Byron Gates

Dr. Byron Gates collaboratively assists the company in determining correlations between structure, function, and properties of new lithium ion battery materials. Dr. Gates is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University, investigating the surface and interface chemistry of nanomaterials and is the Head of the Centre for Soft Materials in 4D LABS, a materials research institute at SFU. Dr. Gates’ work includes a series of analytical and materials studies to prepare and analyze the surface chemistries of nanostructured materials.

Dr. Gates received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington working with Professor Younan Xia and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University working with Professor George M. Whitesides.