Burn wounds are one of the most common types of severe injuries worldwide and providing a dress to accelerate the wound healing process is a vital need. Among the materials could be used for wound dressing, pullulan, a microbial natural polymer, can be a nice candidate as an alternative to petroleum-based polymers. However, pullulan’s affinity […]

Atomic Force Microscopes have gained wide acceptance as a robust tool for metrology of nanometer and atomic scale surfaces. Nonetheless, AFMs lack some key capabilities that would benefit the industries and the scientific community at large. In this project, the limited scan range (1000×1000 um2), bringing the (sub-)nano resolution AFM images into the millimeter range. […]

Le film d’huile présent entre les dents d’engrenages leur permet d’avoir une durée de vie élevée. Des études démontrent que d’ajouter des microcavités de surface sur deux pièces en contact séparées par un film d’huile aurait des effets bénéfiques qui engendreraient une réduction du frottement, donc conduiraient à des augmentations d’efficacité. L’idée principale est d’appliquer […]

Le projet de recherche consiste à réaliser une preuve de concept entourant la compréhension, la conception et le développement d’un démonstrateur en vue du développement d’un futur prototype R&D de produit d’entrainement intelligent grand public dotée d’une technologie électronique avec capteurs. La technologie développée permet de mesurer et récolter des données sur la trajectoire du […]

Currently, our commercial borate-based “Cobra rod” glass is being used to preserve utility poles, doubling or trebling the lifetime and is a key to enhancing lifetimes of wood distribution and transmission power poles. Our main objective is to successfully process our glass into fibres, beads, and glass fibre mats like those used in the insulation […]

The population is rapidly ageing worldwide. In 2030, 23% of Canadians will be 65 years or older, a demographic shift accompanied by an increase in age-related health problems bringing about social challenges requiring innovative solutions. AI driven technologies are presented as promising avenues both for individualized health monitoring and self-management and to facilitate social participation […]

Proposed research is to decommission five fully instrumented experimental covers that were constructed at the St-Nicephore landfill in 2018. This project provides the unique opportunity to exhume soil in a methodical approach to: (1) develop a contaminant profile throughout the experimental covers; and (2) establish the soil characteristics in-situ to be used in computer modelling […]

Detection of natural gas diversion in residential pipelines is important for public safety. Detection of such diversion in a nonintrusive manner is important for customer satisfaction and the companies’ reputation. This project aims to develop non-intrusive guided-wave ultrasonic testing methods combined with machine learning to detect and locate diversions in residential gas pipes. These pipes […]

The proposed research project is aimed at developing an automated MR-processing pipeline for pre-clinical neuroimaging. This pipeline will address some of the existing issues associated with current methodologies, and has the potential to re-define the world of early drug development, particularly relating to the assessment of neurotoxicity.

Il existe peu de données publiées sur les propriétés des matériaux composites, notamment à cause de la complexité des essais à réaliser pour les caractériser, ce qui rend difficile la modélisation de leur comportement mécanique. Dans ce contexte, une méthode d’essai non destructive pourrait s’avérer particulièrement intéressante afin de caractériser les matériaux composites et d’en […]

Over 3 million Canadian suffer from bone disease resulted from trauma, tumor removal and cancer and the number increasing with aging population every year. We plan to use hydrogels to create bioactive scaffold using 3D bioprinting extrusion method with potential for local drug loading and slow drug release for bone regeneration. We develop bioinks with […]

Icebergs are large masses of ice drifting in ocean under influence of winds in currents. Icebergs are important indicators of climate, they provide nutrients to the ocean ecosystem, but they are also a threat to shipping and offshore industry. Collecting iceberg shapes helps to model climate, predict iceberg drift, and protect offshore facilities and flowlines […]