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Recipients of the 2016 Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects Competition
| Institution | Name Project |
Term | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Alberta | Robert Hayes Development of advanced particulate filters for automotive applications |
3 | $434,000 |
| Sina Ghaemi Endurance increase of autonomous underwater vehicles using polymeric coating technology for effective Arctic seabed exploration and monitoring |
3 | $417,000 | |
| Ray DeCorby An integrated platform for quantum networks |
3 | $534,000 | |
| Andreas Hamann Balancing risks and benefits in developing seed transfer prescriptions for forestry to address climate change |
3 | $302,440 | |
| Qingxia Lui Nano-reactive oily bubbles for enhancing fine particle flotation by agglomeration |
3 | $445,800 | |
| Roger Zemp Fast MEMS focusing systems |
3 | $751,667 | |
| University of British Columbia | Matthias Militzer Interface-based design: A new frontier of alloy development |
3 | $677,600 |
| Xiaotao Bi MOST- Novel microwave fluidized bed reactor for catalytic pyrolysis of biomass residues and biochar applications |
3 | $521,425 | |
| Harry Brumer FUNTASTIC: Fungal copper-radical oxidases as new biocatalysts for the valorization of biomass carbohydrates and alcohols |
3 | $690,000 | |
| Septimiu Salcudean Multi-modat, gaze-centred, augmented reality interfaces for ultrasound machines |
3 | $362,750 | |
| Clarence C.W. De Silva Research in sensory information technologies and implementation in sleep disorder monitoring |
3 | $546,600 | |
| Scott Hinch Effects of injury, pathogens and climate warming on migration and spawning success of Pacific salmon that have escaped from fishing gear |
3 | $591,925 | |
| Fariborz Taghipour Development of novel UV reactors operating with microplasma technology for water treatment |
3 | $449,500 | |
| Russ Algar Development and manufacture of self-assembled, multifunctional composite nanoparticles with magnetic and fluorescent properties for cell-based assays |
3 | $526,400 | |
| University of Calgary | Yang Gao Novel precision augmentation and integration of low-cost GNSS and MEMS intertial sensors for IoT mobile |
3 | $388,000 |
| Mohamed Helaoui High efficiency and broadband fully integrated MMIC power amplifiers using GaN technology for space and terrestrial wireless communication |
3 | $673,356 | |
| Paul Barclay Quantum nano-optomechanical devices |
3 | $576,000 | |
| Marcus Samuel Developing extreme climate-resilient canola varieties |
3 | $359,800 | |
| Carleton University | Fei Richard Yu Enabling technologies for future software-defined and virtualized wireless networks |
3 | $600,000 |
| Concordia University | Muthukumaran Packirisamy Polarization insensitive, microsystem integrated, mono-order grating based, either discretely or continuously tunable wavelength, platform for communication network components |
3 | $340,500 |
| Dylan Fraser From genes to ecosystems: an eco-evolutionary assessment of alternative harvesting strategies and consequences for fisheries productivity |
3 | $579,840 | |
| Dalhousie University | Daniel Ruzzante The genomics of spawning seasonality and seascape in commercially harvested herring (Clupea harengus) in the Northwest Atlantic |
3 | $539,423 |
| Michelle Adams Guiding sustainable bio-industrial synergies for optimal GHG mitigation and regional economic development |
3 | $589,760 | |
| École Polytechnique de Montréal | Raman Kashyap LIMONCELLO: Laser written millimetre long nanocrystalline lanthanide waveguide lasers with rare earth doping |
3 | $555,504 |
| Raman Kashyap WOMBLE: waveguides and optical materials for biomedical and high resolution sensing applications using light enhancement |
3 | $533,600 | |
| Sarah Dorner Urban stormwater and municipal effluents: innovative solutions for source water protection |
3 | $560,940 | |
| Oussama Moutanabbir Silicon-compatible hybrid organic-inorganic shortwave infrared up-conversion device |
3 | $726,000 | |
| University of Guelph | Rod Merrill Development of natural products as novel miticides and anti-virulence agents for the treatment of Varroa mites and American foulbrood in honeybees |
3 | $810,000 |
| Claudia Wagner-Riddle Understanding the mechanisms for soil ecosystem services from "perennialized" annual cropping systems |
3 | $614,353 | |
| Institut national de la recherche scientifique | Dongling Ma Development of plasmonic-semiconductor nano-assemblies for solar water splitting systems: more efficient and more cost effective |
3 | $439,840 |
| Marc Gauthier Addressing an immediate manufacturing need of the therapeutic antibody industry: reduce viscosity to reduce cost |
3 | $496,000 | |
| Luca Razzari Terahertz hyper-imaging systems for advanced manufacturing |
3 | $499,000 | |
| Ahmed Tayeb Denidni Innovative agile-antenna solutions for millimeter-wave wireless communications |
3 | $409,500 | |
| Tsuneyuki Ozaki Unravelling the terahertz electronic properties of graphene for applications in optoelectronics |
3 | $540,100 | |
| Federico Rosei Highly flexible perovskite oxide nanostructures-based hybrid nanogenerators for autonomous wearable devices and body metric applications |
3 | $622,000 | |
| Shuhui Sun Hierarchical 3D micro/nanostructured LiMn1-xFexPO4/graphene hybrid composite for high power Li-ion battery and its dynamic study by in-situ X-ray absorption and THz spectroscopies |
3 | $516,889 | |
| François Légaré Femtosecond switching and reading of magnetic vortex memory devices |
3 | $575,499 | |
| Lionel Roué Développement de nouveaux matériaux et procédés d'élaboration d'anodes inertes et de cathodes mouillables pour la production d'aluminium |
3 | $523,000 | |
| Vetrone Fiorenzo ANR - Development of near-infrared mediated photocatalytic nanocomposites for the treatment of turbid wastewater |
3 | $306,000 | |
| Étienne Yergeau Novel holobiont-based approaches to rapidly adapt wheat to drought stress |
3 | $707,200 | |
| Université Laval | Louis Bernatchez Integrating genomics, phenotypes and local ecological knowledge towards improving capelin stock management in Canadian Atlantic and Arctic waters |
3 | $580,915 |
| Steven Cumming Supporting avian conservation in managed forests: Forecasting forest biodiversity under alternate land-use strategies |
3 | $684,150 | |
| Rosa Galvez-Cloutier Advanced study of unconventional oil behaviour, innovative emergency measures to surface water oil spills: protection of water sources |
3 | $670,032 | |
| Trong-On Do New generation of full-sunlight-driven photocatalysts for water decontamination |
3 | $303,800 | |
| Wei Shi Integrated mid-IR photonics enabling ubiquitous sensing |
3 | $616,400 | |
| University of Manitoba | Ying Chen Vertical tillage and vertical seeding for conservation agriculture |
3 | $369,642 |
| McGill University | Kirk Bevan Engineering manufacturable next generation photocatalytic nanomaterials for high efficiency hydrogen fuel generation |
3 | $513,000 |
| George Demopoulos Development of light-chargeable lithium ion battery devices |
3 | $564,000 | |
| Roderick Guthrie Lightweight multi-layer composite metal sheet products for the automotive industry |
3 | $500,500 | |
| Yajing Liu Induced earthquake source process imaging and groundwater chemistry monitoring in the Western Canada sedimentary basin |
3 | $676,955 | |
| Xinyu Liu An Ultrasensitive Microfluidic Biosensor Based on Vertically-Aligned MoS2 Nanolayers |
3 | $486,400 | |
| Thomas Szkopek Advanced manufacturing of InN/Si nanowire tunnelling transistors for energy efficient electronics |
3 | $375,000 | |
| Thomas Szkopek Ultra high quality transition metal dichalcogenide synthesis by molecular beam epitaxy for integrated light emitting diodes and ion sensitive transistors |
3 | $543,000 | |
| Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur Software-enable, energy-efficient hardware infrastructure for next-generation data centres |
3 | $484,200 | |
| David Juncker Aptamer-based enrichment system and capillary chip for low-abundance water contaminant detection to ensure aquaculture safety and quality |
3 | $552,000 | |
| McMaster University | Rong Zheng StareCrowd: A new paradigm for mobile crowdsensing |
3 | $481,700 |
| Andrew Knights Amplified silicon photonics |
3 | $524,500 | |
| Yingfu Li DNAPrint: a pathogen-tracking paper sensor platform that integrates functional DNA with nanomaterials |
3 | $672,000 | |
| Université de Moncton | Marc-André Villard Développement d'un outil d'analyse et de prédiction de la probabilité de défoliation des conifères par la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette |
2 | $188,782 |
| University of Ottawa | Jules Blais Determining the effects of a pipeline spill in Canadian Boreal lakes: Experimental additions of diluted bitumen (dilbit) to in-situ enclosures at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area |
3 | $794,290 |
| Azzedine Boukerche OpContent: Opportunistic Content Delivery in vehicular networks |
3 | $522,000 | |
| Karin Hinzer Phototransducers with quantum materials for power + communications over optical fiber systems (PowerCom) |
3 | $499,038 | |
| Jianping Yao Microwave photonic techniques for 5G |
3 | $552,000 | |
| Université du Québec à Rimouski | Pierre Blier Prédicteurs métaboliques et physiologiques de la réponse au stress chez les poissons |
3 | $409,446 |
| Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Ahmed Koubaa Alternatives de valorisation des surplus de copeaux de bois pour la production de bioproduits et de bioénergie |
3 | $579,000 |
| Queen's University | Victoria Friesen Using modern genomics to minimize long-term impacts of resource development on Arctic seabirds |
3 | $534,000 |
| Philip Jessop CO2-Triggered Draw Agents for Forward Osmosis |
3 | $552,740 | |
| University of Saskatchewan | Angela Bedard-Haughn Understanding resilience in agroecosystems: landscapes in transition |
3 | $852,036 |
| Qiaoqin Yang Advanced synthesis and characterization of DLC-based nanocomposite coatings for biomedical applications |
3 | $634,632 | |
| Université de Sherbrooke | Jan Dubowski Mechanisms of biofunctionalization of photocorrosion-based semiconductor biosensors for quasi-continuous monitoring of pathogens in water environments |
3 | $667,587 |
| Patrick Paultre Outil de diagnostic en temps réel des structures de pont utilisant un réseau de capteurs dynamiques intelligent |
3 | $615,000 | |
| Luc Fréchette Thermotronics for sero-power continous monitoring wireless sensors |
3 | $484,115 | |
| Simon Fraser University | Farid Golnaraghi A new class of MEMS gyroscopes based on nonlinear coupling and internal resonance |
3 | $395,800 |
| Steven Holdcroft ANR-Nanostructured Ionomers and membranes with controlled architectures for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells |
3 | $364,500 | |
| Erika Plettner New tools for Varroa mite management in beekeeping |
3 | $394,158 | |
| Rodney Vaughan Spatial sound field control with smart sensors and actuators |
3 | $467,700 | |
| Jian Pei Fraud investigation at scale: Methods and tools |
3 | $495,000 | |
| Trent University | Chris Metcalfe Wastewater in small, rural communities: Integrated sewage lagoon and ozone treatment |
3 | $478,800 |
| University of Toronto | Ya-Huei Cathy Chin Catalytic synthesis of specialty chemicals from sustainable resources |
3 | $372,000 |
| Robin Marjoribanks Multi-GHz "Smart" Burst-mode ultrafast-laser processing of microfluidic structures, biological/medical materials and difficult industrial materials |
3 | $534,113 | |
| Donald Jackson Applying the metabolic theory of ecology to estimate the productivity of inland fish communities |
3 | $517,500 | |
| Uwe Erb New nanocrystalline Cu-Ni alloy processing technology to support Canadian manufacturing Industries in marine, offshore drilling and renewable energy applications |
3 | $237,213 | |
| Andre Simpson A digital microfluidic-microcoil NMR discovery platform to elucidate, monitor and understand cumulative environmental stress |
3 | $591,500 | |
| Shahrokh Valaee Location-aware security and privacy in 5G wireless networks |
3 | $441,000 | |
| University of Victoria | Lin Cai MOST-Network EVs for green intelligent transportation |
3 | $565,500 |
| University of Waterloo | Zhongwei Chen Smart graphene-based composites for high-energy and self-healing lithium-ion batteries |
3 | $487,200 |
| Dana Kulic Shared decision making and progressive automation for manufacturing assembly |
3 | $618,500 | |
| Sherry Schiff Natural stable isotopes of iron: A new tool to trace Fe cycling for management of risk from harmful cyanobacterial blooms in lakes and reservoirs |
3 | $665,794 | |
| Norman Zhou Degradation of emerging water contaminants using novel photocatalytic 3D-printed TiO2 nano-architectures: a case for algal toxins found in harmful algal blooms |
3 | $580,900 | |
| Philippe Van Cappellen Reactive interfaces in agroecosystems: quantifying coupled biogeochemical dynamics across scales using a comprehensive lab-field-modeling approach |
3 | $695,329 | |
| Western University | Paul Charpentier Mass production of metal oxide nanoparticles and their integration into polymer coatings |
3 | $519,800 |
| Zhifeng Ding Efficient and low-cost light-emitting electrochemical cells of graphene quantum dots |
3 | $612,872 | |
| Xueliang Sun Black phosphorus: synthesis, characterization and energy storage applications |
3 | $567,000 | |
| Bryan Neff Restoring biodiversity and a valuable fishery: Atlantic salmon reintroduction into Lake Ontario |
3 | $595,860 |