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High Surface Area Cu/γ-Al2O3 Catalyst Synthesized by Reverse Microemulsion Method for CO2 Conversion via Reverse Water Gas Shift
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-30)Nowadays, catalytic conversion of CO2 has gained great attention due to environmental issues caused by CO2 emissions around the world. CO2 can be considered as a source of carbon with hydrogenation (using renewable hydrogen) ... -
High Temperature Co-Sintering for Metal Supported-Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Metal supported-solid oxide fuel cells (MS-SOFC) are third generation solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). In these cells the primary support is a porous metal upon which the active cell layers (anode, electrolyte, and cathode) ... -
High Temperature DC SQUID Fabrication on Bicrystal YBCO Thin Films
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)After the discovery of high temperature superconductors, different types of Josephson junctions were investigated and thus a new path is created to obtain high temperature superconducting quantum interface devices(SQUID). ... -
High Temperature Deformation Behaviour of an Al-Mg-Si-Cu Alloy and Its Relation to the Microstructural Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-24)The microstructural evolution and mechanical properties at elevated temperatures of a recently fabricated fine-grained AA6xxx aluminium sheet were evaluated and compared to the commercially fabricated sheet of the same ... -
High Temperature Forging of AZ31B Magnesium Alloy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)Isothermal uniaxial compression tests were conducted on AZ31B magnesium alloy with the intention of applying the findings to an industrial forging operation. Given the poor workability of magnesium at low temperatures, ... -
High Throughput Analysis for On-site Sampling
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-12)Until recently, multiple SPME fibres could not be automatically evaluated in a single sequence without manual intervention. This drawback had been a critical issue until recently, particularly during the analysis of numerous ... -
High Voltage Grounding Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-10)Minimization of Construction Costs of Substation Grounding Grids: In every electrical installation, one of the most important aspects is adequate grounding; in particular, the grounding of high-voltage substations to protect ... -
High-dimensional discriminant analysis and covariance matrix estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-21)Statistical analysis in high-dimensional settings, where the data dimension p is close to or larger than the sample size n, has been an intriguing area of research. Applications include gene expression data analysis, ... -
High-Efficiency Millimeter-Wave Front-Ends for Large Phased-Array Transmitters
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-26)The ever-increasing demand for wireless broadband connectivity requires infrastructure capable of supporting data transfer rates at multi-Gbps. To accommodate such heavy traffic, the channel capacity for the given spectrum ... -
High-fidelity Modelling of an Electric Sport Utility Vehicle
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)The development and validation of a high-fidelity dynamic model of an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) is presented. The developed model of the electric vehicle system consists of two main subsystems: the high-fidelity ... -
A High-Fidelity VR Simulation Study: Do External Warnings Really Improve Pedestrian Safe Crossing Behavior?
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-27)To better communicate with pedestrians, adding external displays to autonomous vehicles (AVs) has been proposed as a potential communication method to encourage safe crossing behavior by pedestrians. Whereas, most researchers ... -
High-Frame-Rate Ultrasound Imaging Innovations for Complex Flow Quantification
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-07)Vascular pathology such as atherosclerosis or arterial stiffening involves significant disruption in the blood flow dynamics found in the vasculature, with complex behavior such as jets and swirling typically seen in ... -
High-level Information Fusion for Constrained SMC Methods and Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)Information Fusion is a field that studies processes utilizing data from various input sources, and techniques exploiting this data to produce estimates and knowledge about objects and situations. On the other hand, human ... -
High-Level Intuitive Features (HLIFs) for Melanoma Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)Feature extraction of segmented skin lesions is a pivotal step for implementing accurate decision support systems. Existing feature sets combine many ad-hoc calculations and are unable to easily provide intuitive diagnostic ... -
High-Level Microbial Production of Propionate in Engineered Escherichia coli
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-07)Biological platforms for propionate production have been limited to anaerobic native microbial producers, such as Propionibacterium and Clostridium. In this work, we demonstrated high-level heterologous production of ... -
High-Order Finite-Volume Schemes for Magnetohydrodynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-01)New high-order finite-volume numerical schemes for the magnetohydrodynamics equations are proposed in two and three dimensions. Two different sets of magnetohydrodynamics equations are considered. The first set is the ideal ... -
High-Order Numerical Methods in Lake Modelling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-18)The physical processes in lakes remain only partially understood despite successful data collection from a variety of sources spanning several decades. Although numerical models are already frequently employed to simulate ... -
High-Performance Concurrent Memory Allocation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-25)Memory management takes a sequence of program-generated allocation/deallocation requests and attempts to satisfy them within a fixed-sized block of memory while minimizing the total amount of memory used. A general-purpose ... -
High-Performance Piezoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Hybrid Perovskite Nanomaterials for Energy-Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-21)With the increasing drive to create self-powering nano/micro-electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS), maximizing the output performance of piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) is essential. Organic-inorganic halide perovskites ... -
High-Performance Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)A novel polymer semiconductor with side chains thermally cleavable at a low temperature of 200 °C was synthesized. The complete cleavage and removal of the insulating 2-octyldodecanoyl side chains were verified with TGA, ...