Canada Research Chair Linda Nazar is turning her attention to lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries. Because of their energy density, they have the potential to achieve a far higher energy density than their lithium-ion counterparts.

Listening in on how the brain remembers which way to go.

Leading a global revolution in the way we share and secure information.

When you picture a laboratory, what do you see? Complex machines, beakers and lasers, maybe a person hunched over a microscope?

Forget it all. The next generation of labs will small enough to fit inside a handbag, and Waterloo’s researchers are forging new frontiers in their design and efficacy. 

Students in seven University of Waterloo engineering programs, including the first graduating class of management engineering, will display inventive design projects during Engineering Design Symposium Week beginning tomorrow