Grants and Contributions

The purpose of this agreement is to support engagement on Regional Tables with the Government of Canada.

The purpose of this agreement is to support engagement on Regional Tables with the Government of Canada.

The objective of this Project is to advance Indigenous issues and priorities in environment, safety and/or socioeconomic imperatives, consistent with the Terms of Reference of the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committee for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

The objective of this Project is to advance Indigenous issues and priorities in environment, safety and/or socioeconomic imperatives, consistent with the Terms of Reference of the Indigenous Advisory and Monitoring Committee for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project.

This project is focused on building capacity for forest access, management and use for Indigenous forest economic development opportunities.

Under this project, the Proponent will conduct a feasibility study to assess hydrogen blending at strategic locations across Enbridge Gas Inc.'s existing gas network. The Proponent will evaluate the technical feasibility and maximum limits of blended hydrogen gas in existing networks, identify necessary retrofits or upgrades of existing infrastructure and develop staged roadmaps for introducing hydrogen into Ontario's gas network.

The purpose of this agreement is to increase awareness, availability and use of lower carbon vehicles and fuels in Canada by supporting the installation of 8 electric vehicle chargers (200 kW+) in Alberta.

Environmental Barrier Coatings (EBCs) are a key technology for the protection of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) from the corrosion effects of water vapour at high temperatures. The use of ceramic-based turbine materials provides higher fuel efficiency, cost and fuel savings, and lower environmental impact. This Project seeks to decrease the porosity of thermal sprayed EBCs by application of a sealant material, so that the coatings become impermeable to water vapour. Sealant powders will be prepared and applied to the coating using slurry methods or by applying the chemical precursors directly on the plasma sprayed coating. The latter approach constitutes a novel way to a prepare a coating that will potentially display self-healing properties. The potential outcomes of this research Project include a complementary method for the application of dense EBCs on CMCs, and a more fundamental understanding of the behaviour of these materials at high temperature in the presence of water vapour. The results of this Project will benefit Canadian companies from powder manufacturers, equipment providers, coating applicators, essentially over the entire value chain.

This project will develop a physics informed machine learning approach to predicting battery durability to be implemented into a self-driving laboratory being developed by the NRC. It leverages University of Toronto AI-assisted tools for fitting electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), a central tool in measuring electrochemical systems, and generating statistically significant and unbiased models of physical processes. The Recipient will refine and apply this tool to support the NRC’s development of novel battery cathodes by developing (1) an automated sensitivity analysis and out of distribution detection algorithm to enable model updating during active learning studies, (2) a robust modeling framework for generating physical insights into battery performance and degradation, which will permit scientifically informed adjustments to battery formulations, and (3) an active learning tool that combines these tools to predict battery longevity without long term cycling studies. All data and code generated will be released publicly to benefit all Canadians.

Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative