Dr. Nickolas Eaves

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2016
• MASc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2012
• BASc, Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2009

Research Interests

• Synthesis of carbon-based nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbon black in plasma systems
• Cogeneration of green hydrogen and high value carbon nanomaterials through methane pyrolysis 
• Developing fundamental multi-scale numerical models for nanoparticle aerosol processes

Selected Publications

• Khabazipur, A., Eaves, N. (2023) On the fractal dimension of carbon black particles in pyrolysis flow reactors. Journal of Aerosol Science. Accepted.
   
• López-Cámara, C.F., Fortugnoa, P., Asifa, M., Musikhin, S., Prindler, C., Wiggers, H., Endresa, T., Daun, K.J., Eaves, N., Schulz, C. (2023) Evolution of particle size and morphology in plasma synthesis of few-layer graphene and soot. Combustion & Flame. 258(1):112713
   
• Khabazipur, A., Eaves, N. (2023) Development of a Fully Reversible PAH Clustering Model. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 39(1): 919-927
   
• Eaves, N., Zhang, Q., Liu, F., Guo, H., Dworkin, S.B., Thomson, M.J (2016) CoFlame: A Refined and Validated Numerical Algorithm for Modeling Sooting Laminar Coflow Diffusion Flames. Computer Physics Communications. 207:464-477.
   
• Eaves, N., Dworkin, S.B., Thomson, M.J. (2015) The Importance of Reversibility in Modeling Soot Nucleation and Condensation Processes. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 35 (2):1787-1794.