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- 2Bendrich, Michelle
- 2El-Thaher, Nayef
- 2Fadic Eulefi, Anton
- 2Hoseinzadeh Hejazi, Sayed Alireza
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- 2Karkooti, Amin
- 44Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 40Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 34Liu, Qingxia (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 27Henein, Hani (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Functional Self-healing Hydrogels Based on Dynamic Molecular Interactions for Biomedical Applications
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Self-healing hydrogels can autonomously heal from damage to preserve their integrity and functionalities which hold great promises in a wide range of applications. Different types of dynamic molecular interactions have been explored to develop self-healing hydrogels. Nevertheless, it remains...
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Functional Supramolecular Materials Based on Multiple Hydrogen-Bonding Motifs and the Associated Molecular Interaction Mechanism
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Engineered multifunctional polymers with stimuli-responsive and self-healing properties have drawn increasing attention in recent years for the development of “smart” materials with a broad range of applications. Hydrogen bonding, as one of the most developed approaches in supramolecular...
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Functional surface nanodroplets for sensitive chemical analysis and nanomaterials synthesis
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Surface nanodroplets are nano-scale droplets immobilized on a solid surface with an immiscible liquid environment. These droplets possess a large surface area to volume ratio and some desirable properties such as a long lifetime and excellent stability, compared to the bulk droplets. Surface...
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Functional Wet/Underwater Adhesives Enabled by Hydrogen-Bonding Interaction-Driven Coacervation
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Robust instant and repeatable underwater adhesion is a great challenge for the development of adhesives as water is a notorious destroyer to prevent the intimate contact of adhesives and substrates by forming hydration layers on surfaces. Long-lasting and strong underwater adhesion of sessile...
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Functionalized 2D Nano Materials for Selective Separation and Related Interfacial Interaction Mechanisms
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The functionalized 2D nanomaterials have attracted increasing attention due to their promising selective interfacial separation performance, including oil-water separation, desalination, ion extraction, wastewater treatment and ionic sieving. To help understand the separation performance or...
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Fundamental Insights into the Structure and Dynamics of Confined Substrates inside Silica Nanostructures, using a combination of Molecular Dynamics and Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations
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Condensed phase reactions in the presence of heterogeneous catalysts are widely performed for the conversion of biomass into useful intermediates and value-added products. Specifically, nanoporous catalysts have garnered interest for liquid-phase oxidation, hydrogenation, dehydrogenation and/or...
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Fundamental Studies of the Surface Properties of Millerite under Different Pulp Potentials and Water Chemistry
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Millerite (NiS) is one of the less common nickel-bearing minerals that is typically formed as a replacement for pentlandite. Due to the scarcity of millerite, its flotation behavior is not well understood in literature. In this study, the surface properties of millerite were investigated. Cyclic...
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Fall 2019
The coalescence of air bubbles is an elementary process influencing the performance of various industrial processes such as oil extraction, water purification, and mineral flotation. The possible coalescence between two colliding bubbles is significantly influenced by the liquid drainage rate...
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Fundamental Study of Flotation Behaviors and Oxidation Mechanisms of Polymorphic Pyrrhotite and Pentlandite
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This thesis is mainly concerned with understanding the flotation behaviors of the polymorphic pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS, 0 < x ≤ 0.125) and pentlandite ((Ni,Fe)9S8) to find better measures for their flotation separation. The flotation separation of pentlandite from pyrrhotite is a complicated issue due...
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Fall 2022
Surface charging in solid-liquid systems is an elementary process influencing the performance of various industrial processes such as colloidal production, oil transportation, green energy harvesting and self-power sensor fabrication. The surface charging of solids in various liquid systems is...