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Biography

Nicolas Fontaine is a postdoc in the Electrochemistry and Biosensors Laboratory of prof. Philippe Dauphin Ducharme. Nicolas completed a NSERC- and Sentinel North-funded Ph.D. in Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Denis Boudreau and Dr. André Marette in the Department of Chemistry and Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers. He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry with honors at Université Laval in 2017. He has a background in analytical chemistry of oils from an internship at Kemitek (named Oleotek previoulsy), and a thesis on the synthesis of fluorescent probes for ionic and molecular detection and their incorporation to plasmonic-based nanoarchitectures for enhanced fluorometric sensing. His current research interests include the development of electrochemical aptamer-based biosensors to achieve therapeutic drug monitoring direcly in undiluted whole blood and improving their analytical performances with the incorporation of plasmonic nanomaterials.

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Education and qualifications (3)

Université de Sherbrooke: Sherbrooke, QC, CA

2022-01-03 to present | Postdoc (Chemistry)
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Université Laval: Quebec, QC, CA

2017-05-01 to 2022-09-21 | Philosophiæ doctor (Ph.D) (Chemistry)
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Université Laval: Québec, CA

2014-09 to 2017-04 | Bachelor's degree in chemistry, research profile (Department of chemistry)
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Works (8)

Synthesis and antibacterial properties of unmodified polydopamine coatings to prevent infections

Next Materials
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Sahra Fonseca; Nicolas Fontaine; Marie-Pierre Cayer; Jonathan Robidoux; Denis Boudreau; Danny Brouard
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Confounding effects on the response of electrochemical aptamer-based biosensors

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry
2023-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Fontaine; Philippe Dauphin-Ducharme
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Redox Reporter ‐ Ligand Competition to Support Signaling in the Cocaine‐Binding Electrochemical Aptamer‐Based Biosensor

Chemistry – A European Journal
2023-06-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Philippe Dauphin‐Ducharme; Zachary R. Churcher; Aron A. Shoara; Erfan Rahbarimehr; Sladjana Slavkovic; Nicolas Fontaine; Olivia Boisvert; Philip E. Johnson
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Acting as a Molecular Tailor: Dye Structural Modifications for Improved Sensitivity toward Lysophosphatidic Acids Sensing

ACS Omega
2023-01-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Fontaine; Lara Harter; André Marette; Denis Boudreau
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Pulcherrimin: a bacterial swiss army knife in the iron war

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2022-09-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Nicolas Fontaine
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Pushing the Limits of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) with Deep Learning: Identification of Multiple Species with Closely Related Molecular Structures

Applied Spectroscopy
2022-01-26 | Newspaper article
Part of ISSN: 0003-7028
Part of ISSN: 1943-3530
Contributors: Nicolas Fontaine; Denis Boudreau; Alexis Lebrun
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Thinking outside the shell: novel sensors designed from plasmon-enhanced fluorescent concentric nanoparticles

The Analyst
2020 | Journal article
Contributors: Nicolas Fontaine; Audrey Picard-Lafond; Jérémie Asselin; Denis Boudreau
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A ratiometric nanoarchitecture for the simultaneous detection of pH and halide ions using UV plasmon-enhanced fluorescence

Chemical Communications
2017 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1359-7345
Part of ISSN: 1364-548X
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