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Advanced Highly Permeable and Thermally Stable Polyamide Thin Film Composite and Thin Film Nanocomposite Membranes
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Treating contaminated hot streams is essential to reduce water cooling/re-heating needs and greenhouse gas emission in water reclamation processes, such as the Canadian in-situ oil-sand extraction processes that produce contaminated water at 80-90 C. Membrane separation processes have become one...
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Bioinspired Strategies to Develop Dual-Functional Polymer-Based Antibacterial Coatings for Biomedical Applications
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The main objective of this thesis is to construct bifunctional coatings by combining the functional polymers with tannic acid, dopamine, and dopamine methacrylate via strong covalent bonds to enhance the mechanical stability of the coatings. Hydrophilic polymers and bactericidal agents have been...
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Fall 2022
Biofouling is a serious problem in the medical, marine, and several other industrial fields as it poses significant health risks and financial losses. Therefore, there is a great need to endow surfaces with antifouling and antimicrobial properties to mitigate biofouling. For long-term biofouling...
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Engineered Bovine Serum Albumin Protein-based Antifouling Coatings for Bioengineering Applications
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Bioengineering and biomedical devices are extensively utilized in diagnostics, therapeutics, stomatology, and orthopedics, saving countless lives and experiencing surging demand due to the population aging. Yet, they face great challenges from irreversible biofouling and associated biocorrosion,...
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Spring 2017
Mussels can obtain strong underwater attachment to virtually all kinds of surfaces including rocks, metals, wood structures, polymers and concretes by secreting mussel foot proteins to form byssus. Great efforts have been dedicated to understanding this behavior and it is found that an catecholic...