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ABSTRACT:   Nanotechnology offers highly customizable platforms for producing minimally invasive and programmable strategies to diagnose and treat cancer. Advances in this field have demonstrated that nanoparticles can enhance specificity of anti-cancer agents, respond to tumour-specific cues, and direct the visualization of biological targets in vivo.

ABSTRACT:  The rigidity of our skeleton is due to reinforcement with nano-sized minerals of biological apatite.  Theories of skeletal apatite nucleation include initiation by the organic matrix (collagen and non-collagenous proteins), and increasing the phosphate concentration by hydrolysis of phosphoric acid monoesters.  An enzyme that has been attributed to skeletal mineralization - tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) - is known to increase inorganic phosphate concentration by catalyzing phosphoric acid monoester hydrolysis.  However, the substrate for TNAP in

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING BEST PUBLICATION PRIZE (2013) SEMINAR

“Irreversible Adsorption-Driven Assembly of Nanoparticles at Fluid Interfaces Revealed by a Dynamic Surface Tension Probe” by Navid Bizmark, Marios A. Ioannidis, Dale E. Henneke, Langmuir, Vol. 30, pages 710-717

For:  “A Balanced Theoretical-Practical paper, with a Significant Contribution for the Quantitative Description of Nanoparticle Adsorption at Fluid Interfaces”

The UW Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Chapter invites you: 

Event:  The Eastern Canada Student Energy Conference

(hosted by University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and Society of Petroleum Engineering Student Chapters 

Date:   Friday, November 7th, 2014

Time:  9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Location:  The Delta Waterloo Hotel, 110 Erb St. W., Waterloo, ON

Register: http://www.ecsec.ca/

ABSTRACT:  Increasing challenges associated with environmental remediation projects has driven the development of new, efficient and effective separation materials, technologies and processes suitable for large scale deployment. This presentation will provide an overview to some of the work being conducted at the University of Melbourne in this area for soil and air pollution control.

Student Motivation for Learning

What motivates student learning? Can instructors influence the motivation levels of their students?

(Please be advised that signing a NDA will be required for attending this seminar)

ABSTRACT:  The Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) fermentation by anaerobic bacteria from the genus Clostridium was one of the first large-scale industrial bioprocesses, operating globally for the production of acetone during the first half of the 20^th Century. Feedstock and product recovery costs prevented the ABE process from remaining profitable and acetone production was overtaken by the developing petroleum industry.