Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Revolutionizing the Manufacturing of Optical Components: Advanced GRIN Lenses through Volumetric Additive Manufacturing
1028079
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
3D Printed Rechargeable Solid-State Magnesium Batteries for Energy Storage
1028104
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Sensitive paper strip disease diagnostic kit for personalized medicine
1028105
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Development of PFAS-free Polymer Binder for Sustainable Lithium-Ion Battery
1028106
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
3D printing of bone-mimetic architectures with tunable structural disorder for high energy absorption
1028108
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Towards acceleration of diffusion models in multimodal generation
1028110
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Design and Development of Material Acceleration Platform Enabled Gas-Fed Electrolyzer for CCUS
1028112
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Robust and Transportable Ultra-Stable 1542 nm Laser System
1028115
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$25,000.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
Accelerated discovery of metallised electrodes for green hydrogen production through automated volumetric additive manufacturing (Auto-VAM)
1028118
Advances exploratory research under the New Beginnings Initiative
$598,758.00
Mar 25, 2025
Academia
QuanTEM: Quantum Enhanced Sensing in Transmission Electron Microscopy
1028261
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) development is rapidly moving towards novel schemes that utilize preparation, manipulation, entanglement and sensing one electron at a time. One of the main motivations for such quantum-enhanced methods and instrumentation (QTEM) is the need for analysis of individual biomolecules beyond the Gaussian shot noise limit set by radiation damage of the molecules. Ultimately, a quantum-enhanced cryo-TEM of biomolecules is needed for targeted therapeutic drug design, revealing underlying protein-protein and protein-RNA/DNA interactions.
The Project, Quantum Enhanced Sensing in Transmission Electron Microscopy, or QuanTEM (Phase I), will develop the knowledge and instrumentation needed for realizing an ultrafast QTEM. This collaboration will place UA and NRC at the forefront of the nascent and rapidly growing field of QTEM.
The Project builds on and qualitatively expands our internationally recognized work in terahertz (THz) ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (THz-UTEM) and in diamond nanophotonics (DN), both supported by the NRC-UA NanoInitiative program, as well as CFI, NSERC, and Alberta Innovates. The intended outcome of QuanTEM (Phase I) is the development of methods and devices needed to generate, manipulate, and detect single-electron pulses. In parallel, the Project Team will investigate the effects of inelastic electron scattering on QTEM.
In the longer term, the Project Team envision QuanTEM (Phase II) that will expand the project further to demonstrate a sub-Poissonian single-electron source and entanglement of electrons with photons. The use of such entangled states is believed to enable extraction of information about microscopy samples with resolution beyond the Gaussian shot noise limit. This will in turn enable, for example, the study of biomolecules that cannot be prepared in large number of copies, rendering them unsuitable for x-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis.
The QuanTEM project will provide the tools and methods to enable QTEM. Phase I of the project described in this proposal develops the knowledge and techniques required for facilitating electron-photon interactions in a TEM. This will be accomplished in part by developing custom electron-optics, ultrafast gating of single-electron pulses, and nanofabricated devices for mediating such interactions, including micromechanical, plasmonic and opto-mechanical structures. Much of this work will be performed in the NanoMi UTEM column housed in the Ultrafast Nanotools Lab at UA. However, a key highlight of the QuanTEM project is the donation of an entire transmission electron microscope column from RIKEN (Japan) for developing QTEM at NRC-QN. In addition, a complete femtosecond laser amplifier system will be provided by UA for installation directly next to the donated TEM column. These significant in-kind contributions to QuanTEM will greatly enhance the project and promote international collaboration in QTEM.