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Advanced Silicon-based Electrodes for Rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-24)The pressing environmental and ecological issues with fossil fuels, together with their long-term unsustainability have driven a mighty quest for alternative energy sources. High-performance and reliable energy conversion ... -
Air Quality Impacts of Petroleum Refining and Petrochemical Industries
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-09-19)Though refineries and petrochemical industries meet society’s energy demands and produce a range of useful chemicals, they can also affect air quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified polluted air as the ... -
Alkaline Treatment of Chitosan Membranes
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-22)Derived from deacetylation of chitin, which is one of the most abundant natural polymers, chitosan has been drawing extensive attention due to its outstanding properties, and potential in many applications in the forms of ... -
Allocation of Hydrogen Produced via Power-to-Gas Technology to Various Power-to-Gas Pathways
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)Demand for renewable energy systems is accelerating and will account for a significant share of future power systems aimed to enhance and decarbonize the world’s energy system. Unlike conventional power plants, electricity ... -
Amide-based Donor-acceptor Polymers for Sensor Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)Organic semiconductors, especially polymerized organic semiconductors, are suitable for manufacturing low-cost electronic products on flexible lightweight substrates through a high throughput roll-to-roll printing process. ... -
Analysis of a Clean Energy Hub Interfaced with a Fleet of Plug-in Fuel Cell Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)The ‘hydrogen economy’ represents an energy system in which hydrogen and electricity are the dominant energy carriers for use in transportation applications. The ‘hydrogen economy’ minimizes the use of fossil fuels in order ... -
Analysis of the Large Scale Centralized Hydrogen Production and the Hydrogen Demand from Fuel Cell Vehicles in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)The ‘Hydrogen Economy’ is a proposed system where hydrogen is produced from carbon dioxide free energy sources and is used as an alternative transportation fuel. The application of hydrogen on board fuel cell vehicles can ... -
An Analytical Solution to Transient Composite Domain Diffusion and its Potential Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-27)The work developed here was initially made to provide a comprehensive model for the modified Loschmidt cell, but the project evolved to derive a more robust transient composite domain diffusion (TCDD) model. The original ... -
Anomaly Detection and Classification with Deep Learning Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-30)The capability of deep learning (DL) techniques for dealing with non-linear, dynamic and correlated data has paved the way for developing DL-based solutions for real-world problems. Among them, anomaly detection has been ... -
Antibacterial and Mercury Detection Abilities of Triangular Silver Nanoparticles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have been studied for a long time, because of their significant application in photonics, drug delivery, biological medicine, wastewater treatment, antimicrobials, catalysis and sensors. This ... -
Antimicrobial activity of polyethyleneimine/polyurethane (PEI/PU) colloidal films
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)With the occurrence of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), the development of novel antimicrobial materials has drawn significant research attention. However, developing an antimicrobial material that can be long-term ... -
Antimicrobial Cellulose Nanocrystals Containing Quaternary Ammonium Polymers Prepared via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Nanomaterials have been widely used as antimicrobial agents for their high efficiency. However, the lack of recovery techniques and toxicity has raised concerns for the use of these materials. Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), ... -
Application of Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) in Emulsified Asphalt
(University of Waterloo, 2022-03-18)In today's world, transportation infrastructure plays a vital role in global competitiveness and the quality of life in societies. A considerable fraction of taxpayers' money is spent on expanding and maintaining road ... -
Application of Cellulose Nanomaterials in Thermoplastic Composites
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Nanocrystalline cellulose (CNC) is a renewable and biodegradable nanomaterial obtained by acid hydrolysis of cellulose. It exhibits notable mechanical properties: a high aspect ratio and a high surface area. These properties ... -
Application of Cellulose Nanomaterials in Water Treatment Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-20)Many advanced water treatment processes have been designed and implemented to purify water, such as adsorption, photocatalysis, and membrane filtration processes. All these processes have the potential to be enhanced through ... -
Application of Deep Learning in Chemical Processes: Explainability, Monitoring and Observability
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-04)The last decade has seen remarkable advances in speech, image, and language recognition tools that have been made available to the public through computer and mobile devices’ applications. Most of these significant ... -
Application of Environmental Technology Management (ETM) to Automobile Exhaust Emission Reduction
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-23)Vehicle emissions, arising from incomplete fuel combustion and reactions between N2 and O2 leading to NOX, have detrimental effects on human health and environment quality. Engine exhaust contains a variety of regulated ... -
Application of Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Monitor and Predict the Fermentation Activity in a Vaccine Manufacturing Process
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Bordetella pertussis is a Gram-negative coccobacillus, pathogenic and aerobic bacterium responsible for causing whooping cough, which is an upper respiratory tract infection in humans. To prevent this disease whole cellular ... -
Application of hydrocarbon and perfluorocarbon oxygen vectors to enhance heterologous production of hyaluronic acid in engineered Bacillus subtilis
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)In microbial cultivations for hyaluronic acid (HA) production, oxygen can be a limiting substrate due to its poor solubility in aqueous medium and the substantial increase in culture viscosity at relatively low HA titers. ... -
The Application of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques in Non-Linear Parameter Estimation for Chemical Engineering Models
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-25)Modeling of chemical engineering systems often necessitates using non-linear models. These models can range in complexity, from a simple analytical equation to a system of differential equations. Regardless of what type ...