• Encapsulation and controlled release of vitamin C in modified cellulose nanocrystal/chitosan nanocapsules 

  Baek, Jiyoo; Ramasamy, Mohankandhasamy; Willis, Natasha Carly; Kim, Dae Sung; Anderson, William A.; Tam, Kam C. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Vitamin C (VC), widely used in food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, is susceptible to degradation, and new formulations are necessary to maintain its stability. To address this challenge, VC encapsulation was achieved ...

• Gelatin/PEDOT: PSS Modified Manganese Dioxide Cathode in Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc-ion Batteries 

  Shi, Qiuyu (University of Waterloo, 2021-05-11)

  The global energy crisis and greenhouse effect have become important problems in the 21st century, and researchers have paid attention to renewable energy, including hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy sources. However, ...

• Characterization of single- and multilayer cold-spray coating of Zn on AZ31B 

  Marzbanrad, Bahareh; Toyserkani, Ehsan; Jahed, Hamid (Elsevier, 2021-06-25)

  Zinc, a soft material with a low melting point and high corrosion resistance, was coated onto AZ31B Mg alloy using different cold spraying process parameters. The physical and mechanical properties of the resulting Zn/AZ31B ...

• Experimental and Modeling Study of Zinc-Cerium Redox Flow Batteries 

  Amini, Kiana (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-26)

  Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are one of the most promising energy storage technologies that are expected to have an increasing market size in the near future due to their scalability, safety, long-life and system flexibility. ...

• Cationic Cellulose Nanocrystals for the Flocculation of Mature Fine Oil Sands Tailings 

  Alharthi, Salha (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)

  As the volume of oil sands tailings continues to increase each year with a concurrent need for better flocculants to replace the inorganic electrolytes and synthetic polymers, natural polymers are being considered as ...

• Micro-Additive Manufacturing of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Based Gas Sensors for Diabetes Detection via Breath Analysis 

  Sun, Manyou (University of Waterloo, 2021-03-15)

  Additive manufacturing (AM) is arousing more and more interest due to its flexibility to produce complex geometry, low fabrication cost and high material compatibility compared with conventional manufacturing. As a micro-scale ...

• Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Zinc Air Battery Cathodes Using Electrospinning and Electrospraying Techniques 

  Bell, Ellsworth (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)

  High specific energy density, low cost, and relative safety make zinc air batteries a promising energy storage technology. However, to fully realize their advantages improvements must be made to increase their efficiency, ...

• Designing Nano-Structural Composites as Advanced Anode Materials for Highly Efficient and Stable Lithium-ion Batteries 

  Attia, Elhadi (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-29)

  With the continued increase in energy demand for portable electronics, grid storage, and electric vehicles, more attention is being placed on the development of advanced energy conversion and storage systems such as metal ...

• Engineering Graphene Oxide Electrolyte Membranes for Electrochemical Energy Systems 

  Sy, Serubbabel (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 ...

• Simulation-based Design of Bioreactors Using Computational Multiphysics 

  Entezari, Kimia (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)

  The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of quickly scaling up the production of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products. These products are typically made within bioreactors: vessels that carry out bioreactions ...

• Study of the Influence of Different Electrolyte Salts on the Performance of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries 

  Guo, Chenyang (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-28)

  Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have advantages of extremely high theoretical specific capacity and energy density, environmental friendliness and low cost, making it one of the top candidates for the next-generation energy ...

• Conjugated Polymers Having Indolin-2-one Side Chains for Organic Electronics 

  Li, Wuqi (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)

  It is of great significance to develop π-conjugated semiconducting polymers for various kinds of printed organic electronics applications such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). ...

• A new series of semiconducting azine polymers and their applications in organic electronics 

  Wang, Guanlin (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)

  The rise of renewable energy and the urgency of sustainable development make organic solar cells (OSCs) or organic photovoltaics (OPVs) valued. Among so many donor materials for bulk heterojunction structure, P3HT is one ...

• The Influence of Dielectric Constant of Polymer Donors and Their Blends on the Performance of Organic Solar Cells 

  Kumar, Pankaj (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)

  Organic solar cell (OSC) is a promising photovoltaic technology because the optoelectronic properties of the organic materials can be easily tuned, which allows for constant improvement in the device performance, material ...

• Electrolyte/Membrane Design and Engineering for Durable Zinc-Iodine Redox Flow Batteries 

  Mousavi, Mahboubehsadat (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-21)

  Integrating renewable energy sources into the electricity grid has caused an essential need for large-scale energy storage systems. To fulfill this purpose, redox flow batteries (RFBs) are considered one of the best options ...

• Polymerization Data Mining: A Perspective 

  Mohammadi, Yousef; Penlidis, Alexander (Wiley, 2019-04-01)

  Nowadays, ‘Data mining’ is widely proposed by data scientists as the most accepted and powerful approach to properly handle the information explosion. Data mining is defined as the extraction of interesting patterns and ...

• Binary vs. Ternary Reactivity Ratios: Appropriate Estimation Procedures with Terpolymerization Data 

  Scott, Alison J.; Penlidis, Alexander (Elsevier, 2018-08-01)

  There is a widely accepted analogy between copolymerization and terpolymerization mechanisms that has allowed researchers to use reactivity ratios obtained for binary pairs (from copolymerization experiments) in models ...

• Multi-scale Modelling of Oxygen Carriers in Chemical Looping Combustion Process 

  Yuan, Yue (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-08)

  Climate change is one of the major concerns affecting society. Given the severe effects of global warming, efficient CO2 capture and storage (CCS) technologies have become an urgent necessity. One of the major challenges ...

• Development of Microparticles Created from Physically Modified Starch Granules for the Uptake and Release of Drugs 

  Wulff, David (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)

  Controlled release drug delivery systems are, depending on the desired effect, generally an improvement over conventional drug delivery. Through material design, drugs can be delivered with temporal and spatial control, ...

• Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Desalination of Brackish Water 

  AlSaadi, Fahd Nasser A (University of Waterloo, 2020-12-22)

  Reverse osmosis (RO), which is commonly used for different water purification and desalination applications, is a remarkable process to separate dissolved inorganic and organic compounds from water. Over traditional methods ...

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