Geoffrey Ozin

About Geoffrey Ozin

Geoffrey A. Ozin received a B.Sc. in chemistry from King’s College London in 1965 and a D.Phil. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Oxford in 1967. He was ICI Fellow at the University of Southampton from 1967 to 1969 before joining the University of Toronto in 1969; he became Full Professor in 1977 and University Professor in 2001 and has been named Government of Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry. He is Honorary Professorial Fellow at The Royal Institution of Great Britain and University College London and Guest Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More details are available at the research group’s homepage.

Fuel from the Sun

Imagine life in a ‘clean house gas’ rather than a ‘green house gas’ world; this will require a change of human behavior from that practiced in the Anthropocene era where the Earth’s ecosystems have been negatively impacted by humans to the Sustanocene age where humans strive to heal the Earth through renewable technologies to make things better. Image: Todd Siler and Geoffrey Ozin - ArtNanoInnovations.

Professor Geoff Ozin on his “super leaf” challenge – producing fuel by matching nature.

Nanomaterials kaleidoscope: building a nanochemistry periodic table

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In a new piece, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin makes his case for a new kind of combinatorial strategy for nanomaterials based on the idea of nanochemistry DNA.

Nature’s Nanomaterials – To Be or Not to Be Bioinspired?

Synthetic sea shells.

How much does materials science stand to gain from Nature? Professor Ozin gives his take on the progress of biomimetics.

Nanochemistry Prescience?

Nanomaterials paradigm

Professor Ozin looks back at the predictions for the field of nanochemistry he made 20 years ago; where has nanotechnology gone since?

Pores for Thought – Barrer Lecture 2012

Richard Maling Barrer

Professor Geoffrey Ozin’s Barrer Award lecture, presented at the British Zeolite Association on the 16th of July.

Ode to CO2

Geoff Ozin

This week, Professor Ozin defends that most maligned of molecules, carbon dioxide.

Nanochemistry Nostalgia 2011

Geoff Ozin

Professor Geoffrey Ozin reviews some significant results in nanochemistry from 2011.

What Is My (Nano)Material Good For?

Geoff Ozin

Whatever happened to curiosity-driven research aimed at the creation of fundamental knowledge without the need for immediate application?

How Green Does Your Nanomaterials Garden Grow?

Nanochemistry for the environment

Professor Geoffrey Ozin discusses the safe and responsible development, production, use, transportation, and disposal of nanoparticles in existing or emerging nanotechnologies.

Artificial Photosynthesis versus Greenhouse Gas

Nanoscale materials for photosynthesis

Professor Geoffrey Ozin discusses what he believes may be the largest challenge of the century—the development of an artificial photosynthetic machine.