Irving Tissue is a leading manufacturer of household tissue products and provides the premium tissue products for its customers throughout North America. The objective of this project is to improve the process b y1) optimizing the wet- strength additive chemistry, and the associated curing process, 2) optimize the stock preparation, in particular, in light of […]

Cultivate microalgae on a variety of waste streams in a lab or pilot scale environment. Evaluate the potential for Greenhouse gas capture, biofuel and nutraceutical production. Awaiting more information from the professor. Please check back soon. Do not contact Globalink Research Internships.

The pressing need to find viable alternatives to fossil fuels combined with the growing requirement for environmentally friendly industrial processes motivates a dramatic paradigm shift from fossil fuels (which also require carbon capture and sequestration) to reliable, clean, and efficient fuels. Hydrogen has the potential to meet the requirements as a clean non-fossil fuel in […]

Candida albicans is an important pathogen that is a significant cause of serious hospital acquired infections. Our lab has a collection of approximately 1000 C. albicans strains that have been genetically engineered to each lack a single gene. The project will be to test the effect of drugs that are used to treat fungal infections […]

Modeling the thermodynamic properties (including phase equilibria) and physical properties of multicomponent systems is of great industrial importance nowadays. The metallurgical and chemical industries commonly use thermochemical packages to simulate chemical reactions and phase equilibria for process development. The thermodynamic and phase equilibrium modeling of multicomponent salt systems consists in expanding the Gibbs energy of […]

Hydrogen, when dissolved in metal or alloy lattice, can render the otherwise ductile material brittle. This phenomenon, namely hydrogen embrittlement (HE), has been a persistent obstacle for the application and development of high strength steels. One effective means to enhance the high strength steel’s resistance to HE is to introduce nanoscale alloy carbides (NACs) into […]

Traction force microscopy is a well-established methodology to measure the local contractile forces exerted by a cell, and is accomplished by measuring the deformation of a soft elastic substrate by cell forces. From this measured deformation, the strain is calculated, and by knowing the elastic modulus of the substrate, the forces are calculated. Key changes […]

We recently showed that the fat crystal shells around water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion droplets could effectively screen the hydrophilic active components from the outer environment (Ghosh et al., Salt Release from Fat Crystal-Stabilized Water-in-Oil Emulsions. 103rd AOCS Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA, May 2012). Formation of crystal shells around dispersed droplets in emulsion is a […]

The presence of emerging pollutants (chemicals such as pesticides, residual pharmaceuticals and personal care products) in surface water bodies is becoming a serious concern not only for their environmental impact, but also for their potentially serious adverse effects on human health. Antibiotics are important class of emerging pollutants in nature. Presence of antibiotics in nature […]

The presence of emerging pollutants (chemicals such as pesticides, residual pharmaceuticals and personal care products) in surface water bodies is becoming a serious concern not only for their environmental impact, but also for their potentially serious adverse effects on human health. Innovative water treatment technologies are under investigation to determine their potential application in current […]

In this project we perform the reaction of transesterification of vegetable oils to produce biodiesel. The process is accelerated when this reaction is performed in a continuous reactor equiped with an ultrasound generator. In this case very high conversions are obtained at residence times as low as 20 second compared to hours in current technology. […]

This project is in collaboration with a governmental laboratory working on a fermentation process which yields an aqueous solution of short chains monoalcohols. Our contribution to this work will be the development of a suitable heterogeneous catalyst for the conversion of these mixtures of alcohols into gazoline range (C5-C9) hydrocarbons. The complete project would then […]