Acid rain has severely impacted lakes and plant life in southwestern Nova Scotia. To help endangered Atlantic Salmon, powdered limestone (lime) is now being added to lakes to reduce acidity. While this helps aquatic ecosystems, we don’t yet know how it affects rare lakeshore plants that thrive in low-competition environments. This project studies how liming […]

The heavily populated region of Québec’s Saint Lawrence River Valley (SLRV) experiences among the largest number of hours of freezing rain on the North American continent. Some of the region’s most impactful freezing rain events, including the Great Ice Storm of 1998 and the recent April 2023 ice storm, were characterized by very warm, moist […]

This proposal outlines the development of a novel polymeric hard marine paint with antifouling and easy-to-clean performance, mechanically compatible with the state of the art in-field grooming and cleaning technologies. This proposal targets reaching a 120 days of biofouling prevention in static deployment conditions, the chemical composition of the novel paint non-inclusive of toxins or […]

With the rapid growth in green hydrogen production and utilization, there is a need for cost-effective, high-performance hydrogen sensors. For example, green hydrogen is being produced at the gigawatt scale for a range of applications and industries. In particular, use of hydrogen in transportation (fuel cells) and for blending in natural gas for heating has […]

Small modular reactors have been identified by the Canadian government as a “source of safe, clean, affordable energy […] for Canada and Canadians”. Several of these reactor concepts rely on molten salt heat exchange loops, rather than traditional water-based heat exchangers. A key issue is that molten-salt driven corrosion is much less understood. This is […]

Le projet RELIEF vise à évaluer l’applicabilité clinique de stimulations électriques fonctionnelles (SEF) optimisées pour la rééducation après une arthroplastie totale inversée de l’épaule. Durant son stage à Genève, le stagiaire (Kevin Co) produira plusieurs patrons de stimulation : un patron standard déjà utilisé en clinique, et trois patrons optimisés à l’aide d’outils développés pendant […]

Fondée en 2000 et basée à Québec, Photonique indie Canada inc. (ancien nom : TeraXion inc.) est reconnu comme l’un des principaux fabricants mondiaux de technologies photoniques de pointe, notamment dans les domaines des réseaux de Bragg à fibre optique (FBG), des lasers à largeur de raie étroite et de l’optique intégrée, son équipe dédiée […]

Solid-state hydrogen storage in MgH2 has strong potential due to its high energy density, but it is limited by technical constraints. Dehydrogenation requires high temperatures (300–400?°C), which are unsuitable for many applications, and the hydrogen release kinetics remain slow because of the low diffusion within the crystalline structure. To address these challenges, our project adopts […]

As part of this project, the intern will work in the laboratories of Paola Ceroni and Garry Hanan with the goal of producing hydrogen from solar energy. To achieve this, a ruthenium metal complex will be synthesized and characterized in order to obtain a catalyst. Experiments and research will be conducted in both laboratories to […]

Globular star clusters are massive, ancient, spherical collections of stars which orbit, in the hundreds, within nearly every galaxy in the universe, including our own Milky Way. These old systems provide a cosmic fossil record of the earliest epochs of galaxies, about 12 billion years ago, and they are key for understanding how our own […]

The proposed project represents a strategic expansion within a larger, multi-phase research initiative aimed at advancing biogas utilization into renewable energy solutions. Currently, the first phase, funded by MITACS, is actively developing advanced purification technology for biogas using Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) filtration materials. The second phase, which includes the current project, builds upon this foundation […]

This research project explores a fundamental anomaly in fluid mechanics: the potential for simple liquids to exhibit solid-like elasticity under extreme conditions. Conventionally, Newtonian fluids are understood to lack elasticity because they dissipate deformation energy almost instantly through viscous flow. However, research demonstrated that liquid glycerol exhibits “rubber-like” elasticity when subjected to ultrafast, high-strain-rate laser […]