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ABSTRACT: Typical catalyst layers (CL) employed in PEM fuel cells are composed of a carbon supported Pt catalyst bound together with an ionomer, most often Nafion. Both the carbon support and ionomer play a crucial role in optimizing the catalyst utilization by proving electronic and ionic conductive pathways, respectively, without hindering gas transport. Upon fuel cell operation, the catalyst layer can degrade by one of 3 primary pathways:

ABSTRACT: There is considerable interest in the use of micro-scale processing (MSP) techniques for process development and optimization. The advantages of developing miniaturized versions of upstream and downstream unit operations that are scalable to actual production conditions are considerable. First, it reduces the material costs associated with running a large number of lab-scale or full-scale trials. Second, it accommodates a parallel approach for experimental testing, instead of the more traditional sequential approach, and thus is ideally suited for high-throughp

Abstract: In this talk, a recent University of Waterloo PhD graduate will discuss the transition from graduate student to assistant professor. Topics will include the ingredients of a good PhD project, structuring your future research plans, setting reasonable expectations, the joys and burdens of teaching, the paradoxical nature of hiring the best lab rats (PhDs) to become rat trainers (Professors), and generally how to begin ‘thinking like a professor’. By way of illustration he will discuss his own experience in the context of his research on ‘engineered’ porous mater

ABSTRACT: Hydrogels have been widely applied in medicine for applications including controlled release drug delivery, tissue engineering, wound healing, and ocular devices. Hydrogels based on “smart” materials that reversibly swell and deswell according to their environment offer additional advantages in terms of providing switchable physical and biological properties under relevant in vivo conditions. However, conventional synthetic “smart” hydrogels suffer from significant limitations in medical applications in terms of their difficulty to non-invasively admin

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PhD Oral Defence - "CFD Modeling of Biomass Gasification using a Circulating Fluidized Bed Reactor" by Hui Liu

Notice of PhD Oral Defence - Methodologies for Obtaining Reliable Indicators for the Environmental Stress Cracking Resistance of Polyethylene by Amirpouyan Sardashti

Notice of PhD Oral Defence - Gecko Adhesion and Gecko-Inspired Dry Adhesives: From Fundamentals to Characterization and Fabrication Aspects by Hadi Izadi

Seminar - "Using the Transmission Line Impedance Model to Monitor Degradation Pathways in Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers" by E. Bradley Easton, Associate Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Seminar - "Microscale Processing for High-Throughput Studies in Water Separations and Bio-Polymer Processing", by David Latulippe, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

Seminar - "How to Become a Professor in N Easy Steps, where N >> 1" by Jeff Gostick, Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University

Notice of PhD Oral Defence "Integrative Chemistry Based Morphosynthesis of Hierarchical Composite Materials for Photovoltaic, Photocatalysis and Photoluminescence Applications" by Natacha Kinadjian

Notice of PhD Oral Defence - "Catalytic Glycerol Hydrogenolysis to Produce 1,2 Propanediol with Molecular Hydrogen and in Situ Hydrogen from Steam Reforming" by Yuanqing Liu

Notice of PhD Oral Defence "Self/Co-Assembling Peptide-Based Nanocarriers for Anticancer Drug Delivery" by Parisa Sadatmousavi

Seminar “Engineering Injectable Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”, by Todd Hoare, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

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