This proposal aims to develop materials which have the potential to drastically reduce the energy consumption in large data centers by replacing existing copper interconnects with much more efficient optical interconnects. Gallium nitride (GaN) is a material that is responsible for the current revolution in lighting technology allowing full spectrum light emission over all visible […]

The past decade has revolutionized the astronomical observation of black holes. In 2015, the gravitational waves generated by the merger of two black holes were detected, which confirmed the predictions of general relativity and led to a Nobel prize. In 2019, an array of telescopes spread across the globe took the first image of a […]

Modern synthetic chemistry, and in effect the production of pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals, still relies heavily on molecular transformations that inherently generate metal waste. In the CJ Li lab at McGill, we developed a “hydrazone” strategy that does the same transformation while generating only benign by-products (nitrogen and water). To expand the utility of this technology, […]

(1) Moleculex is dedicated to transforming traditional internal wound and trauma management and closure with safe and effective bioadhesive and mucoadhesive technology. (2) The core technology at Moleculex relies on natural-based polymers, which are limited by their inherent properties, through artificial synthesis. (3) The new polymer expected to be developed can be integrated into our […]

Quantum laws of physics allow to reach the ultimate sensitivity of sensors and electronic components. Travelling wave parametric amplifiers are components that amplfy signals over a broad frequency range while adding only the minimum amount of noise that corresponds to vacuum fluctuations. Such components generate electromagnetic fields with quantum correlations. Our goal will be to […]

Xanadu’s mission is to make quantum computing useful, through development of quantum hardware, software, and algorithms. One important direction in achieving this goal is identifying problems that can be solved on quantum hardware that are not tractable on classical computers, and then building quantum algorithms for those problems. We expect that eventually we will have […]

L’amélioration des dispositifs actuels en biocapteurs ou émetteurs de lumière reposent principalement sur un controle du position des molécules ou émetteurs dans des endroits clefs du dispositifs. Nous avons récemment développer une méthode qui permet de positionner avec une précision très fine (nanomètre), des molécules ou émetteurs et nous souhaitons montrer son contrôle et sa […]

Laser-driven plume formation is a surprising and so far theoretically unpredicted phenomenon of Newtonian fluids. The group at the Max Planck Institue for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) have observed this behaviour in glycerol, a Newtonian fluid, whereby elastic, rubber-like responses in the material have been produced on timescales many orders of magnitude […]

Bond dissociation enthalpy (BDE) is a fundamental chemical property for predicting molecular stability and reactivity. BDEs are crucial for understanding antioxidant efficiency, enzyme catalysis, surface functionalization chemistry, and drug discovery. This project will focus on predicting BDEs for C-O and C-C bond types in lignin-derived molecules, essential for efficient lignin decomposition processes in biofuel production […]