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Polymeric Coatings for Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery to Subsurface Contaminants
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Terrestrial oil spills account for the majority of oil spills world wide and present a challenging remediation problem owing to the inaccessibility of subsurface petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC). Contaminants such as crude oil ... -
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 ... -
Polymeric semiconductor and transition-metal dichalcogenide nanocomposites for inkjet-printed thin-film transistor devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-20)Patterned using subtractive processes, conventional thin-film deposition techniques inevitably require high-vacuum deposition and photolithography to define functional layers to create a device structure. Inkjet printing ... -
Polymerization of Ethylene with Supported Early and Late Transition Metal Catalysts
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-09)Single-site catalysts revolutionized the polyolefin manufacturing industry and research with their ability to make polymers with uniform microstructural properties. Several of these catalysts are currently used commercially ... -
Polynomial Timed Reductions to Solve Computer Security Problems in Access Control, Ethereum Smart Contract, Cloud VM Scheduling, and Logic Locking.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)This thesis addresses computer security problems in: Access Control, Ethereum Smart Contracts, Cloud VM Scheduling, and Logic Locking. These problems are solved using polynomially timed reductions to 2 complexity classes: ... -
Polypropylene Modified by Polydimethylsiloxane in Catalytic Cross Metathesis Reactions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-09)In this study, we were particularly interested in looking at the possibility that cross metathesis of olefins in melt phase could be used to produce polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) modified polypropylene (PP). The intention ... -
Polypyrrole-based Nanofibrous Membrane Separator for Lithium-ion Battery
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-22)A battery separator is one of the key components of a Lithium-ion battery (LIB). It serves as an insulator between the electrodes to prevent the internal short circuit. More importantly, the battery separator retains liquid ... -
Polypyrrole-Graphene based Flexible Supercapacitors
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)The high interest in wearable technologies has inspired an increased demand for portable, flexible energy storage devices. Currently, most commercial electrochemical energy storage units, such as supercapacitors, are ... -
Polysaccharides for Bitumen Extraction, Environmental Decontamination and Cell Culture
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-07)Polysaccharides are polymeric carbohydrates with long chains of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. Some of the most prevalent polysaccharides in nature include starch and chitin. For the work reported in this ... -
Popping My Collar: Applying Anthropology to the Field of Design and Marketing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-30)This paper explores the relationship between anthropological research methods and business, marketing and research design. It is based on participant observation and semi-structured interviews. -
Popular Content Distribution in Public Transportation Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-20)Outdoor wireless networks suffer nowadays from an increasing data traffic demand which comes at the time where almost no vacant frequency spectrum has been left. A vast majority of this demand comes from popular content ... -
Population Differentiation of Ontario Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) using the Major Histocompatibility Complex class II β gene
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-19)The lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a coldwater salmonid with an extensive native distribution across formerly glaciated regions of North America. Lake trout are known to be a glacial ‘relict’ species and evolved as ... -
Population-level Indicators of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep in Canada based on Twitter
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-17)Social media platforms contain large amounts of freely and publicly available data that could be used to measure population characteristics across different geographical regions. Analyzing public data sources such as ... -
Pore Network Modeling of Hydrodynamic Dispersion and Irreversible Adsorption of Nanoparticles in Partially Saturated Granular Media
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-20)The transport of nanoparticles in porous media, whether deliberate or accidental, is of critical importance in several fields including migration of contaminants, wastewater clean-up, and enhanced oil recovery. Pore scale ... -
A Poroelastic Model of Transcapillary Flow
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Transcapillary exchange is the movement of fluid and molecules through the porous capillary wall, and is important in maintaining homeostasis of bodily tissues. The classical view of this process is that of Starling's ... -
Porous Asphalt Pavement Designs: Proactive Design for Cold Climate Use
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-14)Porous asphalt pavements offer an alternative technology for stormwater management. A porous asphalt pavement differs from traditional asphalt pavement designs in that the structure permits fluids to pass freely through ... -
Porous Media Thermoacoustic Stacks: Measurements and Models
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)The present research analyzes random porous thermoacoustic stack systems analytically, experimentally, and numerically with a primary objective to develop a comprehensive analytical porous media modeling for random porous ... -
Porous MXene Synthesis and Applications for Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)Efficient electrochemical energy storage devices are of particular importance for accelerating the widespread adaption of renewable energy, and electrode materials are critical to achieve optimal system performance. MXene ... -
Port Place Reconsidered: Genius Loci and the Renewal of Port Dalhousie
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)Port Dalhousie, a neighbourhood of St. Catharines located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, has in recent years experienced an economic, cultural, and social decline. Once the northern terminus of the Welland Canal, ... -
Port-based teleportation of continuous quantum variables
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Quantum teleportation allows to transmit quantum information using classical information and entanglement only. Port-based teleportation is a variation of this procedure that involves simpler recovery operations to obtain ...