Frank Gu, Chemical Engineering Canada Research Chair - NSERC Renewed Tier 2 CRC in Nanotechnology Engineering ($500,000 over five years)
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Michael Pope, Chemical Engineering professor and collaborators are working to improve energy-storage devices known as supercapacitors. Their novel design roughly doubles the amount of electrical energy the rapid-charging devices can hold, helping pave the way for eventual use in everything from smartphones and laptop computers, to electric vehicles and high-powered lasers.
A biomedical device based on Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) technology that can fit in the palm of your hand can provide home-testing to help diagnose different diseases.
Abstract: National space agencies and private corporations aim at an extended presence of humans in space in the medium to long term.
Helen Chen and Plinio Morita are developing a platform that uses artificial intelligence to bring together health data from social media messages, lab reports, and doctor's clinical notes.
Researcher Helen Chen, faculty of Applied Health Sciences, is disrupting traditional models of health care.
Chen is the software lead for a collaboration between a team at the University of Waterloo and Dynacare. Together, they are working to launch a smart, mobile ECG the size of a credit card.
Researcher Plinio Morita, Applied Health Sciences, is working on an application that assesses suicide risk.
The app, CASCA, uses machine learning to psychologically assess teens. It conducts conversations and provides psychological assessments to the user via chatbot. The app also stores and tracks the user's social media interactions.
Shawn Wettig and the Wettig lab are building new types of surfactants with the aim of improving how drugs are delivered into human bodies. By exploring the different ways that molecular structures can be altered to improve effectiveness of gemini surfactants, the researchers are developing and refining methods that have many applications. Surfactants are relied on by industry for thousands of products, but the Wettig lab is particularly interested in surfactants as a mode of delivering gene therapy.