Year: 2025, 2025
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Reyes, Kyle Matthew Dabu, Thesis advisor (ths): Vreugdenhil, Andrew J, Degree committee member (dgc): Keske, Eric, Degree committee member (dgc): Zenkina, Olena V, Degree committee member (dgc): Adronov, Alex, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The oil sands industry is producing large volumes of tailings waste reaching 2 billion cubic meters by 2034 In this study, the industrial standard flocculant, high molecular weight PAM, was grafted from the surface of activated carbon (AC). This material was designed to increase the flocculant's hydrophobicity and density. Different molecular weight PAM was grafted from AC with… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Abstract: <p>We study a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model with disorder in charge and spin degrees of freedom. We calculate the time dependence of the entanglement entropy. While previous research on disordered interacting systems has typically focused on systems with either charge or spin, our model enables us to explore the interplay between charge and spin in shaping the behavior of entanglement… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Stone, Dylan, Thesis advisor (ths): Bradac, Carlo, Degree committee member (dgc): Atkinson, Bill, Degree committee member (dgc): Agarwal, Nisha, Degree committee member (dgc): Sadaf, Sharif, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>With wide applications ranging from quantum communication and metrology to biomedicine, single photon sources in solid-state hosts have become a major area of study. Here, we focus on three applications: nanothermometry, optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR), and second order autocorrelation. We present novel statistical and machine learning (ML) approaches to extract information… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the remediation of naphthenic acids (NAs) from oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) using activated carbon (AC) derived from petroleum coke (PC) chemically activated with potassium hydroxide. The research aims to identify the most effective method for the adsorptive removal of NAs by optimizing the use of economically viable KOH quantities and to apply Fourier… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Nasir, Maryam, Thesis advisor (ths): Atkinson, William WA, Degree committee member (dgc): Bradac, Carlo CB, Degree committee member (dgc): de Haan, Hendrick, Degree committee member (dgc): Ramachandran, Ganesh GR, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p> The interplay between electron charge, spin, and ferroelectric polarization is under-explored for conducting ferroelectric domain walls (DWs). DWs are interfaces that separate regions
(domains) within a material that have different orientations of spontaneous polarization.
We investigated the electronic band structure of t2g electrons, confined to 90° charged do
main walls (CDWs) in… more Year: 2025, 2025
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Lim, Meilin, Thesis advisor (ths): Keske, Eric C, Degree committee member (dgc): Vreugdenhil, Andrew J, Degree committee member (dgc): Zenkina, Olena V, Degree committee member (dgc): Singer, Robert D, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs) have significantly impacted organometallic chemistry as ligands in transition metal catalysis, offering strong electron-donating properties and high bond dissociation energies. However, their structural versatility is limited by the scarcity of commercial precursors and challenging modification procedures. Furthermore, we have investigated its coordination… more
