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Fall 2023

Lu, Qiuyun

The global need for clean water requires sustainable technology for purifying contaminated water. Highly efficient solar-driven photodegradation is a sustainable strategy for wastewater treatment. However, solar-driven water treatment suffers from reduced efficiency due to the energy loss in the...

Fall 2011

Wang, Luning

Metals such as titanium (Ti) and zirconium (Zr) have been widely applied in the orthopaedic and orthodontic field for construction of joint replacement prostheses and teeth implants due to their lower cytotoxicity, excellent mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance. However, the current...

Fall 2013

Xi,Huang

A polymer coating that adsorbs napththenic acid (a hydrocarbon contaminant found in oil sands process affected water) was developed to enable the sensing of this chemical using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). To detect a naphthenic acid model compound (4-methyl-cyclohexane acetic acid,...

Fall 2021

Han, Jing

Surface analysis of millerite and chalcopyrite were performed to enhance the understanding of fundamental millerite flotation behaviour in single mineral and mixed mineral conditions. By studying the mineral surfaces without collector addition, the ambiguity about the origin of the formed...

Fall 2024

Liu, Xuyang

When used as selective sorbents, surface-modified magnetic nanoparticles possess numerous advantages, including cost-effectiveness, high adsorption capacities, tunable surface properties, and convenient solid-liquid separation, making them a promising solution for challenging separation problems....

Spring 2012

Ayranci, Inci

Solids suspension in stirred tanks has many applications in industry. The contributions of this thesis are particularly interesting for applications in mineral processing and nuclear waste clean up. The main issue in design of mixing tanks for such applications is the gap between industry and...

Fall 2016

Farjoo, Afrooz

The objective of this research was to develop new molecular sieve materials and to examine their applications in membrane as well as adsorptive gas separation processes. Membrane-based processes have the potential to overcome the limitations of conventional gas separation techniques such as...

Fall 2012

Sohrabi, Amirreza

A drug delivery system was designed based on the encapsulation of Ampicillin sodium salt in Poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)-Nylon6 core/shell nanofibers and the release characteristics and antibacterial activity of the system were investigated. It was revealed that the system is capable of...

2006

Guo, Haixia, 1980-

Fall 2021

Zhang, Zhiqing

Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is generally used as the primary processing aid in the water-based oil sands extraction for the recovery of bitumen. It was found by Syncrude Canada Ltd. that the combined use of sodium hydroxide and sodium citrate could effectively improve the bitumen recovery as compared...