Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Ren, Carolyn"
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Developing a droplet microfluidic platform for making double emulsions towards manufacturing polymersomes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-24)In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of double emulsions in various industries such as pharmaceutical, foods, and cosmetics. Polymersomes are one of the promising applications of double emulsions ... -
Development of a Novel Capillary Based pH Gradient Elution Moving Boundary Electrophoresis Method and Electrolysis Free Device for Protein Separation and Concentration
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-30)Proteins are the raw material input required for a number of biomedical purposes. In order to keep pace with the exponential demand for protein consumption from research institutions and biopharmaceutical companies, new ... -
Development of a Novel Microwave Sensing System for Lab on a Chip Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Microwave technology presents tremendous potential as a remote-sensing technology for a wide range of applications spanning from life science research to food industries, pharmaceutical research, and new material ... -
Development of Microwave/Droplet-Microfluidics Integrated Heating and Sensing Platforms for Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-24)Interest in Lab-on-a-chip and droplet-based microfluidics has grown recently because of their promise to facilitate a broad range of scientific research and biological/chemical processes such as cell analysis, DNA ... -
Development of the integration of microwave technology with microfluidic systems for sensing and heating
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-19)Microfluidics-based Lab-on-a-Chip platforms have drawn ever-increasing attention from both academy and industry due to their advantages for dealing with small volume of fluids and for integrating multiple processes into ... -
Droplet Production of Biological non-Newtonian Fluids and Bioassay Applications in a Microfluidic Network
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)Droplet-based microfluidics has been developed over the last two decades and presented as a promising platform for biochemical assay. This promise relies on the system’s ability to quantify the reagents accurately with ... -
Droplet-based Microfluidic Chip Design for High Throughput Screening Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-11)Droplet-based microfluidics has been considered as a prospective tool for high throughput screening analysis, which is highly demanded in a wide range of areas including but not limited to life science research, drug ... -
Enabling Practical and Accessible Automatic Droplet Microfluidics Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-21)Droplet microfluidics has emerged as an innovative technology enabling high-sensitivity, high-resolution chemical and biological analyses via precise manipulation of picoliter-to-microliter fluid droplets. The ideal end ... -
Expanding the droplet microfluidic community – towards a modular active platform
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Microfluidics has progressed tremendously as a field over the last two decades. Various areas of microfluidics developed in fully-fledged domains of their own such as organ-on-a-chip, digital and paper microfluidics. Nevertheless, ... -
Fabrication and Energetic Characterization of Al/Cu2O Nano-Laminate Thermite
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-06)Thermites are a class of material which utilizes the oxidation/reduction reaction of the metal fuel and metal/non-metal oxide to produce heat. Thermite materials are used in a variety of applications including welding, ... -
Feedback Controls in Droplet Microfluidics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)The ability to stabilize and move individual droplets would allow scientists to perform micro-scale manipulation, and unlock the advantages of microfluidics. The challenge lies in the fact that droplet displacements are ... -
Free-Flow Counterflow Gradient Focusing for Protein Fractionation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-23)In free-flow electrophoresis (FFE), a pressure-driven flow applied perpendicular to the electric field enables the continuous separation of charged solutes. Meanwhile, outlets located at the end of the separation region ... -
Injection and Separation Evaluation for Microfluidic Protein and DNA Separation
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-11)Electrophoresis is the separation of charged particles under an applied electric field and is applied for macromolecules such as DNA, proteins, RNA and peptides through a solvent. It has been one of the most widely used ... -
Micro-scale Studies on Hydrodynamics and Mass Transfer of Dense Carbon Dioxide Segments in Water
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Microfluidic technologies have started to show their potential in assisting with the probes into the complicated mechanical-chemical interactions of multiphase fluids at microscale geometries (e.g., regular channels, porous ... -
Microfluidic Viscometer for Tear Films and Other Biofluids
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-26)A microfluidic viscometer platform is developed and validated for measuring microliter-volume liquid samples, such as human tear films. The microfluidic viscometer combines an optically clear acrylic chip with a hydrophobic ... -
Miniaturization of Soft Robotic Control Systems and Actuators for Biomedical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Soft wearable robotics, a specialized branch of soft robotics, stands on the cusp of transforming the field of biomedical devices, particularly in the realm of assistive technology. This innovative approach offers a marked ... -
Novel Soft-Rigid Hybrid Robotics Approach Enabled via Multilayered Bellow-type Soft Pneumatic Actuator
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)Soft robotics is an emerging field characterized by compliant and adaptable structures, presents unique challenges and opportunities for technological advancements. The thesis provided herein aimed to explore various soft ... -
Strategic design of flow structures for single (bio) particle analysis using droplet microfluidic platform
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-10)This thesis is designed to meet the need for knowledge of droplet-based encapsulation strategies by carrying out systematic fundamental studies based on a double-cross configuration. This configuration has been commonly ... -
Tailoring the Ignition and Reaction Properties of Cu2O Thermite Nanolaminates
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Thermites are a class of energetic material that produce heat through an exothermic reaction, making them useful for welding, metal refining, and propulsion applications. Compared to traditional micron-scale thermite ... -
Towards Feedback Controlled Droplet Microfluidic Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)Microfluidics, the manipulation of nanoliter to microliter volumes of fluids, can give important new capabilities to researchers in biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Broadly, current methods can be ...