Department of Chemistry, McGill University
Regular Researcher

Our group believes that nature has something to teach humans about how to make better materials in a more sustainable way. Living organisms rapidly fabricate a range of high performance biopolymeric materials from biomolecular building blocks (e.g. proteins) via green bottom-up assembly processes. These materials provide important role models for green polymer fabrication. We utilize advanced material characterization techniques combined with traditional biochemical analysis to investigate why these materials have such excellent properties and how they are self-assembled. We then apply these distilled principles to create novel polymeric materials via advanced materials processing methods.

Key Words: bio-inspired materials, self-assembly, metal coordination, liquid crystals, self-healing

Address :
Department of Chemistry
McGill University
801 Sherbrooke St. West
Montréal, Québec H3A 0B8

Contact : matt.harrington@mcgill.ca

Website : https://www.mcgill.ca/harringtonlab/