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Impact of the addition of a newly developed bioresin called Biofusion on the strength of concrete

Concrete—the most common construction material globally—represents the main component of construction. Cement production and its use in concrete as a binder are among the highest carbon dioxide producing processes, thereby contributing to climate change. Any decrease in carbon emissions from construction will help improve the industry’s long-term sustainability and help the environment. One potential solution to reduce the amount of cement used in the construction industry is to use the newly developed bio-resin Biofusion in the concrete mix.
Biodiffusion Technologies Inc. (BDT) will use the results from this project to advance the market acceptance and application of Biofusion. The goal is to work with end users to improve commercial opportunities with a key focus on sustainability. BDT has and will continue to build key contacts/networks that will enable rapid adoption and commercialization of this technology. BDT is committed to investing the resources required to continue the research trials and larger scale commercial demonstrations in partnership with said key stakeholders. Emerging from this research project will be:

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Green;Amir Fam

Student:

Partner:

Biodiffusion Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Action spectra characteristic of typical and potentially new challenge organisms used in polychromatic UV reactor validation Year One

Trojan Technologies provides UV-based technologies for water, wastewater and reuse wastewater treatment. This proposal is directed towards optimizing and developing the validation protocols for UV systems provided by Trojan. The study results will expand Trojan’s ability to provide more holistic and sustainable reactors for water/wastewater treatment as well as expand the polychromatic UV market. From this project, knowledge of the specific spectral sensitivity of important challenge microorganisms used in UV reactor validation can lead to improvements in UV treatment by targeting specific wavelengths for future design. Moreover, this study will contribute to the understanding and optimizing the UV reactor theoretical simulation as well as the prediction of the uncertainty in UV reactor sizing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ajay Ray

Student:

Partner:

Trojan Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Elevate

Extraction automatique d’informations à partir de publications scientifiques en chimie et science des matériaux

Le nombre d’articles scientifiques a grandement augmenté ces dernières années dans la plupart des disciplines et notamment en chimie. Ce flux grandissant d’informations complique le suivi des innovations techniques issues de la recherche et leur intégration dans le processus de production par les entreprises du secteur de la chimie. Ce projet vise donc à développer un outil d’intelligence artificielle permettant d’automatiser la lecture d’articles scientifiques et d’accélérer la phase de recherche de l’information pour les sociétés et industriels de la chimie. Une fois extraites, les informations seront filtrées, structurées et stockées avant d’être présentées de manière simple et transparente au travers d’une interface graphique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

MayFair Village

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the relationship between adipose tissue hypoxia and maladaptive angiogenesis

Obesity is a well-known risk factor in many diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, in part due to abnormal blood vessel development with fat tissue. During weight gain, the volume of fat tissues can undergo drastic changes. Normally, when new tissues develop, there is a corresponding increase in blood vessel density via a process known as angiogenesis to help deliver sufficient oxygen and nutrients to the new tissue. It has been suggested that the speed and way fat tissue expand may contribute to abnormal angiogenesis, leading to insufficient oxygen delivery and chronic inflammations. However, the factors that control angiogenesis in fat tissue expansion are not well understood. Using an in vitro microtissue model, this project aims to determine the roles of physical and chemical signals on fat microtissues expansion and their corresponding effect on angiogenesis. Factors including fat tissue size, arrangement, maturity as well as metabolite concentrations (e.g. glucose, lactate) will be tested. The finding here will help clinicians identify new marker that can better define heath risk of excessive fat tissue beyond current measures such as body mass index and body mass percent fat.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brendan Leung

Student:

Partner:

National University of Kharkiv

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Opportunities and obstacles for renewable energy development

St. Anthony is the largest town on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula and is connected to Newfoundland’s island grid by a 248 km transmission line. This research will investigate the best locations for wind turbine installation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Pope

Student:

Partner:

St. Anthony Basin Resources Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Watershed Health Analysis on the Chilako River Corridor in British Columbia

The Chilako river is a 6th order river located approximately 15km west of Prince George, British Columbia. It serves as a main tributary to the Nechako River and is identified as a key spawning habitat for salmon in central British Columbia. However, disturbances such as agriculture, forest harvesting, forest fires and the Mountain Pine beetle have dramatically changed the ecosystems in the area. Landowners and residents have observed changesand expressed concern about flooding, deforestation, and stream bank erosion. Studies conducted on the Chilako have found a degradation in fish habitats, riparian vegetation, and beaver populations. Sparking mitigation efforts and an increased attention to environmental monitoring. However, no established baseline perspective and information gaps in the form of data collection and continuous monitoring make effective recovery planning difficult. This project aims to address these issues by (1) discussing literature on the relationships between riparian vegetation, beaver habitats and channel response and how this applies to the Chilako river corridor. (2) Develop methods that use available satellite imagery and GIS software to analyze key ecosystem health indicators such as riparian vegetation and beaver habitats and identify watersheds impacted by habitat degradation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marwan Hassan

Student:

Partner:

M. Miles and Associates Ltd.

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamique de l’agenda: Une étude comparative sur l’attention politique en Argentine et au Brésil

Les dirigeants politiques ont une capacité limitée à prêter attention à plusieurs sujets en même temps tandis que les médias agissent comme un signal de l’importance des problèmes saillants d’une société donnée. Par conséquent, les médias influencent souvent fortement le choix des thématiques devant être intégrées à l’agenda politique. Ainsi, la littérature a montré qu’il existe une relation étroite entre les enjeux présents dans les médias et l’agenda politique. Cependant, l’Amérique latine contredit de manière frappante ce postulat. Cela peut s’expliquer par le fait que la formation tardive de l’État-nation moderne en Amérique latine a provoqué un déséquilibre dans la capacité de l’État, définie dans le cadre de ce projet de recherche comme l’ensemble des compétences techniques et des ressources que possèdent les gouvernements pour répondre aux problèmes sociaux.
La question centrale de ce projet de recherche est donc : comment expliquer la faible influence des médias sur l’agenda politique en Amérique latine, en particulier sur certains sujets tels que : l’environnement, les droits humains ou la science et l’innovation?
Le projet vise à répondre à cette question en comparant deux pays d’Amérique latine : l’Argentine et le Brésil depuis leurs transitions démocratiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Montpetit

Student:

Partner:

Sciences Po

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Combined Building Integrated PV/Thermal (BIPV/T) Collector with Two-stageVariable Capacity Air Source Heat Pump for Net-Zero Energy Building Applications Year One

Building Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal (BIPV/T) systems are arrays of photovoltaic panels integrated into the building envelope facades and roofs that produce electricity and incorporate the additional function of recovering useful thermal energy. The energy can be used for space, domestic water heating or air conditioning. Recuperating heat from the BIPVjT system improves electrical efficiency and reduces the temperature of PV modules resulting in extended life expectancy of the panels. BIPV/T systems also improve the aesthetic exterior appearance of the building. Moreover, BIPV allows the utilization of PV technology to generate electricity without incurring the additional cost of the land, which is important in urban areas because the cost of land is significant in these areas. The project will help industrial partners to incorporate state-of-the-art solar-thermal technology into their energy systems thus providing them competitive edge as compared to companies that provide only PV systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Fung

Student:

Partner:

Toronto Atmospheric Fund

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Elevate

Violences sexuelles et comportements sexuels problématiques : réactions sociales et vécus des parents.

Le projet présenté ici porterait sur la mobilité de Maeva Genin dans le cadre d’un stage indoc de 4 mois à l’Université de Montréal au sein du CEDAJ, sous la supervision de Isabelle V. Daignault et de Nathalie Fontaine (co-directrice du CEDAJ). L’objectif de cette mobilité serait de collaborer sur l’analyse des résultats d’un projet de recherche réalisé avec la Fondation Marie-Vincent, et plus particulièrement l’équipe du CEDAJ, portant sur les conséquences vécues des violences sexuelles et des comportements sexuels problématiques infantiles. La première collecte ayant débutée en 2015 et ayant pris fin en juin 2022, deux projets de recherches sont envisagés viseront des analyses qualitatives et quantitatives secondaires, donnant lieu chacun à une publication.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Daignault

Student:

Partner:

Aix-Marseille Université

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Day-night MOF- based TiO2/WO3 photocatalyst for CO2 reduction

Climate change caused by accumulative CO2 emission (due to the rapid development of human industry) has become an imminent threat to human beings as witnessed by the more and more frequent reports on sea-level rising, storm, and wildfire. The close-loop CO2 recycling, including CO2 capture, storage, and utilization has thus attracted enormous attention from researchers around the world. Among the various technologies, converting CO2 into chemical fuels and value-added feedstocks, photocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RR) based on heterogeneous photocatalysts is particularly attractive due to its direct utilization of solar energy, great recyclability, and economic benefits. Until now, many photocatalysts for the CO2RR have been developed which are typically composed of a semiconductor like TiO2, SiO2, WO3, etc. However, the biggest limitation of all these common photocatalysts is that they can works only when irradiated, while environment undergoes deterioration also in absence of any source of irradiation, for instance at nights. To extend their capabilities to the full day-night period for CO2RR, for first time, we have focused on making their activity independent of photons, upgrading it not only under light irradiation, but also at dark.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daria Camilla Boffito

Student:

Partner:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Application of stochastic optimal control on a back somersault

The creation of innovative acrobatics is difficult for coaches due to the interaction of physical principles involved in simultaneous rotations on multiple axis. Numerical simulation can be useful to generate acrobatics without involving supplementary risks for the athletes. However, the accuracy of the simulation is important if we want athletes to try the new techniques without risks. The goal of this project is to add in realism of the optimal techniques by considering the variability in execution athletes present from one trial to the other and the reliance of athletes on sensory feedback (visual, vestibular and proprioceptive) to make adjustments in the air.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickael Begon

Student:

Partner:

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Alacrity Ottawa – Startup Builder

The Alacrity Ottawa – Startup Builder is a program between L-SPARK and University of Ottawa to work with selected students from the MEED program to assist them in creating and launching a new company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hanan Anis

Student:

Partner:

L-SPARK

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.