Search
Skip to Search Results- 3Serpe, Michael J.
- 2Gao, Yongfeng
- 2Ullah, Aman
- 1Abbasi Dezfouli, Meysam
- 1Ahiabu, Andrews
- 1Akin, Oguz
- 39Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
- 39Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of/Theses and Dissertations
- 5Chemistry, Department of
- 4Chemistry, Department of/Journal Articles (Chemistry)
- 2WISEST Summer Research Program
- 2WISEST Summer Research Program/WISEST Research Posters
- 10Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 6Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 5Department of Oncology
- 3Department of Chemistry
- 3Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- 2Department of Biomedical Engineering
- 3Evans, David (Medical Microbiology and Immunology)
- 3Hitt, Mary (Oncology)
- 2Choi, Phillip (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Antoniuk, Tim (Industrial Design)
- 1Backhouse, Chris (Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo)
- 1Boluk, Yaman (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
-
Design for Polymer Additive Manufacturing Processes with Coupled Process Responses Using Novel Numerical and Empirical Based Modelling and Optimization Tools
DownloadFall 2022
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process of joining materials to make parts from 3D model data by successive layer by layer material addition. AM has triggered a paradigm shift towards parts and assemblies design methodologies, materials development and utilization, and additional part...
-
Spring 2021
Hand injuries, due to impact, are common workplace injuries. Many work gloves afford impact protection through design of add-on components known as bumpers. Glove design criteria are complex (e.g., limitations from human factors, dexterity, use case, hand size variability) and commercial bumpers...
-
Spring 2016
The current study investigates the drag reduction (DR) using high molecular weight polymers such as commercial polyacrylamide, polysaccharides and thermo-responsive polymers. A Taylor-Couette (TC) setup was designed and fabricated to examine the abovementioned polymers for drag reduction, and to...
-
Spring 2013
This thesis investigates electrically conductive polymer nanocomposites formulated with metal nanowires for electrostatic discharge and electromagnetic interference shielding. Copper nanowires (CuNWs) of an average length of 1.98 µm and diameter of 25 ± 4 nm were synthesized. The oxidation...
-
[2003]
Elwi, A. E., Kamel, Ayman Mohamed Samir., Cheng, J. J. R.
Structural engineering report SER 252 | SER-ID SER252
-
Extending Depletion Flocculation Phase Behavior Models to Partially Soluble and Aggregating Colloids—Asphaltenes
DownloadFall 2015
Mixtures of colloids + non-adsorbing polymers + good solvents are well known to exhibit multiphase behaviors that are driven by the depletion flocculation mechanism where one phase, designated a colloid gas, is largely comprised of polymer and solvent, while the other phase, designated a colloid...
-
Fall 2018
Mammalian orthoreovirus (reovirus) is a non-pathogenic virus that naturally infects through the enteric and respiratory routes. Reoviruses are non-enveloped and have a 10-segment double stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome encased in 2 concentric capsid shells. Representative isolates of each of the 3...
-
Hybrid Polymer Plasmonic Devices for Enhanced All-Plasmonic Switching Based on Photothermal Nonlinearity
DownloadFall 2015
Nanoplasmonic devices have received much attention in recent years due to their ability to confine light below the diffraction limit, thereby providing a potential route to the creation of nanometer-scale integrated photonic devices. However, with the strong confinement of light come large...
-
Spring 2013
An alternative method of manipulating fragile MEMS devices during fabrication has been developed. A specialized manual or robotic end effector utilizing a gecko inspired adhesive can replace the slow and costly manual tweezers used by the MEMS foundry Micralyne Inc. Improving the adhesive...
-
Spring 2021
Vaccinia virus (VACV) has shown promise as an oncolytic agent for treating a variety of tumour types, with preliminary results suggesting that this strategy holds promise for treating breast cancer. Our lab has previously modified VACV by deleting virally-encoded enzymes responsible for dNTP...