Escalating demand for specialty materials that go into next-generation lithium-ion batteries has prompted the National Research Council to create an R&D group to bolster the value chain for their use in the transportation and stationary applications. Advanced discussions between NRC officials and several companies are already underway to determine the extent of their participation in the new lithium-ion battery technologies (LiBTec) program, which kicked off June 7 with a webinar.
Organization: Dalhousie University
Atlantic marine life facing oxygen crisis
This article is from the March 2017 issue of Canadian Innovation News. You can read the full issue here. Although there is a range of environmental conditions in which an animal can survive, there is an even smaller range of conditions in which it can thrive. New research from the national Marine Environmental Observation Prediction…