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Fabrication, Characterization of locally strained 2D Heterostructure
Two-dimensional materials are atomic thick when exfoliated down to monolayers. 2D semiconductors are of special interests because they have a bandgap that graphene does not,hence they provide a good platform for studying ... -
Fused Deposition Modeling of Composite Reinforced by Continuous Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fiber
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) of composites with compliant high-strength fibers couldexpand opportunities for the design and fabrication of complex compliant structures. However, this area of additive manufacturing (AM) ... -
Genetically Engineered Solid Binding Peptides (GEPI) for Surface Biofunctionalization Applications: Immobilization of Enzymes and Antimicrobial Peptides on Solids
Biological activation and functionalization of solid material interfaces by functional integration of biomolecules is emerging as one of the most dynamic fields of research, impacting a diverse array of applications. Recent ... -
Grain growth in sintered Zn0 ceramics
(1990)The effects of the ZnO initial powder particle size and the spinel forming additives, Nb$\sb2$O$\sb5$ and Al$\sb2$O$\sb3$, on the ZnO grain growth processes and grain growth kinetics in pure ZnO and ZnO + 6 wt% Bi$\sb2$O$\sb3$ ... -
Graph-Structured Random Hermitian Matrices to Model Electron Dynamics During Protein Folding
Random Matrix Theory is a well-known method in physics and mathematics to model quantum chaos by studying the statistics of energy states of both fermionic and nucleonic systems on the ergodic timescale. Additionally, ... -
Hephaestus: Solving the Heterogeneous, Highly Constrained Analog Placement Problem
(2012-09-13)The purpose of this research was to investigate alternative methods for placement of highly constrained, heterogeneous architectures. Because of certain constraints on these architectures, traditional methods for placement ... -
Heterofunctional Solid-Binding Peptides for Nucleic Acid Sensing Towards the Development of Cancer Biosensors
A key challenge in designing biosensors is achieving high detection sensitivity without compromising target specificity. Field-effect transistors based on 2D solids offer enhanced sensitivity due to their atomically thin ... -
Highly Conductive Silver Flake/nanowire Composites Inks and 3D Printing Processing in Flexible Electrodes Application
Nowadays, conductive ink has attracted our attention in research and industry due to their popularity in printed electronics. Among various conductive inks, silver ink has been explored deeply and widely because its high ... -
Hybrid chitosan-alginate scaffolds for bone and cartilage tissue engineering
(2007)The regeneration of new bone or cartilage to restore the function of traumatized, damaged, or lost bone or cartilage is a major clinical and socioeconomic burden. In recent years, a new cutting-edge procedure, bone- and ... -
Hybrid Perovskite Design through Composition and its Impact on Growth and Morphology
Hybrid perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) have emerged into the academic and industrial communities as a potentially transformative alternative to prevailing silicon technologies. PVSCs have rapidly increased in efficiency in ... -
Impact of Structure and Defect Modification on Vanadium Oxide for Alkali-ion Battery Electrodes
The proliferation of portable electronics and electric vehicles paired with the updating of an antiquated grid system has driven the rapid progression of improved technologies related to energy distribution and storage. ... -
Impact of Vacancies and Chemistry on Iron-based Electrodes for Alkali-ion Batteries
The exponential growth in population and worldwide prosperity during the last century is reciprocal with energy consumption. Recent environmentalism and government regulation have produced greater demand for green energies ... -
Improvement in Cyclic Stability of Sodium Ion Battery Cathodes through Surface Modification
Layered type cathodes used in Sodium Ion batteries are prone to structural degradation as they undergo electrochemical cycling. The structural degradation is the consequence of transition metal dissolution due to unstable ... -
Improving Device Efficiencies in Organic Photovoltaics through the Manipulation of Device Architectures and the Development of Low-Bandgap Materials
(2013-11-14)Over the past two decades, vast amounts of research have been conducted in the pursuit of suitable organic semiconductors to replace inorganic materials in electronic applications due to their advantages of being lightweight, ... -
Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) Device as Plasma Injection Source
In this thesis paper, full experimental and analytical processes of cylindrical IEC plasma injection source and Langmuir probe tests are discussed. The IEC plasma injection source is constructed for DOE project to interact ... -
Injectable biodegradable chitosan-alginate hydrogel for gene delivery
Currently, non-viral gene delivery vectors are widely used to encapsulate plasmid DNA or mRNA into nanoparticles that transport the genetic material to cells of interest. Although non-viral vectors have not received ... -
Integrated Material and Device Engineering Towards Reliable, High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are a diverse, versatile, and multifunctional material class that have soared to prominence because of their application in solar cells. Perovskite Solar Cells (PVKSCs) are promising ... -
Integrated Morphology, Interfacial, and Device Engineering towards High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
As a promising renewable energy technology, perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) have made a tremendous progress and received significant attention in recent years, due to the low-cost solution process fabrication, superior ... -
Interactions between grain boundary faceting, migration, and grain rotation: color group and molecular dynamics simulation approaches
(2006)Color group theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to study the faceting and rotation of grains in nanocrystalline materials and their interactions. Color group arguments were used to determine symmetry-dictated ... -
Interface Engineering to Enhance the Mechanical Performance of Aluminum Thin Film Deposited on PET Substrate
Al films magnetron sputtered on PET substrates with varying interfacial adhesion were produced by controlling the time of the plasma etching prior to the Al deposition. Uniaxial tension and laser-induced thin film spallation ...