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High Average Power – Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplifier (HAP-FOPA)

The goal of this proposal is to make the most advantage of the recently developed technique of Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification (FOPA) by pushing this technology to unprecedented levels. The IP has been protected by the group of prof. François Légaré from INRS-EMT. The main inventor, Bruno Schmidt, has founded few-cycle Inc. to commercialize this disruptive technology in Canada. Prof. Légaré and few-cycle Inc. are the partners of the current proposal.
One particular aspect of this laser is its incredibly short pulse duration consisting only of few cycles of the electric field. The current state of the art of few-cycle infrared (IR) laser at the research level operate at average powers of a few watts. A commercial product is not yet available at IR wavelengths. The aim of this 1 year project is to increase the average power by one order of magnitude. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

François Légaré

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Few-cycle

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Technology; Advanced Manufacturing; Information and Communications Technology

Université :

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Programme :

Accelerate

Living lab sur l’adaptation des PME touristiques aux changements climatiques

Tourisme Laurentides et l’UQAM s’associent dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur l’adaptation des PME touristiques aux changements climatiques. Les partenaires réunis dans le cadre de cette étude ont pour objectif d’identifier, de développer et d’expérimenter des solutions en adaptation aux changements climatiques et en réduction des gaz à effet de serre au travers un modèle d’innovation ouvert sur le milieu. Cette étude entend ainsi favoriser l’adoption de nouveaux comportements et de nouvelles pratiques de la part des entreprises, des touristes et des excursionnistes en misant sur des solutions concertées avec et pour les acteurs touristiques. En tâchant de mieux comprendre les perceptions et les défis des PME à agir concrètement sur les risques liés aux changements climatiques, cette démarche participe à établir les Laurentides comme un leader dans la mitigation des risques reliés aux changements climatiques tout en maximisant les opportunités engendrées par la modification du climat.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dominic Lapointe

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Tourisme Laurentides

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Public administration

Université :

Université du Québec à Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Quantifying soil organic carbon sequestration performance of the City of Calgary Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation Demonstration Project: Assessing provincial carbon emissions offset credit opportunities

The emerging emissions trading market provides the province of Alberta an opportunity to diversify its economy and drive climate change mitigation innovation. By improving the carbon credit generating efficiency, more economic opportunities and carbon sequestration industrial applications become feasible. The City of Calgary Dewatered Biosolids Land Application – Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation Demonstration Project represents part of the first wave of large-scale biologically driven greenhouse gas mitigation innovation. In this case, carbon sequestration is a beneficial by-product of sustainable waste water management practices. However in the future, when potential projects and opportunities are more deliberately assessed on the bases of their sustainable development merits, triple-bottom-line scores, carbon emissions trading value, and soil reclamation potential, a proposed project’s carbon sequestration potential may provide enough added value to tip the balance towards selecting biogenic based waste water residual management projects over less sustainable options.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Stephen Murphy

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

SYLVIS

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology; Clean Technology

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Microbial contamination of TransX diesel fuel tanks.

The TransX Group of Companies is Canada’s largest privately owned transportation company. Its mission is to provide integrated transportation solutions to businesses throughout North America. In the fall of 2017, the Winnipeg office of TransX discovered that diesel fuel tanks for their long-haul refrigeration units contained a sludge-like, microbial biofilm and that the fuel filters from these tanks to the generators running the refrigeration compressors were becoming clogged. Dr. David Levin, in the Department of Biosystems Engineering at the University of Manitoba. will oversee a project to determine the identity of the microbes in diesel fuel tanks. The specific objectives of the proposed research are to: 1) isolate the microorganisms in the sludge from TransX diesel fuel tanks; 2) identify these microorganisms and determine the composition of the microbial community in the sludge; and 3) evaluate the effectiveness of a commercial biocide (Biobar JF) in eliminated the microbial contamination.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David B Levin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

TransX Group of Companies

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Transportation and warehousing

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Factors influencing overwintering survival in the tick Ixodes scapularis, including the effect of infection with Borrelia spp.

The plan is to research the physiology and behaviour of Ixodes scapularis, and Dermacentor variabilis ticks with and without the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, Rickettsia bacterium, Francisella bacterium, and Bartonella bacterium to answer the overarching question: Are tick-borne bacteria that are pathogenic to humans also harmful to the tick vectors in Nova Scotia? Cold hardiness and fat content, and temperature preference will be used as measures of physiology and behaviour respectively. This work will lead to the development and dissemination of health promotional material to the local community.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shelley Adamo

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nova Scotia Interpreting Services

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Development of the Tat-GluN2BCTM peptide as a novel therapy for acute myocardial infarction

Acute myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack) is a major disease of the cardiovascular system and a leading cause of death and hospitalization in North America. It results in 7.4 million deaths globally per annum. Current clinical medications only prevent the disease but cannot cure it after a heart attack occurs. Scientific evidence suggests that DAPK1 is a vital protein that can cause heart damage during a heart attack, and I have created a compound that is able to reduce the level of DAPK1 in the heart so as to prevent heart damage. In this project, I propose to test the efficacy of this compound in various models of heart attack, which may lead to a novel therapy for this devastating disease. This proposed project will not only give me a comprehensive training in scientific research, but also help the partner organization, a Canadian biotechnology company, rapidly grow its product pipeline.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jian Ye

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Primary Peptides Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Novel formulation for the treatment of interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development of novel therapeutic treatments which can be used to alleviate both pain and inflammation associated with IC. The goal of our research is to provide IC patients with symptom and pain relief, as well as to improve outcome. Previous research showed that the immune system is regulated by another system within our body, called the endocannabinoid system. Our approach uses special drugs, called cannabinoids, which are designed to target this system and as a result, provide symptom and pain relief and improve patients’ quality of life. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Juan Zhou

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Panag Pharma Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Anticorrosion and conductive smart thin-film coating built by additive manufacturing

Corrosion is a phenomenon that can be only mitigated, not stop. Usually, paint is applied to the surface that needs to be protected from the environment. Sooner or later, it peals off or wear, leaving the surface unprotected. Besides protection from corrosion, the paint or coating rarely has other properties like being electrically conductive.
Another emerging industrial sector could greatly help to create complex coating. This sector is known as 3D printing or “Additive Manufacturing” (AM) and it is currently used for fast prototyping. Recently, these printers were modified to print metal, concrete, food and even organic fabrics. That technology could coat any existing surface. It could also include several materials to add more properties. The present research project for these Mitacs interships will aim to improve actual AM technology for the specific application of manufacturing thin-film anticorrosion and conductive coating. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sylvain Cloutier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nanogrande Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

The fixating effect of LCA during ideation in eco-design: a case study

Although life cycle assessment (LCA) is a robust eco-design tool, its capacity to inspire creative ideas among designers is unclear. LCA is often used as a portrait of a product’s environmental hotspots, which are then addressed as design compromises. This highly technical design method usually leads to incremental improvements of products, and appears to do little to foster radical innovation. In contrast to this method, innovative design purposely stimulates creativity by challenging the cognitive fixations that keep designers in the realm of dominant design, in order to develop disruptive concepts that may be far removed from the functional unit as defined in an LCA. It is argued that innovation and radical change, rather than incremental change, are needed to accelerate the transition to sustainability. Yet it has never been shown, in a highly technical engineering context, that more creative solutions are necessarily more sustainable than solutions inspired directly by an LCA. Furthermore, it has not been shown that ideation using LCA necessarily leads to less creative results than ideation using spotlight concepts, or guiding scenarios, to eliminate fixations during ideation, as is recommended by innovative design theory […]

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Manuele Margni

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The ABB Group (Saint-Laurent, QC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Developing statistical methods to discover genetic variants underlying longitudinal decline in lung function

COPD is a common inflammatory lung condition that is characterized by airflow limitation and symptoms of cough and shortness of breath. Globally, it affects 384 million people and is responsible for ~4-7% of all deaths. Longitudinal genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are needed to unravel the molecular determinants of dynamic quantitative traits underlying COPD, such as decline in lung function over time.
Analysis of longitudinal GWAS to find biomarker of lung function decline was unsuccessful in the past. None of the discovered biomarkers were replicable. A novel statistical methods is needed to address challenges faced by current methods, to more powerfully and precisely discover biomarkers from longitudinal GWAS.
We will develop a novel statistical method based on Bayesian hierarchical model improve biomarker discovery from longitudinal GWAS. This novel method will be applied to unique data owned by our collaboration team, and try to find novel biomarkers for dynamic traits underlying COPD.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Xuekui Zhang

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Providence Health Care

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Victoria

Programme :

Accelerate

Highly selective hydrogenation Rh-MxOy catalysts using Rh@M core-shell nanoparticle precursors

Catalytic selective hydrogenation is a method that can be used in reaction chemistry to selectively increase the amount of desired product that is formed after a reaction. This ultimately increases the efficiency of a reaction and decreases operation costs, providing significant theoretical and industrial value. However, within catalytic selective hydrogenation, research regarding oxides-modified noble metal catalysts, the relation between structure of metal-oxides and their performance, and the key factor controlling the catalytic stability are unclear. These metal-oxides can be essential to the process, thus, the topic requires further studies. This research project aims to develop a technical procedure to modify the structure of some metal-oxides while examining their catalytic stability and selectivity. When we have a clear understanding of the structure of metal-oxides interfaces, highly selective hydrogenation catalysts can be designed. The methodology used to develop highly selective catalysts in this project can be extended to other materials and applications.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jesse Zhu

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

East China University of Science and Technology

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

The study on the surface modification of LTA zeolite membrane

In the field of organic solvent dehydration, pervaporation technology has a certain advantage over the conventionally-used distillation and absorption. Pervaporation technology not only reduces cost but also improves separation efficiency. Zeolite membrane, specifically the LTA-type, offers a promising alternative to the current use of polymer membranes within the field of organic solvent dehydration due to its ability to allow only water to pass through it. The objective of this research project is to change the surface of LTA zeolite membrane using various organic molecules, including dopamine, polydimethylsiloxane and lignin. In this project, the LTA seed is firstly hydrothermally synthesized, and then is ball-milled to increase the seed activity. The organic molecules are then used to modify the membrane layer or hollow fiber substrate, which should increase the membrane’s selectivity without affecting its permeance. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jesse Zhu

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nanjing Tech Universityu

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Technology; Other

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

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