Chemical Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Chemical Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Zinc Air Battery Cathodes Using Electrospinning and Electrospraying Techniques
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Development of Alternative Protocols for Antimicrobial Efficacy Testing of Antimicrobial Surfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-17)Self-disinfecting surfaces have been studied for a long time for use in reducing the occurrence of infections. Several industries are focused on manufacturing antimicrobial products with high toxicity to microbes for contact ... -
Multiphysics Modelling of Energy Storage Devices Using Pore Scale Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-16)The advancement in high-resolution X-ray tomography image acquisition techniques has enabled imaged-based modelling of pore-scale transport processes to better understand structural performance relationship in porous media. ... -
Electrochemical Development of Cathode for Metal Supported-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)In comparison to conventional generation systems, the use of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) provides higher electrical efficiency and lower carbon emissions. Furthermore, contrary to other fuel cell types, SOFC is considered ... -
Multiscale Simulation of CO2 Reduction in Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-10)Electrochemical CO2 reduction in solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) is a promising technology to address the global issue of greenhouse emissions. SOEC operates at high temperatures (>873K), possessing high energy ... -
Corneal epithelial cell responses to tensile stress and compressive stress
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-03)Eye rubbing is a commonly adopted habit that is frequently happening in our daily life. However, the mechanical stress generated by long term chronic abnormal eye rubbing could lead to keratoconus (KC) with the symptoms ... -
Direct transesterification of microalgae to biodiesel using ionic liquid catalysts
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-30)Increasing global energy demand coupled with the environmental effects of fossil fuels have, like global warming, reinvigorated the need for the commercialization and development of alternative renewable energy sources such ...
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