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Designing self-replicating 3D printers to build advanced infrastructure in hostile environments

Using organic semiconductors to build electronic components, including OLED based lighting, flexible photovoltaic tarps for building integration, and biosensors for the lifescience industry

Developing drugs to efficiently remove pre-existing plaques that have already established themselves in the arteries

Storing heat from industrial processes in non-toxic rechargeable thermal batteries to be used to heat commercial and residential buildings

Using algorithms and artificial intelligence to develop software for self-driving vehicles to improve fuel efficiency and detect obstacles using sensors to help it comprehend its environment, including for farm equipment and shipping trucks

Designing and building custom medical hardware for entrepreneurs and hospitals

Understanding the costs and benefits for family owned businesses of using external managers as opposed to being managed by family members

Designing mobile and cloud computing medical software for entrepreneurs and hospitals

Using metal powders to produce 3d printed parts through additive manufacturing to help entrepreneurs produce high quality low volume components

Providing an open space for our industry partners to replicate their operations on our shop floor using our industry level computer-controlled machines and advanced manufacturing and tooling equipment without having to disrupt their shop floors or interrupt their production operations

Developing a new generation of coolants and lubricants for manufacturing purposes which can be beneficial for industry in terms of increasing productivity reducing manufacturing cost and also reducing occupational and environmental problems

Developing new technique which can protect the tool during the machining of aerospace alloys to improve the tool life, and also to help the industry to make the component faster cheaper and more accurately

Assisting industry partners in reverse engineering and additive manufacturing (3D printing) of samples in order to more quickly bring innovative products to market

Designing hardware sensors and software for entrepreneurs in the medical and industrial sectors for the Internet of Things

Accompanying entrepreneurs in designing new food products, package and preserve them to ensure a long shelf life

Using GPS, big data and predictive algorithms to develop tools to help farmers understand the technological process of moving data from an SD card on their combine to a software on their computer to better understand the unit economics of their fields (cost and yield per each square foot) and the necessary input to use to achieve maximum yield given the soil and weather forecast

In-Flight Testing for Researchers and Companies

Using robotics to automate shot peening and machining for high precision aerospace components as well as undertaking metrology of pre-existing parts much quicker

Developing a supply chain in composite metals and processing for composite metals, and giving access to aerospace companies to expertise and infrastructure to use more robotics and to optimize their existing processes

Scanning objects and cityscapes using photogrammetry and Lidar scanners to create virtual reality worlds for the construction/renovation, video games and movie industry

Helping digital companies integrate new technologies with different platforms and different tools, such as combining Virtual Reality, VR Sets and motion capture systems

Digitizing humans by capturing actors’ body movement and facial performances for film, television, gaming and specifically gaming within virtual reality using motion capture systems

Creating hyper-realistic CG characters to replace actors with their CG likeness that would convince the viewer that that’s a real person and apply their performance in dangerous aspects, stunt performance, or in things that we can’t capture in real shoots

Working with municipalities to design studies comparing different water and waste water treatment solutions

Improving, developing and optimizing processes linked with the treatment of municipal water, waste water and bio-solids

Designing studies and undertaking pharmacology and toxicology tests on small rodents for SMEs in the life sciences industry

Helping clients develop a methodology to undertake chemical studies and to obtain a certification from the Order of Chemists for their studies

Using ultra performance liquid chromatography linked with mass spectrometry to analyze complex plant extracts

Performing a bio-chemical analysis of molecules in food and cosmetic for entrepreneurs to understand their effects on the human body, such as their nutritional value or if they have inflammatory side effects

Designing research projects to help companies in developing pre-clinical toxicity and pharmacological studies

Developing research projects to help companies in developing pre-clinical toxicity and pharmacological studies and test the efficacy components for these companies

Using machine learning analysis of EEG data to establish psychiatric diagnosis and to determine optimal treatment of major depressive disorder

Using machine learning and big-data in the business world, including failure analysis and understanding behaviour behind investment decisions

Developing new thermoset resins that are made with renewable materials and pose less health and environmental risks, including epoxy and vinyl ester

Working with entrepreneurs in the organic chemistry industry to scale-up their production processes from the lab to the plant, and to collect key data and build predictive models

Using green chemistry to develop replacements for petroleum-based products, including rustproofing and waterproofing

Developing, optimizing and testing novel processes that can result in either clean potable water or in water that is at least free from contaminants that may affect a downstream process

Partnering with companies to develop new materials so they can get to that commercialization stage much faster than they would on their own

Developing proof-of-concept, validation, and commercialization strategies in water and wastewater treatment

Helping entrepreneurs take their ideas to market by letting them use resources found at our labs, notably the Lambton Energy Research Center, the Lambton Water Center, the Bio Industrial process Research Centre, the Center for Industrial Materials Development and the Information Technology Research Centre

Extracting the DNA of drones the queen mated with to improve the diversity of the colonies and the resistance they have against different pathogens

Identifying the characteristics of bee colonies associated with natural bio-resistance to viruses and improving the selection of the best population

Testing and diagnosing bee samples sent from beekeepers and researchers, including the health of imported queen bees and pathogens in colonies

Conducting an expression profiling of biomarkers to find the underlying mechanisms responsible for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Develop a prognostic and diagnostic kit for Triple-Negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of breast cancer

Finding the underlying mechanisms responsible for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

Using photogrammetry and artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct real objects for video games, films and online stores

Characterizing new life forms that at the moment have not been recognized or have been ignored by both the arts and the sciences in order to help scientists to communicate concepts outside of their own traditional academic domain