Experience

Simon Fraser University - Department of Chemistry

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • May 2019 - Present

  My work is base on the research and development of ionomers for Anion Exchange Membrane. This study is carried out by polycondensations and/or cross-coupling reactions. I am also investigating new molecular scaffolds, new polymerization routes and their characterizations to provide highly stable and highly conductive Anion Exchange Membranes. My work is base on the research and development of ionomers for Anion Exchange Membrane. This study is carried out by polycondensations and/or cross-coupling reactions. I am also investigating new molecular scaffolds, new polymerization routes and their characterizations to provide highly stable and highly conductive Anion Exchange Membranes.



SFU, Chemistry Department

• Ph. D. Candidate

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2019

  Polymer electrolyte membranes are under intense investigation becauseof the large panel of applications such as ions exchange resin, water purification,hydrolysis and in Fuel Cells. All of the previously named required a strongbackbone polymer with a high ionic content to allow the material to be used.While all of the applications are of current importance, the use in fuel celltechnology is particularly interesting. Since the development of the firstperfluorosulfonic acid in the sixties, the production of electricity from hydrogenconsumption has become an item of interest.This thesis reports the work done on a new class of fluorine free protonexchange membranes for Fuel Cells, or hydrocarbon materials withoutheteroatoms, using a new well defined monomer. The total synthesis of the prefunctionalizedmonomer is done in five steps, followed by the homo and copolymerizationusing one linker in the [4+2] Diels alder cycloaddition.This work summary is divided into three parts.The first, and mostimportant one is focused on the multiple functionalization in a single step of onesubstrate and its characterization. Additionally, model compounds weredesigned, synthesized and characterized, followed by the synthesis of themonomer and its characterization. The second partis based on the homopolymerizationof the monomer using one linker. The polymer was successfullymade, characterized, casted and tried as a membrane and electrode for FuelCells. In the third and last part, a co-monomer was introduced to tune the ionicdomain, thus a series of different random copolymers were made, characterizedand tested as a proton exchange membrane for fuel-cell. Finally the last part,summarizes some side projects of interest under investigationand which could bean opening for future research.



Université de Montréal

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Master Degree

  • Oct 2010 - Apr 2013

  Conjugated materials are been used in many applications and fundamental research, owing in part to their high degree of conjugation. They further have opto-electronic properties that are compatible for use as conjugated materials in many devices including solar cells, organic field effect transistors, organic light emitting diodes and electrochromic devices. The latter are of particular interest because their colors that can be changed when a potential is applied. The advantage of these color switching materials compared to other opto-electronic devices is their simple fabrication that can be done under ambient conditions. Electrochromic devices have found many consumer applications including mirrors, tunable windows, camouflage and electronic paper, to name a few examples.The focus of our research group is the preparation of new conjugated materials based on azomethine. Previous efforts from the group demonstrated that azomethines having the required properties for use in electrochromic devices (electrochemical reversibility and air stability) were possible when using a 2,5-diaminothiophene derivative as a building block. It was also demonstrated that color tuning of both the neutral and oxidized states was possible when coupling 2,5-diaminothiophene with various heterocyclic arylaldehydes. Despite the many examples of azomethines studied in our group, fundamental structure-property relationships of these conjugated materials are still not understood. The objective of this thesis was therefore to prepare to new conjugated azomethines from triarylamine aldehydes. The objective was also to examine the opto-electronic properties of these novel azomethines, including the effect of the degree of conjugation and type of triphenylamine aldehyde precursor on the absorbance, electrochemical properties, and fluorescence.



Leleu Artois S.A.

• Summer work as administrative assistant for Leleu Artois mechanic workshop

  • Aug 2008 - Sep 2010

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Veolia Environnement

• United Kingdom
• Utilities

• Technician in Laboratory

  • May 2007 - Jul 2010

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