Research Stories

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) accessed the CNBC for award-winning cooperative research with Canada’s allies.

Defence Research and Development Canada sponsors research that needs stress data from the CNBC to understand the strength of ship hulls.

Superconductors aren’t just for cool levitation demonstrations; a key discovery in this field could disrupt technologies for computing, medical imaging and power transmission lines as we know them today. The CNBC’s unique expertise and scientific tools are enabling Canadian and international researchers to make cutting edge discoveries in this field.

An international collaboration involving the CNBC serendipitously finds molecular “ball on a spring” while doing research for nuclear energy.

Australian scientists accessed the CNBC in search of the right materials for the next generation of computer processors.

The CNBC data provided strong evidence that the pipe was likely subjected to tension over time while in service, and that the fracture was not due to faulty pipe.

Government and academic researchers use neutron beams to test a new repair technology capable of supporting the aerospace industry to adopt more fuel-efficient jet engines.

Researchers from McMaster University accessed the CNBC to make ground-breaking observations of order in cell membranes.

Aircraft manufacturers sponsor research because they need stress data to improve computer models of the lifetime of their parts.

Aircraft manufacturers sponsor researchers who are using stress data from the CNBC to evaluate methods of preventing distortion in thin aluminum parts.

Stress data from the CNBC led to a further project to develop manufacturing methods to optimise performance of lightweight alloys for car engines.