Sébastien Fournier (Chemist)

Sébastien Fournier (born in Annecy, France on January 9, 1977) is a chemist of dual citizenship to France and Canada. As a nanotechnology expert living in Toronto, Canada, he currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of Fio Corporation.

Background

After doing his undergraduate studies in Paris and receiving a "Maitrise” in analytical chemistry he graduated from École Supérieure de Chimie Organique et Minérale as a chemical engineer. In 1998, he continued his education abroad to complete a M.Sc. at the University of Toronto with Professor Michael Denk, where he worked as a synthetic organometallic chemist and developed new precursors for the chemical vapour deposition of copper, silver and gold. He earned his Ph.D. in 2005 under the guidance of Profs. Geoffrey Ozin and Ian Manners with a thesis entitled "The Nanochemist's Toolbox: Nanospheres, Nanorods, Nanorings".

Dr Fournier accepted a position as a postdoctorate fellow at the institute of biomaterials and biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Warren Chan. He advanced to a Research Associate position where he further developed micro- and nano- quantum dot based barcodes for use in medical diagnostics.

He is currently heading the R&D department as the CTO of Fio Corporation, developing diagnostic tools for infectious diseases.

Selected peer-reviewed publications

*2008 Facile and rapid one-step mass preparation of quantum-dot barcodes Fournier-Bidoz S, Jennings TL, Klostranec JM, Fung W, Rhee A, Li D, Chan WCW Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47(30), p5577-5581. (Selected as Hot Article by the publisher and awarded a Front Cover) [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120696097/abstract]

*2007 Hinged nanorods made using a chemical approach to flexible nanostructures Mirkovic T, Foo ML, Arsenault AC, Fournier-Bidoz S, Zacharia NS, Ozin GA Nature Nanotech. 2(9), p565-569. [http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n9/abs/nnano.2007.250.html]

*2005 Dream Nanomachines Ozin GA, Manners I, Fournier-Bidoz S, Arsenault A, Adv. Mater. 17(24), p3011-3018. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112176877/abstract]

*2005 Synthetic self-propelled nanorotors Fournier-Bidoz S, Arsenault AC, Manners I, Ozin GA, Chem. Commun. p441-443. (Selected as Hot article by the publisher and awarded a Front cover) [http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/CC/article.asp?doi=b414896g]

*2004 Tunable microcellular morphologies from poly(ferrocenylsilane) ceramic precursors foamed in supercritical CO2 Frankowski DG, Fournier-Bidoz S, Manners I, Ozin GA, Khan SA, Spontak RJ, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 205, p2398-2408. (Selected as Front Cover by the publisher) [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/109849073/abstract]

*2004 Highly ordered Nanosphere Imprinted Nanochannel Alumina (NINA) Fournier-Bidoz S, Kitaev V, Routkevitch D, Manners I, Ozin GA, Adv. Mater. 16(23-24), p2193-2196. [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/109744119/abstract]

*2004 Ordered 2D arrays of ferromagnetic Fe/Co nanoparticle rings from a highly metallized metallopolymer precursor Clendenning SB, Fournier-Bidoz S, Pietrangelo A, Yang GC, Han SJ, Bordersen PM, Yip CM, Lu ZH, Ozin GA, Manners I, J. Mater. Chem. 14(11), p1686-1690. (Selected as Hot article by the publisher) [http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/JM/article.asp?doi=b402027h]

*2004 Towards the synthetic all-optical computer: science-fiction or reality ? Arsenault A, Fournier-Bidoz S, Hatton B, Miguez H, Tetrault N, Vekris E, Wong S, Yang SM, Kitaev V, Ozin GA. J. Mater. Chem. 14(5), p781-794. (Selected as Feature Article and awarded a Front Cover by the publisher) [http://www.rsc.org/publishing/journals/JM/article.asp?doi=b314305h]

Media Coverage

March 2006 Nanoscale propulsion, Nickel magazine, 21(2), p 5. (translated in French, Spanish, Deutsch, Chinese, Japanese, Russian) [http://www.nickelinstitute.org/index.cfm/ci_id/14847.htm]

Feb 21, 2005 Nanomotors, Chemical & Engineering News, 83(8), pp 33-35. [http://pubs.acs.org/email/cen/html022205125806.html]

Feb 1, 2005 Self propelled nanorotors, Chemistry World, 2(2), p 16. [http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2005/February/Selfpropellednanorotors.asp]

Jan 7, 2005 Nano-propellers sent for a spin, BBC News. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4131211.stm]

Dec 23, 2004 Nanorotors take a turn, Nanozone News. Nature Materials [http://www.nature.com/materials/nanozone/news/041223/portal/m041223-2.html]

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