Daniel Foucher
Director, The Foucher Group / Advanced Inorganic and Synthetic Materials Lab
Professor
Faculty of Science
Department of Chemistry and Biology
Toronto, Ontario
daniel.foucher@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 552260
Expert In
Antimicrobial design materials for glass
Antimicrobial design materials for metals
Antimicrobial design materials for plastics
COVID-19 antimicrobial coatings and polymers
Health and well-being
Novel inorganic and organometallic polymers
Novel polymeric materials
Polymer materials chemistry
Semiconductive metal polymers
Tin-containing organometallic polymers
Bio/Research
Dr. Daniel Foucher completed his undergraduate degree at Queen's University in 1987 and joined the Macartney group later that same year as a master's student. His master’s thesis, completed in 1990, focused on the ligand substitution and electron transfer reactions of pentacyanoferrate-ligand com...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Daniel Foucher completed his undergraduate degree at Queen's University in 1987 and joined the Macartney group later that same year as a master's student. His master’s thesis, completed in 1990, focused on the ligand substitution and electron transfer reactions of pentacyanoferrate-ligand complexes. He joined Ian Manners at the University of Toronto that same year for doctoral studies, and his PhD dissertation involved two research foci: the preparation and polymerization behaviour of novel strained borasiloxane monomers and the synthesis and thermal polymerization behaviour of strained ferrocenylsilanes and ferrocenylgermane systems. The latter project was the first example of electrochemically active, tuneable, soluble high molecular weight film-forming organometallic polymers.
He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1994 and spent an additional year of postdoctoral studies with the Manners group before joining the Xerox Research Centre of Canada in 1995 as a research scientist. At Xerox, he worked on water-dispersible sulphonated polyester resins for emulsion aggregation toners, low-cost polyester resins, and photopolymerizable polymers as masks for inkjet printheads. After leaving Xerox in 2001, he joined the Yazaki Technical Centre in California, working on matched refractive index UV curable coatings for fiber optic networks. He returned to Canada in 2003, taking the position as an R&D and Quality Control Manager at Chemque, a specialty urethane manufacturer. In late 2007, he returned to academia as an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and was tenured in 2010. His current research is focused on the preparation of light and moisture-stable polystannanes, as well as self-assembled quaternary ammonium and phosphonium materials as antimicrobial agents.
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He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1994 and spent an additional year of postdoctoral studies with the Manners group before joining the Xerox Research Centre of Canada in 1995 as a research scientist. At Xerox, he worked on water-dispersible sulphonated polyester resins for emulsion aggregation toners, low-cost polyester resins, and photopolymerizable polymers as masks for inkjet printheads. After leaving Xerox in 2001, he joined the Yazaki Technical Centre in California, working on matched refractive index UV curable coatings for fiber optic networks. He returned to Canada in 2003, taking the position as an R&D and Quality Control Manager at Chemque, a specialty urethane manufacturer. In late 2007, he returned to academia as an assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and was tenured in 2010. His current research is focused on the preparation of light and moisture-stable polystannanes, as well as self-assembled quaternary ammonium and phosphonium materials as antimicrobial agents.
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