Alumni

1 Slide. 3 Minutes. Outstanding Ideas!

Date:   Thursday, February 16, 2017

Time:  10:00 am- 12:00 pm

Location:  E6 2024

Please arrive early so the event can start on time.

Attendance at this event may be counted  toward Masters and PhD students Seminar Attendance milestone.   Please note, you will be required to stay for the duration of the competition.

 Light refreshments provided. 

Chemical Engineering Capstone

Recruitment Open House Waterloo IGEM

ABSTRACT:  Implanted medical devices are at significant risk of developing bacterial biofilm-associated infections and approximately 60% of all hospital-acquired infections are due to biofilm formation on implanted devices. Bacterial biofilms are encased in an extracellular matrix, largely polysaccharide, which protects from antibiotics and the host immune system. Herein I will present three ‘bio-inspired’ approaches to design surfaces to prevent bacterial attachment and biofilm formation.

ABSTRACT:  Thermal plasma (TP) reactors are used extensively for the generation of particles having specific compositions or phase structures, while nanoparticles (NPs) are also being generated using precursors that are either in the gas phase, in liquid solutions or even sometimes in the solid phase. More difficult is the controlled homogeneous nucleation of pure nanomaterials, or controlled two-step systems for heterogeneous nucleation of materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs). One material of strong interest is the bi-dimensional structure of graphene.

ABSTRACT:  One of the grand challenges facing humanity today is the development of an alternative energy system that is safe, clean, and sustainable and where combustion of fossil fuels no longer dominates. A distributed renewable electrochemical energy and mobility system (DREEMS) could meet this challenge. At the foundation of this new energy system, we have chosen to study a number of electrochemical devices including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and flow batteries.