• Internal molecular conformation of organic glasses: A NEXAFS study 

  Zuhaib, Amara; Urquhart, Stephen (American Institute of Physics, 2021-07-16)

  The origin of the exceptional stability of molecular glasses grown by physical vapor deposition (PVD) is not well understood. Differences in glass density have been correlated with thermodynamic stability for thin films ...

• Seeking stability: A preliminary exploration of Canadian young adults’ financial goals 

  Mazurik, Kathrina; Knudson, Sarah (Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-20)

  Young people’s financial lives have undergone change, with delays and struggles attaining stable employment, home ownership, and financial independence. Despite such change, research on the future thinking of young adults ...

• Stuck in the Nest? A Review of the Literature on Coresidence in Canada and the United States 

  Mazurik, Kathrina; Knudson, Sarah; Tanaka, Yukiko (Taylor & Francis, 2020-03-03)

  An historically high proportion of Canadian and American young adults are living with their parents. This trend has stimulated research and theorization of “coresidence,” yet recent reviews of the subject are lacking. In ...

• Oxazolium Salts as Organocatalysts for the Umpolung of Aldehydes 

  Garapati, Venkata Krishna Rao; Gravel, Michel (ACS Publications, 2018-10-01)

  Oxazolium salts were successfully employed for the first time as organocatalysts for benzoin, Stetter, and redox esterification reactions. An N-mesityl oxazolium salt catalyzed homobenzoin reaction of aromatic, heteroaromatic, ...

• Enantioselective Stetter Reactions Catalyzed by Bis(amino)cyclopropenylidenes: Important Role for Water as an Additive 

  Rezazadeh Khalkhali, Mehran; Wilde, Myron M. D.; Gravel, Michel (ACS Publications, 2020-12-15)

  The first highly enantioselective intermolecular Stetter reaction using simple enones is reported. A series of novel chiral BAC structures were designed and prepared. They were tested in the Stetter reaction with simple ...

• Microsecond Resolved Infrared Spectroelectrochemistry Using Dual Frequency Comb IR Lasers 

  Burgess, Ian (American Chemical Society, 2020-04-01)

  A dual infrared frequency comb spectrometer with heterodyne detection has been used to perform time resolved electrochemical attenuated total reflectance surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy (ATR-SEIRAS). The ...

• Part-per-trillion LC-MS/MS determination of neonicotinoids in small volumes of songbird plasma 

  Hao, Chunyan; Eng, Margaret; Morrissey, Christy; Sun, Fengrong (Elsevier, 2018-12-10)

  Neonicotinoids are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world, and there are increasing concerns about their effects on non-target organisms. Analytical methods to diagnose exposure to neonicotinoids in wildlife ...

• A neonicotinoid insecticide reduces fueling and delays migration in songbirds 

  Eng, Margaret; Stutchbury, Bridget; Morrissey, Christy (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-09-13)

  Neonicotinoids are neurotoxic insecticides widely used as seed treatments, but little is known of their effects on migrating birds that forage in agricultural areas. We tracked the migratory movements of imidacloprid-exposed ...

• Silicon 1s Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy of Functionalized Silicon Nanocrystals 

  Ritchie, Andrew; Cao, Wei; Dasog, Mita; Purkait, T.K.; Senger, Curtis; HU, Yongfeng; Xiao, Q.F.; Veinot, Jon; Urquhart, Stephen; Urquhart, Stephen (American Chemical Society, 2016)

  Silicon 1s Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) spectra of silicon nanocrystals have been examined as a function of nanocrystal size (3 – 100 nm), varying surface functionalization (hydrogen or 1-pentyl ...

• Extracting Knowledge: Social Science, Environmental Impact Assessment, and Indigenous Consultation in the Oil Sands of Alberta, Canada 

  Baker, Janelle Marie; Westman, Clinton N. (Elsevier, 2018-01)

• Systematic Investigation of π–π Interactions in Near-Edge X-ray Fine Structure (NEXAFS) Spectroscopy of Paracyclophanes 

  Perera, Sahan; Urquhart, Stephen (2017)

  NEXAFS spectroscopy has potential for study of packing and order in organic materials but only if intermolecular effects are understood. This work studies how π–π interactions between adjacent unsaturated groups affect ...

• Connecting Molecular Conformation to Aggregation in P3HT Using Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy 

  Martinson, Mercedes; Urquhart, Stephen; Eger, Shaylin; Murcia, Victor; Ade, Harald; Collins, Brian (American Chemical Society, 2017-10-11)

  Carbon 1s Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (NEXAFS) and UV-vis spectroscopy are used to examine differences between highly aggregated and poorly aggregated forms of the polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), based ...

• Visions of the Great Mystery: Grounding the Algonquian manitow Concept 

  Westman, Clinton; Joly, Tara (Sage, 2017)

• The wihkohtowin: Ritual Feasting among Cree and Métis Peoples in Northern Alberta 

  Westman, Clinton (University of Toronto Press, 2015)

• Temperature Dependence in the NEXAFS Spectra of n-Alkane 

  Urquhart, Stephen; Perera, Sahan; Sadegh, Shokatian; Wang, Jian (American Chemical Society, 2018-11-16)

  The near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectra of orthorhombic single crystals of n-octacosane (n-C28H58), recorded at room temperature (298 K) and at cryogenic temperatures (93 K), show distinct differences. ...

• Tracing molybdenum attenuation in mining environments using molybdenum stable isotopes 

  Skierszkan, Elliott K.; Robertson, Jared M.; Lindsay, Matthew B. J.; Stockwell, Justin S.; Dockrey, John W.; Das, Soumya; Weis, Dominique; Beckie, Roger D.; Mayer, K. Ulrich (American Chemical Society, 2019-04-18)

  Molybdenum contamination is a concern in mining regions worldwide. Better understanding of processes controlling Mo mobility in mine wastes is critical for assessing potential impacts and developing water-quality management ...

• Selenate removal by zero-valent iron under anoxic conditions: effects of nitrate and sulfate 

  Das, Soumya; Lindsay, Matthew B. J.; Hendry, M. Jim (Springer Nature, 2019-08-16)

  Batch experiments were conducted to examine aqueous Se(VI) removal by zero-valent iron (ZVI) under anoxic conditions in the presence and absence of NO3− and SO42−. Initial concentrations for Se(VI), SO4, and NO3–N of 5 mg ...

• Putative mixotrophic nitrifying-denitrifying Gammaproteobacteria implicated in nitrogen cycling within the ammonia/oxygen transition zone of an oil sands pit Lake 

  Mori, Jiro F.; Chen, Lin-Xing; Jessen, Gerdhard L.; Rudderham, Sarah B.; McBeth, Joyce M.; Lindsay, Matthew B. J.; Slater, Gregory F.; Banfield, Jillian F.; Warren, Lesley A. (Frontiers, 2019-10-24)

  Anthropogenically-impacted environments offer the opportunity to discover novel microbial species and metabolisms, which may be undetectable in natural systems. Here, a combined metagenomic and geochemical study in Base ...

• Vanadium geochemistry of oil sands fluid petroleum coke 

  Nesbitt, Jake A.; Lindsay, Matthew B. J. (American Chemical Society, 2017-02-09)

  Vanadium has previously been linked to elevated toxicity of leachates derived from oil sands petroleum coke. However, geochemical controls on V mobility within coke deposits remain poorly constrained. Detailed examinations ...

• Geochemical and mineralogical aspects of sulfide mine tailings 

  Lindsay, Matthew B. J. (Elsevier, 2015-01-30)

  Tailings generated during processing of sulfide ores represent a substantial risk to water resources. The oxidation of sulfide minerals within tailings deposits can generate low-quality water containing elevated concentrations ...

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