The Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes young chemists conducting original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry. New Scientist Live,
ABSTRACT: While we have isolated and regenerated celluloses for textile applications since the turn of the century (e.g. viscose), nature continues to offer new insights into how we could reintegrate biodiversity and heterogeneity into cellulose-based materials as a means of modulating its physico-chemical properties. Cellulose is one of the most abundant organic polymers on earth and serves as an important structural component of the cell walls of plants.
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2016
Time: 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Date: Friday, October 28, 2016
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2016
Come to "Stop and Talk", a chance to chat with President Feridun Hamdullahpur in the Great Hall of the Student Life Centre (SLC). There's no agenda or formal remarks, just a chance to connect and talk about how your term is going and anything else that's on your mind.
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This thesis is restrictedbut on display in the Engineering Graduate Studies Office (DWE 3520) until the defence date. Anyone wishing to review the thesis must sign the required non-disclosure agreement form. It is available for perusal and may be signed out overnight.
ABSTRACT: Polymeric materials are ubiquitous in the modern world, finding use in everything from coffee cups to truck beds to drug-eluting stents and carbon-fiber reinforced aircraft components. As our demands of these materials increase, the need for improved properties, added functionality and advanced manufacturing processes grows, and the elucidation and application of key composition-structure-processing-properties relations becomes increasingly critical.
The transportation system is a major source of emissions of carbon dioxide. Fuel cell vehicles operating on renewable generated hydrogen is one of ways to remove carbon from the transportation system. The main barriers for adoption of this technology is cost and hydrogen infrastructure. The life cost of fuel-cell systems can be addressed by making the fuel cell more durable. Specific challenges for fuel cell development are examined.