RSC Applied Interfaces has published its first articles which can be read for free here. To celebrate publishing our first articles, we asked some of our authors to discuss their work in more detail.
In this post, you can learn more about Lori Leblond and Pascal Y. Vuillaume from COALIA, Canada, who recently published an article entitled ‘Polypropylene fabric coated with branched polyethyleneimine derivatives for high antiviral activity’.
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Polypropylene fabric coated with branched polyethyleneimine derivatives for high antiviral activity
Lori Leblond, Abdessadk Anagri, Jacques Fiset, Marie-Yolande Borget, Philippe Bébin, Nancy Dumais and Pascal Y. Vuillaume
RSC Appl. Interfaces, 2024,1, 908-919. DOI: 10.1039/D4LF00142G
Meet the authors
Lori Leblond is an M.Sc. student in Materials and Metallurgy Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Gaétan Laroche (Laval University, QC, Canada) and Dr. Philippe Bébin (COALIA, Research Center of Mineralogy and Plastics Processing of the College of Thetford Mines, QC, Canada). She has also been a project manager in advanced materials chemistry at COALIA since July 2024. She received her B.Sc. degree in chemistry from Laval University in 2023. During her college and university studies, she worked on the Industrial Research Chair for Advanced Materials (NSERC). Due to the context of COVID-19, during her B.Sc., she was involved in developing highly effective antiviral polymeric coatings and investigating the annihilation mechanism of virucidal polymers. Her research interests are related to functional coatings, nanomaterials and nanocomposites, hybrids materials, surface and interface chemistry for energy, packaging, construction and biomaterials applications. |
Pascal Vuillaume received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Laval University, QC, Canada, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. His research focused on the solid-state characterization of zwitterionomers and ionic liquid crystal polymers. As a Research Associate at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, he investigated the structure of self-assembled polycation-clay ultrathin films. Then, as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Montreal, he developed new polycations for gene transfection. He has been working for several years at the National Research Council of Canada investigating both the synthesis of fully fluorinated rigid polymers devoted for optical waveguide devices and the characterization of hybrid protogenic membranes for fuel cell applications. He worked for more than 10 years as a Research Director at COALIA the Research Center of Mineralogy and Plastics Processing of the College of Thetford Mines, QC, Canada. His research interests are related to biobased and biodegradable polymers and their blends, new materials for additive manufacturing and bioactive surfaces. He is currently holding the position of research and development expert advisor, still within COALIA. |