Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have created a powder that could be used to reduce greenhouse gases at factories and power plants that burn fossil fuels.
The advanced carbon powder, developed using a novel process in the lab of chemical engineering professor and WIN member Zhongwei Chen, could filter and remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from emissions with almost twice the efficiency of conventional materials.
A startup company co-founded by Waterloo Engineering professor and WIN member Michael Pope recently won $25,000 in seed funding in a pitch competition meant to encourage Canadian innovation.
Evercloak, a cleantech startup that specializes in manufacturing ultra-thin graphene and other 2D nanomaterial films, took first place in the environment and electrification development category of the Ontario Power Generation Ignite contest.
This year the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) announced a new funding program for WIN members. The WIN Interdisciplinary Research Funding Program (WIN-IRFP) is a competitive program aimed at providing seed funding and support for interdisciplinary research.
WIN member Shirley Tang recently received the Outstanding Mid-Career Award in Nanoscience from Nano Ontario for her contributions to the field of nanotechnology.
Tang was given the honour for her leadership in the field. She has an h-index of 19 and her 39 peer-reviewed research papers have been published in prestigious journals such as Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Biotechnology - which have received more than 3600 citations.
