Partially hydrogenated oil (PHO) has no longer GRAS status. However, PHO is one of the important ingredients in bakery and confectionary industry and therefore the food industry is seeking for an alternative fat to replace PHO. Waxes have shown promise to fulfill that demand because of its easy availability and cheap in price. Waxes with high melting points (> 40 °C) help in the crystallization process when mixed with low melting point oils. A crystalline network is formed in this wax/oil crystallization process where liquid oil is entrapped in wax crystal network. A new material is formed which is neither completely solid nor completely liquid; it’s called semisolid material. This wax/oil semisolid material is formed physically; there are no chemical processes or treatments involved. This material has a potential use in the lipid industry due to its resemblance to the properties of commercial margarine or similar lipids. BW has shown softer crystalline network formation compared to SFW and RBW. It is understood that presence of higher wax ester in SFW and RBW leads to stronger crystalline material formation. Blending waxes of different chemical composition (e.g. BW: wax ester, hydrocarbon, fatty acids, di-esters, hydroxyl esters. RBW: 100% wax ester) shows differences in physical characteristics at different blending proportions. HIU technology helps in delaying phase separation of crystals in low concentration (0.5 and 1% wt. basis) of wax/oil system. Our overall wax crystallization study has shown that there are different physical characteristics of wax/oil semi-solid system based on different parameters and processing conditions such as wax concentration, wax and oil type, cooling rate, storage temperature, high intensity ultrasound. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that chemical composition of waxes and vegetable oils and also processing conditions affect wax crystallization and physical properties of wax/oil materials.

Hydrogen is added to Graphene in various compositions and configurations to modify the band structure to produce a suitable band gap for microelectronic applications. Optical and vibrational spectra are calculated as a means of characterization. Calculations performed using DFT and Quantum Espresso. / UOIT

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Ce est consacré à l’élaboration et à l’étude de mélanges de type polymères/maltènes (MP) et polymères/asphaltes (AMP). Les polymères sont des copolymères à blocs de styrène et de butadiène (SBS) présentant une architecture ramifiée en étoile à quatre branches. Ils ont été partiellement hydrogénés en SBEBS grâce à l’utilisation d’un catalyseur type Ziegler-Natta. Dans les conditions expérimentales utilisées, les analyses physico-chimiques des SBEBS ont clairement montré que l’hydrogénation a été réalisée sans dégradation ni réticulation des chaînes macromoléculaires. Les mélanges, fabriqués sous agitation à l’état fondu, ont ensuite été caractérisés par rhéologie et microscopie de fluorescence. Les résultats obtenus permettent d’établir que : - selon la teneur en copolymère, les AMP présentent soit une morphologie de type émulsion soit une structure de type macroréseau, - les mélanges polymères/maltènes sont des systèmes bi-phasiques constitués par une phase de copolymère gonflé et une phase de maltènes, tandis que les mélanges polymères/asphaltes sont des systèmes tri-phasiques constitués d’une phase de copolymère gonflé, d’une phase de maltènes et d’une phase d’asphaltènes stabilisés par des maltènes. Dans tous les cas, ces effets sont la conséquence directe du gonflement du copolymère dans les mélanges. Cette étude a donc permis d’établir que la microstructure des copolymères a une influence notoire sur leur gonflement et sur les performances rhéologiques des mélanges résultants / A study of maltenes/polymer and asphalt/polymer blends, with two styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) polymers with four-branch star-like chain architecture is reported in this work. The employed polymers, with the same overall composition and distribution, were in-situ partially hydrogenated using a Nickel II Ziegler-Natta type catalyst without cross-linking or chain scission reactions. Blends were prepared by a melt mixing procedure and studied by fluorescence microscopy and rheological measurements. Results indicate that maltene/polymers blends are bi-phase heterogeneous systems with swollen polymer-rich and maltenes-rich phases, while asphalt/polymers blends are tri-phase systems with swollen polymer-rich, maltenes-rich and stabilized asphaltenes phases. In both cases, the rheological behavior of blends is mainly affected by the swollen polymer rich phase. It was confirmed that the rheological properties of PMM depend on the molecular characteristics of the copolymer such as the total molecular weight and molecular architecture, which determine the material behavior