Browsing by Subject "Energy"
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(2014-03-21)Department: ChemistryOver the course of billions of years, nature has developed incredible materials on the nanoscale for the efficient conversion of solar energy into chemical energy. One of these materials, Photosystem I (PSI), functions as ...
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Centennial Professor of Philosophy John Lachs: "Great ideas of the 19th century" Nov. 3, 2010 class (Vanderbilt University, 2010-11-29)
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(2014-03-25)Department: Environmental EngineeringRecent increases in competition for water, food, and energy are exposing the complex network threading these resources together. My dissertation explores how the interactions among these resources affect decisions about ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04)With Climate Change at the center of many global political and policy debates, a Pigouvian tax on carbon dioxide emissions remains a favorite solution among economists and other policy experts. However, asymmetric ...
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(2023-07-24)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceElectrospinning is a promising approach for fabricating energy storage materials with significant morphological control. Electrospun fibers provide an inherently porous template that can be easily modified with additives ...
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(Vanderbilt University. School of Engineering, 2008-04-14)
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(2016-07-22)Department: Earth and Environmental SciencesMethane (CH₄) in the atmosphere accounts for 18% of the climate warming attributed to greenhouse gases. The majority of CH₄ emitted is due to natural mechanisms (biogenic CH₄), but even the smaller contribution of ...
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(2019-01-28)Department: Chemical EngineeringFuel cells offer high energy-density and high power-density as sustainable, portable energy conversion devices. Obstacles to mass-market adoption of this technology include insufficient durability (power density retention ...
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(2014-07-25)Department: HistoryThis paper explores the construction and exhibition of the first solar-powered engine at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris by Augustin-Bernard Mouchot (1825-1912). It traces the development of a discourse of resource ...