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Quantitative Photothermal Heating and Cooling Measurements of Engineered Nanoparticles in an Optical Trap
Laser tweezers and optical trapping has provided scientists and engineers a unique way to study the wealth of phenomena that materials exhibit at the micro- and nanoscale, much of which remains mysterious. Of particular ... -
Real-time photoelectron spectroscopy study of the oxidation reaction kinetics on p-type and n-type Si (001) surfaces
Silicon oxides thermally grown on Si surface are the core gate materials of metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). This thin oxide layer insulates the gate terminals and the transistors substrate which ... -
Self-Assembled Chitin Nanofibers: Properties and Applications
Bio-inspired materials offer intrinsic properties such as biodegradability and biocompatibility. These properties make these materials strong candidates for a variety of applications such as biomedical, textile, filtration, ... -
Simulation Based Optimization of Complex Monolithic Composite Structures Using Cellular Core Technology
Cellular core tooling is a new technology which has the capability to manufacture complex integrated monolithic composite structures. This novel tooling method utilizes thermoplastic cellular cores as inner tooling. The ... -
Single-atom Iron-doped Graphene Quantum Dots Synthesized by a Green Chemical Method for High-efficiency Glucose Detection
Nanozymes have emerged as a promising class of nanomaterials that mimic the catalytic activity of natural enzymes. In this study, we present the synthesis and characterization of single Fe atom-doped graphene quantum dots ... -
Sol electrophoretic growth of oxide nanostructures: synthesis, properties and modeling
(2004)There is great interest in the ability to form oxide (especially complex oxide) nanorods, given the number of functional properties exhibited by oxide materials. This research examines the template-based growth of nanorods ... -
Solid State Joining of Dissimilar Titanium Alloys
Solid state joining of titanium via friction stir welding and diffusion bonding have emerged as enablers of efficient monolithic structural designs by the eliminations fasteners for the aerospace industry. As design ... -
Solid-Binding Peptides Enable Biomolecular Surface Assemblies and Mineralization
The field of biomimicry spans many disciplines, with the common goal being to bring natural advances to modern technology. Understanding how organisms are capable of forming and modifying solids has been a fundamental ... -
Solution-Phase Bulk Synthesis of Covalently Functionalized Black Phosphorus Nanosheets
Phosphorene—a two-dimensional layered semiconductor derived from the exfoliation of black phosphorus (BP)—is attracting significant interest in the nanomaterials community due to its high charge-carrier mobility, tunable ... -
Structure-Property Relationships for Human Dentin: The Importance of Biological and Chronological Aging
The increase in number of senior patients has become a major challenge in the field of dentistry. Senior patients are more likely to experience tooth fracture, which often necessitates tooth extraction. Understanding the ... -
Structure-Property Relationships in Natural Materials: The Case of Tooth Enamel
Tooth enamel, a tissue recognized for its ability to survive a lifetime of cyclic contact and other functions, has attracted research attention across a variety of fields. In this dissertation, two fields of enamel research ... -
Structure-Property Relationships in Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
Over the past 100 years, there has been a complete disregard for the environmental impact of unregulated burning of fossil fuels. This has led to an increase in the greenhouse gas emissions, atmospheric CO2, global ... -
Studies of n-Channel Organic Field-Effect Transistors Based on Naphthalene Diimide-Based Copolymers
I report n-channel organic field-effect transistors fabricated by PNDITz, PNDITS and a series of NDI-based random copolymers, TSxBS, where x = 0, 10, 20, 50, consisting of naphthalene diimide (NDI), triselenophene (TS), ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Fe70Pd30 Nanohelices
A device performing controlled actuation and motion at the nanoscale will be the essential component for future nanoelectromechanical systems. Fe70Pd30 ferromagnetic shape memory (FSMA) alloy shows multi-functional effects, ... -
Synthesis of poly(3-[2-{2-methoxyethoxy}ethoxy]thiophene) for Mixed Ionic Electronic Conductors
Mixed ionic-electronic conductors (MIECs) show great promise for applications ranging from biosensors and organic electrochemical transistors to fuel cells and batteries. However, there is still not much known about what ... -
Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticle Based Conductive Inks for Additively Manufactured Electronics
Printed electronics is an emerging area of study at the forefront of additive manufacturing technology. Additively manufactured electronic devices have many novel application areas, including three-dimensional microbatteries, ... -
Synthesis, characterization, and laser refrigeration of rare-earth doped fluoride nanostructures
Rare-earth (RE) doped materials with unique 4f electronic structures show special optical phenomena at the macro- and microscale, which are commonly studied through laser-mediated experiments. Recently, RE doped nanocrystals ... -
The Design of Flexible Organic Photovoltaic Fibers
The possibility of using solution processing methods that are vacuum free and low temperatures, are attractive properties of organic π-conjugate polymers. These properties can be used to facilitate the processing of organic ... -
The development and characterization of precursor-derived silicon carbide based materials for direct power extraction applications
In the presented SiC/C system, a thorough characterization has been done including analyzing structural, morphological, elemental and surface electronic data. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used for structure analysis; scanning ... -
The growth and elastoresistance measurement of FeTe1-xSex
The iron-based superconductors (FeSCs) is one of the only two high temperature superconductors. Soon after its discovery, mounting experiments performed on several families of FeSCs demonstrate the existence of an electronic ...