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Commercial-Scale Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition Technology

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed atmospheric pressure spatial atomic layer deposition technology for depositing thin films that are nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick. Notably, the developed equipment can deposit these films rapidly, over large areas, in open air. This technology can be useful in a number of sectors, such as display technologies, smart windows, microelectronics, and solar cells. In this research project, the intern will use information collected through the Lab2Market commercialization program to make improvements to the technology that will help bring it to market. This will include the development of a new “reactor” that will improve the quality of the deposited films and the speed and efficiency with which they are deposited.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kevin Musselman

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;iBoost Zone

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Promising practices for addressing social isolation among community-dwelling older adults

As Canada’s population continues to age, social isolation among older persons is being increasingly recognized as a concern. Social isolation affects over 30 percent of older adults and is associated with a range of negative health outcomes, from loneliness and depression to increased mortality. The overarching objective of this project is to identify promising practices for addressing social isolation in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Specifically, the project seeks to better understand the experience of people who are socially isolated and to learn what interventions have been shown to work, why and for whom. The knowledge produced from this project will support the development of community-based strategies to address social isolation in Fredericton and will contribute to the knowledge base on social isolation in Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Albert Banerjee

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Meals on Wheels of Fredericton Inc.

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

St. Thomas University

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimum landmark placement for improving accuracy of pedestriandead reckoning in indoor localization

Localization is a technical to find the location of a target, such as a worker walking in a plant. For outdoor localization, satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) is commonly used. GPS does not provide good accuracy for indoor localization due to the complicated indoor environment that affects the GPS signal propagation. Currently, there are two types of indoor localization methods, one is based on existing indoor wireless infrastructure (such as WiFi), and another is based on data collected by motion sensors that are attached to the target object. Both methods do not work well in many industrial environments. The WiFi coverage is either incomplete or unstable due to physical limitation or strong interference caused by machines; while algorithms using data from motion sensors can cumulate errors that exceed a tolerable level within short distances. Combining both methods helps improve the localization accuracy, but still requires sufficient WiFi coverage. Placing landmarks at fixed and known locations helps recalibrate the latter method by resetting the error to zero or near zero. In this research, we will study how to minimize the cost to place the landmarks, while achieving the required localization accuracy.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dongmei Zhao

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Muldi Vision Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Continuity of Care in Children’s Mental Health: Finalizing a New Measure

In Senator Kirby’s 2006 report, Out of the Shadows at Last, children’s mental health was labeled the “orphan’s
orphan” of Canada’s health care system. For over two decades, the systems-of-care philosophy in children’s
mental health has recognized the need to respond to a fragmented service system through greater integration and
coordination. Continuity of care, which is how a patient experiences care over time as coherent and linked, has
been identified as an indicator of health system performance and is considered an ethical principle of care. Yet,
no instrument exists to measure continuity of care as experienced by families receiving services through the
children’s mental health system. This deficiency limits efforts to understand, and ultimately improve, continuity
of mental health care for children. The development of the Continuity of Care Scale for Children’s Mental
Health, which is the goal of the proposed research, is an important step in measuring the integration and
coordination of services from the perspective of…TOBECONTINUED

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Graham Reid

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Hospital for Sick Children

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Ecophysiological consequences of environmental variability

Environmental variability is a fundamental component of adaptation; it is usually associated with modifications in the organism’s observable traits, particularly for those with limited plasticity. We will use a bioenergetic model as a framework to understand this variance in the organism’s traits. We will focus on the effect of individual physiological differences, which are represented by the parameters of the model, on the variance and covariance of life-history traits, such as growth and size, or reproductive output. First, we will show which are the consequences of inter-individual physiological differences, in constant and also different environments. Second, we will elucidate the effect of individual differences when there is environmental variability (in temperature and resource abundance). Our results will provide a theoretical approach to distinguish between the sources of variance in the organism’s observable traits. Furthermore, our findings will contribute to understanding how different species adapt to changing environments.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Amy Hurford

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Institut national de la recherche agronomique (Paris)

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Modélisation thermique de la construction en bois et en argile

L’intérêt pour ce mode de construction traditionnelle à base d’argile et de bois gagne de l’intérêt à
l’international, comme un consensus émerge pour diminuer les émissions en CO2. La construction en
bois et en argile armée de fibres végétales est connue comme la technique du torchis. Cette méthode est
particulièrement appropriée dans le climat plus chaud comme en Afrique. Le besoin de maisons est
particulièrement important dans ce continent et des alternatives au ciment sont nécessaires, comme la
production de ciment représente 5-8% des émissions. De plus, les bâtiments en bois et en argile
permettent une ouverture de marché importante pour le bois du Québec.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Quebec Wood Export Bureau

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Improved process modeling and optimization of the Birla Carbon Process

This project is a collaborative relationship between the Combustion Research Laboratory (CRL) at the University of Toronto and Birla Carbon. Birla Carbon is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of high quality carbon black additives globally. Carbon black has usage potential across an array of diverse application segments including rubber products, black pigment, UV protection and conductivity in plastics. Carbon black performance is determined by its fundamental properties including its particle and aggregate size, surface activity and physical form.
The objectives of this project are to improve and validate a model to predict the carbon black particle size distribution during the production process. This will increase our understanding of how the particles evolve during the process and will be used to better understand ways to control the process to produce the desired final product.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Murray Thomson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Birla Carbon

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

A scalable lab-grown meat with tuneable fat content using tissue engineering techniques

Meat is a food staple that is consumed and enjoyed worldwide. Global meat consumption has grown by with population growth and increase in per person consumption accounting equally for that increase. Further economic development is expected to further increase demand for meat and meat products. Livestock production to meet this insatiable demand is unsustainable due to high water consumption, greenhouse gas emission, accelerated soil erosion and pollution of waterbodies. Although solutions such as promoting low-meat diet style or switching to plant-based proteins have been suggested, their implementation hasn’t been very successful. Here, tissue culture methods developed originally for regenerative medicine have been repurposed for growing meat aggregates (minced meat type granules) in the lab as a way to address this environmental challenge.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;iBoost Zone

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

In-field real time phosphate monitoring system for algal bloom prevention

The increase in population and associated contamination of surface and/or ground water with phosphates, nitrates, and heavy metals has resulted in scarcity of clean water in many cities around the world. Phosphate is a major pollutant responsible for the global algal bloom in various water bodies like lakes and ponds. The project focuses on developing a solid-state electrochemical phosphate sensor that can be used as a tool to predict and prevent algal blooms. The sensing system will consist of two electrodes: the phosphate sensing electrode (e.g. metal based sensor) and a reference electrode. Electrochemical sensors have many advantages over the widely used conventional colorimetric sensors. They have minimal or no chemical requirements, show less interference from turbidity, are easy to fabricate and are cost effective. Current electrochemical sensors for phosphate sensing are mainly dominated by metal based potentiometric sensors. However, metal-based sensors have a few critical shortcomings such as limited measuring range (10-1M to 10-5M)[1], single use, and inability to mass manufacture, which limits their application in environmental applications[2], [3]. The project will extend the sensor range to 10-1M to 10-7M which is critical for measuring phosphate in the environment, improve sensor reusability and develop a mass manufacturing process.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;iBoost Zone

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Rapid bioprinting of ring structures using primary lung epithelial cells for drug screening and wound healing assay

Disease modelling and drug development includes a stage where cells are grown and studied inside a
laboratory under controlled conditions for a varying set of parameters. One of the most commonly
performed lab tests are wound healing or cell migration where the effect of different concentrations of
drug or an allergen is studied over time. The state-of-art method of performing these wound healing
tests lack consistency, time consuming and intrusive. We have developed a method where the cells are
patterned on a surface using an external magnetic field. It takes 3 hours to pattern cells and no scratch
is needed in this case. This method is consistent and is scalable to a micro well plate format. We are
partnering with Lab2Market to perform a market research and customer discovery for the developed
technology.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ishwar Puri

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;iBoost Zone

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

In-line Method Development for Vaccine Production

The safety and quality of vaccine products are an integral requirement for all vaccine manufacturing and production. Most current tests are using laboratory equipment that requires trained personnel, equipment qualification, method validation, manual sampling, and testing at various stages of product manufacturing. However, the off-line testing is slow, often requires significant volume of material for testing and requires extensive maintenance and upkeep of many different analytical instruments. This is both expensive and time consuming. On the other hand, Process Analytical Technology (PAT) provides fast turnaround time without the need for sampling, allowing manufacturing scientists opportunity to make real-time decisions to better ensure quality and consistency in product manufacturing. Furthermore, PAT provides a much faster vehicle for analytical assessment of manufacturing processes during product development, such as fermentation monitoring or protein purification.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Yi Sheng

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Sanofi

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Pharmaceuticals; Biotechnology; Advanced Manufacturing

Université :

York University

Programme :

Accelerate

Design of new manufacturing techniques and development of novel composite materials for personal protectiveequipment (PPE)

In the wake of recent school shootings in U.S. and increasing gun crimes in Canada, parents consider taking additional measures to protect themselves and children safe. We aimed at the development/manufacture of affordable and flexible bullet/knife resistant backpacks for civilians. The backpacks could be used as a shield against bullets/knife to save life. Current available products are expensive and not affordable for everyone. Additionally, they are not flexible/comfortable for everyday use and lack protection against knife attacks. Another potential product development for us will be the design and manufacture of ballistic suits and protective garments for civilians (especially those who travel to dangerous places) which provide reliable resistance against a multitude of threats (including knife attacks), while enhancing the flexibility and lightness for comfort and mobility of the wearer over current solutions. The available protective products in the market cost thousands of dollars lack protection against knife attacks. We invented a novel technology to make lightweight and flexible composite panels and they have successfully passed preliminary ballistic/knife tests according to standard protocols. The objective of this project is to gain a competitive edge in personal protective market and bring affordable and high-quality protective backpacks and clothing into Canadian/U.S. markets.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;iBoost Zone

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

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