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IfThresholds Software Package: score ranking standard threshold methods by comparing images produced by thresholding with manually labeled images
This dissertation details my research on threshold methods commonly used in image analysis and the development of the Python package ifThresholds. Imaging in biological and life science research is routinely performed, ... -
Illuminating the Potential of Thin-Film Photovoltaics
Widespread adoption of photovoltaics (PV) as an alternative electricity source will be predicated upon improvements in price performance compared to traditional power sources. Solution processing of thin-film PV is one ... -
Image-Guided Microvasculature Generation in Photodegradable Hydrogels
The complex vascular networks that exist throughout living organisms are necessary to sustain life, transporting nutrients and oxygen to and waste products from tissues in the blood. Though recent advances in biofabrication ... -
Immunogenicity of gold nanoshell/silica core nanoplasmonics and photothermal induced-cell death
(2013-04-17)Cancer is one of the three leading causes of death in industrialized nations. Conventional therapies, including surgical removal, chemotherapy, and radiation provide increasingly effective methods for the treatment of ... -
Immunomodulatory porous regenerative scar-free scaffolds for in-situ vascular engineering (IMPRESSIVE)
Tissue Engineering has long promised to regenerate tissues for restoring health in patients. However, the requirements of cell harvesting, in vitro expansion, cell seeding, maturation in bioreactors, and decellularization ... -
Implementation of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy on the Mobile Phone
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in portable devices, household electronics, and transportation vehicles. Accurately estimating the state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH), and remaining usable lifetime (RUL) of ... -
Improved Performance in Plasmonic Biosensors for Bacterial Detection Through Dielectric Conditioning and Dielectrophoretic Enhancement
The need for rapid and specific pathogen detection is of utmost importance. Current culture based methods are time consuming, and more efficient technologies would benefit wideranging fields including food safety, biomedicine, ... -
Improvement of Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Composites
(2014-04-30)The use of reinforced polymer-matrix composite materials is growing rapidly. Their low weight, high strength and stiffness and resistance to corrosion make them particularly well suited for aerospace applications. The ... -
Improving Safety and Efficacy of Protein Therapeutics by Chemical Modifications
Protein therapeutics offer the advantages of high specificity and potency. However, their applications are greatly limited due to undesired immune responses, which not only reduce their therapeutic efficacy, but also cause ... -
Improving the accuracy and efficiency of Machine Learning derived interatomic potentials
Understanding molecules and molecular interactions has been an active field of research in many fields like materials discovery, catalysis design, biomedicine, and drug design. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is one of ... -
Injectable Biomaterials for Transplantation of Cardiac Cell-Based Therapies
The global burden of heart disease, as well as the heart’s inability to regenerate, continues to account for 1 in 5 deaths in the developed world. This makes progressive heart failure the number one killer worldwide. On ... -
Insights into Catalysts from Metal Adsorption and Adhesion Energies: How Metal Chemical Potential Depends on Nanoparticle Size and Support Material and How Solvents Affect Stability of Adsorbates
Heterogeneous catalysts consisting of transition metal nanoparticles anchored to oxide and carbon support materials are ubiquitous in chemical production and pollution control. Despite their importance, the fundamental ... -
Integrating Energy Storage Systems into Renewable Grid Applications: A Model-based Approach
Accurate and economical sizing of stand-alone power system components, including batteries, has been an active area of research in renewable grid applications, but current approaches to integrating batteries into the entire ... -
Interfacial and Transport Properties of Nanoconstrained Inorganic and Organic Materials
(2014-02-24)Nanoscale constraints impact the material properties of both organic and inorganic systems. The systems specifically studied here are (i) nanoconstrained polymeric systems, poly(l-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne) (PTMSP) and ... -
Interfacial nanorheology: probing molecular mobility in mesoscopic polymeric systems
(2004)Investigating the finite size limited structural relaxations in mesoscopic polymer systems is central to nanotechnological applications involving thin films, complex structures, and nanoscale phase-separated systems; for ... -
Interrogating the Chemical Processes that Govern Solid-Electrolyte Interphase Growth with Molecular Simulations
A major cause of capacity fade in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can be attributed to the formation of the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI), which is a layer that forms at the interface between the electrode surface and ... -
Ionic Liquid Design Using Molecular Simulation and Statistical Methods
Solicitous use of time is crucial for material design. In the material domain presented in this work, ionic liquids (ILs), there are theoretically 1014-18 possible pairwise molecular structures—too many to synthesize ... -
Isotachophoresis Enhanced Point-of-Care Immunoassays for Clinical Diagnostics
Lateral flow diagnostics are the most common and most commercially successful form of point-of-care diagnostic. The first and most prevalent lateral flow assay is the pregnancy test. Lateral flow assays are low cost, ... -
Lanthanum Ferrite-Based Mixed-Conducting Electrodes for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and electrolysis cells (SOECs) potentially facilitate efficient, decentralized, and environmentally sustainable interconversion of electricity and carbon-containing ... -
Laser-induced heat and momentum transfer in nanostructure processing
The ability to engineer materials with precise atomic structure represents one of the major challenges in chemistry and materials science. Steps toward this goal have led to applications in medicine, chemistry, physics, ...