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Engineering and Environmental Assessment of Foam Glass Lightweight Aggregate for Pavement Application
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-02)Foam-Glass Lightweight Aggregate (FG-LWA) is an innovative lightweight material based 95% on waste and recycled glass. Several European countries use this type of material in the pavement structure and mainly as lightweight ... -
Engineering Applications of Surface Plasmon Resonance: Protein–Protein and Protein–Molecule Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Protein-protein and protein-molecule interactions are complicated phenomena due to the tendency of proteins to change shape and function in response to their environment. Protein aggregation whether onto surfaces or in ... -
Engineering Clostridium acetobutylicum to permit simultaneous utilization of glucose and xylose: elimination of carbon catabolite repression
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-13)The industrial gram-positive anaerobe Clostridium acetobutylicum is a valued ABE (acetone, butanol, ethanol) solvent producer that is able to utilize a vast array of carbon sources in fermentation. When glucose is present ... -
Engineering Decellularized Matrices to Support Adherent Cell Therapy
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-03)Whole-organ perfusion decellularization was performed with rat hearts on a modified chromatography apparatus. Analysis of the flow properties and effluent material over time provided insights into the decellularization ... -
Engineering Effective Hamiltonians for Magnetic Resonance
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-22)Effective Hamiltonian engineering is a powerful technique that utilises time-dependent perturbation theory to suppress or enhance certain effects that arise from otherwise weak Hamiltonian terms, when an experimenter ... -
Engineering Graphene Oxide Electrolyte Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)Graphene oxide (GO) is an atomically-thick, two-dimensional nanomaterial decorated with an abundance of oxygen functional materials on the basal plane and edges. Due to its unique set of properties, it is a material used ... -
Engineering Non-Precious Group Metal Electrode for PEMFCs with Enhanced Mass Transport via Electrospraying Technique
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21)Ever since the concept of “Hydrogen Economy” emerged, fuel cell technology has been regarded as the key component of the clean, sustainable energy future. Thanks to great successes in the development of fuel cell technology ... -
Engineering of poly(2-oxazoline)s for a potential use in biomedical applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-27)This PhD work is based on the design of poly(2-oxazoline) (POx) hydrogels and nanogels, by chemical or physical cross-linking, aimed to be used for biomedical applications. Nanogels were first prepared in dilute media and ... -
Engineering Social Learning Mechanisms for Multi-Agent Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-14)This thesis is strongly inspired by literature on animal social learning, applying it to multi-robot as well as human-robot interaction scenarios, Social learning, which can include complex or simple social mechanisms, ... -
Engineering the kinetic stability of a β-trefoil protein by tuning its topological complexity
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-03)Kinetic stability is crucially important for engineering stable proteins suitable for use in industrial, research, and medical applications. Specifically, kinetic stability is central to determining a protein’s functional ... -
Engineering the Performance of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanotransistors through Quantum Transport Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-10)Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of stable, atomically-thin monolayer materials with unique mechanical and electronic properties, leading to several proposed applications in electronics ... -
Engineering truly automated data integration and translation systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)This thesis presents an automated, data-driven integration process for relational databases. Whereas previous integration methods assumed a large amount of user involvement as well as the availability of database meta-data, ... -
Enhanced Backward Multiple Change-Point Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-09)Many statistical tools are built upon a specific set of assumptions on the distribution of the data at hand. However, the distribution of the observations in the dataset may not remain constant and may change due to some ... -
Enhanced Barrier Properties of Renewable Multiphase Polymer Coatings and Films
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)The use of traditional synthetic polymer in the food industries imposes great sustainability issues in conjuncture with plastic waste accumulation and consumers’ health concerns. This drives innovation in bioplastics with ... -
Enhanced Cellulose Fiber for Polymer Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-29)In recent years, interest in renewable, environmentally friendly and low-cost materials has grown and has become a global trend. In view of the high consumption of petrochemical plastics that use reinforcing agents such ... -
Enhanced Conducting Polymer PEDOT:PSS/ Silicon Hybrid Solar Cells: Optimization of Thin Film Properties and Heterojunction Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)In this work the operating properties of PEDOT:PSS - silicon hybrid solar cells were carefully studied. The motivation is to find a cost-effective alternative to some of the energy, environmental and sustainability issues ... -
Enhanced detection of point correspondences in single-shot structured light
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)The crucial role of point correspondences in the process of stereo vision and camera projector calibration is to determine the relationship between the camera view(s) and the projector view(s). Consequently, acquiring ... -
Enhanced Diffusion in Latex Films Induced by Oligomers and Characterized by Pyrene Excimer Fluorescence
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-24)Pyrene excimer fluorescence (PEF) was used to investigate the effects that the presence of low molecular weight oligo(n-butyl methacrylate) (OBMA) have on the diffusion of high molecular weight poly(n-butyl methacrylate) ... -
Enhanced Durability of Pt Alloy Nanoparticles Using Sulfur-Doped Graphene via Metal-Support Interactions for PEMFC Cathode Catalysis of ORR
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)The hydrogen fuel cell is a form of renewable energy generation technology that produces energy electrochemically and can address energy concerns in the near future, especially due to the diminishing supplies of non-renewable ... -
Enhanced Dynamics at the Free Surface of a Molecular Glass Film
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-07)In this thesis we describe two separate experiments involving the use of gold nanoparticles. The first experiment looks at the use of gold nanoparticles as a localized heat source and the potential application as a cancer ...