By 2050, over 70% of the world's population will live in cities that occupy only 2% of the world's land mass and consume...

The most commonly used herbicide on Earth is glyphosate, which kills plants by inhibiting a key enzyme involved in aroma...

Wetlands in the agricultural areas of Canada are increasingly vulnerable to loss due to urban and agricultural expansion...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are an emerging class of quantum materials providing a rich playground to investigate qua...

The interest in III-V multi-junction solar cells is currently driven by space applications, but the largest potential ma...

Field crops (grain corn and soybean) in Québec cover over 800 000 hectares and represent one of the largest source of ag...

The Canadian forest products industry must undergo a paradigm shift to remain competitive, due to competition from abroa...

Although engineered nanomaterials have the potential to increase sustainable food production, there are still knowledge ...

Around 40% of the rivers and lakes in America are polluted, and this problem is much more serious in developing countrie...

Aquaculture is recognized as a growing source of employment and offers the possibility for social and economic improveme...

The next generation of wireless networks will rely heavily on the millimetre-wave band (30GHz-300 GHz) where bandwidth i...

The recent Photonics boom, with applications in different sector from health to telecommunication or security, generates...

Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) supports the most valuable groundfish fishery per-unit-weight in Atlantic C...

Two important trends are emerging in the use of raw material resources and methods of transforming them into useful prod...

The present project aims to develop a sustainable technological platform for microbial production of drop-in biofuel (al...

We will design, engineer and integrate flexible logic circuits base on semiconducting organic molecules. The key distinc...

The combination of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has created a significant shift in global en...

A connected vehicle communicates with other vehicles, road infrastructure, Internet, Cloud, and mobile devices. The dive...

With an explosion of available data and the consequent need for enormous data-processing capabilities in the emerging bi...

Mink pelts are reported to be Nova Scotia's greatest agricultural export and are comparable only to dairy products in te...

Microorganisms have been used for thousands of years to produce desirable chemicals, ranging from the molecules that giv...

Toxic contaminants from manufacturing operations (e.g. chemical plants) and human activities (e.g. detergents, shampoos,...

The boreal forest is vital to the livelihoods of millions of Canadians. Global climate change from rising atmospheric gr...

Reducing pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions are the Grand Challenges of 21st century towards a cleaner environment a...

The ultimate goal of this project is to produce new flat panel X-ray image detectors (used in mammographic screening for...