Research news

Learn more about the latest discoveries and innovations from the U of T Engineering community. Our researchers are developing new ways of capturing and storing clean energy, medical devices that can save and extend lives, smarter ways to design and build cities and much more.

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New CRAFT Tissue Foundry provides infrastructure dedicated to bioengineering innovation

The open research facility at U of T’s Mechanical Engineering Building is an expansion of the partnership between the University and the National Research Council of Canada

Professor Xilin Liu tests signal integrity of a neural implant prototype. Neural implants in use today activate a neuromodulation therapy that helps manage symptoms of brain disorders. (Photo: Matthew Tierney)

How this U of T Engineering professor is advancing neural implants that fight brain disorders

Professor Xilin Liu (ECE) integrates microelectronics and artificial intelligence algorithms into neural implants to more effectively manage symptoms of Parkinson’s, epilepsy and other conditions

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This new, more sustainable method for recycling lithium-ion batteries could help meet electric vehicle demand

U of T Engineering researchers are using supercritical carbon dioxide to recover lithium, cobalt, nickel and manganese from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries

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Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering will advance solutions for communities around the world

Professor Nicole Weckman (ISTEP, ChemE) has been appointed in inaugural chairholder

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New ‘Sputtertron’ could help develop advanced materials for greener economy

A new materials-acceleration platform is one of four U of T Engineering projects funded in the latest round of the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Professor David Sinton (MIE) is regarded as a pioneer in the area of microfluidics for energy applications. (Photo: Pam Walls)

Professor David Sinton elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Fellowship in the RSC is one of the highest honours a Canadian scholar can achieve

Working across the fields of medicine, engineering and data science, Professor Ervin Sejdić (ECE) uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the markers of disease. (Photo: North York General Hospital)

Professor Ervin Sejdić elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Sejdić (ECE) is a leader in the application of machine learning to biomedical research

A new way to deliver therapeutic proteins to the body, developed at U of T Engineering, could help treat degenerative eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. (Photo: Mark_Kuiken, via iStock)

New strategy for delivery of therapeutic proteins could help treat degenerative eye diseases

Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, BME, Donnelly) and her team have created a hydrogel that slowly releases multiple therapeutic proteins at independently controlled rates

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This grad student is developing solar-powered bioreactors to clean water and produce sustainable products

Oseremen Ebewele is one of two recipients of this year’s IBET Momentum Fellowships