Nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA offer exceptional opportunities to fight against infectious and genetic diseases. To use nucleic acids effectively in a clinical setting, one needs to use effective delivery vehicles that can deliver the nucleic acids into the diseased cells. This project will develop effective delivery systems for this purpose. The delivery […]

This is a partnership between ABB, an international leader in water quality monitoring, and McGill University, where the objective is to test the reliability of an emerging technology in ion concentration measurement. The technology combines state-of-the-art electronics, composed of the atomically thin material graphene, and ionsensitive polymers, developed in the research group of Prof. Szkopek […]

In the frame of this research project, lanthanide-doped nanoparticles will be synthesized that are able to convert low- to high-energy light in a process called upconversion. Given their outstanding optical properties, these upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) are promising candidates for applications ranging from biomedicine to optoelectronics and the energy sector. We will combine UCNPs with monolayers […]

Certaines pathologies, comme la maladie des yeux secs, viennent perturber la composition du film lacrymal qui protège la cornée. Plus précisément, ces pathologies ont un impact sur la composition en protéines de la dernière couche du film lacrymal. Ce débalancement peut avoir un impact sur l’efficacité des vecteurs de médicaments de l’équipe de recherche de […]

Climate change has become a major concern over the past decades. In this context, one of the biggest issues is the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced every year around the globe. In response, researchers have discovered creative solutions to recycle CO2 via a process commonly known as CO2 fixation. More recently, the use of […]

The goal in medicine is prolong life and prevent disease before it spreads and becomes irreversible. There must be a way to easily self-monitor or to allow medical professionals to continuously remotely monitor high risk patients. The main vital signs that ideally should be constantly evaluated are pulse rate, respiration rate, body temperature, oxygen saturation […]

Lithium-tellurium (Li-Te) batteries provide higher volumetric energy density than current lithium-ion batteries and are considered as one of the most promising energy storage technology for emerging applications in electric vehicles, implantable medical devices, and Internet of things. The development of stable tellurium/carbon (Te/C) cathodes is the key towards durable Li-Te batteries. However, the reaction mechanism […]

Solid-state nanopores are tiny holes in thin membranes comparable to the size of individual biomolecules like protein or DNA. They are using as sensors to detect these molecules one at a time, and have the potential to revolutionize DNA sequencing, personalized medicine, point-of-care diagnostics, and next-generation information storage methods, but have not been able to […]

Sustainable method of treating waste water is one of the major issues across the world. Different techniques have been developed by various scientific communities but each possess some limitations. So, keeping in the mind of these major limitations such as high cost , external power source requirement, huge setups , non recyclable etc, design of […]

Latex particles are widely applied in inkjet printing, painting, coating, lubrication and many other areas. The current process for latex production relies on emulsion formation and separation, requiring the use of organic solvents that are flammable and volatile with negative environmental impact. In their seminal work, Jessop et al reported switchable solvents that can be […]

The IPCC project aims to utilize the advancements in lasers, optics and semiconductor fabrication facilities to deliver a computing chip that uses laser instead on electrical signals to perform computations. The new paradigm of computation execution allows computations to be performed much faster at lower energy consumption which directly leads to lower costs for computations. […]

D-Wave Systems has designed processors based on a scalable architecture that aim to implement quantum annealing, an algorithm that can be used to solve a wide variety of optimization problems. A minimal requirement for a device to perform quantum annealing is that it maintains coherence throughout an appreciable fraction of the annealing protocol. In reality, […]