Reference number : GC-2017-Q3-00822, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Stoeber, Boris (The University of British Columbia), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : British Columbia|Colombie-Britannique, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Strategic Projects - Group, program name french : Projets stratégiques - groupe, program purpose english : During the last decade, the Canadian pulp and paper industry has been overcome with economic, financial, and organizational dislocations that firms have found difficult to address. One potential pathway for the pulp and paper industry in Canada going forward is to identify new value-added products in order to open up new markets. The goal of this project is to develop a new manufacturing and device technology that will enable the production of nanocomposite paper-based products for the Canadian pulp and paper industry's softwood market pulps. These pulps have a reputation for being superior reinforcing pulps due to the favourable position of Canadian wood in terms of climate and geography. For this project, we have partnered with Canfor Pulp Limited (CPL) who is one of Canada's major producers of Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) pulp. The proposed technology will add value to NSBK pulp by enabling new inexpensive and environmentally friendly sensing technology with NSBK nanocomposite products, taking advantage of the unique mechanical properties of NSBK pulp. _x000D_
 The proposed disposable paper-based particulate matter (PM) sensors will be designed for portable aerosol measurement systems to provide real-time information on PM concentration in the environment; elevated PM levels contribute to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We will develop this technology with our second partner Nanozen Industries. The addressable annual environmental safety market for environmental monitors is around $100 million with a projected annual growth rate at over 20%. _x000D_
 In the long term, these nanocomposite materials and our demonstration of functional paper can be further developed to open up other unique and value-added applications of Canada's softwood market pulps including other types of environmental sensors and smart packaging. These applications hold direct potential to benefit Canadians through technology transfer, commercialization, and the resulting creation of new jobs._x000D_, program purpose french : During the last decade, the Canadian pulp and paper industry has been overcome with economic, financial, and organizational dislocations that firms have found difficult to address. One potential pathway for the pulp and paper industry in Canada going forward is to identify new value-added products in order to open up new markets. The goal of this project is to develop a new manufacturing and device technology that will enable the production of nanocomposite paper-based products for the Canadian pulp and paper industry's softwood market pulps. These pulps have a reputation for being superior reinforcing pulps due to the favourable position of Canadian wood in terms of climate and geography. For this project, we have partnered with Canfor Pulp Limited (CPL) who is one of Canada's major producers of Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) pulp. The proposed technology will add value to NSBK pulp by enabling new inexpensive and environmentally friendly sensing technology with NSBK nanocomposite products, taking advantage of the unique mechanical properties of NSBK pulp. _x000D_
 The proposed disposable paper-based particulate matter (PM) sensors will be designed for portable aerosol measurement systems to provide real-time information on PM concentration in the environment; elevated PM levels contribute to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. We will develop this technology with our second partner Nanozen Industries. The addressable annual environmental safety market for environmental monitors is around $100 million with a projected annual growth rate at over 20%. _x000D_
 In the long term, these nanocomposite materials and our demonstration of functional paper can be further developed to open up other unique and value-added applications of Canada's softwood market pulps including other types of environmental sensors and smart packaging. These applications hold direct potential to benefit Canadians through technology transfer, commercialization, and the resulting creation of new jobs._x000D_, agreement title english : Paper-based particulate matter sensors, agreement title french : Paper-based particulate matter sensors, agreement number : STPGP, agreement value : 601800.0, agreement start date : 2017-10-18, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2020-2021)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada