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Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

SEMINAR - “Engineering Smart Hydrogels on Multiple Length Scales for Biomedical and Biosensing Applications” by Todd Hoare, Associate Professor and University Scholar, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

ABSTRACT:   While multiple types of smart, environmentally-responsive materials have been explored for a variety of biomedical applications (e.g. drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioimaging, etc.), their ultimate clinical use has been hampered by their lack of biologically-relevant degradation as well as challenges regarding their non-surgical administration to the body.  These factors have particularly limited the clinical use of temperature-responsive hydrogels, which are either highly labile in diluting environments like the body (e.g.

Friday, December 16, 2016 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar - “Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Studies at PPL: Tuning Synthesis Process to Applications (Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes, and Nanofluids)” by J.-L. Meunier, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Plasma Processing Laboratory (PPL), McGill

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.

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar - “Platinum-Free Fuel Cells for Affordable Zero-Emission Cars” by Yushan Yan, Distinguished Engineering Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware

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.

Thursday, February 2, 2017 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Seminar - “An Overview of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Application to Various Industrial and Mixing Problems” by Duane Baker, MASc., P.Eng, Flow and Heat Transfer Specialist, Hatch Engineering

ABSTRACT:  In total Duane has almost 20 years of experience in fluid flow, heat and mass transfer analysis, nuclear thermal-hydraulics, energy system analysis and design. Duane is a mechanical engineer with Masters’degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, both from University of Waterloo. After graduation Duane started his career in CFD modeling in Waterloo working for CFX, which later was later acquired by Ansys, supporting CFX users, giving training courses, and doing multi-phase, turbulence and combustion validations.