Grants and Contributions

This project will transform the firm’s accumulated data, infrastructure, and expertise into a new SaaS platform.

Use and surfactants database to develop and test a catalog of surfactant-modified bentonite-based sorbents that can remediate a wide range of effluent classes. This would help establish a 2-step process and product platform.

The firm, a Canadian energy market research firm, seeks to try to integrate HMI into an existing SaaS web application. The HMI will allow clients to build interactive, user-defined visualizations combining structured and unstructured data from a database, updating dashboards in real-time and providing key market insights. This project aims to improve data accessibility and actionable insights with SQL or programming knowledge thereby improving the service offering for analyzing market dynamics, forecasting supply trends, and assessing the impact of external factors like US tariffs allowing the business to grow and expand in the more globally.

The main objective of this initiative is to actively participate in the ITEA PO Days, fostering strategic partnerships, building strong consortia, and contributing to impactful project proposals. Through this engagement, the firm aims to connect with key international customers and end-users, gaining insights into market-driven project opportunities aligned with real-world needs. It also offers a platform to explore and potentially establish collaborative industrial R&D ventures with global partners, paving the way for innovative submissions to the upcoming ITEA call.

The project will focus on improvement of the firm’s sensor products by evaluating and incorporating the materials produced by the UK partner.

Quickly is undertaking a technical R&D project to advance accounting ledger and multilingual platform capabilities.

This project will investigate the feasibility of an effluent receiving engineered bio-filter system within Canadian Aquafarm’s property.

The Project aims to develop next-generation all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) using lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO)-based hybrid solid-state electrolytes (Hybrid-SSEs) to address critical limitations of conventional lithium-ion battery systems. By embedding high?conductivity LLZO ceramics within cross-linked polymer matrices, the Project seeks to combine the ionic conductivity of ceramics with the flexibility and processability of polymers to overcome ceramic brittleness, interfacial instability with Li-metal anodes, and incompatibility with high-voltage cathodes. It will drive innovation in Hybrid-SSE development, Ni-rich cathode active material coatings, artificial solid electrolyte interphases engineering for stable lithium anodes, and full-cell fabrication and validation to create safe, scalable batteries with energy densities exceeding 300 Wh/kg and ≥80% capacity retention after 100 cycles. The Project unites the University of Waterloo, the NRC and Electrovaya from Canada with TU Braunschweig, Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films and Glatt, from Germany. It also includes life cycle assessment of the developed technologies.

This Market Diversification Action Plan project will prepare the firm to enter into future international co-innovation work.

The aviation industry is committed to decarbonization. Among the options, hydrogen (H2) holds great promise for long-haul airliners. Within the H2 portfolio, H2 fuel cells may not meet the power-density requirements for longhaul applications in the foreseeable future, which leaves H2-fueled gas turbines as the one viable technical pathway. H2 as an aviation fuel is fundamentally different from kerosene-based jet fuels and brings great new potentials: it is stable at the elevated temperatures of engine hot-gas path components (combustor liners and turbine blades). In addition, H2 needs to be stored either as a cryogenic liquid or as a cryocompressed gas. The endothermic process of vaporizing or pre-warming H2 from its storage states can be perfectly matched with demanding cooling requirements of aero-engines. To take full advantage of the new fuel, this collaboration aimsto develop a novel enginearchitecture where H2 is also used as engine coolant that eliminates the extra weight and energy requirements of vaporizers and/or multiple heat exchangers for pre-conditioning the fuel. Meanwhile, the need for diverting compressor discharge air for cooling can be greatly reduced or fully eliminated, resulting in 10-15% engine efficiency improvements over kerosene-fueled legacy engines. The end goal of this proposed project is to have a proof-of-concept combustor demonstrator that pre-heats low-temperature H2, needs little or no additional cooling air, and can combustor H2 cleanly and efficiently by taking advantages of new additive manufacturing capabilities both in high-temperature superalloys and ceramic.