Seferos Group

Past and present Seferos group members gathered today for Dwight’s memorial, alongside his wife and UofT chemistry faculty members and staff. We will always cherish the support and mentorship Dwight gave to us all. We will miss him greatly ❤️

Chemistry Stories: Remembering Dwight Seferos. chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/rememberi…

Out now in Journal of Chemical Education! Man vs. Machine: We developed a new assignment for a materials chemistry course that has students critiquing ChatGPT-generated essays on course topics pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congrats to the new Dr. Xu on his amazing thesis defence earlier this week! 🎉👏🍾

New article out in @ChemicalScience! This work was a collaboration with @NRC_CNRC where we employed acylpyridinium mediators as electrochemical pH switches to reversibly capture and release CO2 #CCGEM pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Read about the NRC-University of Toronto Collaboration Centre for Green Energy Materials and the research happening in our group on materials for carbon dioxide capture! nrc.canada.ca/en/research-de…

Congrats to Dr. Grignon on his successful defence, and we wish him luck in his new postdoc role! 🎉

New paper out in EES Batteries! In this manuscript, we describe a marine-inspired, ion-conducting polymer that shows outstanding performance compared to PVDF when applied as a cathode binder in aqueous zinc-ion batteries. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Out now in @PolymChem! Our review on polytellurophenes and tellurium-containing polymers pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Many Seferos group members (past and present) had a great time at CSC in Ottawa! Peter, Jônatas, and Alicia all gave great talks. Ailsa, Jacob, Tom, Kimia, Heba, Eloi, and Kristen presented posters on their current research 👏

Out now in @ACSSustainable! We designed a novel Vitamin K polymer as a cathode material for Zn-ion batteries. When paired with a mussel-inspired polymer binder, we achieved higher performances compared to the traditional fluoridated binder, PVDF. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

A huge congratulations to Alicia who won the 2025 Chair’s Doctoral Medal for her outstanding thesis! 🎉🏅

New paper in @ACS_AMI! This paper reports an in-situ electrochemical polymerization strategy to convert nitro-substituted compounds into azo-linked porous cathode materials for aqueous Zn-ion batteries. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to the new Dr. Lotocki for his amazing defence! 🍾

A big congrats to Dr. Bryton Varju on his thesis defence! 🍾🎉

Our undergraduates Aaron and Serena did a great job on their 499 poster presentations! 🎉

Out now in @J_A_C_S! Our recent work on redox-active polyethers with hydrophilic backbones have countless aqueous electrochemical applications, including redox-flow batteries. This was a great collaboration with @A_Aspuru_Guzik’s group! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Chemistry stories: Organic Materials AI assignment has students grading ChatGPT's homework uoft.me/SeferosVarjuAI

New article up from @chemuoft about Bryton’s CTFP project! Read about it here: chemistry.utoronto.ca/news/organic-m…

Excited to share our latest paper in @MacroJrnls_ACS! We evaluate the optoelectronic properties and photodegradability of 1,2,4-chalcogenadiazole linkers for conjugated polymers. doi.org/10.1021/acs.ma…