Browsing by Subject "Materials Science"
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3D Printable Lithium Ion Batteries and the Effect of Aspect Ratio of CuAg Nanowires on Graphite Anode Performance.
(2018)The majority of consumer electronic devices, electric vehicles, and aerospace electronics are powered by lithium ion batteries because of their high energy and power densities. Commercially available lithium ion batteries ... -
A High-Throughput Framework for Materials Research And Space Group Determination Algorithm
(2012)Effective computational materials search, categorization, and design necessitates a high-throughput (HT) approach. System by system analyses lack the scope and speed needed to uncover large portions of the materials landscape. ... -
A Model of Lung Tumor Angiogenesis in a Biomimetic Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Hydrogel System
(2016)Tumor angiogenesis is critical to tumor growth and metastasis, yet much is unknown about the role vascular cells play in the tumor microenvironment. A major outstanding challenge associated with studying tumor angiogenesis ... -
A Semi-Empirical Monte Carlo Method of Organic Photovoltaic Device Performance in Resonant, Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation (RIR-MAPLE) Films
(2015)Utilizing the power of Monte Carlo simulations, a novel, semi-empirical method for investigating the performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) in resonant infrared, matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (RIR-MAPLE) ... -
Acoustic and Magnetic Techniques for the Isolation and Analysis of Cells in Microfluidic Platforms
(2016)Cancer comprises a collection of diseases, all of which begin with abnormal tissue growth from various stimuli, including (but not limited to): heredity, genetic mutation, exposure to harmful substances, radiation as well ... -
Active Surface Deformation Technology for Management of Marine Biofouling
(2016)Biofouling, the accumulation of biomolecules, cells, organisms and their deposits on submerged and implanted surfaces, is a ubiquitous problem across various human endeavors including maritime operations, medicine, food ... -
Active Surfaces and Interfaces of Soft Materials
(2014)A variety of intriguing surface patterns have been observed on developing natural systems, ranging from corrugated surface of white blood cells at nanometer scales to wrinkled dog skins at millimeter scales. To mimetically ... -
Additive Engineering for High-Performance Perovskite Photovoltaics
(2018)Perovskite photovoltaics has attracted tremendous attention recently due to the advance in the device performance. However, it is still challenging to effectively commercialize the perovskite technology due to several issues ... -
Bioengineered Approaches to Prevent Hypertrophic Scar Contraction
(2016)Burn injuries in the United States account for over one million hospital admissions per year, with treatment estimated at four billion dollars. Of severe burn patients, 30-90% will develop hypertrophic scars (HSc). Current ... -
Characterization and Applications of Force-induced Reactions
(2015)Just as heat, light and electricity do, mechanical forces can also stimulate reactions. Conventionally, these processes - known as mechanochemistry - were viewed as comprising only destructive events, such as bond scission ... -
Characterization of Bacterially Precipitated Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles for Photoelectrochemical Applications
(2015)Cadmium sulfide (CdS) is one of the most commonly used II/VI semiconductor materials because of its electron energy band edge positions. CdS nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in applications such as photodegradation of ... -
Compressive Sensing in Transmission Electron Microscopy
(2018)Electron microscopy is one of the most powerful tools available in observational science. Magnifications of 10,000,000x have been achieved with picometer precision. At this high level of magnification, individual atoms are ... -
Computational Materials Genome Initiative by High-Throughput Approaches
(2013)Recently, in materials innovations, computational methods are used more frequently than in past decades. In this thesis, the materials genome initiative, an advanced new framework, will be introduced. With this blueprint, ... -
Conformational and Mechanical Characterization of Organic Thin Films on Surfaces by Neutron Reflection and Atomic Force Microscopy
(2014)Engineering thin, organic materials with tailored properties requires both the understanding of the conformation of thin organic films and their conformational response to changes in the environment, and the accurate ... -
Copper-Based Nanowires for Printable Memory and Stretchable Conductors
(2018)In the field of electronic materials, metal nanowires have been extensively studied for both their syntheses and their properties in electronic composites and devices. This dissertation addresses challenges in the field ... -
Correlation of Finite Element Analysis to Impacted Composite Plates
(2011)The purpose of this thesis was to examine progressive composite damage models available within LS-DYNA and to correlate the results of these models with drop weight impact testing and with the non-destructive evaluation ... -
Crack Nucleation and Branching in the eXtended Finite Element Method
(2013)The eXtended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) has proven to be a robust method for simulating crack propagation, but relatively little work has focused on the important problem of crack initiation or nucleation. In this work, ... -
Crystal Symmetry Algorithms in a High-Throughput Framework for Materials Research
(2013)The high-throughput framework AFLOW that has been developed and used successfully over the last decade is improved to include fully-integrated software for crystallographic symmetry characterization. The standards used in ... -
Design and Experimental Applications of Acoustic Metamaterials
(2013)Acoustic metamaterials are engineered materials that were extensively investigated over the last years mainly because they promise properties otherwise hard or impossible to find in nature. Consequently, they open the door ... -
Design and Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures for Plasmon-Enhanced Catalysis
(2017)The chemical industry depends on heterogeneous thermocatalytic processes to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for fuels and fertilizers. High temperatures and high pressures are generally required to accelerate chemical ...
