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NEWS
Canada Awards Funding for Coatings Research
The Government of Canada awarded $24 million to Queen's
University to research and develop carbon-to-metal coatings to
protect metal surfaces from corrosion. The funding is part of the
Transformation Stream of the New Frontiers in Research Fund
(NFRF), which has awarded $144 million in grants over six years
to Canadian-led research teams.
The project will be building on Queen's chemistry researcher
Cathleen Crudden's previous discovery that a certain class of
organic molecules can form bonds with a wide range of metals.
The research team plans to explore and develop a carbon-onmetal
coating to slow or halt corrosion caused by oxygen changes
in pH and temperature.
Queen's University will be teaming up with other project
co-principal investigators Western University, Concordia
University, McGill University, Princess Margaret Cancer
Centre and University Health Networks, in addition to many
international co-applicants and industrial collaborators.
" Worldwide, countries spend, on average, over 3 percent
of their GDP each year on corrosion maintenance. Annually,
Canada spends around $66 billion across sectors, " said Dr.
Crudden, professor and Canada Research Chair in Metal
Organic Chemistry. " With new strategies, like the innovative
coatings we are developing, we could save governments,
taxpayers and industries up to 25 percent of this cost. "
Crudden added that the technology's potential to improve
cancer is promising, as it could lead to new advances in cancer
treatments that impact the health of one in two Canadians who
will develop the disease in their lifetime.
Christian Moreau, professor in Concordia's Department of
Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at the Gina
Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, will receive
$1.875 million in funding to aid the team as a co-principal
investigator of the research project.
" This new coating approach has the potential to revolutionize
our manufacturing processes to produce coatings of exceptional
quality that could improve Canada's health, environment and
economy, " Moreau said. " I am very proud to be part of this team
of high-level researchers who tackle crucial challenges for our
societies. "
According to the University, the development of the new
coating could also help put Canada at the forefront of the barrier
coatings industry, which currently has a national economic
impact of $31 billion per year and employs 211,000 people across
the country.
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