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Nadia Shardt

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Nadia Shardt

Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering

nadia.shardt@ntnu.no
+4773412193 3403 Fiberbygget Gløshaugen, Trondheim
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Research

Curved interfaces—bubbles, droplets, and pores—are a significant challenge in chemical engineering. The majority of conventional modeling tools (e.g., equations of state) are only valid for bulk systems, i.e., those of large volumes and negligible interfacial curvature. Multicomponent, multiphase systems with interfacial curvature exist across many applications, including CO2 storage in subsurface reservoirs, cloud formation in the atmosphere, pharmaceutical drug development, and food and beverage production. Additionally, whether a colloid remains stable with time or whether the constituents separate is determined by the tendency of the dispersed phase to aggregate or coalesce. Depending on the interfacial curvature, key variables such as vapor pressure and freezing point can deviate from those expected for bulk systems (i.e., with infinite radii of curvature). Thus, understanding and controlling interfacial properties is important.

  • Ugelstad Laboratory for Colloid and Polymer Chemistry
  • Participant in the Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme 2024-2028

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

Ice nucleation abilities and chemical characteristics of laboratory-generated and aged biomass burning aerosols

Jie Chen,* Fähndrich Martin Othmar Jakob, Aristeidis Voliotis, Huihui Wu, Sara Aisyah Syafira, Osayomwanbor Oghama, Nadia Shardt, Nicolas Fauré, Xiangrui Kong, Gordon Mcfiggans, Zamin A. Kanji*

The surface tension and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation of sea spray aerosol particles

Judith Kleinheins, Nadia Shardt, Ulrike Lohmann, and Claudia Marcolli

Monitoring aqueous sucrose solutions using droplet microfluidics: Ice nucleation, growth, glass transition, and melting

Leif-Thore Deck*, Nadia Shardt*, Imad El-Bakouri, Florin N. Isenrich, Claudia Marcolli, Andrew J. deMello, and Marco Mazzotti

A unified surface tension model for multi-component salt, organic, and surfactant solutions

Judith Kleinheins, Claudia Marcolli, Cari S. Dutcher, and Nadia Shardt

Surface tension models for binary aqueous solutions: a review and intercomparison

Judith Kleinheins, Nadia Shardt, Manuella El Haber, Corinne Ferronato, Barbara Nozière, Thomas Peter and Claudia Marcolli

Homogeneous freezing of water droplets for different volumes and cooling rates

Nadia Shardt, Florin N. Isenrich, Benedikt Waser, Claudia Marcolli, Zamin A. Kanji, Andrew J. deMello and Ulrike Lohmann

The Microfluidic Ice Nuclei Counter Zürich (MINCZ): A platform for homogeneous and heterogeneous ice nucleation

Florin N. Isenrich, Nadia Shardt, Michael Rösch, Julia Nette, Stavros Stavrakis, Claudia Marcolli, Zamin A. Kanji, Andrew J. deMello and Ulrike Lohmann

Accuracy of the Shardt–Elliott–Connors–Wright equation for predicting the surface tension of metal alloys

Anushka Khare, Nadia Shardt, and Janet A.W. Elliott

Highly efficient and accurate gas-alkane binary mixture interfacial tension equations for a broad range of temperatures, pressures, and compositions

Yingnan Wang, Nadia Shardt, Janet A. W. Elliott, and Zhehui Jin

Vitrification of particulated articular cartilage via calculated protocols

Kezhou Wu, Nadia Shardt, Leila Laouar, Janet A. W. Elliott and Nadr M. Jomha

Surface tension as a function of temperature and composition for a broad range of mixtures

Nadia Shardt, Yingnan Wang, Zhehui Jin, and Janet A.W. Elliott

Osmometric measurements of cryoprotective agent permeation into tissues

Kezhou Wu, Leila Laouar, Nadia Shardt, Janet A. W. Elliott, Nadr M. Jomha

Validity of the Kelvin equation and the equation-of-state-with-capillary-pressure model for the phase behavior of a pure component under nanoconfinement

Yingnan Wang, Nadia Shardt, Chang Lu, Huazhou Li, Janet A.W. Elliott, and Zhehui Jin

Using engineering models to shorten cryoprotectant loading time for the vitrification of articular cartilage

Nadia Shardt, Zhirong Chen, Shuying Claire Yuan, Kezhou Wu, Leila Laouar, Nadr M. Jomha, and Janet A.W. Elliott

Comparison of three multi-cryoprotectant loading protocols for vitrification of porcine articular cartilage

Kezhou Wu, Nadia Shardt, Leila Laouar, Zhirong Chen, Vinay Prasad, Janet A.W. Elliott, and Nadr M. Jomha

Gibbsian thermodynamics of Wenzel wetting (Was Wenzel Wrong? Revisited)

Nadia Shardt and Janet A. W. Elliott

How surfactants affect droplet wetting on hydrophobic microstructures

Nadia Shardt, Masoud Bozorg Bigdeli, Janet A. W. Elliott, and Peichun Amy Tsai

Gibbsian thermodynamics of Cassie-Baxter wetting (Were Cassie and Baxter wrong? Revisited)

Nadia Shardt and Janet A. W. Elliott

Isobaric vapor–liquid phase diagrams for multicomponent systems with nanoscale radii of curvature

Nadia Shardt and Janet A. W. Elliott

Model for the surface tension of dilute and concentrated binary aqueous mixtures as a function of composition and temperature

Nadia Shardt and Janet A. W. Elliott

Cryoprotectant kinetic analysis of a human articular cartilage vitrification protocol

Nadia Shardt, Khaled K. Al-Abbasi, Hana Yu, Nadr M. Jomha, Locksley E. McGann, and Janet A.W. Elliott

Thermodynamic study of the role of interface curvature on multicomponent vapor–liquid phase equilibrium

Nadia Shardt and Janet A. W. Elliott

Evaluation of the constant wavenumber cutoff parameter for modeling van der Waals energy

Nadia Shardt, Subir Bhattacharjee, and Janet A. W. Elliott
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2025

  • Shardt, Nadia; Isenrich, Florin N.; Nette, Julia; Dreimol, Christopher; Ma, Ning; Kanji, Zamin A.. (2025) Microfluidic immersion freezing of binary mineral mixtures containing microcline, montmorillonite, or quartz. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)
    Academic article
  • Kleinheins, Judith; Shardt, Nadia; Lohmann, Ulrike; Marcolli, Claudia. (2025) The surface tension and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation of sea spray aerosol particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)
    Academic article

2024

  • Santana, Vinicius; Rebello, Carine Menezes; Queiroz, Luana P.; Ribeiro, Ana Mafalda; Shardt, Nadia; Nogueira, Idelfonso B. R.. (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

Journal publications

  • Shardt, Nadia; Isenrich, Florin N.; Nette, Julia; Dreimol, Christopher; Ma, Ning; Kanji, Zamin A.. (2025) Microfluidic immersion freezing of binary mineral mixtures containing microcline, montmorillonite, or quartz. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)
    Academic article
  • Kleinheins, Judith; Shardt, Nadia; Lohmann, Ulrike; Marcolli, Claudia. (2025) The surface tension and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activation of sea spray aerosol particles. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)
    Academic article
  • Santana, Vinicius; Rebello, Carine Menezes; Queiroz, Luana P.; Ribeiro, Ana Mafalda; Shardt, Nadia; Nogueira, Idelfonso B. R.. (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

Teaching

Courses

  • KP3150 - Introduction to Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • TKP4580 - Chemical Engineering, Specialization Project
  • TKP4581 - Chemical Engineering, Specialization Project
  • KP3100 - Chemical Engineering

Outreach

2025

  • Academic lecture
    Boyssou, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Guy; Gricius, Zygimantas; Øye, Gisle; Fernandino, Maria; Shardt, Nadia Oryssia Wolchuk. (2025) Titanium Nanoparticle-embedded Solid Polymeric Foams with Controlled Porosity for Water Remediation. 99th ACS Colloids & surface Science Symposium & 18th IACIS Conference , University of Alberta, Edmonton 2025-06-21 - 2025-06-25
  • Academic lecture
    Boyssou, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Guy; Gricius, Zygimantas; Øye, Gisle; Fernandino, Maria; Shardt, Nadia Oryssia Wolchuk. (2025) Titanium Nanoparticle-embedded Solid Polymeric Foams with Controlled Porosity for Water Remediation. 4th Annual TNNN Conference , UiT, Tromsø 2025-06-11 - 2025-06-13
  • Academic lecture
    Gricius, Zygimantas; Fernandino, Maria; Øye, Gisle; Shardt, Nadia Oryssia Wolchuk. (2025) Titanium Nanoparticle-embedded Solid Polymeric Foams with Controlled Porosity for Water Remediation. 99th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symp & 18th IACIS Conference , University of Alberta, Edmonton 2025-06-22 - 2025-06-26

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