Like its chemical relative carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important greenhouse gas and the dominant ozone-depleting substance. Strategies for limiting its emissions and its catalytic decomposition with metals are being developed. A study indicates that nitrous oxide can bind to metals similarly to carbon dioxide, which helps to design new complexes with even stronger bonding. This could allow the use of nitrous oxide in synthetic chemistry.
Battery electric MacLean vehicle. Credit: Cambrian College
Cambrian College has received a $250,000 financial boost from the Greater Sudbury Development Corporation (GSDC). The GSDC has committed these funds for the development of a proposed $2.8-million industrial BEV Lab at the college. At its January meeting, Greater Sudbury City Council approved the recommendation from the GSDC to fund the project.
The proposed BEV lab will cover 5,600 sq. ft within the Glencore Centre for Innovation building at the college’s main campus in Sudbury and be part of the Centre for Smart Mining within Cambrian R&D, the college’s applied research division.
New cutting edge KPU research centre helps local agricultural sector find solutions Tue, Feb 2, 2021 A new research facility at Kwantlen Polytechnic University is using molecular genetics and metabolomics – the study of DNA and other molecules within cells – to help develop solutions for various industries in the Metro Vancouver region. “The KPU Applied Genomics Centre is focused on using genomic and metabolomic tools to help various industry partners within the agriculture sector to improve product development and product consistency through various types of applied research and development projects. In addition, the Centre performs some human health research using genetic tools to better understand the genetic underpinnings of human disease” says Dr. Paul Adams, scientific director of the KPU Applied Genomics Centre (AGC).
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Dr. Rose McCloskey, a nursing professor at UNB Saint John, is partnering with the Loch Lomond Villa on a research project to learn how to prevent the spread of illness in long-term care facilities. (Photo submitted by UNB)
A research project which aims to simulate the long-term care environment to better understand how COVID-19 spreads bring together UNB Saint John and the Loch Lomond Villa.
Rooms will be built which are identical to long-term care facilities in 3600 square feet of space provided by the Villa.
Nursing Professor Dr. Rose McCloskey said they will use mannequins in place of people.
Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS)
An interdisciplinary team of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) used an innovative imaging technique for a better understanding of motor deficits in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The researchers were able to follow the escape behaviour of normal and disease zebrafish models, in 3D. Their results have recently been published in
Optica, the flagship journal of the Optical Society (OSA).
Professor Jinyang Liang, expert in ultra-fast imaging and biophotonics, joined an effort with Professor Kessen Patten, specialist in genetics and neurodegenerative diseases. The two groups were able to track the position of zebrafish in real time and capture the 3D motion, using a special imaging technique called dispersion-eliminated coded-aperture light field, or DECALF.