Canadian nanomaterials – funding at the forefront of innovation

Innovation in nanomaterials is rapidly progressing across the globe, but with increased funding and lucrative collaboration opportunities, Canadian nanomaterials are set to lead the market. Paul Glover, President of Shared Services and former Associate Deputy Minister of Health, Canada, once...

The iBridge Framework: tailoring bridge monitoring systems

Dr Markus Petschacher, CEO of Petschacher Software und Projektentwicklungs (PSP), outlines iBridge – a revolutionary new framework that allows a bridge monitoring system to be tailored to a particular bridge and which covers both structural health and traffic monitoring. Road...

Commercialised innovation: technology transfer through spin-off creation

The Institute for Materials and Wood Technology at Bern University of Applied Sciences is now supporting commercialised innovation. Here, Professor Dr Frédéric Pichelin outlines two success stories of technology transfer through spin-off creation. The culture of entrepreneurship is not well...

Exploiting high energy physics technology at IARC

The head of IARC and deputy head of technology development and industry engagements at Fermilab, Mauricio Suarez, discusses amongst other things, the miniaturisation of accelerators and the commercialisation of technologies developed for the high energy physics research arena. FERMI is...

Nanoporous carbons can improve energy storage devices

Researchers have discovered that optimised nanoporous carbons can improve the performance of energy storage and conversion devices. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials collaborated with researchers from the University of Tartu,...

Fostering the application of vibrational spectroscopy

The Coblentz Society aims to promote and foster the understanding and application of vibrational spectroscopy. Vibrational spectroscopy is the study of the motion of specific chemical bonds in a molecule. Each bond in a molecule will interact with a specific...

Funding the future of Finnish bioscience

Professor Ursula Schwab, Chair of the Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment at the Academy of Finland, speaks to The Innovation Platform about the future of Finnish bioscience and the decision to fund 24 new Academy Research...

CERN, LHCb, Syracuse University and the search for New Physics

Physicists from Syracuse University, working at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), discuss their involvement in the LHCb experiment and the search for evidence of physical forces beyond those we know, called ‘New Physics’ (NP). In elementary particle physics, we...

How hybrid nanocapsules can reduce carbon emissions

The 9,000th publication to come from the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, has been published, describing how hybrid nanocapsules from renewable materials can help cut carbon emissions. A recently published paper in Chemical Engineering Journal by a team of...

The impact of COVID-19 on air traffic management

Dr Luis Barbero, President and Chief Executive Officer of GATCO, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the aviation and air traffic management industry. The increasing integration of systems into daily operations is necessitating a change in the way air traffic...

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