Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Penlidis, Alexander"
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Chitosan Edible Films Crosslinked by Citric Acid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Chitosan offers an exciting potential as a safe, biodegradable material for niche food packaging and coating applications. Barriers to getting this crustacean-derived polysaccharide to the packaging market include poor ... -
Clarifying Multi-Component Polymerization Kinetics for Tailoring Properties of Acrylamide/Acrylic Acid Copolymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)Among water-soluble polymers, copolymers of acrylamide (AAm) and acrylic acid (AAc) are probably the most common and widely used in practical applications. However, information on the kinetics of the AAm/AAc radical ... -
Design of Polymeric Materials: Novel Functionalized Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery & Gas Sorption Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2019-11-28)As material requirements for particular applications become more specific and strict, using a targeted approach to design polymeric materials becomes a necessity. Following a general design framework prevents researchers ... -
Design of Polymeric Sensing Materials for Volatile Organic Compounds: Optimized Material Selection for Ethanol with Mechanistic Explanations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-02)There are many applications in which sensing and monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other gas analytes are important. This thesis focusses on finding suitable sensing materials for ethanol to reduce the ... -
Evaluating Polymeric Materials for Sensing of Gaseous Analytes
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-18)Polymers have been widely used in gas sensing applications especially for detecting Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Some of these applications consist of disease diagnosis and breathalyzers as well as evaluation of ... -
Polymeric Materials for Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-08)Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs) are toxic synthetic chemicals that can have incapacitating or lethal effects. The 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (1997 CWC) restricted production, stockpiling and use of CWAs, including ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric Gas Sensing Materials for Detection of Agriculture Lagoon Off-Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-03)With increasing food demand, agriculture and farming industry have grown. This led to an increase in production of agricultural waste. The waste is converted into manure via anaerobic fermentation which continuously produces ...