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The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (English: 'National Institute of Scientific Research') is the research-oriented constituent university of the Université du Québec system that offers only graduate studies. INRS conducts research in four broad sectors: water, earth and the environment; energy, materials and telecommunications; human, animal and environmental health; and urbanization, culture and society. INRS has facilities in Quebec City, Montreal, Laval, and Varennes. The enabling legislation is An Act respecting educational institutions at the university level.

Silver and gold nanowires open the way to better electrochromic devices

“The team of Professor Dongling Ma from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) developed a new approach for foldable and solid devices. Solid and flexible electrochromic (EC) devices, such as smart windows, wearable electronics, foldable displays, and smartphones …

INRS Researchers Develop a New Membraneless Fuel Cell

“The research team of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Professor Mohamed Mohamedi has designed a green membraneless fuel cell that uses oxygen from the air. The results of this innovative microfluidic application—a first in Canada—were published …

Towards Lasers Powerful Enough to Investigate a New Kind of Physics

“In a paper that made the cover of the journal Applied Physics Letters, an international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make …

Using molecules to draw on quantum materials

“Over millennia, civilizations progressed through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Now the time has come for quantum materials to change the way we live, thanks in part to research conducted at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS …

Sculpting light for new technologies

“On a dime-sized structure, researchers at INRS and the University of Sussex have created an optical device that uses artificial intelligence to control the properties of light. Many technologies, including biomedical imaging systems, rely on lasers to produce light that …

Will light be the basis for quantum computing?

“A team from INRS performs computing operations using highly complex quantum states—marking an important milestone in the development of quantum computing. Using a compact optical platform that exploits the quantum characteristics of light, Professor Roberto Morandotti and his team …

World’s fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second

“What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used at INRS produce ultrashort pulses in the femtosecond range (10–15 s) that are far too …

High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material

“A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique …