Grants and Contributions

Assessment and analysis of business growth plan including marketing and sales process development

The project focuses on developing numerical models (computational fluid mechanics and acoustophoresis) to predict the dynamics of plastic particles in water in the presence of acoustic forcing. The models to be developed as part of the project will identify and quantify the impact of acoustic forcing on the trajectory of microplastics in a confined environment, in order to control their trajectory under a wide range of conditions (temperature, current velocity, etc.).

The project investigates the applicability and performance of fault-tolerant quantum computers in solving stochastic and partial differential equations motivated by generative modelling in artificial intelligence (AI). These differential equations arise as models of non-equilibrium dynamics in dissipative physical systems and provide the foundations of recent revolutionary AI models such as diffusion models. More generally, the project views the associated computational tasks as transports of ensemble states in stochastic thermodynamics and compares the performance of quantum algorithms with the fundamental limits of efficient generation of target ensembles by any machine, whether they are unitary and closed, or dissipative and open, quantum or classical, and artificial or biological.

The project investigates the applicability and performance of fault-tolerant quantum computers in solving stochastic and partial differential equations motivated by generative modelling in artificial intelligence (AI). These differential equations arise as models of non-equilibrium dynamics in dissipative physical systems and provide the foundations of recent revolutionary AI models such as diffusion models. More generally, the project views the associated computational tasks as transports of ensemble states in stochastic thermodynamics and compares the performance of quantum algorithms with the fundamental limits of efficient generation of target ensembles by any machine, whether they are unitary and closed, or dissipative and open, quantum or classical, and artificial or biological.

The aim of this Project is to support the development of an instrument that can be deployed in the marine environment and can detect, measure the size of and characterize ocean microplastics in situ and in real time, to improve the measurement and monitoring of this type of ocean pollution.

First, an LCA-based environmental assessment is required for anticipated battery and battery material production processes in Canada to establish a baseline for benchmarking, but this has not been previously conducted. Second, an early stage LCA framework is required for the evaluation of new battery materials and processes proposed under the NRC’s Critical Battery Materials Initiative (CBMI). Third, the evaluation of both anticipated large scale battery production and new materials and processes requires Canadian background life cycle inventory (LCI) datasets including electricity, fuels, basic raw materials, chemicals, waste processing and water production.

The project aims to develop a novel, deterministic entangled photon source based on quantum dots in nanowires with enhanced performance beyond state-of-the-art for distributed quantum sensing, higher resolution imaging and long-distance entanglement distribution. The project team will design and fabricate a broadband nanowire optical cavity around a single quantum dot to increase the emission rate beyond 100 MHz, enhance the pair extraction efficiency 100-fold while maintaining near-perfect entanglement fidelity and overcome the major problem of charge noise in semiconductors for achieving high single-photon indistinguishability.

An AI based project to optimize solutions for disaster restoration.

Ionic Solutions is a cleantech water desalination technology company which can reduce water wastage by 75% and do it for up to 90% less power than reverse osmosis. Ionic is looking for partners who have a consumer based water purifier product line, marketing and distribution capabilities, and are looking at differentiation within the market using next generation water tech in India.

This is a multifunction team project involving Sales, Ops, Purchasing and Finance, sponsored by the CEO.