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Dr. Song Liu has obtained research support from various granting agencies (including NSERC, CIHR, CFI and MHRC) for his pioneering work in exploring new durable and versatile surface modification techniques for chemically inert semicrystalline polymers. His research group has successfully developed a versatile polyester platform which can allow furnishing the surface with various bio-functionalities via “click” chemistry method in a spatially-controlled manner. This work lays an important foundation for well-controlled durable bio-functionalization of chemically inert semicrystalline polymers for their uses in medical devices such as vascular grafts, drug release stents and wound dressings.

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News

Congratulations to Sarah Currie for being awarded the prestigious 2019 CSBE/SCGAB Undergraduate Thesis Award.
A warm welcome to Sarah Currie!
Sarah worked as an NSERC USRA summer student in our Smart Biomaterials lab last summer.
Congratulations to Dr. Liu for being awarded the 2018 Merit Award for Research, Scholarly Work and Creative Activities

Opportunities

PhD and Postdoc opportunity
The Liu Group has openings for self-motivated Ph.D. students. The positions involve research on the synthesis of novel antimicrobial magnetic nanoparticles, the synthesis of block-polymer Read More
Master opportunity
Dr. Liu’s group always looking forward to working with self-motivated and hardworking students. Do not hesitate to contact Dr. Liu regarding Master’s position.
Undergrad and summer student position
Dr. Liu’s group always looking forward to working with self-motivated and hardworking students. Do not hesitate to contact Dr. Liu regarding undergrad and summer student Read More

Publications

EDTA-Na3 Functionalized Fe3O4 Nanoparticles: Grafting Density Control for MRSA Eradication. Dalton Transactions, 2019, accepted (Impact Factor: 4.099).
Manna, P.K.; Nickel, R.; Li, J; Wroczynskyj, Y.; Yathindranath, V.; Liu, S.; van Lierop, J.* EDTA-Na3 Functionalized Fe3O4 Nanoparticles: Grafting Density Control for MRSA Eradication. Read More
Lipase-Responsive Electrospun Theranostic Wound Dressing for Simultaneous Recognition and Treatment of Wound Infection
Singh, H; Li, W; Kazemian, M.; Yang, R.; Yang, C.; Logsetty, S.; Liu, S (2019). Lipase-Responsive Electrospun Theranostic Wound Dressing for Simultaneous Recognition and Treatment of Read More
A new tool to attack biofilms: Driving magnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles to disrupt the matrix. Nanoscale, 2019 (Impact Factor: 7.233).
Li, J.; Nickel, R.; Wu, Jiandong.; Lin, F.; van Lierop, J.; Liu, S.* (2019) A new tool to attack biofilms: Driving magnetic iron-oxide nanoparticles to Read More
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