Ting Tsui |
Associate Professor
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Michael Tam |
Professor, University Research Chair
Costas Tzoganakis |
Professor
Aiping Yu |
Assistant Professor
Michael Tam is active in the field of sustainable nano materials
from renewable resources; he works with Celluforce Inc., which
operates the world’s first cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) pilot plant
production facility. His research focuses on the functionalization of
CNC for water treatment, cosmetics, personal care, coatings,
food, etc. He received $450K of industrial funding to develop a
rapid drying water-based coating for road markings. Tam received
a $70K senior visiting fellowship from the Brazilian government to
foster collaboration between Brazil and Canada. This year, with
colleagues from Waterloo and McMaster, he will help organize a
symposium on sustainable nano materials at the 2014 Canadian
Chemical Engineering Conference. Michael received NSERC
Engage funding to work with Ecosynthetix Inc. and Woodbridge
group to develop sustainable nano materials. He is currently
funded through numerous Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council programs, and Ontario Centre of Excellence.
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Ting Tsui attended the International Symposium on Plasticity 2013
in Bahamas and presented his works in the effects of nanopillar
cross-section geometries on the mechanical strengths of nanocrys-
talline cobalt. Ting also began research collaboration with Profes-
sor Frank Gu in understanding how bacterial cells interacts with
metal nanopillars. The goal of this work is to develop new nanome-
ter scale surface features that can reduce the adhesion strength
between metals and bacterial cells. This will reduce the chance of
infection after metal implantation surgeries. In the past year, one of
the Ting’s graduate students received NSREC post-graduate
scholarship and his research projects are supported by grants from
NSERC.
Costas Tzoganakis, in addition to his regular teaching and
research activities, served as CTO of Tyromer Inc., a UW start-up
to commercialize a patented technology on rubber devulcaniza-
tion. In this capacity, he coordinated major scale-up experiments in
the USA and assisted AirBoss of America (a major rubber
compounder) in preparing rubber compounds for field validation
with their customers. He was invited to present this technology to
Goodyear Tire and Rubber and several European rubber
recyclers. His group is engaged in polymer reactive extrusion
operations for polymer modification; Milliken licensed one of their
patented technologies.
Aiping Yu is an assistant professor in Chemical Engineering. Her
research interests are materials development for energy storage
and conversion, photocatalysts, and nanocomposites. She has
published over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals such as
Science, holds 4 patents, and is the co-author of 3 book chapters
and a book on supercapacitors. Her H-index in google scholar is
23 with over 3300 citations. She is also the editor-in-chief of
journal Supercapacitor. Her research is funded by NSERC-
Discovery, Engage, CRD grants and Ontario Early Research
award with supporting from Grafoid Inc., DAS, and Dynaplas. Inc.
