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Current Group Members

Dr. Peter Kruse
Group Leader
Stephen Yue Wang
Graduate Student (Sept. 2007 - present)
(B.Sc., Chemistry - China)

Nanostructures from Electropolishing
Tanzina Chowdhury
Graduate Student (Sept. 2010 - present)
(M.Sc., Physics - Sweden)

Mobility at Interfaces
Amirmasoud Mohtasebi
Graduate Student (September 2012 - present)
(M.Sc., Chemistry - University of Erlangen)

Mobility at Interfaces
Dr. Enamul Hoque
Visiting Scholar (March 2012 - present)
(visiting from Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Alan Awez
Undergraduate Project Student (September 2012 - present)
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2012
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)

Zachary Arnott
Undergraduate Project Student (September 2012 - present)
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)

Alumni (Thesis Research)

Dr. Subir Ghosh
Ph. D., Engineering Physics (Joint with Prof. LaPierre) - November 2009
"Growth of Nanowires on GaAs(100) Substrate"

Moved on to: Postdoctoral Fellow in Ted Sargent's group at U. of Toronto
Dr. Kevin Moonoosawmy
Ph. D., Chemistry - April 2009
"Towards Understanding the Intertwinement between Chemical Modification and Electronic Structure of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes"

Moved on to: Postdoctoral Fellow in Federico Rosei's group at INRS

Dr. Sherdeep Singh
Ph. D., Chemistry - August 2008
"Engineering Nanostructures Using Dissipative Electrochemical Processes"
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2003, 2004

Moved on to: Postdoctoral Fellow in Paul Wiseman's group at McGill
Allen Pauric
M. Sc., Chemistry - August 2012
"Bubble Mediated Surface Modification in the Copper Electropolishing System"

Moved on to: Doctoral Student in Gillian Goward's group at McMaster

Mark Greiner
M. Sc., Chemistry - December 2007
"Photoelectron Spectroscopy Investigation of Oligoaniline - Iron Oxide Interfaces for Understanding Corrosion Inhibition"
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2005
"Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy to Image Carbon Nanotube Functionalization in situ"
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2004

Moved on to: Doctoral Student in Zheng-Hong Lu's group at U. of Toronto

Hany El-Sayed
M. Sc., Chemistry - August 2006
"Electrochemical Patterning of Tantalum and Tantalum Oxide Thin Films"

Moved on to: Doctoral Student in Viola Birss's group at U. of Calgary

Guoxiu Wei
M. Sc., Chemistry - August 2005
"Studies of Alignment of Copper Phthalocyanine Compounds on Au(111) and Sidewall Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"

Moved on to: Doctoral Student at Temple U. (USA)
Daniel Manickam
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2011
"Understanding Electrochemical Oscillations in Respect to the Step Formation on Nickel Metal"
Paul Hodgson
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2011
"Electrochemical Etching of Silver Tips"

Moved on to: MSc Student at McMaster (McCarry group)
Nathan Costa
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2011
"Electrochemical Etching of Titanium in Various Electropolishing Solutions"
Alexander Imbault
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2010
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2009
"Migration Mechanics of Aniline Oligomers on Steel"
Sarwat "Sabz" Baig
B. Sc. Thesis, Chemistry (University of Bristol) - April 2010
"Porous Copper Formation via Electropolishing"

Moved on to: MSc Student at U. of Bristol (U.K.)
Moved on to: Staff Scientist at HP (U.K.)
Douglas Riddell
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2009
"Nanopatterning of Electropolished Copper Surfaces"

Warren Barden
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2007
"Investigating the Formation of Highly Ordered Dimples on a Tantalum Surface"
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2006, 2007

Moved on to: Highschool Teacher

Kimberly Worsley
B. Sc., Chemistry - April 2004
"Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes as Seen by a Scanning Tunneling Microscope"

Moved on to: Doctoral Student in Robert Haddon's group at UC Riverside (USA)

Alumni (Visiting Scientists)

Phillip G. Daniel-Ivad
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2011
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)

Jerry Kurian
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2011
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)

Frederick To
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2011
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)

Dr. Alireza Zolfaghari
Visiting Scholar (Aug. 2010 - Feb. 2011)
(visiting from the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran)

Adam Pantaleo
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2010
(Degree in Progress, McMaster University)


Miguel Festin
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2007

Sung-Kyun Lee
Visiting Researcher - May 2004 - February 2006

Tom Snyder
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2005

Danish Rizwan
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2005

Arne Kloke
(joint with Vargas-Baca group)
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2005

Heather Hurley
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2003, 2004

Moved on to: Patent Agent in Ottawa, ON

Girish Lakhwani
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2004

Moved on to: Doctoral Student in the Netherlands

Magnus Hov Lieng
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2003, 2004

Ankur Bansal
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2004

Jacob Penner
Undergraduate Summer Student - 2003

Moved on to: Graduate School in Medical Physics

Group Pictures


Exploring low temperature surfaces (Trip to Ottawa, Winterlude, Feb. 2004)

Summer 2004

Brunch at the Anchaster Old Mill, Summer 2004

Brunch at the Anchaster Old Mill, Fall 2009

Year-end Lunch at Koosh Bistro, December 2010


Page background is an SEM image of nanometer scale dimples generated during electropolishing of tantalum.

(pk) 04 Feb 2013