Researchers often work with a narrow range of compounds when making organic electronics, such as solar panels, light emitting diodes and transistors. Professor Tim Bender and Ph.D. Candidate Graham Morse of University of Toronto’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry have uncovered compounds that exhibit unique and novel electro-chemical properties. “Organic solar cell need [...]
New U of T report advocates for country-specific planning
Broadcasters seeking to deliver online news to countries where blocking is widespread must be prepared to create strategies tailored to those countries, says a new report from the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. The research leading to this conclusion is detailed in a newly [...]
Create world's most efficient organic light-emitting diodes
Engineering researchers at the University of Toronto have developed the world’s most efficient organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) on plastic. This result enables a flexible form factor, not to mention a less costly, alternative to traditional OLED manufacturing, which currently relies on rigid glass. The results are reported online in the latest issue of Nature Photonics. [...]
Financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall
It’s no surprise to University of Toronto researcher Lisa Kramer that financial market dips and crashes typically happen in the fall. Her most recent study, forthcoming in Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows that people who experience seasonal depression shun financial risk-taking during seasons with diminished daylight but are more willing to accept risk in [...]
Biologists find higher mortality among dragonflies exposed to undue stress
The mere presence of a predator causes enough stress to kill a dragonfly, even when the predator cannot actually get at its prey to eat it, say biologists at the University of Toronto. “How prey respond to the fear of being eaten is an important topic in ecology, and we’ve learned a great deal about [...]
Professor Guy Faulkner calls it win-win strategy
While most people know physical exercise helps them in losing weight or achieving better physical health, perhaps less well known is the extensive evidence concluding that exercise also benefits mental health. Professor Guy Faulkner, associate professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health, says improved mental health is one of exercise’s biggest benefits, something [...]
Expansion will complement MaRS
The Banting and Best buildings on College Street were constructed (Banting in 1930, Best in 1954) to provide a venue for U of T researchers to build on one of the landmark discoveries in the history of human health – the discovery of insulin. As such, the buildings became the location of a number of [...]
Use of standard blood-pressure cuff recommended
An international team led by University of Toronto medical professors Andrew Redington and Cecil Hahn (Department of Paediatrics), based at The Hospital for Sick Children, has found a new potential treatment to help reduce the severity of acute stroke. The new potential treatment involves the use of an ordinary blood-pressure cuff and a technique called remote [...]
Rotman researchers suggest focusing on single savings goal
If one savings goal is a good thing, two or more should be great, right? Not really. Those who want to save are more apt to keep socking money away and more of it too, if they have just one goal in mind, shows work done in multiple countries by two researchers at the University [...]
U of T chemistry professor looks to photosynthesis as guide to creating solar circuitry
Clean solutions to human energy demands are essential to our future. While sunlight is the most abundant source of energy at our disposal, we have yet to learn how to capture, transfer and store solar energy efficiently. According to University of Toronto chemistry professor Greg Scholes, the answers can be found in the complex systems [...]
