Alex Veinot

Research Interests: 

Our research is highly interdisciplinary and includes topics from organometallic, organic, physical, and surface chemistries for applications in materials science. Research in our group involves designing and preparing main group element compounds for applications in surface and materials chemistry. Our group aims to apply fundamental structure and bonding principles to design new small molecule precursors to 2D materials, and to modify heterogeneous materials such as surfaces and particles, for applications related, but not limited to energy, catalysis, sensing, electronics and surface protection.

If our research resonates with your research plan or if you have a topic related to our interests that you'd like to explore in our group, please feel free to reach out.

Selected Awards and Honours

• Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Western University, 2022 – 2024)
• Vanier Canada Graduate Scholar (Queen’s University, 2019 – 2022)
•     Selected for the 71^st Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting, 2022

Selected Publications

• Inayeh, A., Groome, R. R., Singh, I., Veinot, A. J., de Lima, F. C., Miwa, R. H., Crudden, C. M. and McLean, A. B., (2021). Self-assembly of N-heterocyclic carbenes on Au (111). Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-9.
• Lomax, J. T., Goodwin, E., Aloisio, M. D., Veinot, A. J., Singh, I., Shiu, W.-T., Bakiro, M., Bentley, J., DeJesus, J., Gordon, P., Liu, L., Barry, Barry, S. T., Crudden, C. M., Ragogna, P. J. (2024). Deposition of N-heterocyclic carbenes on reactive metal substrates–applications in area-selective atomic layer deposition. Chemistry of Materials, 36(11), 5500-5507.
• Nanan, D. A. R., Lomax, J. T., Bentley, J., Misener, L., Veinot, A. J., Shiu, W.-T., Liu, L., Ragogna, P. J., Crudden, C. M. (2025). Self-Assembled Monolayers of Triazolylidenes on Gold and Mixed Gold/Dielectric Substrates. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147(7), 5624-5631.
• Veinot, A. J., Griffiths, M. B. E., Singh, I., Zurakowski, J. A., Lummis, P. A., Barry, S. T., Crudden, C. M. (2022). Evaluating the thermal behaviour of benzimidazolylidene sources for thin-film applications. Materials Advances, 3(16), 6446-6450.
• Veinot, A. J., Al-Rashed, A., Padmos, J. D., Singh, I., Lee, D. S., Narouz, M. R., Lummis, P. A., Baddeley, C. J., Crudden, C. M. and Horton, J. H. (2020). N-heterocyclic carbenes reduce and functionalize copper oxide surfaces in one pot. Chemistry-A European Journal, 26(50), 11431-11434.
• Lee, D. S., Singh, I., Veinot, A. J., Aloisio, M. D., Lomax, J. T., Ragogna, P. J., Crudden, C. M. (2024). Mesoionic carbene-based self-assembled monolayers on gold. Chemical Science, 15(7), 2480–2485.