The VandenBoer Group is a collaborator in the multinational Fatima field campaign to study marine fog formation towards improving forecasting capabilities. Group members Leyla Salehpoor and Leigh Crilley are measuring aerosol, atmospheric trace gas, and fog water chemical composition. This molecular scale work helps to describe the first interactions between water vapour and a seed […]
In environmental chemistry, field measurements are a critical aspect of connecting laboratory studies with simulations from global chemical transport models. These allow us to test our understanding of pollutant fate and transport under the complex conditions found in the real environment. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the team in Trevor VandenBoer and Cora Young’s research groups […]
"A York University research team is collaborating with Inkbox, a Toronto-based startup that uses semi-permanent tattoo technology, to better understand the science behind their revolutionary tattoo technology. The science could support the development of semi-permanent tattoos with different colours. Inkbox was acquired by Bic in January 2022 for U.S. $65 million." To view the full Yfile article, […]
In collaboration with F. Hoffmann - La Roche, the world's largest biotech company, the Orellana research group has developed a new method to add pyridines to unsaturated ketones. This allows the preparation of valuable building blocks for the synthesis of small molecule drug candidates under much milder conditions than prior methods. View Publication
During the first COVID-19 lockdown in India, air pollution levels changed dramatically. York University researchers Dr. Leigh Crilley (postdoctoral researcher), Yashar Ebrahimi-Iranpour (undergraduate researcher), and Prof. Cora Young found that while some air pollutants decreased, others increased. Their work was featured in a recent episode of CBC’s The Nature of Things. The paper, Importance of […]
Congratulations to Jennifer Chen, Leigh R. Crilly, Andrea A. Angelucci, Brian Malile, Cora J. Young, and Trevor C. Vandenboer on their latest publication. The research was published recently in the journal Environmental Science: Nano.