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Spring 2013

Ansari, Nesma Nasir

Solvents are ubiquitously used in oil sands extraction industry to enhance the separation of bitumen froth. With developing new technologies such as non-aqueous bitumen extraction, the need to track solvent interactions with oil sands components throughout the extraction process and to identify...

Fall 2020

Flood, Richard

The demand to develop Materials Genomics and Integrated Materials Computation requires the availability of high temperature property data of liquid metals. High temperature metallurgical processes, such as refining, casting, welding and additive manufacturing, can be optimized and operate more...

2006

Eastman, Craig Dennis

Spring 2015

Tan, XueHai

This thesis encompasses aspects of alloy design, fabrication and characterization of thin films, which are employed as model systems to enhance hydrogen storage kinetics and thermodynamics in magnesium hydride and to enhance the catalytic efficacy and corrosion stability of platinum-based...

Fall 2011

Luo, Jia

This thesis presents research on the selection and development of thin film deposition of materials and initial data on the integration of a pH measuring device suitable for evaluation. This device used two particular tantalum compounds deposited by dc magnetron reactive sputtering as functional...

Spring 2011

Karimi, Arash

Thin film pyrolysis was used to thermally crack the pendant groups from asphaltene molecules. The cracked products were rapidly quenched to minimize further decomposition. The liquid products were condensed and collected, with over 91% material balance on the recovery of gas, liquid and coke...

Fall 2023

Sajiv Kumar, Roshni

Owing to the factors of low cost, abundance and lower emissions from natural gas as compared to diesel and gasoline, there has been a surged interest in utilizing natural gas for transportation purposes. Though it is known for natural gas to burn in a clean manner with considerably fewer...

Fall 2016

Shende, Swapnali

Oil sands tailings management remains to be a major challenge for oil industry in Canada. Promoting quick settling of fines in tailings ponds is the key to its treatment. Bitumen lost to tailings during oil sands extraction is also believed to hinder settling and consolidation of clays in...

Fall 2018

Hemant Charaya

Tough hydrogels are an emerging class of advanced materials that have resolved the long-standing problem of brittleness and fragility in conventional hydrogels. Their superior mechanical performances enable several unprecedented applications in bio-integrated electronics, surgical glues, and soft...

Fall 2014

Tian, Sheng

In this thesis, on-chip microreactors for catalytic combustion of methanol-air mixture were designed, fabricated and characterized. Using standard optical lithography, deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) and other fabrication techniques, microreactors with integrated micropillars having four...