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- 1,Abdul Wasay
- 1Ammar, Khaled A.
- 1Azim, Mohammad Alaul
- 1Behboodi, Fahimeh
- 1Behnam Dehkordi, Mohammad
- 11Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 10Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 6Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 5Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 3Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 3Department of Chemistry
- 2Backhouse, Christopher (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Doucette, John (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Freeman, Mark (Physics)
- 2Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Montemagno, Carlo (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Syamaladevi, Roopesh (Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Spring 2016
The study of methanogenesis in wastewater biofilms and various aggregated methanogenic environmental samples with high spatial resolution can be achieved by using microbiosensor techniques. In this study, the fabrication of a microbiosensor for methane detection was studied. This microbiosensor...
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Antimicrobial applications of treatments using light pulses emitted from light emitting diodes (LED)
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Low water activity (aw) foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls. Eradication of foodborne microorganisms like Salmonella and Escherichia coli from low aw foods is challenging, as they are resistant to conventional decontamination practices. High intensity light...
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Spring 2017
One of the central puzzles concerning the interaction of low Reynolds number (Re<<1) fluid transport with bacterial biomass is the formation of filamentous structures called bacterial streamer. Bacterial streamers can be tethered at one or both ends to solid surfaces, while the rest of the...
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Fall 2010
Electro-transmittance of molecular junctions was characterized electrically and studied optically at 410nm and 532nm. Between 1kHz and 100kHz there was no qualitative difference between the control samples and the molecular junction samples, however there were difficulties with reproducibility of...
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Design and Microfabrication of Robust and Highly Integrated Thermal Lab-On-A-Chip Polymeric Systems for Genetic Diagnosis
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The lab-on-chip (LOC) technology could transform and greatly enhance the health care system by making genetic diagnosis tests fast, accurate and readily accessible. However, most LOC systems are not prepared to resist variations of their external environment, as they depend upon many...
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Determination of biokinetic parameters of wastewater biofilms from oxygen concentration profiles
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The process of scale-up and rational optimization of biofilm processes for effective wastewater treatment and reuse require better understanding of the biokinetic behavior of microorganisms in the biofilms. At present, no fast and accurate methods exist for determining kinetic parameters for...
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Development of a Multisectorial Electroactive Nanowell Platform for Selective Single-Cell Sorting and Quantification
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The rapid isolation of specific rare target cells is of rising importance in current targeted patient treatment plans. Common cell sorting approaches such as stream-based dielectrophoresis (DEP) based cell sorters are limited by their spatial dimensions as only a number of cell types...
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Fall 2011
Microelectrodes can be used for profiling environmental biofilms. Currently there is no sulfate microelectrode available for studying sulfate reduction in biofilms. In this study, a sulfate microelectrode was fabricated and tested in measurement of environmental biofilms for the first time. The...
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Spring 2014
Lab-on-chip systems will be a major component in the future of health care. These technologies enable point-of-care testing by miniaturizing and improving the efficiency of many diagnostic techniques. Possible applications include the detection of various pathogens using genetic amplification...
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Development of Microfluidic Chips and a Customised Flow Control System for use in a Label-Free Cytometer
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Conventional cytometry uses fluorescently labelled cells that are laborious and costly to prepare. Using a label-free technique, individual cells can be differentiated by light scattering patterns, a result of different physical attributes. This thesis describes the development of a microfluidic...