Nadia Shardt
About
Research
Applications
Water treatment via gas flotation
Mineral ore processing
Food emulsions
Catalysis
Cloud microphysics
Topics of interest
Phase equilibrium
Phase transitions and nucleation
Surface tension
Contact angle
Mass transfer
Porous media
Tools
Microfluidics
Gibbsian composite-system thermodynamics
Machine learning and computer vision
Education and Experience
2020–2022: Postdoctoral researcher | Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) | funded by an ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019: PhD in Chemical Engineering supervised by Prof. Janet A. W. Elliott | University of Alberta (Canada) | Multicomponent, multiphase thermodynamics with interfacial curvature
2015: BSc in Chemical Engineering | University of Alberta (Canada)
Publications
Monitoring aqueous sucrose solutions using droplet microfluidics: Ice nucleation, growth, glass transition, and melting
A unified surface tension model for multi-component salt, organic, and surfactant solutions
Surface tension models for binary aqueous solutions: a review and intercomparison
Homogeneous freezing of water droplets for different volumes and cooling rates
The Microfluidic Ice Nuclei Counter Zürich (MINCZ): A platform for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice nucleation
Accuracy of the Shardt–Elliott–Connors–Wright equation for predicting the surface tension of metal alloys
Highly efficient and accurate gas-alkane binary mixture interfacial tension equations for a broad range of temperatures, pressures, and compositions
Vitrification of particulated articular cartilage via calculated protocols
Surface tension as a function of temperature and composition for a broad range of mixtures
Osmometric measurements of cryoprotective agent permeation into tissues
Validity of the Kelvin equation and the equation-of-state-with-capillary-pressure model for the phase behavior of a pure component under nanoconfinement
Using engineering models to shorten cryoprotectant loading time for the vitrification of articular cartilage
Comparison of three multi-cryoprotectant loading protocols for vitrification of porcine articular cartilage
Gibbsian thermodynamics of Wenzel wetting (Was Wenzel Wrong? Revisited)
How surfactants affect droplet wetting on hydrophobic microstructures
Gibbsian thermodynamics of Cassie-Baxter wetting (Were Cassie and Baxter wrong? Revisited)
Isobaric vapor–liquid phase diagrams for multicomponent systems with nanoscale radii of curvature
Model for the surface tension of dilute and concentrated binary aqueous mixtures as a function of composition and temperature
Cryoprotectant kinetic analysis of a human articular cartilage vitrification protocol
Thermodynamic study of the role of interface curvature on multicomponent vapor–liquid phase equilibrium
Evaluation of the constant wavenumber cutoff parameter for modeling van der Waals energy
2024
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Santana, Vinicius;
Rebello, Carine Menezes;
Queiroz, Luana P.;
Ribeiro, Ana Mafalda;
Shardt, Nadia;
B. R. Nogueira, Idelfonso.
(2024)
PUFFIN: A path-unifying feed-forward interfaced network for vapor pressure prediction.
Chemical Engineering Science (CES)
Academic article
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Deck, Leif-Thore;
Shardt, Nadia;
El-Bakouri, Imad;
Isenrich, Florin N.;
Marcolli, Claudia;
deMello, Andrew J..
(2024)
Monitoring Aqueous Sucrose Solutions Using Droplet Microfluidics: Ice Nucleation, Growth, Glass Transition, and Melting.
Langmuir
Academic article
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Kleinheins, Judith;
Marcolli, Claudia;
Dutcher, Cari S.;
Shardt, Nadia.
(2024)
A unified surface tension model for multi-component salt, organic, and surfactant solutions.
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP
Academic article
Journal publications
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Santana, Vinicius;
Rebello, Carine Menezes;
Queiroz, Luana P.;
Ribeiro, Ana Mafalda;
Shardt, Nadia;
B. R. Nogueira, Idelfonso.
(2024)
PUFFIN: A path-unifying feed-forward interfaced network for vapor pressure prediction.
Chemical Engineering Science (CES)
Academic article
-
Deck, Leif-Thore;
Shardt, Nadia;
El-Bakouri, Imad;
Isenrich, Florin N.;
Marcolli, Claudia;
deMello, Andrew J..
(2024)
Monitoring Aqueous Sucrose Solutions Using Droplet Microfluidics: Ice Nucleation, Growth, Glass Transition, and Melting.
Langmuir
Academic article
-
Kleinheins, Judith;
Marcolli, Claudia;
Dutcher, Cari S.;
Shardt, Nadia.
(2024)
A unified surface tension model for multi-component salt, organic, and surfactant solutions.
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP
Academic article