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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, ... -
Leveraging Efficient Physics-based Models for Insights into Lithium Sulfur Batteries
Energy storage is critical to adoption of renewables and combating climate change. As the burgeoning requirements for electric transportation outpace the current lithium-ion technology, the race to commercialize the ... -
Light-induced Suppression on Forming Secondary Phases in FA-rich Perovskite
Investigating the environmental factors that affect the degradation pathway in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites such as (MA,FA,Cs)Pb(I,Br)3 is important for improving their stability. In this work, we show that ... -
Linear and Nonlinear Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Lithium-ion Batteries
Whole cell, <em>in situ</em> diagnostics capable of sensitive and selective characterization of the physicochemical processes governing lithium-ion battery performance are critical for improving battery safety, cost, and ... -
Logic-Based Delivery of Site-Specifically-Modified Proteins from Gels through Engineered Biomacromolecular Architecture
Stimuli-responsive behavior has been widely used to design hydrogels for the delivery of therapeutic proteins. However, these delivery platforms are often restricted to a single programmed stimulus. Designing a simple, ... -
Logical Control over Biomaterial Properties through Boolean Responsive Linkers
Medicine is fundamentally constrained by our ability to manipulate the levers and gears of biology—cells, genes, and proteins. Typical approaches, including systemic therapeutic administration and surgery, lack the precision ... -
Machine Learning of Amino Acid Composition Models for Protein Redesign
Proteins from thermophiles can preserve their basic structures and original functions at high temperature. However, most of the mesophilic proteins are vulnerable to such extreme condition due to their different amino acid ... -
Machine Learning-Based Determination of Protein Secondary Structures
The main purpose of this thesis is to construct a machine learning model that yields protein secondary structures from sequences and circular dichroism (CD) spectra, and test the contribution of each part. This effort is ... -
Making Ceramic Membranes Used in Redox Flow Batteries with Sol-gel Process
To increase the amount of renewable energy utilized in electrical grids, large- scale batteries are required. Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are promising batteries. However, the high cost of electrolytes and membranes impede ... -
Materials and magnetic studies of cobalt-doped anatase titanium dioxide and perovskite strontium titanate as potential dilute magnetic semiconductors
(2004)Deposition of cobalt-doped anatase TiO2 and cobalt-doped perovskite SrTiO3 (STO) utilizing molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) was investigated in an effort to achieve a dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS) system with desirable ... -
Mathematical modeling of the pharyngeal phase of swallowing
(1996)A significant portion of the population suffers from difficulty in swallowing, known as dysphagia, including 12 to 13% of hospitalized patients and 40% of nursing home residents. Dysphagia can make it impossible for a ... -
MD Simulations of Sequence Tuned Peptides Supramolecular Structures on Graphene Interface
Peptide conformations are pivotal for biomolecular interactions that determine to a great deal biofunctional activities. State-of-the-art experiments provide limited insight into molecular scale aspects of the weak ... -
Measurement of platelet intracellular free calcium ion concentration by ratio fluorescence microscopy: a study of platelet activation induced by contact with biomaterials
(1997)Ratio fluorescence microscopy was used to image and measure the intracellular concentration of free calcium ion, (Ca$\sp{++}\rbrack \sb{\rm i}$, in single human platelets during attachment and spreading on several ... -
Mechanical Simulation of Human Pleura for Medical Training by Crosslinked Polyurethane
Due to the absence of abundant mechanical data on human tissues, currently used medical training materials and devices are not well simulated by synthetics, which hampers the ability of trainees such as soldiers to best ... -
Metabolic engineering of the ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway in M. extorquens AM1 for 1-butanol production
<italic>M. extorquens</italic> AM1 has several advantages as a potential platform strain for industrial production of valuable chemicals, such as the capability of using an inexpensive carbon feedstock, clarified central ... -
Metabolic flux analysis and metabolomics of Methylotrophs
Methylotrophs are a group of microbes that use C1 compounds as the sole carbon and energy source, which are of interest to be used as platforms for bioconversion of C1 substrates to valuable chemicals and fuels. Methylobacterium ... -
Methods to Assess Presence and Biological Impact of Engineered Nanoparticles
During the past two decades, the rates of development and production of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) have rapidly increased due to their potential applications in medicine, cosmetics, energy, manufacturing, catalysis, ... -
Mineralization of titania with sfGFP-Car9 variants
Biomineralization is a process that emulates nature’s way of producing nanostructured materials under benign conditions and with the aid of biomolecules. It offers an environmentally friendly alternative for synthesizing ... -
Mixed-charge copolymer as environmentally friendly low fouling marine coatings
Self-polishing marine coatings made of mixed charged and other hydrophobic methacrylates are developed via free radical polymerization. By introducing the mixed-charge structure into the copolymer system, the marine coatings ...