedicine) were to be re‐evaluated and aligned to be targeted towards emerging interests in the nanotechnology global community.

In December 2017, an additional online survey was sent to define and hone the key research theme areas of nanotechnology which have since been implemented, and WIN has championed internal and external partnership‐building activities to promote these areas of excellence and target large‐scale funding opportunities. The key WIN research theme areas have been illustrated in a previous section, in Figure 3.1.

The second Town Hall meeting was held November 12, 2018, to provide the membership with details of strategic plan implementation over the previous 12 months, to reflect on successes and offer suggestions on areas of improvement. An online survey was also forwarded with the results indicating improved satisfaction with the overall direction and focus of the institute, with results illustrated in Appendix M.

The feedback from these instruments provided the framework for the WIN Strategic Plan for the next 5 years.

9.2 Thematic Leads / co‐Leads In coming years, WIN would like to drive its activities through the thematic leads and co‐leads with the WIN office providing necessary support. The lead and co‐leads through proper consultation process with their thematic group members would prioritize WIN’s activities including organizing Research Day Symposium, International Symposium, international collaboration and partnerships, and working collectively to seize opportunity for large‐scale funding.

9.3 Partnering with Other UW Institutes WIN is one of eight university level institutes and centres. Nanotechnology is inherently multidisciplinary. Therefore, it is imperative that WIN collaborate with institutes like WISE, Water, IQC, and CBB to promote and accelerate its interdisciplinary focus. In this respect, WIN is already planning focused workshops with WISE and Water Institute, similar to those organized across different Faculties under WIN Research Mixers initiative.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 66 9.4 Communications Strategy The Communications Strategy moving forward is largely web administration focused to improve our digital presence and update our content to be more concise, current, and of interest to multiple audiences including potential researchers, international partnerships and current/future stakeholders. WIN is currently working to improve its digital presence by implementing the following:  Website redesign involving improving search engine optimization (SEO), page hierarchy, edit and update information for adherence to Waterloo brand and WIN standards and improve user experience in accessing important information  Feature regular news and stories highlighting researchers and projects  Update and improve Wikipedia page, audit and edit regularly  Implement social media plan to maximize reach

WIN will also improve digital communication with members and students in the following manner:  Release quarterly electronic newsletters  Create online forms to gather information for administrative tasks where possible to increase efficiency in requests  Create "How To" pages to answer common questions and give more autonomy to WIN members, students and researchers The Communications Coordinator and Operations Assistant at WIN will work together to implement these changes and updates to keep the content current and ensure the latest information is advertised.

9.5 Advancement Activity It is very important that advancement strategy is part of WIN’s growth strategy. The current WIN ED had a number of meetings with UW’s Advancement team and prepared an “Advancement Strategy” for WIN, which includes three key elements: Nanotechnology Global Challenge Fund, Infrastructure for Sustainable Nanotechnology Hub and Nanotechnology Scholarships. He has also put together the “Engage WIN” committee to spearhead the advancement activities. Janusz Kozinski, a seasoned academic leader who has raised millions in philanthropic donation, is currently mentoring this committee to populate it with appropriate leaders from the industry and investment community.

9.6 Industry Engagement and Commercialization Following feedback received from the WIN membership, there is a need to increase volume of industry research partnerships. The BDM will continue ongoing support of individual faculty members who self‐ identify as in need of assistance. In addition, the BDM has already started working on engaging larger companies and corporations, often multinational, to develop institute‐level relationships. As an example, WIN started working with Canadian Solar Inc, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels, and Austrian semiconductor corporation AMS Gmbh. WIN envisions the creation of one or two industry sponsored research chair positions in various fields of nanotechnology in the next five years. Another direction is to maximize opportunities presented by the Mitacs Accelerate industry internships program, and the Mitacs Globalink program for nanotechnology graduate students working with international companies.

Events: Going forward WIN plans to continue the new practice of inviting core industry partners (current and prospective) to WIN’s internal research events. When justified, WIN plans to organize satellite sessions specifically focusing on exchange of knowledge and needs of industry.

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 67 Commercialization. WIN plans to expand its logistical support for newly created startup ventures, spinning from WIN researcher’s labs. WIN will continue collaborating with Velocity and WatCo in helping to put together business advisory teams, engaging with investment community, developing international connections, etc.

9.7 Government Engagement WIN strives to connect with the public and elected officials, involving all levels of government in activities and community outreach events. On June 5th 2018, City of Waterloo Mayor David Jaworski attended WIN’s Research Leaders Gala event, welcoming all guests to the Region of Waterloo and to the University of Waterloo, speaking to the research excellence at WIN and the benefit to the region.

Dr Lora Field, Team Leader, Cleantech and Advanced Manufacturing Branch, Ontario Investment Office, is currently serving on the WIN Board of Directors. She was also featured as a panelist on the Landscape 2020 discussion during the Research Day Symposium on Next Generation Energy Systems on 6th November 2018.

WIN was honored to host Member of Parliament and Government House Leader, Ms Bardish Chagger, in August 1, 2018. Ms Chagger toured the WIN facilities and laboratories as part of her visit to WIN. Similarly, WIN was honored to host the Ambassador of Netherlands to Canada to further synergize its relationship with one of the world’s top knowledge economies.

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Fig 9.1: (a) City of Waterloo Mayor David Jaworski presenting 10th year completion plaque to WIN ED; (b) His Excellency Ambassador Henk van der Zwan of Netherlands visiting WIN; (c) Member of Parliament for Waterloo, Bardish Chagger with Linda Nazar’s group; (d) Ms Chagger with Zbig Wasilewski and graduate student in MBE facilities in QNC

WIN: 6 YEAR REVIEW Page 69 Appendices Appendix A: List of WIN Members and WIN Fellow with thematic research areas Smart & Functional Connected Next Generation Therapeutics WIN No. Given Name Family Name Dept Materials Devices Energy Systems & Theranostics Fellow 1 Eihab Abdel-Rahman SDE X X 2 Nasser Abukhdeir ChE X 3 Marc Aucoin ChE X 4 Hany Aziz ECE X X X 5 Chris Backhouse ECE X 6 Dayan Ban ECE X X 7 Jonathan Baugh Chem X X 8 Raffi Budakian Phys X 9 Melanie Campbell Phys X 10 Pu Chen ChE X X X X 11 Zhongwei Chen ChE 12 David Cory Chem X 13 Bo Cui ECE X 14 Kyle Daun MME X 15 Jean Duhamel Chem X 16 Shahrzad Esmaeili MME X 17 Marianna Foldvari Pharm X 18 Jamie Forrest Phys X 19 Mario Gauthier Chem X 20 Michel Gingras Phys X 21 Moira Glerum Bio X 22 Irene Goldthorpe ECE X X 23 Jeff Gostick ChE X 24 Frank Gu ChE X 25 David Hawthorn Phys X 26 Emmanuel Ho Pharm X X 27 Todd Holyoak Bio X

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28 John Honek Chem X X X 29 Scott Hopkins Chem X 30 Vassili Karanassios Chem X X 31 Karim Karim ECE X 32 Na Young Kim ECE X X 33 Holger Kleinke Chem X X 34 Anna Klinkova Chem X X 35 Jan Kycia Phys X X 36 Anita Layton Math X 37 Zoya Leonenko Phys X 38 Kam Tong Leung Chem X X X 39 Peter Levine ECE X X 40 Dongqing Li MME X 41 Xianguo Li MME X 42 Yuning Li ChE X X X X 43 Juewen Liu Chem X X 44 Adrian Lupascu Phys X 45 Vivek Maheshwari Chem X X X 46 Hamed Majedi ECE X X 47 Raafat Mansour ECE X 48 Mark Matsen ChE X 49 Elizabeth Meiering Chem X X 50 Guoxing Miao ECE X X 51 Zoran Miskovic Math X 52 Sushanta Mitra MME X X X 53 Graham Murphy Chem X X 54 Kevin Musselman MME X X 55 Linda Nazar Chem X X 56 Flora Ng ChE X X 57 Patricia Nieva MME X X 58 Janusz Pawliszyn Chem X X

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59 Michael Pope ChE X X X 60 Eric Prouzet Chem X X X X 61 Pavle Radovanovic Chem X X 62 Garry Rempel ChE X X 63 Carolyn Ren MME X X 64 Luis Ricardez Sandoval ChE X 65 David Rose Bio X 66 Pierre-Nicholas Roy Chem X 67 Simarjeet Saini ECE X 68 Armaghan Salehian MME X 69 Andrei Sazonov ECE X X X 70 Derek Schipper Chem X X X 71 German Sciaini Chem X X 72 Leonardo Simon ChE X 73 Siva Sivoththaman ECE X 74 Roderick Slavcev Pharm X 76 Rodney Smith Chem X 75 Michael Tam ChE X X X 77 Zhongchao Tan MME X 78 Shirley Tang Chem X X X 79 Scott Taylor Chem X X 80 Russell Thompson Phys X 81 Adam Wei Tsen Chem X X 82 Ting Tsui ChE X X 83 Robert Varin MME X X 84 Xiaosong Wang Chem X 85 Zbigniew Wasilewski ECE X X 86 Lan Wei ECE X X 87 John Wen MME X X 88 Shawn Wettig Pharm X X 89 William Wong ECE X

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90 Mustafa Yavuz MME X X 91 John Yeow SDE X X X 92 Evelyn Yim ChE X X 93 Youngki Yoon ECE X X 94 Aiping Yu ChE X X 95 Alfred Yu ECE X 96 Boxin Zhao ChE X X X 97 Norman Zhou MME X X

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Appendix B: List of Nanofellowship Recipients 2013-2018

Nanofellowship Recipients for 2013 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Marwa Abd-Ellah Chem Leung 2. Brian Adams Chem Nazar 3. Parinaz Akhlaghi ChE Tam 4. Louis Cheung Chem Tang 5. Pierce Chuang ECE Sachdev 6. Jianjin Dong ECE Goldthorpe 7. Elizabeth Drolle Pharm Leonenko 8. Kun Feng ChE Z Chen 9. Andrew Finkle ChE Simon 10. Connor Hart Chem Nazar 11. Robert Henderson Phys Leonenko 12. Drew Higgins ChE Z Chen 13. Gregory Holloway Phys Baugh 14. Kazem Jeddi ChE P Chen 15. Grigoriy Kimaev ChE Abukhdeir 16. Sarah Ann LeBlanc ChE Gu 17. Robert Liang MME Zhou 18. Peter Lin ChE Gu 19. Shengyan Liu ChE Gu 20. Bin Liu Chem Karttunen 21. Sheng Lu ChE P Chen 22. Corey Rae McRae Phys Mariantoni 23. Adam Neale ECE Sachdev 24. Anthony Petrie Chem Honek 25. Hamed Shasavan ChE Zhao 26. Timothy Sipkens MME Daun 27. Xiaoqi Sun Chem Nazar 28. Xiangcheng Sun ECE Cui 29. Sibi Sutty ECE Aziz 30. Uyxing (Julie) Vongsaysy ECE Aziz 31. Jaspreet Walia ECE Saini 32. Qi Wang ECE Aziz 33. Kyle Willick Phys Baugh 34. Lawrence Wong SDE Yeow 35. Hadis Zarrin ChE Z Chen 36. Jian Zhang ECE Cui

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Nanofellowship Recipients for 2014 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Yu Chai Phys Forrest 2. Louis Cheung Chem Tang 3. Celal Con ECE Cui 4. Ripon Dey ECE Cui 5. Elizabeth Drolle Bio Leonenko 6. Kun Feng ChE Z Chen 7. Russel Fernandes Chem Nazar 8. Gordon Hall ECE Backhouse 9. GyuChull Han ECE Yoon 10. Connor Hart Chem Nazar 11. Po-Jung Huang Chem Liu 12. Krishna Iyer MME Nieva 13. JinHee Kang MME Wen 14. Alireza Khosropour ECE Sazonov 15. Sarah LeBlanc ChE Gu 16. Dong Un Lee ChE Z Chen 17. Robert Liang MME Zhou 18. Madelaine Liddy ECE Cory 19. Shengyan Liu ChE Gu 20. Bin Liu Chem Karttunen 21. Nupur Maheshwari ECE Goldthorpe 22. Nimer Murshid Chem Wang 23. Quanquan Pang Chem Nazar 24. Jacob Rogowski ChE Gu 25. Kurt Schreiter Phys Forrest 26. Hamed Shahsavan ChE Zhao 27. Timothy Spikens MME Daun 28. Bin Sun ChE Li 29. Xiangcheng Sun ECE Cui 30. Jaspreet Walia ECE Saini 31. Sean Walker Chem Baugh 32. Xinyun Wu ChE Tam

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Nanofellowship Recipients for 2015 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Parvin (Ms) Adeli ChE Nazar 2. Sanam (Ms) Atashin MME Wen 3. Erin (Ms) Bedford ChE Gu 4. Navid Bizmark ChE Ioannidis 5. Yu Chai Phys Forrest 6. Li (Ms) Chen ChE Tam 7. Dennis Curry Bio Servos 8. Christopher Deimert ECE Wasilewski 9. Russel Fernandes Chem Nazar 10. Fredrick Fu ChE Abukhdeir 11. Nathan Grishkewich ChE Tam 12. Gordon Hall ECE Backhouse 13. Gyu-Chull Han ECE Yoon 14. Andrew Holmes ChE Gu 15. Md Ariful Hoque ChE Z Chen 16. Nicholas Lanigan Chem Wang 17. Dong-Un Lee ChE Z Chen 18. Matthew Li ChE Z Chen 19. BiWu Liu Chem Liu 20. Anand Lopez Chem Liu 21. Gregory Lui ChE Yu 22. Nupur (Ms) Maheshwari ECE Goldthorpe 23. Pendar (Ms) Mahmoudi ChE Matsen 24. Quanquan Pang Chem Nazar 25. Jesse Quinn ChE Li 26. Shehan Salgado Chem Maheshwari 27. Brandon Seo ChE Tsui 28. Amirreza Shirani Bidabadi MME Varin 29. Bin Sun ChE Aziz/Li 30. Collin Tittle ECE Backhouse 31. Taylor (Ms) Urquhart Chem Honek 32. Xinyun (Ms) Wu ChE Tam 33. Demin Yin ECE Yoon

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Nanofellowship Recipients for 2016 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Maricor Jane Arlos Biology Servos, Andrews 2. Mohsen Asad ECE Wong 3. Noor Bahsoun ChE Gu 4. Eduardo Barrera Ramirez Phys Baugh 5. Tyler Davidson-Hall ECE Aziz 6. Christopher Deimert ECE Wasilewski 7. Adrian Delgado Chem Honek 8. Jianjin Dong ECE Goldthorpe 9. Fred Fu ChE Abukhdeir 10. Jing Fu ChE Z Chen 11. Marie Hebert MME Ren 12. Youssef Helwa ECE Cui 13. Andrew Holmes ChE Gu 14. Gaopeng Jiang ChE Z Chen 15. Manfred Kao MME Musselman 16. Se Young Kim Chem Nazar 17. Brenda Lee Bio Leonenko 18. Pendar Mahmoudi ChE Matsen 19. Alam Mahmud ECE Ban 20. Ryan Neufeld ChE Zhao, Abukhdeir 21. Moon Gyu Park ChE Z Chen 22. Long Pu Chem Maheshwari 23. Jesse Quinn ChE Li 24. Abhishek Raj MME Wen 25. Rohit Saraf Chem Maheshwari 26. Runjhun Saran Chem Liu Safavi-Naeini, 27. Behrooz Semnani ECE Majedi 28. Yinqiu Shi Phys Wasilewski 29. Abhinandan Shyamsunder Chem Nazar 30. Tejinder Singh ECE Mansour 31. Sean Walker Chem Baugh 32. Demin Yin ECE Yoon 33. Sid Zarabi ECE Wei

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Nanofellowship Recipients for 2017 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Mina Abdelmalek ECE Goldthorpe 2. AbdulAziz Almutairi ECE Yoon 3. Dawood Alsaedi ECE Ramahi 4. Kiana Amini ChE Pritzker 5. Mohsen Asad ECE Wong 6. Hassan Askari MME Khajepour Barrera- 7. Eduardo Phys Baugh Ramierez 8. Matthew Courtney MME Ren 9. Jing Fu ChE Chen 10. Nathan Grishkewich ChE Tam 11. Gillian Hawes ChE Pope 12. Marie Hebert MME Ren 13. Khaled Ibrahim MME Yavuz 14. Kavish Kaup ChE Nazar Ricardez- 15. Grigoriy Kimaev ChE Sandoval 16. Ivan Kochetkov Chem Nazar 17. Monika Kulak Chem Schipper 18. Hyunjae Lee ECE Yoon 19. Matthew Li ChE Chen 20. Yibo Liu Chem Liu 21. Rhiannon Lohr ECE Karim 22. Alam Mahmud ECE Ban Nasseri- 23. Rasool ChE Moresoli Pourtokalo 24. Moon Gyu Park ChE Chen 25. Ran Peng MME Li 26. Paola Russo MME Zhou 27. Ida Sadeghi ECE Wasilewski 28. Mostafa Saquib ChE Gu 29. Rohit Saraf Chem Maheshwari 30. Runjhun Saran Chem Liu 31. Alison Scott ChE Penlidis 32. Behrooz Semnani ECE Majedi 33. Yinqiu Shi Phys Wasilewski 34. Tejinder Singh ECE Mansour Man Chun 35. Tam ECE Wasilewski Alan 36. John Tse ChE Yim 37. Jun Geun Um ChE Yu

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Nanofellowship Recipients for 2018 No Given Name Family Name Dept Supervisor/s 1. Marcus Abramovitch Chem Nazar 2. Kiana Amini ChE Pritzker 3. Hassan Askari MME Khajepour; Khamesee 4. Matthew Courtney MME Ren 5. Ya-Ping Deng ChE Chen, Z 6. Alicia Dubinski Bio Glerum 7. Xiguang Gao ChE Li, Y 8. Run Ze Gao MME Ren 9. Gillian Hawes ChE Pope 10. Khaled Ibrahim MME Musselman; Yavuz 11. Kavish Kaup ChE Nazar 12. Navjot Khaira ECE Mansour 13. Se Young Kim Chem Nazar 14. Chun Yuen Kwok Chem Nazar 15. Hyunjae Lee ECE Yoon 16. Yibo Liu Chem Liu 17. Rhiannon Lohr ECE Karim 18. Xiao Ming MME Zhou 19. Sirshendu Misra MME Mitra 20. Kissan Mistry MME Musselman; Yavuz 21. Hassan Moussa ChE Tsui 22. Erika Ramos Chem Nazar 23. Bohua Ren ChE Sandoval; Croiset 24. Ida Sadeghi ECE Wasilewski Sadeghi 25. Moslem MME Kown; Jeon Goughari 26. Elizabeth Salsberg ECE Aziz 27. Serxho Selmani Chem Schipper 28. Abhinandan Shyamsunder Chem Nazar 29. Geoffrey Sinclair Chem Schipper 30. Janine Thoma Chem Duhamel 31. Yannick Traore Pharm Ho 32. Kai Xi Wang ECE Ban 33. Shirley Wong Pharm Slavcev 34. Penghui Yin Chem Radovanovic 35. Hyeonghwa Yu ECE Aziz 36. Jing Zhang ChE Chen, Z 37. Zijie Zhang Chem Liu 38. Yiju Zhao ECE Yoon 39. Kai Zhao MME Li, D

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Appendix C: List of WIN-Industry Partnerships*

Company Name WIN Member 1. 2BK Ultrasound Denmark Alfred Yu 2. 3M William Wong, Michael Tam 3. Accucaps Industries Limited Shaw Wettig 4. ACS Inc Dayan Ban 5. Activation Laboratories Louis Ricardez-Sandoval 6. Afton Chemical Corp. Jean Duhamel 7. Alcohol Countermeasure Systems (International) Inc. Zhongwei Chen, Aiping Yu 8. Angstrom Engineering Inc. Kevin Musselman, Louis Ricardez-Sandoval 9. ArcelorMittal Gl Res Hamilton ON Norman Zhou, Kevin Musselman 10. ARLANXEO Deutschland GmbH Mario Gauthier 11. Axis Photon Inc Mario Gauthier 12. Azastra Opto Inc Dayan Ban 13. Ballard Power Sys BC Zhongwei Chen 14. Bangkok Synthetics Co, Ltd Gary Rampel 15. BASF Linda Nazar 16. Bluerock Therapeutics Shirley Tang, Evelyn Yim 17. Canadian Solar John Wen, Norman Zhou, Kevin Musselman 18. CanCog Technologies Inc. Melanie Campbell, Zoya Leonenko 19. CelluForce Inc. Michael Tam, Boxin Zhao 20. Cestoil Chemical Inc. John Wen 21. Chenomx Edmonton Marc Aucoin 22. Chipworks Ottawa Dayan Ban 23. ComDev (Honeywell) Raafat Mansour 24. CREM Co Juewen Liu 25. Custom Rapid Solutions Inc. Mustafa Yavuz 26. D Wave Sys Adrien Lupascu 27. Deloitte Mike Pope 28. DuPont Co Inc Linda Nazar 29. Juewen Liu, Michael Tam, Jean Duhamel, Mario EcoSynthetix Gauthier 30. EntanglementTech USA Janusz Pawliszyn 31. Evident Thermoelectrics Inc. Holger Kleinke 32. ExVivo Labs Bo Cui 33. F&P Mfg Ont Kyle Daun 34. Formet Industries Inc. Kyle Daun 35. General Motors Corp. Zhongwei Chen, Xianguo Li, Aiping Yu 36. GeoSyntec Juewen Liu 37. Global Foundries Karim Karim, William Wong, Irene Goldthorpe 38. Lan Wei Gold Standard Simulations Ltd.

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39. Google Na Young Kim 40. Grafoid Inc. Aiping Yu 41. Halilburton TX Na Young Kim 42. Halion Displays Bo Cui 43. Heliene Inc. Kevin Musselman 44. Hitach High Technology Canada German Sciaini 45. Honda Armaghan Salehian 46. Huys Industries Ltd. Kevin Musselman 47. Hydrogenics Jeff Gostick 48. IBM David Cory 49. ICSPI Raafat Mansour 50. Intel USA Lan Wei 51. International Zinc Association Norman Zhou 52. InterVivo Solutions Inc. Janusz Pawliszyn 53. IonSense Inc. Janusz Pawliszyn 54. KA Imaging Karim Karim 55. Lake Environmental Consulting Zhongchao Tan 56. Lanxess Inc. Mario Gauthier 57. Lockheed Martin Canada Jonathan Baugh 58. Magna Powertrain Corp. Boxin Zhao 59. Marlow Industries Inc. Holger Kleinke 60. Maxxam Janusz Pawliszyn 61. Merck Canada Inc. Janusz Pawliszyn 62. Millipore-Sigma Corp. Janusz Pawliszyn 63. Mirexus Biotechnologies Inc. Marianna Foldvari 64. MW Canada Inc. Irene Goldstorpe 65. Myant Inc. Mike Pope 66. Nanodeivce Solutions Inc. Bo Cui 67. Nanowave Tech Toronto Raafat Mansour 68. Neemo Inc. Marc Aucoin 69. NERv Technology Bo Cui 70. Nicoya Lifesciences Inc Juewen Liu 71. Novelis Global ResTech GA Shahrzad Esmaeili 72. Object Research Systems Jeff Gostick 73. Opalux Inc Irene Goldstorpe 74. PAS Technology Gbmh, Germany Janusz Pawliszyn 75. PetroChina Michael Tam 76. Pfizer Canada Inc. Janusz Pawliszyn 77. Positec Inc Pu Chen 78. Restek USA Janusz Pawliszyn 79. SanofiPaster Zoya Leoneko 80. Sciex Marc Aucoin, Scott Hopkins 81. SensorTech Armaghan Salehian

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82. Shimco Dayan Ban 83. Sidense Corporation Jonathan Baugh 84. SiliconPro Armaghan Salehian 85. Skyworks Solutions Inc Raafat Mansour 86. Smarter Alloys Inc Norman Zhou 87. Sober Steering Inc. Raafat Mansour 88. Supelco Janusz Pawliszyn 89. Techno Science Inc. John Yeow 90. Teck Metals Inc Norman Zhou 91. Teledyne-Dalsa Jonathan Baugh, Dayan Ban, Karim Karim 92. TeTechS Technology Bo Cui 93. Thermo Scientific Janusz Pawliszyn 94. Trojan Tech Inc. Marc Aucoin 95. V Technology Inc., Japan Hany Aziz 96. VBM Science Ltd Janusz Pawliszyn 97. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. Scott Taylor 98. VidyaSmart Inc. Simarjeet Saini 99. Vieworks Karim Karim 100. ViviCore Melanie Campbell 101. Vorbek Materials Corp Mike Pope 102. VueReal Inc. Dayan Ban, William Wong 103. Waters Corp. Janusz Pawliszyn 104. Wuhan East Lake High Tech Zone, China Mario Gauthier 105. Xagenic Inc. Carolyn Ren 106. Xerox Corporation Yuning Li 107. Yihua Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. China Mike Pope 108. Zenyatta Graphene Mike Pope 109. ZincNyx Energy Solutions Jeff Gostick * The list of companies was created based on two sources – self-reporting by WIN members, and publications in peer-reviewed journals, where co-authors are scientists from private companies.

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Appendix D: Sample of Patent Applications and Invention Disclosures (non-exhaustive)

WIN Researcher Invention Disclosures Provisional Applications Developer Agreement Eric Prouzet 1 Kevin Musselman 1 1 Sushanta Mitra 12 8 Michael Tam 10 Linda Nazar 2 9 German Sciaini 3 3 Juewen Liu 1 1 Alfred Yu 2 Evelyn Yim 5 5 Nasser Abukhdeir 1 Mike Pope 1 3 Lan Wei 1 Raffi Budakian 1 Jean Duhamel 2 Mario Gauthier 4 2 Carolyn Ren 4 Vivek Maheshwari 2 2 Shawn Wettig 1 1 Shirley Tang 2 William Wong 1 3 TOTAL 32 61 1

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Appendix E: List of Students of the UW/WIN-Soochow Student Education Programs

Student Name UW Supervisor Program Start Program Date Kun Feng Zhongwei Chen Fall 2012 3+1+1/MASc; PhD

Lilei Hu William Wong Fall 2012 3+1+1/MASc Weihang Liu Garry Rempel Fall 2012 3+1+1/MASc Chen Chen John Yeow Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc; PhD Qianqian Hu Zhongwei Chen Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc Penghui Yin Pavle Radovanovic Fall 2013 3+1+1/MSc; PhD Xueren Wang Dayan Ban & Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc Zbigniew Wasilewski Junhua Gu Ting Tsui Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc Min Li M Tam, J Liu Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc Yining Han Nasser Abukhdeir Fall 2013 3+1+1/MASc Xiaonan Cai Pu Chen Winter 2014 3+1 Meng Xu Lindar Nazar Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc Hanbing Fang Pavle Radovanovic Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc Yun Wu Shirley Tang Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc; PhD

Shipei Zhu David Cory Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc Na Zhou Xiaosong Wang Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc Liying Wang Mario Gauthier Fall 2014 3+1+1/MSc Laidong Zhou Linda Nazar Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc; PhD Yuhan Huang Scott Taylor Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc Diya Geng Xiaosong Wang Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc Lingzi Ma Juewen Liu Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc Jin Tao Melanie Campbell Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc; PhD Meng Yuan Ke Melanie Campbell Fall 2015 3+1+1/MSc; PhD Junjie Yin James Forrest Fall 2016 3+1+1/MSc Jiahao Shi Adrian Lupascu Fall 2016 3+1+1/MSc Yuxing Wang Shirley Tang Fall 2016 3+1+1/MSc Shuoyuan Chen Pavle Radovanovic Fall 2016 3+1+1/MSc Wenhuan Lu Pavle Radovanovic Fall 2017 3+1+1/MSc Yunyi Qiu Melanie Campbell Fall 2017 3+1+1/MSc Yu Shi Guoxing Miao Fall 2017 3+1+1/MSc Han Weng Bo Cui Fall 2017 3+1+1/MSc Yifan Ding Melanie Campbell Fall 2018 3+1+1 Zimeng Wang Shirley Tang Fall 2018 3+1+1 Yue Xu Leonenko Fall 2018 3+1+1 Hanqian Zhang Leonenko/Sanderson Fall 2018 3+1+1

Wenwen Zhu Vivek Maheshwari Sep-Dec 2013 4-month exchange Sijie Guo John Yeow Sep-Dec 2013 4-month exchange Sida Shen Juewen Liu Feb-May 2015 4-month exchange Yuyan Chen Frank Gu Feb-May 2015 4-month exchange Na Sun Tong Leung Feb-May 2015 4-month exchange Lulu Hu Xiaosong Wang Feb-May 2015 4-month exchange Zhicheng Huang Shirley Tang Feb-May 2015 4-month exchange Jiawen Chen Shawn Wettig Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange

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Pan Ding Zoya Leonenko Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Yang Feng William Wong Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Xiao Han Juewen Liu Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Qi Huang Siva Sivoththaman Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Yuxing Song Michael Pope Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Yeshu Tan Siva Sivoththaman Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Tian Wu Bo Cui Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Chao Xu Holger Kleinke Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Hui Yang Michael Pope Feb-May 2016 4-month exchange Jin Gao Holger Klienke Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Ruiying Li William Wong Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Yachen Li Simarjeet Saini Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Jing Pan Siva Sivoththaman Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Tianyi Qu Jamie Forrest Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Shu Wang Irene Goldthorpe Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Tongtong Wang Graham Murphy Feb-April 2017 4-month exchange Jiahao Li Jonathan Baugh Feb-May 2018 4-month exchange Kai Niu Yuning Li Feb-May 2018 4-month exchange

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Appendix F: WIN Distinguished Lecture Series 2013 – 2018

Given No. Name Name Date Title Affiliation

1 Majumdar Arun 20181106 Navigating the Turbulence of the Global Energy System Stanford University Accelerating Innovation in Nanomaterials through 2 Lu Max 20181030 Partnerships University of Surrey UK Ultrafast Photonic PCR and Organiods on Chip for National University of 3 Lee Luke 20180925 Personalized Precision Medicine Singapore

From Maxwell's Displacement Current to Nanogenerator Georgia Institute of 4 Wang Zhong Lin 20180307 Driven Self-Powered Sensors and Systems Technology New Bio-inspired Materials: When Nanotechnologu Meets 5 Aisenberg Joanna 20171118 Chemistry, Optics and Surface Science Harvard University 6 Kim Philip 20170926 Experimenting at the Nanoscale Harvard University Bioscience and Nanotechnology in China: From Chinese Academy of 7 Bai Chunli 20170617 Fundamental Research to Applications Sciences

Droplet-based Microfluidics: High-throughput Swiss Federal Institute of 8 Demello Andrew 20170524 Experimentation One Drop at a Time Technology (ETH) Zurich Institute for Functional Silicon Nanostructures for Biomedical and Energy Nano & Soft Materials, 9 Lee Shuit-Tong 20170410 Applications Soochow University 10 Nathan Arokia 20170324 Transparent and Flexible Oxide Nano-Electronics University of Cambridge

New Insights into Nanomaterials with Applications from 11 McManus-Driscoll Judith 20161201 High-temperature Superconductivity to Insulators University of Cambridge Massachusetts Institute 12 Bulović Vladimir 20161112 The Future will be Measured in Nanometers of Technology

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Surprising Responses in Common Fluid Flows: (i) Surface- attached Bacteria, Biofilms, and Flow; and (ii) Trapping of 13 Stone Howard 20170907 Bubbles in Stagnation Point Flows Princeton University Adhesion, Friction & Lubrication of Surfaces & Liquid Films and their Relation to Diverse Phenomena such as How Geckos Climb on Wall and Ceilings, Surface Damage, and University of California, 14 Israelachvili Jacob 20160721 Sensing Santa Barbara

15 Archer Lyndon 20160413 Electrolyte Design Principles for Lithium Metal Batteries Cornell University University of California, 16 Wang Kang L 20151203 Spin-Orbitronics for Energy Efficient Systems Los Angeles

Innovation is the Gateway to the Biomass Biorefinery and 17 Rogers Robin D 20151119 Ultimately a Sustainable Bio-based Economy McGill University Single-molecule DNA Enzymatic Analysis Using a Protein 18 White Henry S 20141023 Nanopore University of Utah Brazilian Center for Nano Solutions for Centuries-old Problems: Electrostatics, Research in Energy and 19 Galembeck Fernando 20140422 Explosions and Friction Materials Campinas Dripping, Jetting, Drops and Wetting: The magic of 20 Weitz David 20140226 Microfluidics Harvard University Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-driven Self- 21 Manners Ian 20140117 assembly University of Bristol Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific 22 Rao C.N.R. 20131021 Inorganic Graphene Analogues and Related Materials Research Electronic Applications of Carbon Nanotubes - a Realistic 23 Milne William 20130321 Appraisal University of Cambridge

24 Dai Hangjie 20130117 Novel Materials for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Stanford University

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Appendix G: WIN Seminar Speakers 2013 – 2018

No. Name Given Name Year Date Seminar Title Affliation Laser diagnostics and kinetics studies for the combustion University of Duisburg- 1 Schulz Christof 2013 15-Feb synthesis of nanoparticles Essen; CENIDE Adventures in Metal Oxide Nanomaterials and Graphene: 2 Banerjee Sarbajit 2013 11-Apr Design and Device Integration U Buffalo Emerging nanotechnology for nanomedicine: promises and 3 Lal Ratnesh 2013 18-Apr prospects for effective diagnosis and therapy UC San Diego Ecole Polytechnique de 4 Moutanabbir Oussama 2013 22-Apr Tailoring Form & Function of Semiconductors Montreal 5 Chabinyc Michael 2013 13-May Order and Charge Transport in Organic Solar Cells UC Santa Barbara One Dimensional Si/Ge Nanotube Arrays for Energy Storage 6 Paik Ungyu 2013 13-May Batteries Hanyang U China Hybrid Ligands: Metal Complexes, Catalysts and Precursors to 7 Braunstein Pierre 2013 22-May Nanomaterials U Strausbourg Fast Simulation of Strained Heteroepitaxial Growth using 8 Smereka Peter 2013 18-Jun Kinetic Monte Carlo U Michigan Brazil Chemical Industry 9 Doria Mariana 2013 21-Jun Green Chemistry and Renewable Feedstock Association 10 Jaconis Selma 2013 21-Jun Braskem Initiative on Renewable Technologies Braskem Pushing the Limits of Instrumentation using CMOS MEMS 11 Paul Oliver 2013 11-Jul Sensors U Freiburg Germany 12 Dahn Jeff 2013 30-Jul Why do Li-ion batteries die and can they be immortal? Dalhousie U Quantum Engineered Optoelectronic Devices based on 13 Yang Rui 2013 15-Aug Interband Cascade Structures U Oklahoma 14 Guo Hong 2013 21-Nov Device Modeling from Atomistic First Principles McGill U Physical and Electrical Performance Comparison of Identical 28 nm Qualcomm Telecommunication Die produced by 15 Dixon-Warren Sinjin 2013 16-Dec Samsung and TSMC Chipworks, Ottawa

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First Advanced Materials, 16 Wang Jin-Shan 2014 27-Jan OLED Lighting Nanjing China Heteroepitaxial Materials: Self-assembly, Control, and 17 Vlachos Dion 2014 13-Mar Emergent Properties U Delaware Antimonide-based Semiconductor Nanostructures for THz& mm wave ICT 18 Patrashin Mikhail 2014 18-Mar Terahertz and Millimeter-wave Devices Laboratory, Japan Designer Nano- and Micro-Architectural Materials of Block 19 Liu Guojun 2014 27-Mar Copolymers Queen's U Programmable Nanoparticle Assembly: From Exploration to 20 Gang Oleg 2014 10-Apr Design Brookhaven National Labs Engineering Biomedical Function in Supramolecular 21 Fenniri Hicham 2014 08-May Nanomaterial: A Chemist’s Perspective Northeastern U Boston In-situ Analysis of a Lithium-ion Battery Material - LiCoO2 - 22 Ogumi Zempachi 2014 29-May using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Kyoto U Japan 23 Foxon Tom 2014 06-Jun MBE Growth of III-Nitrides U Nottingham UK The Role of Aromatic Structural Units of Conjugated Copolymers in Reaching High SolidState Order and 24 Wang Chien-Lung 2014 24-Jul Optoelectronic Performances NCTU Taiwan nanoHUB.org: an Open Access Science and Engineering 25 Faltens Tanya 2014 22-Aug Gateway for Research and Education in Nanotechnology Purdue National Institute for Nanotechnology: Program & Project 26 Norsten Tyler 2014 03-Oct Overview NRC Edmonton What is Next in High Resolution Electron Microscopy in 27 Yacaman Miguel Jose 2014 09-Oct Nanotechnology? U Texas San Antonio 28 Leclerc Mario 2014 13-Nov New Polymerization Methods for Plastic Electronics U Laval 29 Scott Robert 2015 15-Jan Designing Nanoparticles for Catalysis U Saskatchewan Block Polymer Nanostructures in Ionic Liquids: Stimuli 30 Lodge Timothy 2015 19-Jan Responsive and Functional Materials U Minnesota Surface Engineering of Colloidal Quantum Dots for Enhanced 31 Zhitomirsky Davida 2015 05-Feb Optoelectronic Devices MIT

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32 Deneke Christof 2015 25-Feb Nanometer Thick Membranes as Substrates for InAs Growth LNNano/CNPEM Optically-Induced Electrokinetics: A Digital Path to Cancer City University of Hong 33 Li Wen Jung 2015 11-Mar Cell Manipulation, Patterning, and Differentiation Kong 34 Popovic Zoran 2015 16-Mar Quantum Dots in Display Technology Present and Future Xerox Corp Golden Times for Nanotechnology: Plasmonic Materials and 35 Brolo Alexandre 2015 26-Mar their Applications UBC 36 Gumbs Godfrey 2015 02-Apr Electron Dynamics at Surfaces and Nanostructures City Univeristy of New York 37 Bof Bufon Carlos Caesar 2015 06-May Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Devices Based on Nanomembranes LNNano/CNPEM Opportunities for Nanoscience Research at the Canadian Canadian Light Source U 38 Chen Ning 2015 20-May Light Source Saskatchewan Atomic Scale Growth Processes of Compound 39 Millunchick Joanna 2015 27-May Semiconductor Alloys U Michigan Complex Nanostructures of Single Component Bent-core 40 Jakli Antal 2015 23-Jun Liquid Crystal Materials Kent State U Probing Concepts in Single-(Bio) Molecule Wires: Institute for Bioengineering 41 Diez-Perez Ismael 2015 11-Aug Bioengineering the Protein/Electrode Interface of Catalonia Digital Microfluidics for Three Dimensional Cell Culture and 42 Wheeler Aaron 2015 17-Sep Single-Cell Signaling Assays U of Toronto High-Coherent-Power, Photonic-Crystal Mid-Infrared 43 Botez Dan 2015 23-Oct Quantum Cascade Laser U Wisconsin-Madison 44 Chang Huan Tsung 2015 29-Oct Analytical Applications of Photoluminescent Nanomaterials NTU Argonne National 45 Markovic Nenad 2015 05-Nov Electrochemical Interfaces, Electrocatalysis and Green Energy Laboratory 46 Malenfant Patrick 2015 12-Nov Nanomaterials for Printable Electronics NRC Synchrotron Solutions for the Length Scale Science of Matter 47 Sham Tsun-Kong 2015 04-Dec and Time U Western Ontario Supramolecular Approaches to Controlling Electronic 48 Bassani Dario 2015 08-Dec Interactions in Organic Devices Bordeaux Nanoenergetics: A New Technological Area Through the University of Toulouse, 49 Rossi Carole 2015 08-Dec Integration of Reactive NanoMaterials into MEMS France

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Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Biodegradable Plastics and 50 Meng Yuezhong 2015 10-Dec Other Fine Chemicals Sun Yat-Sen U, China 51 Knobel Marcelo 2016 10-May Nanomagnetism: Basic Aspects and Applications UNICAMP/LN Nano Institute of High Pressur Physics at the Polish Terahertz Imaging with Nanometer Field Effect Transistors - Academy of Sciences, 52 Knap Wojciech 2016 24-May from Basic Physics to First Fast Terahertz Scanners Warsaw Failure Evaluation of Li-Rich Cathode Li-Rich Cathode (Li[NixLi(1-2x)/3Mn(2-x)/3]O2) Materials in Novel in-Situ 53 Wang Fu-Ming 2016 23-Jun Electrochemical Mass Studies of Lithium Ion Battery NTU S&T Taiwan Bacterial Biofilm Research Renaissance by Combining 54 Greener Jesse 2016 12-Jul Nanoscience and Microfluidics U Laval The Role of Mathematical Modeling and Computer Universidad del Pais Vasco, 55 Mowbray Duncan 2016 28-Jul Simulation in Nanotechnology Spain Stability and Function of Nucleic Acids with Non-canonical 56 Sugimoto Naoki 2016 29-Jul Structures Konan University Japan Photocorrosion of functionalized GaAs/AlGaAs nano- 57 Dubowski Jan 2016 03-Aug heterostructures U Sherbrooke 58 Yan Feng 2016 04-Aug Poly(ionic liquid) Membranes: Synthesis & Properties Soochow University Atmospheric Pressure Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (AP- SALD): a new technique allowing the fast and scalable 59 Munoz-Rojas Davida 2016 22-Sep “printing” of functional oxides University of Grenoble Nanomechanical Sensors (MSS, AMA) towards IoT Olfactory 60 Yoshikawa Genki 2016 29-Sep Sensor System NIMS Tsukuba Japan Acoustofluidics: Manipulating Fluids at the Microscale and 61 Yeo Leslie 2016 06-Oct Nanoscale for Biomedical Applications RMIT U Australia Hydrodynamic shaping of sub-nanoliter volumes of liquids on 62 Kaigala Govind 2016 21-Oct surfaces: from surface patterning to pathology IBM Zurich Solution processed nanoparticles for interfacial engineering 63 Turak Ayse 2016 03-Nov in organic photovoltaics McMaster U

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Model Membranes, Living Organisms and Lateral Membrane Oak Ridge National 64 Kataras John 2016 04-Nov Organization Laboratory Porphysome Nanotechnology: Discovery, Clinical Translation 65 Zheng Gang 2016 17-Nov and Beyond U of Toronto Mechanochemically Prepared Nanocomposite Reactive New Jersey Institute of 66 Dreizen Edward 2016 08-Dec Materials Technology Newark From Fundamental Science to Rock and Roll: The Heisenberg 67 Bergren Adam 2017 23-Mar Molecular Overdrive NINT From Fundamental Science to Rock and Roll: The Heisenberg 68 Myles Andrew 2017 23-Mar Molecular Overdrive NINT 69 Salleo Alberto 2017 13-Apr What Do Polymers Have To Do With Pavlov’s Dog Stanford U 70 Whittingham Stanley 2017 03-May The Ultimate Limits of Intercalation Reactions for Li-Batteries SUNY Binghamton Atomic Scale Modeling of Solid Electrolytes: Mechanical 71 Siegel Don 2017 08-May Properties and Beyond U Michigan Inorganic Energy Materials − Contributions from Solid State 72 Hillebrecht Harald 2017 29-May Chemistry U Freiburg Germany 73 Nishihara Hirotomo 2017 06-Jul Design and development of functional porous materials Tohoku U Japan Xueliang 74 Sun (Andy) 2017 20-Jul Nanostructured Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage U Western Ontario Chalcogenide Compounds- A Magical Class of Functional 75 Zeng Hao 2017 24-Aug Materials SUNY Buffalo Epitaxial Growth and Characterization of InAs-based Toyota Technical Institute 76 Kamiya Itaru 2017 07-Sep Structures on GaAs Japan 77 Jackson Warren 2017 13-Sep Self Aligned Imprint Lithography Xerox PARC Palo Alto CA Investigations on some side effects and defect formation during plasma etching of nanostructures using III-V 78 Landesman Jean-Pierre 2017 24-Oct semiconductors McMaster U Conductive Bacterial Nanowires: Fundamentals and 79 Yang Jun 2017 02-Nov Applications for Environment and Energy U Western Ontario InAs/GaSb/AlSb Superlattice Detectors and Topological 80 Klipstein Philip 2017 06-Nov Superlattices Technion Haifa Israel

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Memory and Computing Systems Based on Reconfigurable 81 Lu Wei 2017 13-Nov Materials: Merging Electronics with Ionics U Michigan 82 Goyal Amit 2017 21-Nov University at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute SUNY Buffalo U Illiois at Urbana- 83 Murphy Catherine 2017 21-Nov Gold Nanocrystals: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology Champagne 84 Thundat Thomas 2017 21-Nov University at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute SUNY Buffalo Beyond solar cell efficiency limits with down conversion and 85 Ehrler Bruno 2017 24-Nov tandem solar cells AMOLF, Netherlands Optochemical waves: from bio-inspired optics, 3-D printing 86 Saravanamuttu Kalaichelvi 2017 15-Dec to materials for all-optical encoding McMaster U 87 Fogelstrom Mikael 2018 10-Feb Plasmons and Sensing in Graphene Devices Chalmers U Sweden 88 Milstein Joshua 2018 23-Mar Counting Single Molecules at the Nanoscale U of Toronto Atomic Works: Molecular Dynamics / DFT hybrid simulation 89 Zeinalov Jamal 2018 03-May software platform and applications CEO, Atomic Works Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, 90 Hajj Muhammad 2018 04-May Identification of Nonlinear Piezoelectric Coefficients Virginia Tech Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, 91 Mendez Patricio 2018 10-May Moving Heat Sources in Welding and Additive Manufacturing University of Alberta 2D Nanonets: from nanostructered material to highly promising Associate Professor, Phelma 92 Ternon Celine 2018 13-Jun macroscale functional devices Grenoble-INP Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern 93 Patankar Neelesh 2018 10-Jul Computational biophysics of organisms and organ physiology University New approaches for powder diffraction that extend the spatial resolution temporal resolution, and sensitivity to 94 Khalifah Peter 2018 20-Jul defects in studies of battery materials. Department of Chemistry Research at a Technical Intersection: Energetic Materials and 95 Rhoads Jeff 2018 30-Jul MEMS Mechancial Engineering

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Civil Engineering to Cell Therapy: Applying engineering 96 Scott Michael 2018 30-Jul principles to medical product development BlueRock Therapeutics Institute of Physical Chemistry & Center for 97 Janek Jürgen 2018 08-Aug On the Route to Solid State Batteries Materials Research Recent Trends in Surrogate-Based Optimization, Tuning and 98 Chen Qingsha 2018 09-Aug Modeling SUSTech, Shenzhen Recent Progresses on the Development of High Energy Li Ion Pacific Northwest National 99 Zhang Ji-Guang 2018 10-Aug and Li Metal Batteries Lab 100 Liu Dongsheng 2018 13-Aug The Frame Guided Assembly Tsinghua University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu 101 Takata Yasuyuki 2018 06-Sep Role of Hydrophobicity on Enhancement of Nucleate Boiling University National Chiao Tung 102 Wang Chien-Lung 2018 13-Sep Host-Guest Chemistry of Molecular Nanoparticles University Professor of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, 103 Ghosh Subhasis 2018 20-Sep Charge Transport in Doped Graphene Jawaharlal Nehru University Director of National Efforts on Oxide Quantum Material and Terahertz Synchrotron Radiation 104 Lu Yalin 2018 27-Sep Characterization Developments Laboratory of China 105 Son Steven 2018 18-Oct Tailored and Multifunctional Propellants and Pyrotechnics Purdue University 106 Polyakova Elena 2018 09-Nov Graphene: A Realistic View Graphene Laboratories Inc Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Utilizing Solvent- and Polymerization-Induced Morphology Pennsylvania State 107 Hickey Robert 2018 15-Nov Transitions to Create Nanostructured Materials University On the New Phenomena Arising During Exotic Combustion in 108 Kozinski Janusz 2018 29-Nov Supercritical Water York U Nanomaterials for Transparent Electrodes: Properties, Grenoble Institute of 109 Bellet Daniel 2018 03-Dec Challenges and Prospects Technology

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Appendix H: NanoOntario Showcase Agenda 2015

Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum- Nano Centre (QNC), Room 0101 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON May 13th, 2015 8:00-9:00 9:00-9:15 Arthur Carty General presentation on NanoOntario: history, members, brief Chair, NanoOntario Board of Directors outline of the day

9:15-9:35 Presentation of their programs: John Jackson Engage, Strategic, Collaborative Research and Development. Research and Innovation Development Officer, NSERC 9:35-9:55 Presentation of their programs: Elevate, Accelerate Rebecca Bourque Director, Business Development, MITACS 9:55-10:15 Presentation of their programs Ken Schultz Business Development Manager, OCE 10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-10:50 Presentation on the TNFC facility, Alex Tsukernik capacities, functioning, access point(s), and example(s) of Technical Manager, Electron Beam collaboration with industry partner(s) Nanolithography Facility, University of Toronto 10:50-11:10 Vito Logiudice Presentation of the facility, capabilities, Director of Operations, Quantum organizational structure, access protocols, and example(s) of NanoFab, University of Waterloo devices designed and fabricated Solving our problems 11:10-11:30 Hamid Arabzadeh R&D needs of a small company Chairman, President and CEO, Ranovus 11:30-11:50 Jens Kroeger R&D needs of a small company Director of Technology, Raymor 11:50-12:10 Claude Montcalm R&D needs of a medium company Sr. Research Scientist, Iridian 12:10-13:40 Lunch

Tour of the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre

13:40-14:00 Nanofab facility and Surface Science François Lagugné-Labarthet Western. Capacities, functioning, access point(s), and Scientific Director, Western example(s) of collaboration with industry partner(s) Nanofabrication Facility, Western University 14:00-14:20 Capacities, functioning, access points, Pierre Berini example(s) of collaboration with industrial partner(s) Director, Centre for Research in Photonics, University of Ottawa Solving our problems 14:20-14:40 Frank Brandys R&D needs of a large company Product Innovation Laboratory Manager, 3M Canada 14:40-15:00 Reza Chaji R&D needs of a small company President and Chief Technology Officer, IGNIS

15:00-15:20 CCEM (Imaging facility) + CEDT. John Preston Capacities, functioning, access point(s), and example(s) of Associate Dean, Research and collaboration with industry partner(s) External Relations, McMaster University 15:20-15.40 Coffee break

15:40-16:40 Moderator: Mike Phaneuf, President, Fibics John Dutcher Jeff MacDonald, Chief Executive Officer, EcoSynthetix Director of Nanoscience Program, Murray McLaughlin, Executive Director, Bioindustrial Innovation University of Guelph Canada Sylvain Charbonneau, Associate VP, Research, University of Ottawa David Tweddell, Senior Consultant Strategic Initiatives, Western University Mike Szarka, Director, Research Partnerships, University of Waterloo 16:40-17:00 François Lagugné-Labarthet Definition of NanoOntario role within the context of collaboration. Chair, Organizing Committee How can we help? What can we propose? Fee for service Arthur Carty charges? Collaborative partnerships? Chair, NanoOntario Board of Directors

www.nanoontario.ca H.1 Appendix I: NanoOntario Showcase Agenda 2017

NANOFACILITIES FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Industry-University Showcase

Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario May 11th, 2017 I.1 8:00-8:45 Arrival of the Participants; Continential Breakfast 8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks Holger Kleinke Interim Executive Director, WIN General presentation on NanoOntario: François Lagugné- History, members, brief outline of the day Labarthet Showcase Chair Funding Tools for Industry-Academia Collaborative Projects Chair: François Lagugné-Labarthet 9:00-9:20 NSERC John Jackson Presentation on their programs: Research and Engage, Strategic, Collaborative Research Innovation and Development Development Officer 9:20-9:40 MITACS Rebecca Bourque Presentation on their programs: Business Development Elevate, Accelerate Director 9:40-10:00 Ontario Centres of Excellence Suthan Sivanesan Presentation on their programs Business Development Manager 10:00-10:15 Coffee Break Facilities in Ontario: State-of-the-Art Facilities for New Technologies Chair: Hind Al-Abadleh 10:15-10:35 University of Toronto Wai Tung Ng Presentation on the TNFC facility, Professor capacities, functioning, access points, and Electrical & Computer examples of industry collaboration Engineering 10:35-10:55 University of Waterloo - Mike & Ophelia Vito Logiudice Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre Director Presentation of the facility, capabilities, Quantum NanoFab access protocols and examples of devices designed and fabricated Benefitting from Academic Facilities: R, D, and Innovation Challenges Chair: Holger Kleinke 10:55-11:15 General Motors Canada Brian Tossan Director Canadian Engineering 11:15-11:35 Magna International Carl MacDonald Coating Technical Manager 11:35-11:55 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Alex Tsoulis Director Advanced Technology 11:55-12:15 IBM Daniel Sinai Senior Executive Innovation 12:15-13:30 Lunch, Networking & Industry Exhibition Tour of the Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) I.2 Facilities in Ontario: State-of-the-Art Facilities for New Technologies Chair: Sushanta Mitra 13:30-13:50 Western University - Nanofab Facility Mark C. Biesinger and Surface Science Western Facility Manager Capacities, functioning, access points, Research and Business and examples of collaboration with Development industry partners 13:50-14:10 Windsor Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Roman Maev Research (IDIR) NSERC/Chrysler Capacities, functioning, access points, Industrial Chair examples of collaboration with industrial partners Benefitting from Academic Facilities: R, D, and Innovation Challenges Chair: Alain Francq 14:10-14:30 Consortium for Aerospace Research and Marlene Conway-Diels Innovation (CARIC) Ontario Director 14:30-14:50 COMDEV (Honeywell) Ming Yu Chief Scientist R&D Director 14:50-15:10 SHIMCO Peter Voss President 15:10-15:40 Coffee Break Facilities in Ontario Chair: Lisa Pokrajac 15:40-16:00 McMaster University - CCEM (Imaging John Preston Facility) & CEDT Associate Dean Capacities, functioning, access points, Research and External and examples of industry collaboration Relations Discussion Panel 16:00-16:40 Collaboration: A Key to Technological Moderator: Success Paul Salvini Tom Brzustowski, former President, CEO NSERC; former Board Chair, IQC The Accelerator Centre Ross McKenzie, Managing Director, WATCAR, University of Waterloo Stephen C. Veldhuis, Director, McMaster Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) Rina Carlini, President and CEO, Haltech Innovation Centre Joseph Lan, R and T Program Manager, Safran Landing Systems Neil Sarkar, CEO, ICSPI Inc. 16:40-17:00 Concluding Remarks François Lagugné- Definition of NanoOntario’s role within Labarthet the context of collaboration. How Showcase Chair can we help? What can we propose? Collaborative partnerships? 17:00 Adjournment I.3 Organizing Committee and Chairs

François Lagugné-Labarthet Arthur Carty Chair, Organizing Committee Chair Scientific Director, Western Nanofab NanoOntario Western University

HInd Al-Abadleh Alain Francq Holger Kleinke Associate Professor Managing Director Interim Executive Director Wilfrid Laurier Waterloo Institute for Waterloo Institute for University Nanotechnology Nanotechnology

Sushanta Mitra Lisa Pokrajac Paul Salvini Associate Vice-President ADRP CEO Research Waterloo Institute for The Accelerator Centre York University Nanotechnology

www.nanoontario.ca I.4 Appendix J: Agenda for WIN Research Day Symposium: Next Generation Energy Systems, 6th Nov 2018 Time Event Location 9:15-9:30am Welcoming Remarks/Symposium Official Opening QNC 0101 Ian Rowlands, Associate Vice-President International, UW Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Shirley Tang, Associate Dean of Research-Faculty of Science 9:30-10:30am WIN Distinguished Lecture by Arun Majumdar, entitled “Navigating QNC 0101 the Turbulence of the Global Energy System” 10:30-10:40am Health Break WIN Research Presentations Session 1 QNC 0101 Chair: Lisa Pokrajac 10:40-11:00am Rodney Smith: Asymmetry and Disorder in Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts 11:00-11:20am Holger Kleinke: Environmentally Friendly Materials for Sustainable Electricity Generation – Thermoelectric Magnesium Silicide-Stannides 11:20-11:40am Eihab Abdel-Rahman: Practical Energy Harvesting 11:40-12:00pm Zhongwei Chen: Design and Application of Advanced Materials in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems 12:00-1:30pm Lunch & Poster Session QNC 0101 WIN Research Presentations Session 2 QNC 0101 Chair: Oleg Stukalov 1:30-1:50pm Jeff Gostick: An Inside Look (literally) into Advanced Energy Storage Devices 1:50-2:10pm Linda Nazar: A High Energy Density Lithium-Oxygen Battery Based on Reversible Electrocatalysed Conversion to Lithium Oxide 2:10-2:30pm Vivek Maheshwari: Stable Polymer-Perovskite composites for self- powered applications 2:30-2:50pm Kevin Musselman: Advanced nanomaterials for stable next- generation solar cells 2:50-3:10pm Michael Pope: 2D Materials for Improved Electrochemical Energy Storage 3:10-3:30pm Health Break 3:30-5:00pm Panel Discussion “Energy Landscape: 2020 and Beyond”: QNC 0101 Moderator: Sushanta Mitra Arun Majumdar- Jay Precourt Professor, Stanford University Lora Field – Ontario Investment Office, Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation & Trade Juan Moreno-Cruz- Professor in Environment, Enterprise & Development and Canada Research Chair in Low Carbon Emissions Jatin Nathwani- Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy Paul Parker- Professor in Environment, Enterprise & Development, UW Ian Rowlands - Vice President International, UW 5:00-6:00pm Networking Reception and Mixer

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Appendix K: 2017 Consultation Survey Results

Approximately, how long have you been a WIN member? 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0-3 years 3-6 years 6-9 years

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Appendix L: 2017 Internal Review Comments and Feedback

Theme Member Comments Vision &  Big proposals are not lead by WIN researchers. Leadership  WIN needs thematic areas/leaders.  Thematic Area Mini Symposium – twice a term with research and industry, NSERC.  International collaboration can build with the thematic area.  Member driven. Whomever came up with the proposal will build that theme.  There is a lot of focus on “new things” – more focus needed on “existing things” – SWOT analysis  WIN’s voice in operation of QNC is not strong. There is no user committee for QNC  WIN needs to integrate WIN, IQC, Water and to pull all our strength together.  WIN helped in collaboration of national network – helped to get Strategic Grant through Workshop.  There should be more scientific/social network opportunity for WIN members. Perhaps a brown-bag lunch where each researcher can present their work – to help foster collaboration.  Focus on thematic areas such as “water technology” and bring industry and NSERC in the same room for a one-day event for WIN researchers (similar to Industry Day conducted by Office of Research).  Some focus on commercialization for real-life application (stretching it slightly beyond 100 nm).  Need to have focused activities geared towards engineering. E.g. “Device” type activities.  Women in Nanotechnology – share experience Facilities  Better central facility management Management  At UW, we have 5 clean rooms (including WAT lab).  Can the facilities be integrated? Some are complementary and overlap.  Investigators have to budget for two facilities, which can be a challenge.  If we buy supplies from a common point (like Chem store) we can reduce the price.  If there is a sharing of staff between facilities – it will make things more cost effective.  There are more facilities in WIN apart from QNF – but it is difficult to know. Some kind of inventory of all research equipment available in WIN.  Searchable inventory database for equipment list in WIN  There is no common user group meeting for all these facilities.  There are some challenges with facilities user fee for external users – too high! The hourly rate of QNC is a challenge. G2N lab has a cap for $1900 per term, QNC doesn’t have such cap.  QNF is easy as it has one website. However, for metrology we don’t know the user fee or how to become trained.  WIN members are not aware of the equipment available within the basement of WIN.

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 Metrology access is a challenge, no dedicated facility manager. Promotion &  Need to put nano “on the map” – articulating it provincially and federally. Communication  Canadian community may not be fully aware of WIN capability.  Nanotechnology no longer has the same buzz as before – how to articulate this excitement to outside community – to the government that Nano really matters … It is a platform technology.  Lobby to government to encourage long-term international collaboration. WIN researchers need to know what is available from tri-agency to use for international collaboration. Funding  Advancement should be at the table. Private money will help pull internal Opportunities resources for WIN.  Funding is a challenge for international collaboration, not able to reciprocate. When the foreign student is here, they are supported by own funding.  WIN helped with ORF submission in 2009, in the second one there was less involvement.  WIN Nanofellowships could be used as entry scholarship. International  Benefit from international collaboration. Need internal champions to keep it Programs going.  The collaborations which are sustaining have undergrad/graduate student programs attached (3+1+1 program works well) 2+2 PhD program needs to be changed as there is no mutual benefit.  CINDE Germany would be a good opportunity, similar to Bristol.  Soochow collaboration has some challenge with ECE.  Should continue with international collaboration – but think before what kind of commitment should be in place to sustain this relationship.  Most visits were with Europe, China and India – but not much with US.  WIN- Cambridge workshop – it was good trip to know other WIN members – so it was opportunity to learn from my WIN researchers – helped to bring new collaboration with WIN members, which was not possible while at UW.  Helped to build relationship with Cambridge. Lisa was helpful to continue the interaction.  Collaboration for international is very focused on Chemistry – hardly much on device side.  International collaboration didn’t result in true collaboration. We don’t have good students to continue collaboration. Having theme leads will work. Industry  Finding Canadian industry partners is a challenge.  Engineering will invite companies and ask who is interested to work with the industry.  Help to connect with Industry – particularly interactions with industry for new faculty members. Bring industry/technology leaders to WIN members. Support  WIN has a lot of members – those who are in QNC need lab renovation was granted right away – but those outside QNC members also need support for lab upgrade.  Graduate Seminar Series– it was good and effective- good for the students  Lack of administrative support for WIN office – Faculty need to go back to Dept. for mail and copy.

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 Simplifying the key permits. It should be electronically connected.  Announcement to WIN members to request names WIN Seminar Series and DLS. Students  Finding good students is a challenge. Having co-op students is important for the pipeline as we don’t get enough graduate students in the first place as they may go to UofT, McGill etc.  Create a Nano-Quantum Sand box for undergraduates.  WIN Graduate Students Fair in the Fall in the Atrium will be very important.

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Appendix M: 2018 Consultation Survey Results

Overall, how satisfied are you with your WIN membership? How satisifed are you with your WIN membership? (% respondents)

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Industry Collaborations 33 Promote Research 47 Support Infrastructure & Space 40 Support Grants and Awards 33 International Connections 87 Graduate Student Recruitment 40 Attract funding 40 Increase reputation 53

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Space 7

Graduate Student Recruitment 40

Industrial Partnerships 53

Funding 60

Nanofellowships 7

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M.4 Appendix N: Support Letters from different stakeholders

Name Affiliation 1. Pearl Sullivan Dean of Engineering 2. Bob Lemieux Dean of Science 3. Stephen Watt Dean of Mathematics 4. Ian Rowlands Associate Vice‐President, International 5. Associate Vice‐President, Graduate Studies and Post‐ Jeff Casello doctoral Affairs 6. Dean, College of Nano Science & Technology (CNST), Shuit‐Tong Lee Soochow University 7. WIN Member and Thematic Lead, Professor, Electrical Karim Karim and Computer Engineering 8. WIN Board Member, Professor, Mechanical and Carolyn Ren Mechatronics Engineering 9. Holger Kleinke WIN Board Member, Professor, Chemistry 10. WIN Board Member and Thematic Lead, Professor Linda Nazar Chemistry 11. WIN Board Member, Professor, Electrical and Chris Backhouse Computer Engineering 12. WIN Member, Professor, Mechanical and Carolyn Ren Mechatronics Engineering

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February 7, 2019

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice-President, Research & International University of Waterloo

Dear Dr. Dean:

On behalf of the Faculty of Science, I am happy to support the renewal of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) as an approved institute at the University of Waterloo.

WIN started as an institute in 2008, with the vision of becoming a global centre of excellence for nanotechnology and its applications. To make this vision a reality, WIN has focused efforts on establishing research collaborations with top universities around the world, foster industry partnerships and facilitate technology transfer, and support interdisciplinary research. WIN has been instrumental in forming research partnerships with world leaders in Asia and the EU, specifically with the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan, Soochow and Tsinghua Universities in China, the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol in the UK and many others. Each has led to significant and productive international research collaborations for many faculty members within Science, and the recruiting of very bright graduate students into joint education programs. More recently, several WIN members were involved in submitting a proposal to the Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission to establish a Centre for Ocular Research and Development in Hong Kong Science Park.

WIN is also a champion of cross-disciplinary research and works continuously to promote independent and collaborative opportunities for its members. With the leadership of WIN’s new Executive Director, Dr. Sushanta Mitra, three interdisciplinary mixers were designed as a networking opportunities to introduce like-minded researchers tackling large-scale problems from different perspectives. In conjunction with this, WIN designed an innovative seed-funding grant – the Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program (IRFP) to support “high risk – high reward” blue-sky discovery research not typically supported by traditional funding agencies. I was extremely happy to learn that for the 2018 competition, two of the IRFP awardees are faculty members in Science – Professors John Honek and Germán Sciaini from the Department of Chemistry – winning a total of $150,000 for their respective joint projects.

WIN also secured a $1M envelope for the 2019 Canadian Foundation for Innovation – Innovation Fund (CFI-IF) specifically to support new infrastructure for nanotechnology research at UW. For this round, $800,000 of the allocation was awarded to Professor Linda Nazar in

Chemistry for the development of a “Waterloo Centre for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion”, and the remaining $200,000 was awarded to Professors Zoya Leonenko and Michel Gingras from the Department of Physics & Astronomy for their proposal “Advanced Nanotechnology Platform for Nanomedicine, Molecular and Quantum Biology Research”.

It is this type of initiative and forethought that is making WIN a world leader in nanoscience and technology. WIN is creating critical links between faculties and disciplines, pushing boundaries and creating cohesion within UW and forming a real community were new thoughts and ideas grow and prosper.

Hence, I strongly support the renewal of WIN over the next five years.

Sincerely,

Robert P. Lemieux, PhD Dean of Science and Professor of Chemistry

WATERLOO INTERNATIONAL 519-888-4567 ext. 35466 | fax 519-888-4355 uwaterloo.ca/international

15 February 2019

Prof. Charmaine B. Dean Vice-President, Research and International University of Waterloo

Dear Prof. Dean,

I write to support the renewal of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) as an officially- recognized research institute at the University of Waterloo.

With a goal of becoming one of the most internationalized universities in Canada, it is critical for the University of Waterloo to develop meaningful opportunities for research, learning, and other kinds of engagement, worldwide. It has been a pleasure to work with WIN over the past few years – to support the Institute as it has advanced this university-wide ambition by working with many of the world’s top organizations in nanoscience and technology.

WIN has developed strategic partnerships with 22 universities and research institutes spanning three continents – Asia, Europe, and South America. Partnerships within the EU and the Pacific Rim have been particularly productive, with MOUs for cooperation in research and education in Taiwan, China, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom – all very respected hubs for science and technology research and development. Additionally, several important agreements for funded HQP training programs have been finalized or are being developed, most recently with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan and the Waterloo-Soochow Post Doctoral Fellowship.

Partnerships and programs such as these championed by WIN and the new Executive Director, Dr. Sushanta Mitra, contribute to the fact the University of Waterloo is widely admired for its strong global connections. Indeed, WIN’s global activity has certainly served to increase our overall international reputation for research and education excellence.

I look forward to continuing to work with Dr. Mitra and his team as they further develop their international activities. Indeed, I am grateful for his collaborative approach, for his valuable insights, and for his creativity, energy, and commitment in developing high-quality international connections.

I highly recommend WIN’s renewal for another term. Please let me know if you require any other information or clarification. I can be reached on ext. 45466 or at [email protected].

Sincerely,

Ian H. Rowlands, PhD Associate Vice-President, International Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice‐President, Research and International University of Waterloo

February 12, 2019

Dear Dr. Dean,

It is my great pleasure to write this letter in support of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). I have worked closely with WIN’s Executive Director and Assistant Director, Research Programs in number of initiatives that are meant to enhance the graduate student and post‐doctoral experiences at Waterloo.

Often these initiatives involve international partners, which creates more complexity to the overall process. In the recent past, my office was instrumental in putting together an exciting graduate student program with the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. It took a very creative process to create the agreement, particularly when intellectual property details are involved. Similarly, my office is currently working on an important post‐doctoral funding initiative with Soochow University, China, that allow WIN members to access top global talent with significant funding provided by Soochow University. Programs such as these allow us to build relationships between faculty members, and at the same time graduate students and post‐doctoral fellows can experience new culture, new workplace, and also excellent scientific endeavours.

I am very happy to see all these new initiatives in WIN. I fully support the renewal of the institute. I look forward to work closely with WIN in coming years on many such interesting and exciting opportunities.

Sincerely,

Jeffrey M. Casello, PhD Associate Vice President Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

8 February 2019

To: Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice-President Research and International University of Waterloo

Dear Charmaine,

Please accept this letter of support on behalf of the Institute for Functional Nano- and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) and the College of Nanoscience and Technology (CNST) at Soochow University, China, for the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) as it applies for renewed mandate for another five-year term.

WIN is a long-time and valued partner of Soochow University with similar vision and goals to ensure the highest quality training of students, innovation in research, and internationalization. To realize our common objectives, the Soochow University, WIN and Suzhou Industrial Park (SUN-WIN-SIP) Joint Research and Education Institute was formed in 2012. Since then, the SUN-WIN-SIP Joint Institute has facilitated research and commercialization support resulting in 24 jointly-funded projects (¥11.4M or $2.2M CAD), almost 40 research publications, several patents and a successful electronics technology company housed at Nanopolis in Suzhou China.

We are now commencing the second phase of our partnership, to even further promote the entrepreneurial ecosystems at both Waterloo and in Suzhou, with a primary focus on research that has immediate market readiness or direct technology transfer potential. To this end, FUNSOM and CNST are pleased to host a workshop later in 2019, with special focus on connectivity, sustainability and healthy communities. Networking sessions with local industries will be planned for potential partnership as well. This workshop will be the fifth since the SUN-WIN partnership began, allowing a venue for collaborators to meet and for new ideas to form. We look very forward to welcoming the WIN delegation this year.

Both WIN and Soochow University are also dedicated to the highest-quality education and instruction for our students. Through the SUN-WIN Joint Education Programs, we

Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Soochow University 苏州大学功能纳米与软物质研究院 ADD: 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123 TEL: 0512-65880820 FAX: 0512-65880820 Http: //funsom.suda.edu.cn are proud of the 35 graduate students who have been trained within WIN research groups since 2013, and we are committing a $10,000 USD scholarship per year for the UW- Soochow PhD program to ensure the program’s continuity. We are also very happy to announce the new Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program valued at a minimum of ¥200,000- 300,000 ($40-60k CAD) to attract the world’s best young talents to our institutions which we anticipate will commence this year.

I am most enthusiastic about the new direction of WIN under the leadership of Dr. Sushanta Mitra – he is a champion of interdisciplinary research and understands very well the importance and impact of strong international partnerships. I expect that our relationship will grow even stronger in the next five years, supporting even more nanotechnology-based start-up companies, funding new and innovative joint research projects, and training the next generation of outstanding scientists and engineers.

I urge the University of Waterloo to continue its support of WIN so we may carry on our work in providing the highest quality education for students, promoting leading-edge innovation, and tackling the global challenges faced by society today.

Yours sincerely,

Shuit-Tong Lee, Prof. Dr. Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow, TWAS Director, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials Dean, College of Nano Science and Technology Soochow University Suzhou, Jiangsu China 215123 [email protected]

Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Soochow University 苏州大学功能纳米与软物质研究院 ADD: 199 Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123 TEL: 0512-65880820 FAX: 0512-65880820 Http: //funsom.suda.edu.cn Department of Electrical University of Waterloo Tel. 519-888-4567 and Computer Engineering 200 University Ave. West Fax 519-746-3077 Waterloo, Ontario Canada Faculty of Engineering N2L 3G1

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice-President, Research and International University of Waterloo, Canada

Friday, 8 February 2019

Re: Letter of Support for the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology

Dear Dr. Dean:

I have been WIN member since 2008 and have seen over the years the growth of the institute. It is one of the few research institutes on campus, which truly believes in interdisciplinary research. Also, it has created a very nice balance between fundamental science and applied research.

Currently, I am the Theme Lead for the “Therapeutics and Theranostics” group and the Executive Director, Dr. Sushanta Mitra, has undertaken a significant number of initiatives under this theme. WIN has moved into a model where it is truly serving its members through a bottom- up approach where Theme Leads and co-Leads are very often consulted for various initiatives.

Such member-driven initiatives are essential for the long-term sustainability of the institute. Also, it has created a very transparent governance process when any new opportunities are now disseminated to all members, particularly targeted to each thematic areas, so that the response from WIN members are more targeted and provide an overall value addition to individual researchers.

I commend WIN for initiating the Interdisciplinary Research Funding program (IRFP), the first of its kind in the campus where significant amount of funding is provided to high-risk discovery and applied research. I have been the recipient of one WIN IRFP award, which helped me to work together researchers (as Co-PI) from the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences. Such innovative initiatives are critical for the research institute and would help to create disruptive technologies.

Under new leadership, WIN has also focused on translational research and commercialization. WIN’s Business Development Manager works with number of nanotechnology-based start-up companies to help them connect with broader stakeholders. These new initiatives within WIN would definitely help the university to articulate the fantastic research that is taking place, having significant impact for all Canadians. Department of Electrical University of Waterloo Tel. 519-888-4567 and Computer Engineering 200 University Ave. West Fax 519-746-3077 Waterloo, Ontario Canada Faculty of Engineering N2L 3G1

WIN’s future looks very promising and it is rightly posed to grab the opportunities that are made available by convergence of technologies under Industry 4.0. I definitely support the renewal of WIN for next five years and wish the institute more success in the coming years.

Sincerely,

My best regards,

Karim S. Karim, PhD PEng MBA Associate Dean - Outreach, Faculty of Engineering Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L3G1 Canada Tel: 519-888-4567 ext 38336 Fax: 519-746-3077 Email: [email protected] February 1, 2019

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice-President, Research and International University of Waterloo

Dear Dr. Dean,

It is my great pleasure to write this support letter as a member of the WIN Governing Board and also a proud WIN member since 2009. First, I would like to congratulate the Executive Director, Dr. Sushanta Mitra, for achieving gender parity in the Board. I joined the WIN Board of Directors in 2018 and I am very happy to see the new energy and vigor Dr. Mitra has brought to WIN and his vision to create a world-class research institute meeting the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

WIN is now very much focussed in serving its members. The new four thematic areas align very well with the federal and provincial funding priorities. Also, I am part of the Working Group for WIN’s biggest thematic area – Smart and Functional Materials. Interestingly, like me many other researchers at WIN are associated with other themes as well, which helps to bring cross-disciplinary approach to nanotechnology. At the same time, WIN has reached out to the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Environment and Faculty of Applied Health Sciences thereby championing interdisciplinary research within the university.

WIN is also engaged with number of international partners, which would further help access quality graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and build complementary research expertise that could potentially help attract large national and international grants. Currently, WIN is supporting graduate students by creating a fair and transparent adjudication process for allocating WIN Nanofellowships, thereby allowing more WIN members across different departments to attract top talent to the university.

With an engaged WIN with new vision, I fully support the renewal of the institute and support the additional funding request as this would be critical for serving its membership to ensure WIN continues to excel in the global stage.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Ren, Professor, PhD, FCSME, PENG Member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Canada Research Chair in Droplet Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technology Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Tel: 1-5190888-4567 x 33030, Email: [email protected] https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-microfluidics-laboratory/ Prof. Holger Kleinke University of Waterloo Director, Nanotechnology Graduate Program 200 University Avenue West Department of Chemistry Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Tel. 519·885·1211 ext 33577 Email: [email protected]

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice‐President, Research and International University of Waterloo

Letter of Support for the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)

Waterloo, 14-March-2019

Dear Dr. Dean:

It am delighted to write this letter of support for the renewal of WIN for five more years. Having been directly involved with WIN for a decade, first as member, then additionally as WIN Ambassador, briefly as Interim Executive Director, and currently as member of WIN’s Board of Directors, it was my pleasure indeed to participate in, and enjoy, the growth and unparalleled success of this research institute. It continues to amaze me with how little funding WIN has managed to make such a lasting impact on several fronts. Evidently WIN is well on its way fulfilling its objective to secure its status of a global center of excellence for nanotechnology. WIN’s impact has been demonstrated on several fronts. First and foremost, as a research institute, it accelerates and fosters research collaborations, both globally with its 22 international partners, as well as locally with new initiatives to include other faculties beyond Science and Engineering. For the former, several large grants were obtained, most notably within IDS-Funmat, the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration Development (PetroChina), Ecosynthetix (Canada) and Suzano (Brazil) joining forces for an NSERC-CRD, and the Suzhou Industrial Park. For the latter, WIN was able to internally secure generous seed funding for selected interdisciplinary research projects. All of the above is of particularly vital importance for early career researchers. Secondly, WIN aids in securing and expanding industrial partnerships, of increasing importance in today’s climate. To that end, WIN successfully launched a Faculty-Industry Outreach

1 Program, an Industry Series and an Innovation Series, as well as the WIN Corporate Partnerships Program, with all of that supported by the newly hired WIN Business Development Manager. Third, WIN continues to be instrumental in community building. Examples are its support of the nanotechnology graduate students and the two undergraduate programs, Nanotechnology Engineering and Materials and Nanosciences, of our university. This support includes providing space for the societies, and guidance and sponsoring of their initiatives, includes conferences housed in QNC, organized by the students. For the faculty, the many international trips organized and in part financed by WIN are legendary in bringing together various faculty members of Engineering and Science, building lasting relationships culminating in several new collaborations. The newly founded WIN Faculty Lounge further contributes positively to community building. Fourth, WIN handles on a yearly basis the organization and distribution of the nanofellowships. Here, WIN has restructured the procedure to facilitate awarding more of these fellowships to incoming graduate students, in order to attract more of the best and brightest graduate students to the University of Waterloo. Ultimately, WIN will only be able to thrive and grow if generously supported by the University of Waterloo. Thusly, I am in full support of its request for a budget increase, noting that its budget remained constant during the last several years, while experiencing more and more expenditures on top of increasing salaries and generally increasing costs of business. These extra expenditures include the scholarship of the Executive Director since 2016 and the salaries for the new hires. Frankly, WIN has only managed to balance its budget because of the (soon expended) savings it accumulated during its first few years, when it was a much smaller organization. Let me conclude by reiterating my strongest support of WIN’s request for renewal for five years with an increased budget. Please feel free to contact me if you require any additional information.

Sincerely,

(H. Kleinke)

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PROFESSOR L.F. NAZAR, FRSC, OFFICER OF THE ORDER OF CANADA SENIOR CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR University of Waterloo, Department of Chemistry Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Tel: 519 888 4637 FAX: 519 746-0435 e-mail: [email protected] http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/chemistry/nazar Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1

March 14, 2018 Dr Charmaine Dean Vice-President, Research and International University of Waterloo

Dear Dr. Dean,

It is my great pleasure to write this supporting letter as a member of the WIN Governing Board and also as a WIN member since its founding in 2008. It was founded with the objective to stimulate and coordinate research efforts in the field of nanoscience and engineering, and with a mandate to become a Global Centre of Excellence for Nanotechnology. I can attest to the time, energy and focus the WIN academics and staff have committed to making these objectives a reality. I firmly and enthusiatically back Dr Sushanta Mitra’s vision for the Institute over the next five-year cycle in terms of promoting internationalization, interdisciplinary research, and fostering a vibrant science culture to champion UW and WIN as a world-leader in nanotechnology.

One of the new initiatives at WIN is the realigning of the research thematic areas closely with priority target areas outlined by major funding agencies and governmental frameworks. I pleased to be the Theme Lead for the Next Generation Energy Systems group. Together with my co-lead Mike Pope from the Department of Chemical Engineering, we will provide direction towards meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for clean and sustainable energy. One of our prime thrusts is to consolidate cutting edge efforts in both energy storage and harvesting within WIN. Batteries and fuel cells for both electric grid and transportation are both targets for electrochemical energy storage, where electric vehicles, drones and storing energy from renewable sources (sun and wind) are the principal goals. Today’s electrical energy storage approaches suffer from limited energy and power capacities, lower-than-desired rates of charge and discharge, cycle life limitations, low abuse tolerance, high cost, and poor performance at high or low temperatures. Nanoengineering of new materials and new structures is the only route to solving most of these problems. There are over 20 WIN researchers in the Energy group, each bringing diversity and unique experience to this field to provide new solutions to the demand of global energy needs.

In this regard, WIN provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, supporting both well- established researchers (such as Zhongwei Chen and myself) and early career faculty members to reach their potential. Two stellar examples of rising stars are Michael Pope, and Kevin Musselman in Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering who are doing outstanding work in energy research in collaboration with WIN members, which could not have been possible without the structure and assistance from WIN.

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The Institute values community outreach, and involving its diverse stakeholders. WIN proactively engages with high profile visitors and provides opportunity to engage with them. In the past year, WIN organized the visit of the Chair of the University Board of Governors, Cindy Forbes, and Waterloo Member of Parliament and Government House Leader, Bardish Chagger to my laboratory, which allowed me to showcase our research and more broadly emphasize the importance of allocating funding resources for nanotechnology research.

It should go without saying that nanoscience is universally acknowledged as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. That fact is demonstrated by countless dedicated investments in this area by developed countries and within emerging economies. Two outstanding examples in Germany alone, where I have strong professional contacts, are the Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Technical University of Munich and the Center for NanoScience at the LMU Munich. This multidisciplinary research field has grown by leaps and bounds, producing novel materials with unique functionalities to serve applications in energy, water, and medicine. Nanotechnology has resulted in many commercial applications such as self-cleaning coatings, colloids used in sunscreens, printer inks and paints, ultra-strong composites, smart packaging, and improved insulation (to name just a few) that are based on innovative functional materials and substances. Today, rapidly expanding research areas in nanosciences deal with new approaches for energy and quantum materials, and explore new methods of information processing and data encryption. These demands - which encompass areas of strength at UWaterloo - will continue for many years to come, creating new markets and new applications with each new discovery. Canada needs to step up to the plate more aggressively in this field, and be poised to take advantage of the investment opportunities that nanotechnology provides.

With an engaged WIN with new vision, I fully support without hesitation the renewal of the Institute for the next five years. I also offer a strong voice in calling for WIN’s additional funding request, to ensure the high-quality of service and support to its membership so WIN can continue to be a leader in the global stage.

Sincerely,

Dr. Linda Faye Nazar Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Chemical Engineering Senior Canada Research Chair in Solid State Energy Materials University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada

March 17, 2019

Dr. Charmaine Dean Vice‐President, Research and International University of Waterloo

Dear Dr. Dean,

As requested by the Director of Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN), Dr. Sushanta Mitra, I provide my observations about WIN’s support to research.

WIN has been actively supporting my research by using WIN fellowship to help attract top‐ notch graduate students cross country. For example, WIN (in fact, it was Lisa Pokrajac) approached to offer the help to attract a top student from Concordia (Marie Hebert) who was visiting Waterloo and joining a lab tour offered by WIN. Marie is a scholarship holder of Canada Graduate Scholarship for her master’s and PhD studies with me. WIN’s fellowship made my offer more competitive than other offers she received from several other top universities. Lisa’s initiative was also highly appreciated. WIN’s fellowship has also helped me attract two more scholarship holders into my group.

WIN has also helped connect me with international partners for potential collaborations. I have had a fruitful collaboration with a professor in Taiwan Cheng‐Kung University with an exchange student working in my lab for 9 month. That collaborative work has resulted in an approved patent in Taiwan and a journal article.

If you need any further clarification or information, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Ren, Professor, PhD, FCSME, PENG Member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Canada Research Chair in Droplet Microfluidics and Lab‐on‐a‐Chip Technology Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Tel: 1‐5190888‐4567 x 33030, Email: [email protected] https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo‐microfluidics‐laboratory/

Appendix O: Publications for WIN Members

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