Advanced Material Chemistry + Poem = !Warning! May cause brain hemorrhage!

For my Advanced Materials Chemistry course we were assigned to write a poem from a choice of three researches. I wrote mine on Geoff Ozin, Canada Research Chair and University Professor at the University of Toronto.

I tried to maintain an approximation of iambic pentameter, and I think I did a decent job considering how hideously clunky the technical terms are. Seriously, try getting the idea 'nanocomposites created by the combination of organic and inorganic subunits into a hierarchical structure' to fit in the frame of poetry. I dare you. Anyways, here it is.

Paean to a Canada Research Chair

“There's room at the top!” Geoff Ozin exclaims

Not just at the bottom as Feynman once claimed

By building at all scales using tiny blocks

He's given the world a new tool for its box:

This self-assembly has Geoff won great acclaim.

As a fascinating letter to Nature related,

Photonic bandgaps of silicon were created.

By storing information with light.

We'll bid electronics goodnight

In the computing revolution he instigated.

One grand challenge is not enough for this man

Chemical nanomachines are part of his plans

To seek and destroy nasty pollution

Nanobots will whiz around in solution

Or sail on the surface like a catamaran.

His articles make him among the top in citation

Which he can attribute to much innovation.

By ordering units into a hierarchical whole

Over structural properties he's gained much control

With an astounding range of potential applications.