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Gestion adaptative et intégrée des barrages et adaptation des communautés locales face aux changements climatiques

Au Québec, de nombreux cours d’eau subissent des modifications inhabituelles de leurs niveaux d’eau à cause des changements climatiques, ce qui engendre de nombreux problèmes pour leur utilisation par les riverains (érosion des berges, dégâts aux embarcations de plaisance…) mais également aux responsables de la gestion des barrages. Ces derniers se voient alors contraints de s’adapter afin de garantir la sécurité des riverains ainsi que l’équilibre des cours d’eau.
Dans ce contexte, le projet vise à améliorer la gestion des niveaux d’eau des barrages de trois réservoirs situés dans le bassin versant de la rivière Saint-François, en Estrie (Grand lac Saint-François, lac Massawippi et lac Montjoie), afin de les adapter aux contraintes imposées par les changements climatiques tout en prenant en considération les préoccupations des communautés vivant aux voisinages des trois barrages. Ainsi, Il sera possible de s’adapter face aux changements climatiques et être préparés aux effets qui en découlent.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mélanie Trudel;Catherine Choquette;Geneviève Cloutier

Student:

Partner:

Conseil de gouvernance de l’eau des bassins versants de la rivière Saint-François

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Fabrication of Graphene Oxide/Polyurethane Nanocomposite Foams Featuring Enhanced Mechanical, Thermal, and Electrical Properties

Polyurethane is a class of polymers with the potential of foaming and with excellent mechanical and thermal properties. However, in order to use PU in advanced applications, its physical properties must be improved. Accordingly, in this research proposal, we plan to incorporate graphene oxide (GO), a derivative of graphene, into polyurethane foam to improve its physical properties. GO is a monolayer of carbon atoms hexagonally attached to each other with some oxygen bonding across the carbon nanostructure. This nanomaterial features outstanding physical properties, and incorporation of a very small amount of GO into polyurethane can improve its physical properties drastically.
Our industry partner, ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (“ZEN”), has discovered a large and very rare igneous-related graphite deposit in Northern Ontario called the Albany Graphite Deposit [www.zengraphene.com]. This research project aims to develop the synthesis technology of GO from the as-receive ZEN’s graphite via a chemical method. The fabricated GO will be incorporated into generated polyurethane to make GO/polyurethane nanocomposites foam. These nanocomposite foams are expected to be used in various part of cars, such car hood, produced by ZEN’s automotive industry partner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Arjmand

Student:

Partner:

ZEN Graphene

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Réduction de l’incidence de la gale commune chez la pomme de terre par l’utilisation des extraits d’écorce

La culture de la pomme de terre est généralement touchée par une maladie, la gale commune, qui est causée par un microorganisme. Les pommes de terre affectées doivent être exclues de la récolte, occasionnant des pertes de plusieurs milliers de dollars annuellement pour les producteurs de pommes de terre du Lac-Saint-Jean. L’ajout d’écorce de certains arbres à la culture pourrait être une solution pour lutter contre la gale tout en respectant l’environnement. Ce projet a donc comme objectif de réduire la gale commune des pommes de terre en utilisant des écorces d’arbres. Différentes quantités d’écorces seront ajoutées à titre de traitements à deux catégories de pommes de terre du Lac-Saint-Jean. L’effet des traitements sur la maladie sera évalué, c’est-à-dire s’il y a une augmentation ou une diminution de la gale par rapport à des pommes de terre sans traitement. Ce projet pourrait permettre aux producteurs du Lac-Saint-Jean de lutter contre la gale, et ce sans produits chimiques nocifs pour l’environnement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maxime Paré

Student:

Partner:

La Patate Lac-Saint-Jean

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Semisynthetic Strategies for the Production of Cannabinoids from Cannabis Sativa

Although recreational and medicinal marijuana is legal in Canada regulations limit the content of certain cannabinoids, such as ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (?9THC) in commercially grown strands. With close collaboration with our industrial partner Plantbiois Ltd., this research project will develop methods to produce ?9THC by synthetic conversion from highly abundant cannabinoids in unregulated, low THC strains. We will use this knowledge to also explore the synthesis of less abundant, but equally valuable cannabinoids, including cannabinol (CBN) and the ?9THC analogue ?8-tetrahydrocannabinol (?8THC). Once our laboratory scale technology is fine-tuned we will work with Plantbiosis Ltd. to develop a large scale protocols for use in an industrial setting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul G Hayes

Student:

Partner:

Plantbiosis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Wearable Textile-Based Microfluidic Self-Powered Biosensing System

Our biofluids, like sweat, contain many solutes and metabolites that are related to our health conditions. For example, sweat glucose concentration can be noninvasively measured to represent blood glucose concentration for diabetes management. Imagine your clothes can not only wick and adsorb your sweat to keep you dry but also collect and analyze your sweat to tell you your health status. This proposed project is designed to make that come to us closer. We will develop a textile-based microfluidic self-powered biosensing system which can simultaneously collect/deliver sweat and perform chemical composition analysis from sweat. A low-cost, solution-based method will be used to metallize the commercially available textiles with patterned thin gold coatings, which can still preserve the soft feeling and wicking property of the original textiles. Then biofuel cells as biosensors will be fabricated on the gold-coated textiles, which generate power by consuming analytes from sweat. A miniaturized electronic module will be integrated with the fabricated textile-based biosensors for wireless data transmission to our portable devices, such as the smartphone.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tricia Carmichael

Student:

Partner:

Northwestern University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Prediction of Particle Dynamics for Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is an emerging technology that can revolutionize specific manufacturing sectors, but several technical issues related to flowability of metal powders remain to be resolved before its full potential can be achieved. The project aims at better characterizing and predicting the flow behavior of powders used for additive manufacturing, and improving powder flow simulation. The rheological behavior of powders will be studied in a wide range of conditions and these data will be used to develop a powder flow model that will be used to simulate key aspects of the additive manufacturing processes. The project will contribute to identifying promising avenues for powder feedstock development, better powder manipulation practices, and guidelines for equipment design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruno Blais

Student:

Partner:

University of Bath

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Manufacturing and Construction

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Novel Twisting String Actuation for Robotic Grippers

A twisting string actuation (TSA) transmission uses wire(s) to transmit power from a motor on one side to a load on the other side. When the motor rotates the wires are twisting themselves, and thus provide a pulling force on the load. The aim of the project is to add to an existing TSA unit previously designed in out lab some design refinements to improve performances. The first of which is a variable radius rod which changes the speed rate and the output force. The application will be to drive a two-finger robotic gripper.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lionel Birglen

Student:

Partner:

Australian National University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Failure-Tolerand Connectivity Maintenance for Robot Swarms

In many real-world applications, robots need communication between each other to coordinate. For the information to propagate, robots need to be connected, i.e. there has to be a communication path between all the robots in a team. We have designed a decentralized connectivity-preserving algorithm and validated using the ARGoS multi-robot simulator. The connectivity-preserving algorithm has to be ported on to a fleet of Khepera IV (ground robots) and CrazyFlies (small indoor drones).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Giovanni Beltrame

Student:

Partner:

National Chiao Tung University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Automotive; Artificial Intelligence

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for distributed edge caching

There is an exponential increase in the network traffic worldwide due to the growth of social networks, multimedia sharing web services, streaming of video-on-demand (VoD) contents. However, the bandwidth isn’t growing at the same rate as the demand, resulting in a loss of Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for the users. Distributed edge caching provides an effective mechanism for mitigating the bandwidth requirements of the growing traffic demands by trading off bandwidth with storage. Storage owners (such as Ericsson) can leverage edge caching techniques to replicate the most popular content closer to the network edge rather than storing it in a central location to reduce the load at the core network, reduce performance bottlenecks, and provide differentiated services to end users of Content Providers (CPs).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aditya Mahajan

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Quebec)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

UPnGO with ParticipACTION: Evaluating the evolution of a national workplace physical activity initiative – Part 2

In order to improve the health and work productivity of Canadians, ParticipACTION developed a rewards-based, PA tracking intervention called UPnGO with ParticipACTION. The UPnGO program aims to increase the amount of PA and decrease the amount of sedentary activities throughout the workday. This program was released to the public in Fall of 2017, however, program participation hasn’t been as successful as we would like, and participants are not getting the PA benefits the program is designed to achieve. We are working to redesign the program to address these issues. Following which, we will be evaluating and assessing the success of the new version of the UPnGO program to improve the health and work productivity of Canadian workers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Faulkner

Student:

Partner:

ParticipACTION

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Metallurgical Silicon Based Anode for High-Energy Lithium-ion Batteries

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are the dominant technology used to power today’s electric vehicles (EVs). However, current Li-ion batteries is reaching the bottleneck in the energy density, partially due to the limited capacity in the graphite anode (372 mAh g-1). In partnership with MGX Minerals Inc., Dr. Liu’s team at the University of British Columbia aims at developing a high-performance nanostructured Si anode for next-generation Li-ion batteries by using low-grade and large-abundant metallurgical Si as the starting material. The proposed project will develop a metal-assisted chemical etching to upgrade metallurgical Si into high-value nanostructured Si anode material, and innovate a hybrid organic-inorganic thin film by advanced molecular layer deposition technique to stabilize the solid-electrolyte interphase on Si anode The success of this project is expected to deliver nanostructured Si based anode with a specific capacity of 1,000 mAh g-1. This project will expand MGX’s business into Li-ion batteries, establish local supply chains for battery materials, and advance fundamental research in nanomaterials and surface/interface science.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jian Liu

Student:

Partner:

MGX Minerals

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots with Blue and Red Emissions from Albany Graphite

Among various types of graphitic nanomaterials, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have ignited tremendous interest in the past few years owing to their small lateral size, quantum confinement, and large perimeter per mass. GQDs are categorized based on their emitting colors (e.g. blue, green, yellow, red and white). Among various emitting colors, GQDs with blue and red emission are of paramount importance and used in a wide array of applications, such as bioimaging, LEDs, transistors, waste-water treatment, solar cells, biosensors and drug delivery. Our industry partner, ZEN Graphene Solutions Ltd. (“ZEN”), has discovered a large and very rare igneous-related graphite deposit in Northern Ontario called the Albany Graphite Deposit [www.zengraphene.com]. This research project aims to generate the knowledge and expertise for ZEN to convert Albany graphite into high-value GQDs. This research project will be conducted by 2 HQP (1 PDF and 1 MASc) over one year with 7 major tasks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Arjmand;Mohammad H Zarifi;Mohammad Arjmand

Student:

Partner:

ZEN Graphene

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

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