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The NRC’s proactive role in fostering safe and responsible development of nanomaterials applications
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Security and Disruptive Technologies
Industry: Advanced Materials, Micro and Nano Electronics
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing, Robotics & Automation, Robotics
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing, Robotics & Automation, Robotics
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing, Robotics & Automation, Robotics
The NRC has developed a one-of-a-kind, in-situ rotating ice adhesion rig, where researchers are able to measure the adhesion properties of ice to various icephobic coatings in controlled and repeatable conditions. Innovators creating these ice-resistant veneers see their potential application on drones as a match made in heaven, as UAVs’ limited onboard power and payload means a passive ice-prevention method is preferable.
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
An international team of researchers have found an infrequent variation in the brightness of a forming star. This 18-month recurring twinkle is not only an unexpected phenomenon for scientists, but its repeated behavior suggests the presence of a hidden planet. This discovery is an early win for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Transient Survey, just one-and-a-half years into its three-year mandate to monitor eight galactic stellar nurseries for variations in the brightness of forming stars. This novel study is critical to understanding how stars and planets are assembled. The survey is led by Doug Johnstone, Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and Greg Herczeg, Professor at Peking University (China), and is supported by an international team of astronomers from Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Aerospace
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing, Robotics & Automation, Robotics
Youth from across Canada got a helping hand to explore their aerospace research skills as they took flight over Ottawa airspace in July 2017 in the first Canadian microgravity research competition for students.
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Energy, Mining and Environment
Industry: Energy and natural resources
According to Navigant Research, the global market for energy storage (ES) is expected to increase from $1.3B in 2016 to $16.5B in 2024Footnote 1. What is not widely agreed upon is which technologies will be in a position to seize the lion’s share of those opportunities, what it will take to bring those technologies to the point where they can demonstrate the optimal cost, performance, and safety attributes when the market comes calling, and how future projections for these attributes can be objectively compared. NRC is currently looking for partners and supporters for the development of a Technology Development Matrix (TDM) as a tool to meet these needs.
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Energy, Mining and Environment
Industry: Energy and natural resources
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Energy, Mining and Environment
Industry: Energy and natural resources
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Industrial Research Assistance Program