Canada’s light source centre, enabling innovative health, agriculture, environment, and advanced materials research for industry, government, and academic scientists.
Research on catalytic reactions of ozone with emerging pollutants (e.g. pesticides, pharmaceuticals) in water and organic pollutants (e.g. toluene, acetone) in air.
Fosters academic and industrial partnerships through access to cutting-edge light microscopy, photopatterning, and light-assisted 3D printing techniques.
Controlled environment agriculture research and development, including measurement of plant growth, gas exchange, volatile organic compound (VOC) evolution and nutrient remediation
Imaging facility specialized in life, agricultural and environmental sciences, providing a full range of state-of-the-art light and electron microscopes, and a CT-scanner