DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-NEW TYPES OF BIOMATERIALS

DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-NEW TYPES OF BIOMATERIALS

+ECOLOGICAL  +PERFORMANCE In collaboration with Professor Christian Pellerin, Professor Marcotte’s team developed products based on protein extracted from the anchoring filaments or byssus of blue mussels. The first researchers to develop this type of biomaterial,...
THIN FILM POLYMER COATINGS PUTTING AN END TO FOGGING!

THIN FILM POLYMER COATINGS PUTTING AN END TO FOGGING!

+SMALL +EFFICIENT Prof. Gaétan Laroche’s team based its work on the unique property of PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) to prevent fogging. The approach called for linking this molecule permanently to a material’s surface without altering the latter’s initial optical...
SENSORS FOR FAST MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES

SENSORS FOR FAST MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES

+RAPID +EFFICIENT Modern medicine is moving towards personalized treatment schedules, requiring analytical tools to monitor the response of patients during treatment. Chemotherapy patients are currently administered cocktails of drugs according to a schedule...
NEW LOW-COST DEVICE FOR NEURONS NAVIGATION STUDIES

NEW LOW-COST DEVICE FOR NEURONS NAVIGATION STUDIES

+STRUCTURED +THROUGHPUT The study of cell navigation in response to surface cues is called haptotaxis and dates back to 1967, but a conceptual framework and standards for comparing studies is lacking. As a consequence many conclusions reached in prior studies are...
SENSORS FOR FAST MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES

A MORE ECONOMICAL FABRICATION METHOD

+EFFICIENT +STRUCTURED +ECONOMICAL Classic lithography and etching techniques for the preparation of nanostructured surfaces are expensive. Professor Bélanger’s team perfected an alternate preparation method based on the self-organizing properties of polystyrene beads...