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Fall 2019
Interfacial activity of SAGD PW endogenous surfactants, humic acids (HAs), and their interaction dynamics with naphtha-diluted Alberta oil sand bitumen (AOSB) present in model SAGD produced water has been addressed in the first part of this PhD thesis. Dynamic interfacial tension σ(t) between oil...
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Optically mediated thermal response of Quartz Tuning Forks modified with a silicon bridge for bolometric and atmospheric sensing through Photothermal Spectroscopy
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Due to the inherent benefits offered by the Quartz Tuning Fork (QTF) platform, QTFs have found utility in a variety of scientific applications to include, but not limited to spectroscopy, microscopy, and atmospheric sensing. It is from the intersection of these applications that the proceeding...
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Spring 2018
Developing miniature instrumentation for biosensing has attracted an extensive interest due to the demand for selective and sensitive detection of multiple targets at extremely low concentrations with exceedingly small sample volumes. Micro/nano mechanical sensors, such as microcantilevers (MCL),...
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Metal-Insulator Transition and IR Detection of Thin Films Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition
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Current thin film technologies and devices require high quality deposits in order to fully extract the potential of the material. Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is one physical vapour deposition method used to synthesize these high quality complex films. PLD offers the distinct advantage of being...
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Fall 2018
The direct conversion of mechanical energy into electricity by nanomaterial-based devices offers potential for green energy harvesting. One of the main challenges for mechanical energy harvesting technologies, such as piezoelectric or triboelectric generators, is to provide sufficient current...
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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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Novel Plasma Based Technology for Treatment of Emerging Contaminants in Water: Understanding Physiochemical Processes and Applications
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Indiscriminate and widespread disposal of pharmaceutical compounds, dye molecules, and pesticides in to water resources pose a serious threat to the quality of drinking water. A critical need exists for developing novel practical, efficient, and cost effective water treatments for remediation of...
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Fall 2017
Resonance is at the heart of sensing and characterization tools in all fields of science. A nanoresonator has achieved the remarkable resolution of a proton mass. The coupling of a micromechanical oscillator to an optical field in a high finesse cavity has allowed sensitive probing even in the...
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The Role of Sulfur Species in Establishing the Corrosion Reactions in Refinery Metallurgies
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This thesis is focused on the studying the role that model sulfur-containing molecules have in corrosion reactions on relevant metallurgies. This was done by using a design of experiments where a number of sulfur-based compounds were reacted with various metallurgies. The 8 model sulfur compounds...
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Conduction and Dielectric Relaxation Mechanisms in Oil Sands Influencing Electrical Heating
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Electrical heating has been proposed in the past as an alternative to conventional water based thermal methods for reducing viscosity of bitumen in oil sands reservoirs. This could reduce or even eliminate water use and associated problems like inefficient heat transfer in the reservoir, poor...