Student Awards
CTAS strongly encourages student participation at its meetings. Students attending a Canadian University are eligible to win a Monetary Award of $200 for the best technical paper/poster during the Technical Workshop and Exhibition of the Canadian Thermal Analysis Society (CTAS).
Past CTAS Student Award Winners:
| 2011 | Alan Nixon | UOIT (Oshawa) |
Thermochemical Production of Hydrogen by Splitting of Water: Synthesis of Copper Oxychloride and Thermal Decomposition Studies. |
| K.M. Erickson | University of Guelph |
Ionization Constants of Acetic Acid in H2O and D2O from 100 oC to 275 oC at 20 MPa: Deuterium Isotope Effects under Hydrothermal Conditions |
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| V.V. Chirmanov | University of Guelph |
Thermal Analysis of Highly Unstable Inclusion Materials: Clathrates of a Nickel Complex with Aromatic Guests |
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| D. McGillivray | UOIT (Oshawa) |
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes using a Supercritical Fluid Sol-Gel Aided Method. |
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| 2010 |
A. Yazdani |
University of Guelph |
"Inclusion compounds of Leu-Ala Dipeptide: synthesis, crystal structures and thermoanalytical studies" |
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L. M. Federico |
McMaster University |
Comparison of the Reactivity of Cement Mixtures Containing SCM or Waste Glass Using Thermal Analysis |
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C.T. Brown (Poster) |
University of Guelph |
"Inclusion compounds of Leucyl-Leucine with aromatic molecules: a GC/MS, powder XRD amd TG analyses study" |
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| 2009 |
P. Nadworthy |
University of Alberta |
Determining critical properties for nanocrystalline silver antimicrobial activity via heat treatment: a kinetic study |
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C. Johnson |
Carleton University |
Thermal hazard assessment of nitrobenzene/dinitrobenzene mixtures |
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E. Okeke |
University of Guelph |
Coordination and inclusion compounds formed between a metal (II) dibenzoylmetanate (Co, Ni, Zn, Cd) and quinoline or isoquinoline: thermal stability and dissociation mode |
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2008 |
Zena S. Ng |
University of Waterloo |
Prediction of Thermal Properties of Agricultural Filler-Polypropylene Composites by Use of Network Models |
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2007 |
Jacky K. Y. Tang |
University of Waterloo |
Cooling Rate Studies of a Polycarbonate/Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymer Blend using DSC |
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Feng Tian |
University of New Brunswick |
Absolute Measurements of Thermal Conductivity of PolyAcrylic Acid Solution by the Transient Hot Wire Technique |
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2006 |
Matthew Garvin |
University of Waterloo |
Cure Kinetics Modeling of an Electrically Conductive Adhesive (ECA) |
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2005 |
Yonathan Anahory |
Université de Montréal |
Nanocalorimetry: Studying Thermal Processes at the Nano Scale |
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Shi Yan |
University of New Brunswick |
Radiation Effects in the Transient Hot-Wire Technique: Propane |
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2003 |
Young Min Kim |
McMaster University |
Photopolymerizations of Mixtures of Diepoxide and Mono-vinyl Ether and Principal Component Analysis of RT-FTIR Spectra for the Polymerizations |
For more information, please contact Dr. Subhash Mojumdar at subhash.mojumdar@utoronto.ca