Nadi Braidy

Prix et distinctions

• (2012) Prix Bazinet 2012. Université de Sherbrooke. (Distinction).
• (2007) Best Talk. Canadian Institute for mining, metallurgy and petroleum. (Prize / Award).
• (2006) 1st prize poster award. Microscopy Society of America. (Prize / Award).
• (2006) Gerard T. Simmons Award (best student proceedings). Microscopical Society of Canada. (Prize / Award).
• (2005) D.A.R. Kay Prize. Materials Science and Eng., McMaster University. (Distinction).
• (2004) 1st prize poster award. American Society of Materials (Ontario Chapter). (Prize / Award).
• (1998) Coopoly scholarship. École Polytechnique de Montréal. (Distinction).
• (1998) Sodexho Scholarship. École Polytechnique de Montréal. (Distinction).
• Early Career Investigator Award of the Microscopical Society of Canada. Microscopical Society of Canada. (Prize / Award).
• Faculty of Engineering Award for Excellence in Teaching 2014-2015. Université de Sherbrooke. (Distinction).
• Prix Bazinet 2018. Université de Sherbrooke. (Distinction).

Financement

• Grant. (Under Review). Principal Investigator. Nanofurnaces and Microreactors for Catalysis. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery. 266 733 $. (2022-2028)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Centre for Multiscale Microscopy. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Innovation fund. 10 324 411 $. (2020-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Quebec Network for Electron Microscopy of Materials. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Innovation funds. 11 645 907 $. (2018-2025)
• Research Chair. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. Synthesis and characterization of multifunctional nanomaterials. Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Tier II. 500 000 $. (2020-2025)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Uncovering the mechanism for light-induced phase segregation in mixed halide perovskite using time-resolved transmission electron microscopy. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). NOVA. 135 000 $. (2022-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Implementation of pedagogical innovations and exchange programs in the field of advanced materials between University of Sherbrooke and Polytech Montpellier. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Programme Samuel-De-Champlain-CFQCU - volet formation. 30 000 $. (2021-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Multifunctional composites for tomorrow's fiber / Composites multifonctionnels pour la fibre du futur. National Defence (Canada). Innovation for defence excellence and security - Micronets (Advanced materials). 1 500 000 $. (2019-2022)
• Grant. (Declined). Principal Applicant. Nucleation and Growth of Boron Nitride Nanotubes by Induction Plasma Technology. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Collaborative Research and Development. 221 433 $. (2018-2022)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Green Surface Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing (Green SEAM) Network. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Strategic Network. 5 500 000 $. (2017-2022)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Centre Québécois des Matériaux Fonctionnels. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Strategic group. 3 600 000 $. (2017-2022)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Engineering of spinels for catalysis. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery. 135 000 $. (2016-2022)
• Grant. (Under Review). Principal Investigator. µ-GC for the development of reactors heated using alternative energy. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools and Instruments. 64 700 $. (2021-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Changement de paradigme pour la gestion des allergènes grâce au développement de sondes moléculaires ultra-sensibles. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Audace. 100 000 $. (2019-2021)
• Contract. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Plasma Treatment of Asphaltene Fibers. Nexen Inc.. 48 895 $. (2018-2019)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Nanocornes de carbone produits par plasma pour l’encapsulation de colorants. Centre Québécois des Matériaux Fonctionnels. Projet équipe. 20 000 $. (2018-2019)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Novel algorithms for image classification and visualisation of multispectral datasets. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Engage. 25 000 $. (2017-2018)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Pouvoir catalytique de nanoferrites hybrides synthétisées par plasma. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT). Projets équipes-CQMF. 20 000 $. (2016-2017)
• Grant. (Declined). Principal Investigator. Développement d'un procédé plasma d'encapsulation de microcapsules de silice avec du graphène fonctionnalisé. Prima-Québec. Matériaux avancés TRL 4-6. 33 933 $. (2016-2017)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Centre Québecois sur les Matériaux Fonctionnels. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Regroupement stratégique. 3 000 000 $. (2011-2015)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Structural, crystalline and thermochemical characterization of nickel ferrites. Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Établissement des nouveaux chercheurs. 50 000 $. (2012-2013)
• Grant. (Declined). Principal Applicant. Nucleation and Growth of Boron Nitride Nanotubes by Induction Plasma Technology. Tekna Systèmes Plasma Inc. (Sherbrooke, QC). Collaborative Research Developpment. 126 850 $.

Publications

Articles de revue

• Aissou, T Veilleux, J Braidy, N. (2021). A new one-step deposition approach of graphene nanoflakes coating usinga radio frequency plasma: synthesis, characterization and tribologicalbehaviour. Tribology International (Submitted).
• IJ Castellanos-Beltran, LS Perreault, N Braidy. (2021). Application of Ni-spinel in the chemical-looping conversion of CO2 to CO via induction-generated oxygen vacancies. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 125 (13), 7213-7226. (Published).
• Fanny Casteignau, Taki Aissou, Charlotte Allard, Christian Ricolleau, Jocelyn Veilleux, Richard Martel, Nadi Braidy. (2021). Synthesis of carbon nanohorns by inductively coupled plasma. Materials Today Nano (Submitted).
• Fernique R, Savoie S, Gariépy M, Braidy N, Shulz R. (2020). A simple route to produce tungsten carbide powders by high energy ball milling and annealing. Ceramics International 46 (2), 1736-1742. (Published).
• Dega FB, Chamoumi M, Braidy N, Abatzoglou N. (2019). Autothermal dry reforming of methane with a nickel spinellized catalyst prepared from a negative value metallurgical residue. Renewable Energy 138 1239-1249. (Published).
• Dega FB, Chamoumi M, Braidy N, Abatzoglou N. (2019). Autothermal dry reforming of methane with anickel spinellized catalyst prepared from a negative value metallurgicalresidue. Renewable Energy 138 1239-1249. (Published).
• Braidy N, Béchu A, de Souza Terra J, Patience G. (2019). Experimental Methods in Chemical Engineering:Transmission Electron Microscopy – TEM. The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 98 (3), 628-641. (Published).
• Alain You Li and Nicolas Dumaresq, Andréanne Segalla, Nadi Braidy and Audrey Moores. (2019). Plasma-made (Ni0.5Cu0.5)Fe2O4nanoparticles for alcohol amination under microwave heating. ChemCatChem 11 1-15. DOI. (Published).
• P Camus, JF Dufault, D Mehanovic, N Braidy, LG Fréchette, M Picard. (2019). Testing of a 3D-Printed Solar Micro-Reactor for Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Reforming. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1407 (1), 12005-12008. (Published).
• Braidy N, Gosselin R. (2019). Unmixing noisy co-registered spectrum images ofmulticomponent nanostructures. Science Reports 9 (1), 1-8. (Published).
• Youcef. A. Bioud, Abderraouf Boucherif, Maksym Myronov, Ali Soltani, Gilles Patriarche, Nadi Braidy, Dominique Drouin, Richard Arès. (2019). Uprooting defects to enablelight-emitting III-V on Si. Nature Communications 10 (1), 1-12. (Published).
• Bastien, Samuel*, Nadi Braidy. (2018). Reduction and oxidation behavior of NixFe3-xO4-? spinels probed by reactive in situ XRD. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 122 (20), 11038-11050. (Published).
• Braidy N, *Bastien S, Blanchard J, *Achouri IE, Abatzoglou N. (2017). Activation and deactivation mechanism of a YSZ/Ni-alumina catalyst for dry reforming of methane. Catalysis Today 291 99-105. (Published).
• B Lavoie F, Braidy N, Gosselin R. (2016). Including noise characteristics in MCR to improve mapping and component extraction from spectral images. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 153 40-50. (Published).
• *Aluha J, Braidy N, Dalai AK, Abatzoglou N. (2016). Low-temperature Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using plasma-synthesized nanometric Co/C and Fe/C catalysts. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering 94 (8), 1504-1515. (Published).
• *Bastien S, Ricolleau C, Braidy N. (2016). Nano-architecture of facetted NiFe2O4/(Ni,Fe)O particles produced by induction plasma. Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 36 (5), 1349-1362. (Published).
• *Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Abatzoglou N, Braidy N, Hu Y. (2015). Carbon nanofilaments functionalized with ironoxide nanoparticles for in-depth hydrogen sulfide adsorption. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 54 (37), 9230-9237. (Published).
• *Masnadi M, Yao N, Braidy N, Moores A. (2015). Cu(II) galvanic reduction and deposition onto iron nano- and microparticles: resulting morphologies and growth mechanisms. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids 31 (2), 789-798. (Published).
• Polaert I, Bastien S, Legras B, Estel L, Braidy N. (2015). Dielectric and magnetic properties of NiFe2O4 at 2.45GHz and heating capacity for potential uses under microwaves. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 374 731-739. (Published).
• *Ishikawa S, *Hudson R, *Masnadi M, *Bateman M, *Castonguay A, Braidy N, Moores A, Li CJ. (2015). Erratum to “Cyclopropanation of diazoesters with styrene derivatives catalyzed by magnetically recoverable copper-plated iron nanoparticles” [Tetrahedron 70 (2014) 8952–8958]. Tetrahedron 71 (17), 2585. (Published).
• *Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Abatzoglou N, Blais S, Braidy N, Hu Y. (2015). Iron oxide-functionalized carbon nanofilaments for hydrogen sulfide adsorption: the multiple roles of carbon. Carbon 95 794-801. (Published).
• *Achouri IE, Abatzoglou N, Braidy N, Bastien S. (2015). New insights on the role of YSZ in a NiAl2O4/Al2O3-YSZ catalyst. Applied Catalysis A: General 497 42-50. (Published).
• *Aluha J, *Boahene P, Dalai A, Hu Y, Béré K, Braidy N, Abatzoglou N. (2015). Synthesis and characterisation of Co/C and Fe/Cnano-catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis: a comparative study using a fixed-bed reactor. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 54 (43), 10661-10674. (Published).
• Inderan V, Lim SY, Ong TS, *Bastien S, Braidy N, Lee HL. (2015). Synthesis and characterisations of SnO2 nanorods via low temperature hydrothermal method. Superlattices and Microstructures 88 (1), 396-402. (Published).
• Pierron-Bohnes V, Florea I, Ersen O, Ulhaq-Bouillet C, Goyhenex C, Braidy N, Ricolleau C, Le Bouar Y, Alloyeau D. (2014). Atomic-Scale Faceting in CoPt Nanoparticles Epitaxially Grown on NaCl. Crystal Growth & Design 14 (5), 2201-2208. (Published).
• Ishikawa S, Hudson R, Masnadi M, Bateman M, Castonguay A, Braidy N, Moores A, Li CJ. (2014). Cyclopropanation of diazoesters with styrene derivatives catalyzed by magnetically recoverable copper-plated iron nanoparticles. Tetrahedron 70 (46), 8952-8958. (Published).
• Ishikawa S, Hudson R, Masnadi M, Bateman M, Castonguay A, Braidy N, Moores A, Li CJ. (2014). Cyclopropanation of diazoesters with styrene derivatives catalyzed by magnetically recoverable copper-plated iron nanoparticles. Tetrahedron 70 (36), 6162-6168. (Published).
• *Darthout É, Quet A, Braidy N, Gitzhofer F. (2014). Lu2O3-SiO2-ZrO2 Coatings for Environmental Barrier Application by Solution Precursor Plasma Spraying and Influence of Precursor Chemistry. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology 23 (3), 325-332. (Published).
• *Bastien S, Braidy N. (2013). Controlled synthesis of nickel ferrite nanocrystals with tunable properties using a novel induction thermal plasma method. Journal of Applied Physics 114 (21), 214304. (Published).
• *Achouri IE, Abatzoglou N, *Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Braidy N. (2013). Diesel steam reforming: Comparison of two nickel aluminate catalysts prepared by wet-impregnation and co-precipitation. Catalysis Today 207 13-20. (Published).
• Ricolleau C, *Nelayah J, Oikawa T, Kohno Y, Braidy N, Wang G, Hue F, Florea L, Pierron Bohnes V, Alloyeau D. (2013). Performances of an 80-200 kV microscope employing a cold-FEG and an aberration-corrected objective lens. Microscopy (Oxford, England) 62 (2), 283-293. (Published).
• Braidy N, Le Bouar Y, Lazar S, Ricolleau C. (2012). Correcting scanning instabilities from images of periodic structures. Ultramicroscopy 118 67-76. (Published).
• Braidy N, Le Bouar Y, Lazar S, Ricolleau C. (2012). Instabilities in Scanning Probe Images of Periodic Structures: Detection and Corrections. Microscopy and Microanalysis 18 (S2), 378-379. (Published).
• Braidy N, Andrei C, Blanchard J, Abatzoglou N. (2012). Study of Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts using Phase Matching and EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis 18 (S2), 1308-1309. (Published).
• Abatzoglou N, Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Braidy N. (2011). Biodiesel reforming with a NiAl2O4/Al 2O3-YSZ catalyst for the production of renewable SOFC fuel. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 143 145-155. (Published).
• *Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Abatzoglou N, Braidy N, *Achouri IE. (2011). Diesel steam reforming with a nickel–alumina spinel catalyst for solid oxide fuel cell application. Journal of Power Sources 196 (18), 7673-7680. (Published).
• Braidy N, Andrei C, *Blanchard J, Abatzoglou N. (2011). From Nanoparticles to Process: An Aberration-Corrected TEM Study of Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts at Various Steps of the Process. Advanced Materials Research 324 197-200. (Published).
• Braidy N, Le Bouar Y, Fèvre M, Ricolleau C. (2010). Determination of the long-range order parameter from the tetragonality ratio of L 10 alloys. Physical Review B 81 (5), 054202. (Published).
• Iqbal M, McLachlan J, Jia W, Braidy N, Botton G, Eichhorn SH. (2009). Ligand effects on the size and purity of Pd nanoparticles. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 96 (1), 15-20. (Published).
• Alloyeau D, Ricolleau C, Mottet C, Oikawa T, Langlois C, Le Bouar Y, Braidy N, Loiseau A. (2009). Size and shape effects on the order-disorder phase transition in CoPt nanoparticles. Nature materials 8 (12), 940-946. (Published).
• Braidy N, Purdy GR, Botton GA. (2008). Equilibrium and stability of phase-separating Au–Pt nanoparticles. Acta Materialia 56 (20), 5972-5983. (Published).
• Braidy N, Behal S, Adronov A, Botton GA. (2008). Investigation of the oxide shell forming on epsilon-Co nanocrystals. Micron (Oxford, England : 1993) 39 (6), 717-722.
• Chen C, Braidy N, Couteau C, Fradin C, Weihs G, LaPierre R. (2008). Multiple quantum well AlGaAs nanowires. Nano letters 8 (2), 495-499.
• Braidy N, Jakubek ZJ, Simard B, Botton GA. (2008). Quantitative energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of electron beam-sensitive alloyed nanoparticles. Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada 14 (2), 166-175.
• Neretina S, Mascher P, Hughes RA, Braidy N, Gong WH, Britten JF, Preston JS, Sochinskii NV, Dippo P. (2006). Evolution of wurtzite CdTe through the formation of cluster assembled films. Applied Physics Letters 89 (13), 133101.
• Braidy N, Botton GA. (2006). Radial Concentration Profile Reconstruction from EDX Mapping of Au-Pt Nanoparticles. Microscopy and Microanalysis 12 (S02), 654-655.
• Castrucci P, Scarselli M, De Crescenzi M, El Khakani MA, Rosei F, Braidy N, Yi JH. (2004). Effect of coiling on the electronic properties along single-wall carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics Letters 85 (17), 3857-3859.
• Yao Z, Braidy N, Botton GA, Adronov A. (2003). Polymerization from the Surface of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes - Preparation and Characterization of Nanocomposites. Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (51), 16015-16024.
• Braidy N, Dénommée S, Kingston C, Jakubek Z, Simard B, Botton GA. (2003). Quantitative EDX microanalysis on volatile alloyed nanoparticles. Microscopy and Microanalysis 9 (SUPPL. 2), 282-283.
• Zhang J, Worley J, Dénommée S, Kingston C, Jakubek ZJ, Deslandes Y, Post M, Simard B, Braidy N, Botton GA. (2003). Synthesis of metal alloy nanoparticles in solution by laser irradiation of a metal powder suspension. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107 (29), 6920-6923.
• Braidy N, El Khakani MA, Botton GA. (2002). Carbon nanotubular structures synthesis by means of ultraviolet laser ablation. Journal of Materials Research 17 (9), 2189-2192.
• Braidy N, El Khakani MA, Botton GA. (2002). Effect of laser intensity on yield and physical characteristics of single wall carbon nanotubes produced by the Nd:YAG laser vaporization method. Carbon 40 (15), 2835--2842.
• Braidy N, Botton GA, Adronov A. (2002). Oxidation of Fe Nanoparticles Embedded in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Exposure to a Bright Flash of White Light. Nano Letters 2 (11), 1277-1280.
• Braidy N, El Khakani MA, Botton GA. (2002). Single-wall carbon nanotubes synthesis by means of UV laser vaporization. Chemical Physics Letters 354 (1-2), 88-92.
• Braidy N, El Khakani MA, Botton GA. (2002). Single-wall carbon nanotubes synthesis by means of UV laser vaporization: Effects of the furnace temperature and the laser intensity processing parameters. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings 703 407-412.

Chapitres de livre

• Nadi Braidy. (2020). Phase Diagram of an Au-Pt Solid Core/Liquid Shell Nanoparticle. T. van de Ven and A. Soldera. Advanced Materials (Berlin, 285-306). De Gruyter. (Published).
• Abatzoglou N, Fauteux-Lefebvre C, Braidy N. (2015). Biodiesel reforming with a NiAl2O4/Al2O3-YSZ catalyst for the production of renewable SOFC fuel. Syngellkakis, S.. Biomass to biofuels (WIT Transactions on statoe-of-the-art in S&T, 85, 191-201). WIT Press. (Published).
• Abatzoglou N, Shanmugapriya K, Braidy N, Blanchard J. (2012). Investigation of the Role of Surface Nanometric Sulfur and Carbon Moieties in Ni-Catalyzed Steam Reforming of Hydrocarbons. Dalai, A. J.. Nanocatalysis for Fuels & Chemicals (ACS Symposium Series, 1092, 1-23). Amercian Chemical Society. (Published).

Articles de conférence

• Audrey H. Moores, Alain Y. Li, Chao-Jun Li, Andreanne Segalla, Nadi Braidy, Nicolas Dumaresq. (2019). Transfer hydrogenation as a model for sustainable catalysis: solid state transfer hydrogenation from waste materials and plasma mediated synthesis of Cu/Ni ferrite for optimal amine alkylation. 23rd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference/9th International Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry. (Published).
• Rudinsky S, Yuan Y, Lavoie FB, Gauvin R, Gosselin G, Braidy N, Piché N, Marsh M. (2019). UsingDeep Learning to Deconvolute Complex Spectra for Hyperspectral ImagingApplications. vol 25 (S2), 178-179. (Published).
• Lavoie FB*, Gosselin R, Braidy N. (2018). Combined EELS and EDX datasets probed by advanced data mining techniques. International Microscopy Congress 19. (Published).
• Youcef A Bioud, Abderraouf Boucherif, Maksym Myronov, Ali Soltani, Gilles Patriarche, Nadi Braidy, Dominique Drouin, Richard Arès. (2018). High-quality Ge/Si virtual substrates fabricated by a low cost and scalable process. 9th International SiGe Technology and Device Meeting (ISTDM). (Published).
• Kikongi P*, Byrnn J*, Yen E., Braidy N, Gosselin R, Piché N. (2018). Hyperspectral and Hypermodal Data Visualization Using new Hyperdimensional environment. International Microscopy Congress 19. (Published).
• Kikongi P*, Dumaresq N*, Lavoie FB*, Gosselin R and Braidy N. (2018). Metallic Copper Clusters Decorating Cu Ferrites Revealed by Deep Data Analysis. Microscopy and Microanalysis. (Published).
• N Dumaresq*, A Moores, N Braidy. (2018). Plasma synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity of mixed oxide ferrites. Abstract, (Published).
• Dufault, J.-F.*, Achouri, I. E., Abatzoglou, N., Braidy, N., G. Fréchette, L., Picard, M. (2017). Fabrication and Demonstration of Planar Micro-Reactors for Solar Steam Methane Reforming. Power MEMS. (Published).
• Philippe Kikongi, Hendrix Demers, Raynald Gauvin, Ryan Gosselin, Nadi Braidy. (2017). Mapping Data with Heavily Overlapped Spectral Features. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2017. 216-217. (Published).
• Achouri, Esma Ines, Nadi Braidy, Nicolas Abatzoglou, and Jamal Chaouki. (2015). Effect of yttria content on YSZ oxygen conductivity and YSZ interaction with alumina as a reforming catalyst co-support. 250th Amercian Chemical Society Meeting & Expo. (Published).
• IE Achouri, N Abatzoglou, N Braidy. (2015). New insights on the role of YSZ in a NiAl2O4/Al2O3-YSZ diesel steam reforming catalyst. 249th American Chemical Society Expo & Meeting. (Published).
• J Aluha, N Braidy, Y Hu, A Dalai, N Abatzoglou. (2015). Plasma-derived nanometric Co/C and Fe/C catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. 249th American Chemical Society Meeting & Expo. (Published).
• Pierron-Bohnes V, Florea I, Ersen O, Ulhaq C, Goyhenex C, Braidy N, Ricolleau C, Le Bouar Y, Alloyeau D. (2014). Atomic-scale faceting and absence of segregationin CoPt nanoparticles epitaxied on NaCl. Abstract compendum, (Published).
• B Lavoie F, Braidy N, Blais S, Gosselin R. (2014). Comparison of Principal Component Analysis and Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares analysis of XPS spectral maps. Microscopy and Mocroanalysis, 658-659. (Published).
• Bastien S, Ricolleau C, Braidy N. (2014). Plasma Synthesis of Facetted Nickel nano-Ferrites with Controlled Stoichiometry. Microscopy and Mocroanalysis, 408-409. (Published).
• Braidy N, Le Bouar Y, Lazar S, Ricolleau C. (2012). Instabilities in Scanning Probe Images of Periodic Structures: Detection and Corrections. Microscopy and Mocroanalysis, 378-379. (Published).
• Braidy N, Andrei C, Blanchard J, Abatzoglou N. (2012). Study of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts using phase matching and EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 1308-1309. (Published).
• Braidy N, Le Bouar Y, Lazar S, Ricolleau C. (2010). Detecting and Correcting Instabilities in STEM Images. Microscopy and Mocroanalysis, 762-763. (Published).
• Braidy N, Botton GA. (2006). Radial concentration profile reconstruction from EDX mapping of Au-Pt nanoparticles. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 654-655.

Propriétés intellectuelles

Patents

• Dufault JF*, Picard M, Fréchette L, Braidy N. Integrated Solar Micro-Reactors for Hydrogen Synthesis via Steam Methane Reforming. US 62/587,196, ddc-2017. United States. (Pending).
• Dufault, JF Picard, M Fréchette, L Braidy, N Mehanovic, D Peloquin, JF Camus, PBS. Integrated Solar Micro-Reactors for Natural Gaz Reforming. 16/983,105. United States. (Pending).
• Casteignau, F Allard, C Martel, R Braidy, N. Method of Manufacturing Carbon Nanohorns and the Carbon Nanohorns thus Produced. 16/983,105. United States. (Pending).
• Mathilde Gosselin Cé Guinto Gamys Nadi Braidy Jean-François Lemay Kossi Béré Charles Gaudreault. PROCESSES FOR PREPARING SILICA-CARBON ALLOTROPE COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND USING SAME. WO2015135068 A1. United States. (Pending).

Licenses

• Integrated Solar Micro-Reactors for Natural Gaz Reforming. (2021). (Granted).

Autres contributions

Gestion d'évènements

• Conference Chair. (2020) Conference of the Microscopical Society of Canada 2020. (Conference).
• Scientific Chair. (2017) Microscopical Society of Canada Conference. (Conference).
• Session priding officer (chair). (2015) Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawai, USA. (Conference).
• Chair. (2010-2011) Seminars of the Chemical and Biotechnological Department of Université de Sherbrooke. (Seminar).
• Chair. (2011) Colloquium on nanosciences and nanotechnologies for catalysis (ACFAS 2011). (Workshop).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Collaborator. Malaysia. Research project on the synthesis and characterization of Sn nanostructures. My part was focused on the advanced characterization aspects (XRD and TEM). We are working jointly to submit a paper on this topic.
• Collaborator. France. Collaboration on the characterization of nickel ferrite nanoparticles with the laboratory of Christian Ricolleau (Université Paris 7, France). A student of my group (S. Bastien) spent 4 months in France as a visiting student to conduct advanced TEM characterization on nickel ferrite nanoparticles produced by thermal plasma.This collaboration resulted in 4 papers published in international journals.
• Collaborator. France. Collaboration with Isabelle Polaert et al., Université de Rouen (France) and Benoit Legras (former post-doctoral student in our group, now at Université de Lilles, France). The project involved the modeling of microwave heating of nickel ferrite nanoparticles. My contribution was to synthesize and supply the nanoparticles. The paper was written mainly by Isabelle Polaert with help from myself. This resulted 1 publication in a peer-reviewed journal and 1 presentation to an international conference.

Présentations

• Nicolas Dumaresq Jiyun Chen Fabiola Navarro Ana Tavares. (2021). Design of complex spinels produced by plasma for catalysis. Microscopical Society of Canada Annual Conference. Hamilton, Canada
• C Menini, JF Dufault, L Fréchette, M Picard, N Braidy. (2020). Assessment of the microstructure and species migration of Inconel 718 3D printed reactor for dry methane reforming using SEM. 2020 Microscopical Society of Canada Annual Meeting. Sherbrooke, Canada
• IJ Castellanos-Beltran, LS Perreault, N Braidy. (2020). Bifunctional application of a Ni-ferrite spinel in the low-temperature conversion of CO2 to CO using induction heating. 2020 Microscopical Society of Canada Annual Meeting. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2020). Design of complex spinels produced by plasma for catalysis. The Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering CCEC2020. Ottawa, Canada
• (2020). Multivariate techniques for advanced data mining techniques applied to spectrum images. Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy Usergroup meeting. Hamilton, Canada
• (2019). Cu-Ni nanoferrites catalysts <?>produced by induction plasma. Microscopy Society of Canada Meeting 2019. Vancouver, Canada
• (2019). Le côté obscur de l’interface : le point de vue des matériaux. Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (ACFAS). Gatineau, Canada
• (2019). The dark side of the interface of catalysis: the point of view of nanomaterials. TANN 2019 : 3rd International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ottawa, Canada
• (2018). Analyse HRTEM des matériaux et des composants en micro-nanoélectronique. 8e colloque du LN2. L'Escandille, France
• Braidy N, Dumaresq N*, Lavoie F*, Gosselin R. (2018). Metallic Copper Clusters Decorating Cu Ferrites Revealed by Deep Data Analysis. Microscopy and Microanalysis 2018. Baltimore, United States
• Braidy N, Bastien N*, Avedanos JM*. (2018). Probing thermochemistry of nickel ferrites using operando XRD and XAS. 25th Canadian Symposium on Catalysis. Saskatoon, Canada
• Braidy N, Bastien S*, Dumaresq N*. (2018). Thermal plasma synthesis and characterization of hybrid spinel nanoferrites for catalysis. American Chemical Society Meeting & Expo. Louisiana, United States
• (2017). La microscopie : fenêtre (et porte d’entrée) sur les nanomatériaux. École d'été de caractérisation CFQCU. Lorient, France
• Braidy N, Bastien S*, Dumaresq N*. (2017). Nanomaterials produced by induction plasma. First Korea-Québec-France Workshop on Nanomaterials and Functional materials. Seoul, Korea, Republic of
• (2017). Plasma Synthesis and Characterisation of Ferrite Spinels. CQMF/CSAC Advanced Materials Conference. Canada
• Braidy N, Bastien S*, Dumaresq S. (2017). Plasma Synthesis and Characterisation of Ferrite Spinels. 9th International Conference on materials for Advanced Technologies. Singapore, Singapore
• Braidy N, Blanchard J*, Achouri IE*, Fauteux-Lefebvre C*, Abatzoglou N. (2016). Activation & deactivation mechanisms of Ni alumina catalyst for methane reforming. 66th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference. Québec, Canada
• Braidy N, Bastien S*, Avendanos JM*, Blanchard J*, Fauteux-Lefebvre C*, Achouri IE*, Abatzoglou N. (2016). Crystalline and microstructural investigation of Ni spinels for catalysis. CQMF/CSACS Joint Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada
• Braidy N, Lavoie FB*, Gosselin R. (2016). Extracting components from spectrum images. Microscopical Society of Canada Annual Meeting. Edmonton, Canada
• Braidy N, Bédard D, Lavoie FB*. (2016). Rethinking materials engineering classes with problem-based learning. 66th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference. Québec, Canada
• Braidy N, Bastien S*. (2015). Hybrid NiFe2O4 / (Ni,Fe)O particles produced by induction plasma. THE INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL CONGRESS OF PACIFIC BASIN SOCIETIES 2015. Hawaï, United States
• Braidy N, Bastien S*, Blanchard J*, Fauteux-Lefebvre C*, Achouri IE*, Abatzoglou N. (2015). Study of NiAl2O4 catalyst: the dark side of the interface. The International Chemical congress of Pacific Basin Societies 2015, PACIFICHEM. Hawaï, United States
• (2014). La microscopie: fenêtre (et porte d’entrée) sur les nanomatériaux. Colloque de chimie du Québec. Sherbrooke, Canada
• *Bastien S, Ricolleau C. (2014). Nano-architecture de particules facettées de NiFe2O4/(Ni,Fe)O par plasma inductif. Annual meeting Plasma Québec. Montréal, Canada
• *Bastien S, Ricolleau C. (2014). Nano-architecture of Facetted NiFe2O4 / (Ni,Fe)O Particles by Induction Plasma. Microscopy and Microanalysis. Hartford, United States
• *B Lavoie F, Blais S, Gosselin R. (2014). New possibilities for spectral imaging. Microscopy and Microanalysis. Hartford, United States
• *Bastien S, Ricolleau C. (2013). Plasma Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel Ferrite Nanopowders. Materials Science and Technology 2013. Montréal, Canada
• (2013). Plasma synthesis of facetted Nickel nano-ferrites with controlled stoichiometry. Annual meeting of the Microscopical Society of Canada. Victoria, Canada
• (2012). Eliminating scanning related defects in images of periodic structures. Annual meeting of the Microscopical Society of Canada. Halifax, Canada
• (2012). Microscopie électronique en transmission de nanocarbures de Fe produits par plasma pour la synthèse Fischer-Tropsch. Annual colloquium of Plasma Québec. Montréal, Canada
• (2012). Study of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts using phase matching and EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis. Phoenix, United States
• (2011). From nanoparticles to process: a TEM study of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts at various steps of the process. Annual meeting of the Microscopical Society of Canada. Ottawa, Canada
• (2011). From nanoparticles to process: a TEM study of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts at various steps of the process. Mediterranean Conference on Innovative Materials and Applications (CIMA). Beyrouth, Lebanon
• (2010). Synthesis and TEM characterisation of CoPt nanoparticles. Annual colloquium of Plasma Québec. Montréal, Canada