@CRC_CRC and Associate Professor @uottawa @uottawagenie : polymers, phthalocyanines, thin films, OTFTs, sensors. Co-founder @EkidnaSensing | he/his
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3 Apr 2025
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14 Feb 2025
@sswaraj, @DrLessard, and myself are looking for a PhD candidate to work on the future of High performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFT). We are looking for a motivated candidate with a Master's degree or equivalent in polymer/materials science! drive.google.com/file/d/1-56…
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17 Jan 2025
Just published in #MaterialsAdvances by @DrLessard et al. cytocompatible, disintegrable, low-voltage operation n-type organic thin film transistors for applications in bioresorbable electronics👉doi.org/10.1039/D4MA01148A
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
30 Sep 2024
Need an interesting article to read today?
Self-assembly of poly(ionic liquid) block copolymer based dielectrics on semiconductor formation and performance by @DrLessard
Read the Advanced Manuscript here: doi.org/10.1039/D4TC03157A
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
13 Mar 2024
🎉 Félicitations à nos chercheurs @uOttawa: Ryan Graham @GrahamLab1, @DanielFigeys, @DrLessard et Michael Organ!
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13 Mar 2024
📣 Excellente nouvelle pour la #recherche au Canada : 515 millions de dollars accordés pour soutenir 100 projets innovants d'infrastructure #FinancéeFCI dans le cadre du concours Fonds d'innovation 2023.
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13 Mar 2024
🎉 Congratulations to our @uOttawa researchers: Ryan Graham @GrahamLab1, @DanielFigeys, @DrLessard and Michael Organ!
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13 Mar 2024
📣 Great news for #research in Canada: $515M awarded to support 100 innovative #CFIFunded #ResearchInfrastructure projects through the 2023 Innovation Fund competition
Congratulations to all the recipients! 👏
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
15 May 2024
Très heureux de participer au congrès @ACFAS demain sur Synthèses et applications de polymères fonctionnels acfas.ca/evenements/congres/…
Merci @DrLessard pour l'organisation ...ça risque d'être super intéressant.
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8 May 2024
Check out our new comment in @SpringerNature Nature Reviews Materials on the importance of High-throughput characterization for reporting reliable organic thin-film transistor performance rdcu.be/dHjO5
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Putting single molecule magnets on surfaces and investigating if they retain their properties and move towards applications? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… congrats to all. Also Looking for students and PDF to work in two groups at @uOttawa (@murugesu @DrLessard )
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
1 Mar 2024
🚨New Publication🚨
In collaboration with Marcel Bouvet at @ICMUB we developed p- and n-type heterojunction ammonia gas sensors where the majority charge carrier was controlled by peripheral fluorination of a silicon phthalocyanine sublayer. @DrLessard
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
12 Feb 2024
New paper: "Poly(2-vinylpyridine) as an Additive for Enhancing N-Type Organic Thin-Film Transistor Stability" by Brixi et al. doi.org/10.1002/aelm.2023006… #GIWAXS
#OTFT #OrganicSemiConductor @AdvSciNews
Congrats @Chloe_Ddlt @BenjaminKing96 @sswaraj @DrLessard !
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28 Jan 2024
I am honored to receive this exciting recognition and i look forward to sharing our work at the next ICPP this summer! @uOttawaResearch @uOttawaGenie
24 Jan 2024
Congratulations #ICPP13 SPP/JPP Young Investigator Award Winners 2024 🏆 icpp-spp.org/general/yng_inv…
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
16 Jan 2024
Félicitations au professeur d’@uOttawaGenie, @DrLessard, et son équipe pour cette avancée révolutionnaire dans la fabrication de dispositifs.
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Hats off to @uOttawa professor @DrLessard and his team for this breakthrough, opening the doors to a realm of new tech possibilities.
16 Jan 2024
Researchers from @uOttawa @DrLessard @uOttawaGenie recently used the CLS to study conductive polymers, organic materials making possible next-gen tech such as stretchable solar panels and sensors for optimizing cannabis harvest.
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
16 Jan 2024
Researchers from @uOttawa @DrLessard @uOttawaGenie recently used the CLS to study conductive polymers, organic materials making possible next-gen tech such as stretchable solar panels and sensors for optimizing cannabis harvest.
bit.ly/48BmBde
#AdvancedMaterials
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
30 Nov 2023
Peripherally Fluorinated Silicon Phthalocyanines: How Many Fluorine Groups Are Necessary for Air-Stable Electron Transport in Organic Thin-Film Transistors?
By @DrLessard et al. @uOttawa
Read the paper 👉 go.acs.org/78o
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5 Oct 2023
Congrat @BenjaminKing96, this one was a big one. lots of great work. happy to see this one finally out.
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29 Sep 2023
Our publication in @ChemMater is out! We investigate the threshold for air-stable electron transport in silicon phthalocyanines and report eight new and exciting derivatives. The answer to how many fluorine atoms we need may surprise you! @DrLessard
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
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21 Sep 2023
Great visit and great talk! thank you to @UofTEngineering @ChemEng_UofT for giving me the opportunity to be present my groups work as part of your Lectures of the Leading Edge (LLE). and thank you again to @CanJChemEng for the award! @uOttawa @uOttawaGenie @uOttawaResearch
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Benoît Lessard, Ph.D. retweeted
6 Sep 2023
Soluble Ruthenium Phthalocyanines as Semiconductors for Organic #ThinFilm Transistors (Benoit H. Lessard, Tomás Torres and co-workers) @DrLessard @uOttawaResearch @uOttawaGenie #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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7 Jul 2023
We are looking to hire a postdoc with experience in organic electrolyte gated transistors fabrication - if interested please see posting attached and check us out at benoitlessard.ca
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