Professor Bazuin’s group uses block copolymers and supramolecular chemistry to design new self-assembled polymer materials, in bulk and in thin films, for applications such as nanosensors and optics.

Professor Giasson and her group study static interactions (adhesion, molecular interactions) and dynamic interactions (nanorheology and nanotribiology) of surfaces and in soft-matter thin films. Her work covers a wide variety of materials ranging from biological systems (nucleic acids, cells) to synthetics (polymers, drug carriers) and complex fluids (colloids).