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Nano-confined water within the membrane of self-assembled vesicles

Marquez, Audren (University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)

The hydrophobic metal carbonyl complexes, known as FpR (Fp = (Cp)Fe(PPh3)(CO)(CO−), Cp = cyclopentadiene, R = C3Bithiophene, C6Pyrene, C6Azobenzene or C6), self-assembles into stable colloids in water. The colloids are ...

Nanochemistry on Si(100): Surface Biofunctionalization by Amino-containing Bifunctional Molecules, and Shape Control of Copper Core-Shell Nanoparticles

Radi, Abdullah (University of Waterloo, 2009-08-19)

The present research involves two projects: a surface science study of the room-temperature adsorption and thermal evolution of allylamine and ethanolamine on Si(100)2×1, studied by using temperature-dependent X-ray ...

Nanodiamond decorated liposomes as highly biocompatible delivery vehicles and a comparison with carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide

Wang, Feng; Liu, Juewen (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013-12-21)

Studying interactions between nano-carbons and lipid membranes is important for multiplexed drug delivery, device fabrication and for understanding toxicity. Herein, we report that nanodiamond (ND, sp3 carbon) forms a ...

Nanoparticle-regulated phase behavior of ordered block copolymers

Thompson, R.B.; Gaines, Michelle K.; Smith, Steven D.; Samseth, Jon; Bockstaller, Michael R.; Rasmussen, Kim; Spontak, Richard J. (RSC publishing, 2008-06-30)

Although block copolymer motifs have received considerable attention as supramolecular templates for inorganic nanoparticles, experimental observations of a nanostructured diblock copolymer containing inorganic ...

Nanoscale Characterization of Melatonin and Amyloid Beta in Model Membranes- in Relation to Alzheimer's Disease

Choi, Youngjik (University of Waterloo, 2014-12-03)

Increasing evidence suggests that cell membranes play an important role in the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Direct interaction of small molecules, such as cholesterol and melatonin, with cellular membrane ...

Nanoscale physics of surfactant gene delivery

Henderson, Robert Douglas Evert (University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)

Medicine has met a revolution in the expansion of possibilities for therapy based upon synthetic gene delivery. Imagine the ability to correct problems of a genetic origin with a simple drug -- such science fiction fantasies ...

Nanoscale quantum transport for quantum information processing

Qassemi Maloomeh, Farzad (University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)

In this thesis, I study quantum transport of electron (e.g., current and noise) in quantum dots exploring microscopic processes responsible for spin-relaxation in double quantum dots in Pauli spin blockade regime. This is ...

Nanostructured Carbons and Additives for Improvement of the Lithium-Sulfur Battery Positive Electrode

Evers, Scott Randall (University of Waterloo, 2013-04-19)

Large specific gravimetric/volumetric energy density, environmental benignity and safe low working voltage. All of these points have been used to describe the lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery in the past, but often times it ...

Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

Ji, Xiulei (University of Waterloo, 2009-11-19)

Efficient, cost effective, and environmentally friendly energy storage and conversion systems are highly desirable to meet ever increasing demands. Nanostructured materials have attracted great interest due to their many ...

Nanostructured Materials for Pseudocapacitors and Single-Electron Devices

Pu, Long (University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)

As a result of increasing demand of power in the modern society, energy storage/consumption is playing a more important role on future economics. Therefore energy storage systems which are more environmentally friendly, ...

Nanostructured Materials for Tactile and Catalytic Applications

Pu, Long (University of Waterloo, 2018-04-26)

In response to the needs of the modern information-rich society, there is an increasing demand for multifunctional materials with novel properties to advance the development of the new-generation electronics. To synthesize ...

Nanostructured Non-carbonaceous Materials for Improvement of Sulfur Cathode in Lithium-Sulfur Battery

Pang, Quanquan (University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)

Lithium-sulfur battery based on sulfur cathode has the advantages of high specific capacity, high energy density, environmental benignity and natural abundance of sulfur. These advantages over conventional lithium-ion ...

Nanostructures based on cyclic C6

Kuzmin, Stanislav (University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)

The properties of a new family of carbon structures based on stacked cyclic C6 rings and intercalated cyclic C6 structures: (C6)n and (C6)nMen-1 have been studied theoretically using ab initio DFT (Density Functional ...

NAPL Recovery Using CO2-Supersaturated Water Injection: Distribution of the CO2 Gas Phase

Doughty, Cynthia (University of Waterloo, 2006)

Gas inFusion? is a novel remedial technology that dissolves CO2 into water under pressure for NAPL recovery. As the supersaturated liquid flows through the porous medium gas evolution occurs in situ as the ...

Native Wetland Plant Recovery Following Phragmites australis Invasion

Jordan, Megan Ashleen (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

Invasive common reed (Phragmites australis ssp. australis) has negatively affected 25% of all Species at Risk in Ontario since its arrival in the twentieth century. This is of particular concern at Long Point and Rondeau, ...

Natural Gradient Tracer Tests to Investigate the Fate and Migration of Oil Sands Process-Affected Water in the Wood Creek Sand Channel

Tompkins, Trevor (University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)

The In Situ Aquifer Test Facility (ISATF) has been established on Suncor Energy Inc’s (Suncor) oil sands mining lease north of Fort McMurray, Alberta to investigate the fate and transport of oil sands process-affected (PA) ...