Scholarly Work - Chemical & Biological Engineering: Recent submissions
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A review of reaction enhancement strategies for isothermal nucleic acid amplification reactions
(2021-11)Isothermal nucleic acid amplification techniques are used to detect a variety of molecules such as RNAs, DNAs and proteins. When compared to the gold standard polymerase chain reaction, isothermal methods are rapid and ... -
Effect of catalyst and reaction conditions on aromatic monomer yields, product distribution, and sugar yields during lignin hydrogenolysis of silver birch wood
(2020-11)The impact of catalyst choice and reaction conditions during catalytic hydrogenolysis of silver birch biomass are assessed for their effect on aromatic monomer yields and selectivities, lignin removal, and sugar yields ... -
Impact of dilute acid pretreatment conditions on p-coumarate removal in diverse maize lines
(2020-10)Prior work has identified that lignins recovered from dilute acid-pretreated corn stover exhibit superior performance in phenol–formaldehyde resins used in wood adhesive applications when compared to diverse process-modified ... -
Xylan Is Critical for Proper Bundling and Alignment of Cellulose Microfibrils in Plant Secondary Cell Walls
(2021-09)Plant biomass represents an abundant and increasingly important natural resource and it mainly consists of a number of cell types that have undergone extensive secondary cell wall (SCW) formation. These cell types are ... -
Artificial consortium demonstrates emergent properties of enhanced cellulosic-sugar degradation and biofuel synthesis
(2020-12)Planktonic cultures, of a rationally designed consortium, demonstrated emergent properties that exceeded the sums of monoculture properties, including a >200% increase in cellobiose catabolism, a >100% increase in glycerol ... -
Mineralogy of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitates formed using single cell drop-based microfluidics
(2020-10)Microbe-mineral interactions are ubiquitous and can facilitate major biogeochemical reactions that drive dynamic Earth processes such as rock formation. One example is microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation ... -
Impact of Xylose on Dynamics of Water Diffusion in Mesoporous Zeolites Measured by NMR
(2021-09)Zeolites are known to be effective catalysts in biomass converting processes. Understanding the mesoporous structure and dynamics within it during such reactions is important in effectively utilizing them. Nuclear magnetic ... -
Importance of specific substrate utilization by microbes in microbially enhanced coal-bed methane production: A modelling study
(2020-07)This study addresses a major gap in the understanding and control of microbially enhanced coal-bed methane (MECBM) production. A mathematical and conceptual model comprises a food-web that includes two types of bacteria ... -
A Microfluidic-Based Investigation of Bacterial Attachment in Ureteral Stents
(2020-04)Obstructions of the ureter lumen can originate from intrinsic or extrinsic factors, such as kidney stones, tumours, or strictures. These can affect the physiological flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladder, potentially ... -
The effect of solvent polarity on autocatalytic furfural production confirmed by multivariate statistical analysis
(2019-10)Autocatalytic dehydration of xylose to furfural was studied in pure aqueous and monophasic organic/water mixtures to determine the effect reaction media and conditions have on conversion and yield. This study identified ... -
Characterization of velocity fluctuations and the transition from transient to steady state shear banding with and without pre-shear in a wormlike micelle solution under shear startup by Rheo-NMR
(2020-04)Rheo-NMR velocimetry was used to study shear banding of a 6 wt.% cetylpyridinium chloride (CPCl) worm-like micelle solution under shear startup conditions with and without pre-shear. 1D velocity profiles across the fluid ... -
Nisin penetration and efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus biofilms under continuous-flow conditions
(2019-07)Biofilms may enhance the tolerance of bacterial pathogens to disinfectants, biocides and other stressors by restricting the penetration of antimicrobials into the matrix-enclosed cell aggregates, which contributes to the ... -
Janthinobacterium CG23_2: comparative genome analysis reveals enhanced environmental sensing and transcriptional regulation for adaptation to life in an Antarctic supraglacial stream
(2019-10)As many bacteria detected in Antarctic environments are neither true psychrophiles nor endemic species, their proliferation in spite of environmental extremes gives rise to genome adaptations. Janthinobacterium sp. CG23_2 ... -
DropSOAC: Stabilizing Microfluidic Drops for Time-Lapse Quantification of Single-Cell Bacterial Physiology
(2019-09)The physiological heterogeneity of cells within a microbial population imparts resilience to stresses such as antimicrobial treatments and nutrient limitation. This resilience is partially due to a subpopulation of cells ... -
Long-Term Flow through Human Intestinal Organoids with the Gut Organoid Flow Chip (GOFlowChip)
(2019-09)Human intestinal organoids (HIOs) are millimeter-scale models of the human intestinal epithelium and hold tremendous potential for advancing fundamental and applied biomedical research. HIOs resemble the native gut in that ... -
Lignin-Based Polyurethanes: Opportunities for Bio-Based Foams, Elastomers, Coatings and Adhesives
(2019-07-19)Polyurethane chemistry can yield diverse sets of polymeric materials exhibiting a wide range of properties for various applications and market segments. Utilizing lignin as a polyol presents an opportunity to incorporate ... -
A Novel Gastric Spheroid Co-culture Model Reveals Chemokine-Dependent Recruitment of Human Dendritic Cells to the Gastric Epithelium
(2019-03)Background & Aims Gastric dendritic cells (DCs) control the adaptive response to infection with Helicobacter pylori, a major risk factor for peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. We hypothesize that DC interactions ... -
Kinetics of Calcite Precipitation by Ureolytic Bacteria under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions
(2019-05)The kinetics of urea hydrolysis (ureolysis) and induced calcium carbonate (CaCO3) precipitation for engineering use in the subsurface was investigated under aerobic conditions using Sporosarcina pasteurii (ATCC strain ... -
Quorum sensing inhibition as a promising method to control biofilm growth in metalworking fluids
(2019-04)Microbial contamination in metalworking systems is a critical problem. This study determined the microbial communities in metalworking fluids (MWFs) from two machining shops and investigated the effect of quorum sensing ... -
Analysis of convective and diffusive transport in the brain interstitium
(2019-03)Background Despite advances in in vivo imaging and experimental techniques, the nature of transport mechanisms in the brain remain elusive. Mathematical modelling verified using available experimental data offers a powerful ...
