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Computer Aided Product Design and Development for Peroxide Based Disinfectants
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-02)Disinfectants are antimicrobial chemicals that are commonly used in health care facilities to prevent or reduce the spread of pathogenic microorganisms. These products are under national regulations for the claims they ... -
Computer Aided Simulation and Process Design of a Hydrogenation Plant Using Aspen HYSYS 2006
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-21)Nowadays, computers are extensively used in engineering modeling and simulation fields in many different ways, one of which is in chemical engineering. Simulation and modeling of a chemical process plant and the sizing of ... -
Conductive Cellulose Nanocrystals for Electrochemical Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-23)Recognized as the ‘nature’s latest wonder material’, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), can be extracted from cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer on earth. This nanomaterial is inherently renewable, nontoxic, sustainable, ... -
Conductive Thermoplastic Composite Blends for Flow Field Plates for Use in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC)<br><br>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This project is aimed at developing and demonstrating highly conductive, lightweight, and low-cost thermoplastic blends to be used as flow field bipolar plates for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells. <br><br> ... -
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). ... -
Constructing pristine and modified cellulose nanocrystals based cured polychloroprene nanocomposite films for dipped goods application
(Elsevier, 2020-08)In this work, polychloroprene rubber (CR) nanocomposite films reinforced with native and modified cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were evaluated for dipped goods applications. The CNC modification, with a goal of enhancing ... -
Construction and analysis of a genetically tuneable lytic phage display system
(Springer, 2013-09-01)The Bacteriophage lambda capsid protein gpD has been used extensively for fusion polypeptides that can be expressed from plasmids in Escherichia coli and remain soluble. In this study, a genetically controlled dual expression ... -
Continuous Modification of Polypropylene Via Photoinitiation
(Wiley, 2015-07-03)A twin screw extruder was used for continuous modification of polypropylene (PP) via UV radiation. Long chain branches were incorporated in the PP backbone to modify its rheological properties. Benzophenone (BPH) as ... -
Continuum Approach to Two- and Three-Phase Flow during Gas-Supersaturated Water Injection in Porous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-14)Degassing and in situ formation of a mobile gas phase takes place when an aqueous phase equilibrated with a gas at a pressure higher than the subsurface pressure is injected in water-saturated porous media. This process, ... -
Continuum Modeling of Two Battery Systems: Lithium-Sulfur and Rechargeable Hybrid Aqueous Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Mathematical models are powerful tools for understanding the mechanisms of a working battery. This thesis develops continuum mechanics models for two battery systems: lithium-sulfur (Li-S) and rechargeable hybrid aqueous ... -
A Controlled Experiment Investigating the Effects of Explanatory Manual on Adherence to Operating Procedures
(MDPI, 2019-04-14)Operators’ adherence to operating procedures is a crucial factor for process safety in the process industry. Instruction manuals that document Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are commonly used both as training ... -
Controlling the sustainability and shape change of the zinc anode in rechargeable aqueous Zn/LiMn2O4 battery
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)The use of thixotropic gel electrolytes in the rechargeable hybrid aqueous battery improves the battery performance but it is required to have a corrosion inhibitor in the gel electrolyte. These inhibitors are not always ... -
A Convolutional Neural Network to Predict the State-of-Lithiation of Lithium-ion Batteries with the Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt-Oxide Chemistry
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-14)A machine learning (ML) model was developed to study the discharge behavior of a 𝐿𝑖x𝑁𝑖0.33𝑀𝑛0.33𝐶𝑜0.33𝑂2 half-cell with particle-scale resolution. The ML model could predict the state-of-lithiation of the particles ... -
Copper doped ceria catalyst prepared by reverse microemulsion method for thermocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide via reverse water gas shift
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)High surface area CeO2/Al2O3 nano-catalysts were synthesized via the reverse microemulsion method and evaluated for reverse water gas shift. The effect of the active phase dispersion on the CeO2 nanoparticle growth was ... -
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 ... -
A correction method for systematic error in 1H-NMR time-course data validated through stochastic cell culture simulation
(BioMed Central, 2015-09-04)Background: The growing ubiquity of metabolomic techniques has facilitated high frequency time-course data collection for an increasing number of applications. While the concentration trends of individual metabolites can ... -
Correlation between mechanical dissipation and improved X-band electromagnetic shielding capabilities of amine functionalized graphene/thermoplastic polyurethane composites
(Elsevier, 2017-08-24)Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites have demonstrated significant promise to create commercially viable electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding to protect the next-generation of electronic materials from radiative ... -
Critical assessment of influenza VLP production in Sf9 and HEK293 expression systems
(BioMed Central, 2015-05-16)Background: Each year, influenza is responsible for hundreds of thousand cases of illness and deaths worldwide. Due to the virus' fast mutation rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) is constantly on alert to rapidly ... -
Curdlan 1,3-Beta-Glucans: A New Platform for Polymer Drug Delivery
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-25)1,3-β-glucans are a class of natural polysaccharides with unique pharmacological properties and the ability to form triple helical structures and resilient gels. Curdlan and other 1,3-β-glucans have found application ... -
Cyclodextrin Assisted Self-Assembly of Stimuli-Sensitive Block Copolymers in Aqueous Media
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-20)Structures with well-defined architectures and tailored physical properties can be produced by supramolecular self-assembly of stimuli-sensitive polymeric inclusion complexes consisting of cyclodextrins. Recently, there ...