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Research
Latest papers
Self-Assembled Metal-Phenolic-Agar Microparticle-Derived Coatings Enable Scalable and Sustainable Fresh Produce Preservation.
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry · 2026
Impacts of wildfire-related chemicals on surface drinking water sources: Status and research gaps.
The Science of the total environment · 2026 · senior author
A Bottom-Up Approach Integrating Computer Vision with Material Flow Analysis to Estimate the Recycling Potential of Distributed Solar Panels Using Satellite Imagery.
Environmental science & technology · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $179,750
Air Transport, Economic Growth, and Emission Reduction
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Smart Engineered Wood Panels: Combining Highly Efficient Thermal and Acoustic Insulation for Sustainable Exterior Wall and Roof Building Systems
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $104,000
Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
15 publications.
Self-Assembled Metal-Phenolic-Agar Microparticle-Derived Coatings Enable Scalable and Sustainable Fresh Produce Preservation.
Chiu I, Kamali M, Tu Q, Wang T, Kitts DD, Wang X, Guo L, Yang T
Impacts of wildfire-related chemicals on surface drinking water sources: Status and research gaps.
de Leon Rabago R, Li L, Tu Q
A Bottom-Up Approach Integrating Computer Vision with Material Flow Analysis to Estimate the Recycling Potential of Distributed Solar Panels Using Satellite Imagery.
Jiang P, Xu H, Tu Q
Emission Factor Recommendation for Life Cycle Assessments with Generative AI.
Balaji B, Ebrahimi F, G Domingo NG, Vunnava VSG, Faridee AZ, Ramalingam S, Gupta S, Wang A, Gupta H, Belcastro D, Axten K, Hakian J, Kramer J, Srinivasan A, Tu Q
Ascertaining the Environmental Advantages of Pavement Designs Incorporating Recycled Content through a Parametric and Probabilistic Approach.
Wang Z, Santos J, Chu C, Tu Q, Birkved M, Chong D, Chang Y, Chang H, Xu M, Van den Bergh W, Cao Z
A data-centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps.
Zhao B, Jiang J, Xu M, Tu Q
Mitigating Grand Challenges in Life Cycle Inventory Modeling through the Applications of Large Language Models.
Tu Q, Guo J, Li N, Qi J, Xu M
Life Cycle Inventory Availability: Status and Prospects for Leveraging New Technologies.
Wright MM, Tan ECD, Tu Q, Martins A, Parvatker AG, Yao Y, Sunol A, Smith RL
Chitin Nanofibers Enable the Colloidal Dispersion of Carbon Nanomaterials in Aqueous Phase and Hybrid Material Coassembly.
Guo T, Wan Z, Panahi-Sarmad M, Banvillet G, Lu Y, Zargar S, Tian J, Jiang F, Mao Y, Tu Q, Rojas OJ
Delineating the embodied CO2 emissions in Canada's exports: Routes, drivers, and paths.
Li Q, Wu S, Tu Q
Air Transport, Economic Growth, and Emission Reduction
Principal investigators: Zhang, Anming
Smart Engineered Wood Panels: Combining Highly Efficient Thermal and Acoustic Insulation for Sustainable Exterior Wall and Roof Building Systems
Principal investigators: Wang, Xiaodong (Alice)
Keywords: Engineered Wood Panels; Bio-based materials; Building envelope design; Thermal efficiency ; Acoustic performance; Climate-resilient building materials ; Sustainable technologies; Low-carbon emission technologies; Techno-economic analysis and optimization; Low-income population shelter
Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment
Principal investigators: Tu, Qingshi
Keywords: bioeconomy; circular economy; biorefinery,bioenergy and bioproducts; industrial symbiosis; resource efficiency; life cycle assessment; machine learning; systems analysis; uncertainty treatment; industrial ecology
Waste? Know More! Igniting behaviours for circularity in the food supply chain
Principal investigators: Keddie, Leanne
Keywords: Circular economy; Food waste; Innovation; Behaviour; Challenges
Next-generation wood construction
Principal investigators: Chui, Ying-Hei YH
Keywords: fire safety of buildings; life cycle assessment; mass timber; net-zero energy design; off-site construction; performance-based design; resilient structures; sustainable building; timber buildings
Quantifying synergy and tradeoff between resource efficiency and climate change: Filling the fundamental knowledge gap in systems analysis and uncertainty treatment
Principal investigators: Tu, Qingshi
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Loretta Li and Qingshi Tu: 1 shared paper
- Feng Jiang and Qingshi Tu: 1 shared paper
- Chunping Dai and Qingshi Tu: 1 shared paper
- Qingshi Tu and Tianxi Yang: 1 shared paper
- Department of Wood Science
- Wood Science
- Civil Engineering
- Faculty of Land and Food Systems
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