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Benoit Lessard
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Research
Latest funding
- $150,000
Improving wine manufacturing through improved analytics
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
Next generation optical memory devices
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $598,400
Accessing rare oxidation states in lanthanide ions to create high-performing spin qubits
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
Improving wine manufacturing through improved analytics
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit
Keywords: Agriculture and primary food production; Manufacturing processes and products
Next generation optical memory devices
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Keywords: coatings; device engineering; interface engineering; material properties; optical memory devices; organic electronics; organic thin film transistors; polymers; prototype engineering; thin film electronics
Accessing rare oxidation states in lanthanide ions to create high-performing spin qubits
Principal investigators: Murugesu, Muralee M
Keywords: coordination chemistry; lanthanide compounds; low coordination lanthanide ions; low valance lanthanide ions; magnetic materials; materials science; quantum; qubit; structure; x-ray crystallography
Metal halide perovskite and silicon phthalocyanine based electronics - Optimizing devices through AI assisted manufacturing and in-situ characterization
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Keywords: artificial intelligence; degradation mechanism; fabrication and characterization; material characterization; materials engineering; organic electronics; perovskites; silicon phthalocyanines; Solar cells; thin film
Silicon Phthalocyanines for low cost ammonia sensors
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Harm reduction through low cost point-of-source sensors
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Keywords: drugs opioids; harm reduction; materials engineering; microfabrication; nanotechnology; organic semiconductors; organic thin film transistors; point of source sensors; surface/electro chemistry; thin film
Semi batch synthesis of poly(ionic liquid) block copolymers for use in electrochromic applications
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Keywords: block copolymers; controlled radical polymerization; electrochemistry; electrochromic devices; material characterization; polymer electrolytes; polymer engineering; polymer reaction engineering; thin film organic electronics; thin film processing
Vapor Sorption and Thermogravimetric Analyzers for Functional Polymers
Principal investigators: Meek, Kelly
Pulse charging of solid polymer electrolyte based batteries
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit BH
Development of Cannabinoid sensors
Principal investigators: Lessard, Benoit
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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