January 2025: Our work "Climate-Smart Materials: Cleavable Thermoset Nanocomposites for a Lower Carbon Future." by Sarah and Dr. Prince got accepted to Climate Con 2025. The poster will be showcased on February 7th. Read more here.
January 2025: Sarah's research 1-minute video has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 GRADflix competition! The showcase will be on February 4th, at University of Waterloo's Federation Hall. Read more here.
January 2025: We are excited to welcome our newest student, Daniyah Asad to the group! Daniyah is starting her MASc degree. Before joining the Prince Lab, she completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in Chemistry.
December 2024: Mina and Dr. Prince's recent article with the title of "Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization: Unlocking the Potential of Vinyl Polymers for Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, and More" has just been published in Biomacromolecules. Read more here.
November 2024: Sarah has been awarded the Davis Memorial Scholarship in Ecology. Congratulations Sarah!
October 2024: Dr. Prince's collaboration on "Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Controlled Degradation of Poly(lactic acid) for Melt-Blown Nonwovens" paper has just been published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Read more here.
October 2024: Dr. Prince gave the Keynote Lecture in the Soft Matter Division at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Conference in Toronto, Ontario.
October 2024: Dr. Prince won the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Research Leaders Award.
October 2024: Dr. Prince's sole-author paper on Designing Biomimetic Strain-Stiffening into Synthetic Hydrogels has just been published in Biomacromolecules. Read more here.
September 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest MASc student, Tarun Nair to the group! Tarun is joining us from the Chemical Engineering Program at the University of Waterloo.
August 2024: Dr. Prince presented in the 25th anniversary symposium for the Journal Biomacromolecules at the ACS conference in Denver, Colorado.
August 2024: Sarah and Dr. Prince's recent article with our collaborator, Professor Milad Kamkar, on filamentous aerogels for electromagnetic shielding was just published in ChemNanoChem.
July 2024: Check out this video on our groups research into addressing the plastic waste crisis: video
June 2024: A youtube channel, May Contain Science, highlighted the work of Dr. Prince and her collaborators at MIT and Cache DNA. Check out their video on the Jurassic Park-inspired project she worked on during her postdoc: video. You can read more about the project here.
June 2024: Our Buchi C-815 Automated Flash Chromatography System and R-80 Compact rotovap were both installed today! Thank you to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation - John Evans Leadership Fund for funding those purchases.
June 2024: Just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society: a new Jurassic Park-inspired method for preserving DNA in deconstructable thermosets. This was a collaborative project that Dr. Prince worked on during her postdoc with Professor Jeremiah Johnson at MIT. She collaborated with Dr. Ho Fung Chen and Dr. James Banal at Cache DNA. Read more here.
June 2024: We are excited to welcome Yuri Miyatake to the group. Yuri is a visiting graduate student from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. Welcome Yuri!
June 2024: Dr. Prince presented at the Canadian Society for Chemistry conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
May 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest MASc student, Maggie Wong to the group! Maggie is joining us from the Nanotechnolgy Engineering Program at the University of Waterloo. Maggie has been awarded an Engineering Excellence Masters Fellowship. Congratulations Maggie!
April 2024: Dr. Prince was a scientific observer at the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a Global Treaty on Plastics pollution in Ottawa, Ontario. Read more here.
April 2024: Dr. Prince was a member of the University of Waterloo's delegation at the UN negotiations for a global treaty to address plastic pollution. Read more here.
March 2024: Dr. Prince spoke at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana!
March 2024: Dr. Prince presented a Lecture at McMaster University in the Department of Chemistry's Seminar Series. Thank you McMaster for hosting!
February 2024: Dr. Prince has been awarded the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize for Chemistry! This award from the Government of Ontario recognizes an outstanding Ontario based scientist in each of the Nobel Prize fields. Read about this award.
January 2024: Dr. Prince was named as a member of the Biomacromolecules Early Career Board. Read more here.
January 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest student, Sarah Rezaei to the group! Sarah is starting her MASc degree. Before joining the Prince Lab, she completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Tehran.
December 2023: Dr. Prince's paper on the biomimetic strain-stiffening of nanocolloidal filamentous hydrogels is out now in PNAS! Read the article here.
November 2023: Our group has been awarded a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation - John Evans Leadership Fund for our work on biomimetic filamentous hydrogels! We are looking forward to using these funds to purchase and automated flash chromatography system and an optics-interfacing rheometer.
November 2023: We are excited to welcome Stephanie Li to the group! Stephanie is a co-op student in her first year of the University of Waterloo's undergraduate chemical engineering program.
September 2023: We are excited to welcome two new students to our group! Dylan McQuarrie is an MASc student who is joining us from Mount Allison University. Mina Ghorbani is a PhD student who is joining us from Tarbiat Modares University. Welcome Mina and Dylan!
July 2023: Dr. Prince attended Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in Holderness, New Hampshire, USA. She was selected for a junior faculty flash-talk where she got to share our research on biomimetic hydrogels.
June 2023: Dr. Prince is giving three talks at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference in Vancouver British Columbia. She is talking about our work on patient-derived tumour organoids, recyclable thermosets, and biomimetic filamentous hydrogels.
May 2023: Dr. Prince gave a talk at the Biochemical and Biological Engineering & Synthetic Biology Conference in Waterloo, Ontario. She is talking about our work on patient-derived tumour organoids and biomimetic filamentous hydrogels.
May 2023: Dr. Prince spoke about are research on sustainability-minded redesign of plastic waste in the Future Directions of Advanced Materials Workshop hosted by the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research.
May 2023: We are welcoming our first two students to the group! Negar Akbrania is an MASc student who is joining us from Amirkabir University. Samantha Neufeld is a first year co-op student in the nanotechnology engineering program at the University of Waterloo.
April 2023: Our group has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for our work on sustainability-minded redesign of polymer networks! Thank you to NSERC for the support!
January 2023: First day of the Prince Lab at the University of Waterloo!
January 2025: Sarah's research 1-minute video has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 GRADflix competition! The showcase will be on February 4th, at University of Waterloo's Federation Hall. Read more here.
January 2025: We are excited to welcome our newest student, Daniyah Asad to the group! Daniyah is starting her MASc degree. Before joining the Prince Lab, she completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in Chemistry.
December 2024: Mina and Dr. Prince's recent article with the title of "Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization: Unlocking the Potential of Vinyl Polymers for Drug Delivery, Tissue Engineering, and More" has just been published in Biomacromolecules. Read more here.
November 2024: Sarah has been awarded the Davis Memorial Scholarship in Ecology. Congratulations Sarah!
October 2024: Dr. Prince's collaboration on "Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Controlled Degradation of Poly(lactic acid) for Melt-Blown Nonwovens" paper has just been published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. Read more here.
October 2024: Dr. Prince gave the Keynote Lecture in the Soft Matter Division at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Conference in Toronto, Ontario.
October 2024: Dr. Prince won the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology Research Leaders Award.
October 2024: Dr. Prince's sole-author paper on Designing Biomimetic Strain-Stiffening into Synthetic Hydrogels has just been published in Biomacromolecules. Read more here.
September 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest MASc student, Tarun Nair to the group! Tarun is joining us from the Chemical Engineering Program at the University of Waterloo.
August 2024: Dr. Prince presented in the 25th anniversary symposium for the Journal Biomacromolecules at the ACS conference in Denver, Colorado.
August 2024: Sarah and Dr. Prince's recent article with our collaborator, Professor Milad Kamkar, on filamentous aerogels for electromagnetic shielding was just published in ChemNanoChem.
July 2024: Check out this video on our groups research into addressing the plastic waste crisis: video
June 2024: A youtube channel, May Contain Science, highlighted the work of Dr. Prince and her collaborators at MIT and Cache DNA. Check out their video on the Jurassic Park-inspired project she worked on during her postdoc: video. You can read more about the project here.
June 2024: Our Buchi C-815 Automated Flash Chromatography System and R-80 Compact rotovap were both installed today! Thank you to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation - John Evans Leadership Fund for funding those purchases.
June 2024: Just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society: a new Jurassic Park-inspired method for preserving DNA in deconstructable thermosets. This was a collaborative project that Dr. Prince worked on during her postdoc with Professor Jeremiah Johnson at MIT. She collaborated with Dr. Ho Fung Chen and Dr. James Banal at Cache DNA. Read more here.
June 2024: We are excited to welcome Yuri Miyatake to the group. Yuri is a visiting graduate student from the Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. Welcome Yuri!
June 2024: Dr. Prince presented at the Canadian Society for Chemistry conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
May 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest MASc student, Maggie Wong to the group! Maggie is joining us from the Nanotechnolgy Engineering Program at the University of Waterloo. Maggie has been awarded an Engineering Excellence Masters Fellowship. Congratulations Maggie!
April 2024: Dr. Prince was a scientific observer at the UNEP Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on a Global Treaty on Plastics pollution in Ottawa, Ontario. Read more here.
April 2024: Dr. Prince was a member of the University of Waterloo's delegation at the UN negotiations for a global treaty to address plastic pollution. Read more here.
March 2024: Dr. Prince spoke at the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana!
March 2024: Dr. Prince presented a Lecture at McMaster University in the Department of Chemistry's Seminar Series. Thank you McMaster for hosting!
February 2024: Dr. Prince has been awarded the prestigious John Charles Polanyi Prize for Chemistry! This award from the Government of Ontario recognizes an outstanding Ontario based scientist in each of the Nobel Prize fields. Read about this award.
January 2024: Dr. Prince was named as a member of the Biomacromolecules Early Career Board. Read more here.
January 2024: We are excited to welcome our newest student, Sarah Rezaei to the group! Sarah is starting her MASc degree. Before joining the Prince Lab, she completed her bachelor's degree at the University of Tehran.
December 2023: Dr. Prince's paper on the biomimetic strain-stiffening of nanocolloidal filamentous hydrogels is out now in PNAS! Read the article here.
November 2023: Our group has been awarded a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation - John Evans Leadership Fund for our work on biomimetic filamentous hydrogels! We are looking forward to using these funds to purchase and automated flash chromatography system and an optics-interfacing rheometer.
November 2023: We are excited to welcome Stephanie Li to the group! Stephanie is a co-op student in her first year of the University of Waterloo's undergraduate chemical engineering program.
September 2023: We are excited to welcome two new students to our group! Dylan McQuarrie is an MASc student who is joining us from Mount Allison University. Mina Ghorbani is a PhD student who is joining us from Tarbiat Modares University. Welcome Mina and Dylan!
July 2023: Dr. Prince attended Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering in Holderness, New Hampshire, USA. She was selected for a junior faculty flash-talk where she got to share our research on biomimetic hydrogels.
June 2023: Dr. Prince is giving three talks at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference in Vancouver British Columbia. She is talking about our work on patient-derived tumour organoids, recyclable thermosets, and biomimetic filamentous hydrogels.
May 2023: Dr. Prince gave a talk at the Biochemical and Biological Engineering & Synthetic Biology Conference in Waterloo, Ontario. She is talking about our work on patient-derived tumour organoids and biomimetic filamentous hydrogels.
May 2023: Dr. Prince spoke about are research on sustainability-minded redesign of plastic waste in the Future Directions of Advanced Materials Workshop hosted by the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research.
May 2023: We are welcoming our first two students to the group! Negar Akbrania is an MASc student who is joining us from Amirkabir University. Samantha Neufeld is a first year co-op student in the nanotechnology engineering program at the University of Waterloo.
April 2023: Our group has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for our work on sustainability-minded redesign of polymer networks! Thank you to NSERC for the support!
January 2023: First day of the Prince Lab at the University of Waterloo!
