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Targeted nanoparticle binding & detection in petroleum hydrocarbon impacted porous media
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Targeted nanoparticle binding has become a core feature of experimental pharmaceutical product design which enables more efficient payload delivery and enhances medical imaging by accumulating nanoparticles in specific ... -
The Techno-Economic Potential of Power to Gas for Synthetic Natural Gas Production through Biogas Upgrading
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)Raw biogas can be upgraded to produce pipeline grade synthetic natural gas (SNG) via thermo-catalytic hydrogenation of CO2. This method reduces green house gas (GHG) emissions through offsetting fossil natural gas consumption ... -
Techno-Economic Study of CO<sub>2</sub> Capture from Natural Gas Based Hydrogen Plants<br><br>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)As reserves of conventional crude oil are depleted, there is a growing need to develop unconventional oils such as heavy oil and bitumen from oil sands. In terms of recoverable oil, Canadian oil sands are considered to ... -
Techno-Economic Study of CO<sub>2</sub> Capture Process for Cement Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Carbon dioxide is considered to be the major source of GHG responsible for global warming; man-made CO<sub>2</sub> contributes approximately 63. 5% to all greenhouse gases. The cement industry is responsible for ... -
Techno-Economic Study of Renewable Energy Integration in the Upstream Oil Supply Chain (USOSC)
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-21)The production of oil requires tremendous amounts of energy consumption through a distributed combustion network of processes along the oil supply chain spectrum. The consequences of fossil-based fuel combustion processes ... -
Testing the Universality of Entropic Segregation at Polymer Surfaces
(2018)This study addresses entropic segregation effects at the surfaces of monodisperse and bidisperse melts. For the monodisperse melts, we focus on the segregation of chain ends to the surface, and for the bidisperse melts, ... -
Theoretical Investigation of Catalytic Methane Cracking and Carbon Nanotube Growth
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-14)Methane cracking on transition metal surfaces is a catalytically important reaction. It is a key step to produce hydrogen and carbonaceous nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) or carbon nanofibers (CNF), which ... -
Therapeutic Potential of CPP (NP1) Mediated siRNA Delivery: Evidence in 3D Spheroids of Colon Cancer Cells (HCT 116)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)At the forefront of revolutionizing medicine, gene therapy provides a promise to treat a wide range of diseases by regulating defective genes. RNA interference (RNAi) holds great potential as a therapeutic route due to its ... -
Thermoplastic Composites for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Bipolar Plates
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) exhibit encouraging potential as an enabling technology for the Hydrogen Economy. Currently an important barrier to commercialization is the cost associated with existing ... -
Thin Film Composite Membranes Derived from Interfacial Polymerization for Nanofiltration and Pervaporation Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)In this study, thin film composite (TFC) membranes were prepared by interfacial polymerization on a microporous polyethersulfone (PES) substrate. These membranes were studied for salt separation by nanofiltration and ... -
Thin film composite membranes via layer-by-layer assembly for pervaporation separation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-06)The aim of this study was to develop LbL membranes based on polyethyleneimine and graphene oxide (PEI/GO) and to investigate them for three different applications, namely the pervaporative desalination of high-salinity ... -
Thiophene-S,S-dioxidized indophenine for use in organic field effect transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-23)To address the need for better n-type organic semiconductors, thiophene-S,S-dioxidized indophenine (IDTO) was developed. IDTO is a planar quinoidal molecule with deep energy levels which facilitate stable and efficient ... -
Thixotropic gel electrolyte containing poly(ethylene glycol) with high zinc ion concentration for the secondary aqueous Zn/ LiMn2O4 battery
(Elsevier, 2019-03-01)We have designed an aqueous gel electrolyte containing fumed silica as the thixotropic gelling agent and poly(ethylene glycol) (MW = 300 g·mol−1) as the non-thixotropic gelling agent. Poly(ethylene glycol) is also the ... -
A Topology-Based Method for the Compartmentalization of Multiphysics Flows
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Continuum simulations of multiphysics processes are costly due to the coupling of transport phenomena. Compartment modelling decouples hydrodynamics from other transport phenomena, offering a low-cost simulation alternative ... -
Toward Optimization of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System - Development of Genetic Tools to Improve Biologics Production
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Small-molecule drugs have dominated the pharmaceutical industry and physician's prescription pads since the beginning of modern medicine. The most recent decades, however, are most aptly characterized as the era of ... -
Towards a Chemically Defined Medium for Sf-9 Cell Culture: Micronutrients Reduce Dependence on Yeast Extract
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-08)Spodoptera frugiperda clonal isolate 9 (Sf-9) insect cells in conjunction with recombinant baculovirus are an industrially relevant system for producing biologics. Sf-9 cells are capable of robust high-density growth in ... -
Towards Designing Composite membranes for CO2 Separation: The Inclusion of Hybrid TiO2-PEG Structures and the Study of their Interfaces
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-26)This thesis work aims towards designing hybrid membranes for CO2 separation in the post-combustion process. The different methods of existing technologies are compared and assessed for their merit, and the decision of using ... -
Towards High Performance Lithium-ion Batteries using Crumpled Graphene-Protected Silicon Anodes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)Despite silicon being a promising candidate for next-generation lithium-ion battery anodes due to its high theoretical capacity of 3590 mAh/g (Li15Si4, at room temperature), self-pulverization and the formation of an ... -
Towards the Development of a ϕC31Int-Competent Sf9 Cell Line
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-05)The Sf9 cell line, as a component of the Baculovirus Expression Vector System (BEVS), is a popular platform for industrial-scale production of protein products. However, the natural course of the BEVS results in host-cell ... -
Toxicity associated with the photo catalytic and photo stable forms of titanium dioxide nanoparticles used in sunscreen
(MedCrave, 2015-12-06)The increasing number of applications using titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nano-TiO2) highlights the need to continuously and systematically investigate its toxicity. Particle size, surface area and dose are the classical ...