Browsing by Author "G. Kane Jennings"
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Gizzie, Evan Alexander (2017-02-10)Department: ChemistryThe process of photosynthesis has served as a natural solar energy conversion system in autotrophs for billions of years. This complex biological process provides inspiration and key machinery that may be utilized in ...
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Deng, Qiang (2007-02-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringIn the context of cell encapsulation, spherical and smooth capsules are desired for optimum bio-performance. However, morphological defects can form during the encapsulation process. One important defect is associated with ...
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Brantley, Eric (2005-10-24)Department: Chemical EngineeringThe work presented herein focuses on the growth of poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) films on gold by water-accelerated, surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization and derivatization of these films with ...
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Wang, Zhangxin (2018-09-24)Department: Environmental EngineeringGrowing water scarcity and rising environmental awareness have posed stricter regulations on industrial wastewater disposal. Since many types of industrial wastewater contains significant amount of salts, desalination is ...
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Hiatt, Leslie Ann (2011-01-10)Department: ChemistryThe continual spread of diseases, such as tuberculosis and influenza, which primarily affect poverty-stricken areas, could be slowed if suitable diagnostic resources were to become available. This dissertation examines the ...
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Schindler, Bryan Joseph (2008-08-15)Department: Chemical EngineeringThis work focuses on three different aspects of adsorption equilibrium: the measurement of adsorption equilibrium into the Henry's law region for n-pentane, the calculation of the maximum isosteric heat of adsorption ...
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Lu, Jin (2005-12-05)Department: Chemical EngineeringThis thesis is motivated by the need to improve performance of aerosol simulation in air quality models. I investigate the relationship between multicomponent aerosol sectional and modal distributions, which are the two ...
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Adolph, Elizabeth Jean (2014-05-30)Department: Chemical EngineeringCutaneous defects such as diabetic ulcers, severe burns, and traumatic injuries create a need for cost-effective wound care products that restore tissue function. This dissertation describes the development of an injectable ...
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Clark, Lindsey M. (2005-07-23)Department: Chemical EngineeringGlycolysis and apoptotic cell death are integrated by the binding of hexokinase to the mitochondria where it has been reported that hexokinase phosphorylates glucose more efficiently and impedes apoptotic protein release ...
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Investigating Kinesin-based Mitotic Spindle Assembly Backup Mechanisms Using Single Molecule Methods Reinemann, Dana Nicole (2018-04-02)Department: Chemical EngineeringMolecular motors are essential to sustain life, carrying out cellular processes that require directed motion over diffusion. Kinesins are motors that use ATP hydrolysis to perform mechanical work. Mitotic kinesins generate ...
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Faulkner, Christopher James (2010-03-01)Department: Chemical EngineeringHeightened awareness in global warming and an increasing demand in energy consumption have generated a surging interest in creating sustainable alternative energy sources. One of the major challenges of incorporating ...
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Lewis, James Benjamin (2012-12-05)Department: Chemical EngineeringDue to small surface area to volume ratios, nanoscale devices can exhibit dominant surface forces that can quickly degrade un-lubricated contacting surfaces. While fluorinated materials have been widely used as lubricants ...
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Jazmin, Lara Jeline (2015-11-30)Department: Chemical EngineeringPhotoautotrophic metabolism represents the primary source of all food on earth as well as raw materials for bio-based production of fuels and chemicals. Therefore, improving photosynthetic efficiency is an important aim ...
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Egnatchik, Robert Anthony (2014-04-14)Department: Chemical EngineeringLipotoxicity from free fatty acid overload has been implicated in a variety of diseases including type II diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Incubation of hepatic cells in vitro with saturated fatty ...
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Dygert, Nicole Leigh (2008-08-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceA new deposition technique for high performance polymer films, resonant infrared laser ablation (RIR-LA) is presented. Ultraviolet laser deposition techniques have been shown to cause decomposition and depolymerization ...
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Payne, Christina Marie (2007-12-13)Department: Chemical EngineeringWe report a molecular-simulation based modeling of transport and orientation properties of single-stranded DNA molecules in a nanoscale channel as a part of a larger nanoscale device designed for rapid DNA sequencing. The ...
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Yang, Alexander Hao (2020-01-20)Department: Chemical EngineeringLipid bilayers occupying the gel and fluid phases are examined using molecular dynamics simulation. Molecular dynamics simulations of gel-phase bilayers comprised of varying compositions of distearoylphosphatidylcholine, ...
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Pu, Qing (2008-03-13)Department: Chemical EngineeringWe report the mechanical elongation of a gold nanowire in vacuum and in solvents via molecular simulation. First, by combining molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations, we ...
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Prasai, Dhiraj Kumar (2015-11-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn this thesis we first briefly explore the barrier properties of monolayer graphene. We investigate how films of graphene can be used to decouple underlying metallic (Cu, Ni) substrate from the environment to passivate ...
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Glover, Thomas Grant (2008-04-11)Department: Chemical EngineeringThis research focuses three specific topics related to gas-phase adsorption: the synthesis and characterization of a novel carbon-silica composite adsorbent material, the diffusion of condensable vapors in single adsorbent ...