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- Creator:
- Eckels, Joshua D.
- Description:
- The goal of the research was to train a surrogate model for the prediction of electric field distribution for a given electrospray emitter geometry design. The surrogate is to be used in reduced-fidelity modeling of electrospray thruster arrays. The code repository is included in the README.txt file.
- Keyword:
- Electrospray design, Martinez-Sanchez hyperboloid solution, and Electrospray engineering toolkit (ESPET)
- Citation to related publication:
- J.D. Eckels, C.B. Whittaker, B.A. Jorns, A.A. Gorodetsky, B. St. Peter, R.A. Dressler, “Simulation-based surrogate methodology of electric field for electrospray emitter geometry design and uncertainty quantification”, presented at the 37th International Electric Propulsion Conference, Boston, MA USA, June19-23, 2022 Available: https://www.electricrocket.org/IEPC_2022_Papers.html
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Jones, Monica L.H.
- Description:
- These manikins represent body shape models for children weighing 9 to 23 kg in a seated posture relevant to child restraint design. The design of child restraints is guided in part by anthropometric data describing the distributions of body dimensions of children. However, three-dimensional body shape data have not been available for children younger than three years of age. These manikins will be useful for assessing child accommodation in restraints. The SBSM can also provide guidance for the development of anthropomorphic test devices and computational models of child occupants. The sampled manikins were predicted for a range of torso length and body weight dimensions. The SBSM model was exercised for two torso lengths and nine body weights to obtain 18 body shapes. The 3D shape models can be downloaded in a standard mesh format (PLY). Each body shape is accompanied by predicted landmark locations and standard anthropometric variables.
- Keyword:
- Child anthropometry, Child restraint system, Statistical body shape model, and Anthropomorphic testing device (ATD)
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Elvati, Paolo, Luyet, Chloe, Wang, Yichun, Liu, Changjiang, VanEpps, J. Scott, Kotov, Nicholas A., and Violi, Angela
- Description:
- Amyloid nanofibers are abundant in microorganisms and are integral components of many biofilms, serving various purposes, from virulent to structural. Nonetheless, the precise characterization of bacterial amyloid nanofibers has been elusive, with incomplete and contradicting results. The present work focuses on the molecular details and characteristics of PSMa1-derived functional amyloids present in Staphylococcus aureus biofilms, using a combination of computational and experimental techniques, to develop a model that can aid the design of compounds to control amyloid formation. Results from molecular dynamics simulations, guided and supported by spectroscopy and microscopy, show that PSMa1 amyloid nanofibers present a helical structure formed by two protofilaments, have an average diameter of about 12 nm, and adopt a left-handed helicity with a periodicity of approximately 72 nm. The chirality of the self-assembled nanofibers, an intrinsic geometric property of its constituent peptides, is central to determining the fibers' lateral growth.
- Keyword:
- molecular self-assembly, computational nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology, and structural properties
- Citation to related publication:
- Paolo Elvati, Chloe Luyet, Yichun Wang, Changjiang Liu, J. Scott VanEpps, Nicholas A. Kotov, and Angela Violi ACS Applied Nano Materials 2023 6 (8), 6594-6604 DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c00174
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Carducci, Vincent and Mascorella, Anna
- Description:
- What does/can/should an egalitarian metropolis look like? And how does a focus on Detroit allow us to ask and answer these conceptual—and practical—questions in ways that draw on a variety of disciplines including architecture, history, urban planning, and the urban humanities?, This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on urban studies, urban design, and the ways that concerns around social justice and equity can influence how we think about cities in the past, present, and future. Drawing on a range of faculty expertise in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, this team-taught course also incorporates the voices of practitioners and community members involved in current attempts to revitalize Detroit and “Detroit-like” cities in the United States and elsewhere. By “Detroit-like cities” we mean urban areas that have experienced negative population growth, deindustrialization, economic disinvestment, racial stratification, environmental injustices, and concomitant crises in housing, health care, policing, criminalization, and education. At the same time, Detroit and Detroit-like cities offer opportunities to conjoin critical humanistic inquiry, urban design, and policy solutions for building more equitable and sustainable cities., and This course is co-designed and co-taught as part of the Egalitarian Metropolis Project, which is a partnership between the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It combines traditional course materials with a team-based orientation to teaching and learning. More information about the EM Classroom can be found at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/egalitarianmetropolis/em-classroom/.
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Geng, Yina, Van Anders, Greg, and Glotzer, Sharon C.
- Description:
- The data are the 13 target structures used in developing our model for predicting colloidal crystal structures from the geometries of particular shapes. The target structures are: simple cubic (SC), body-centered cubic (BCC), face-centered cubic (FCC), simple chiral cubic (SCC), hexagonal (HEX-1-0.6), diamond (D), graphite (G), honeycomb (H), body-centered tetragonal (BCT-1-1-2.4), high-pressure Lithium (Li), Manganese (beta-Mn), Uranium (beta-U), Tungsten (beta-W). At least nine simulations were run on each of the target structures. All of the data are formatted as .pos files.
- Keyword:
- Inverse Design and Machine Learning
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Agrawal, Mayank and Glotzer, Sharon C
- Description:
- Micron-scale robots require systems that can morph into arbitrary target configurations controlled by external agents such as heat, light, electricity, and chemical environment. Achieving this behavior using conventional approaches is challenging because the available materials at these scales are not programmable like their macroscopic counterparts. To overcome this challenge, we propose a design strategy to make a robotic machine that is both programmable and compatible with colloidal-scale physics. Our strategy uses motors in the form of active colloidal particles that constantly propel forward. We sequence these motors end-to-end in a closed chain forming a two-dimensional loop that folds under its mechanical constraints. We encode the target loop shape and its motion by regulating six design parameters, each scale-invariant and achievable at the colloidal scale. The research dataset includes simulation, visualization, and analysis scripts and results generated for the 2D chain loops of self-propelling particles. File Description:, -- arrows_folding - Contains the data for the folded chain loop shapes resembling an arrowhead., -- bending_vs_variation - Contains the data to study the stability of a particular shape in simulations as one of the segments of the shape bends and/or the distribution of propulsion on it varies., -- curved_triangle - Contains the data to study motion and bending of a triangle shape made using chain loop., -- example_shapes - Contains data for various examples of shapes that can be generated by designing the chain loops., -- nskT_vs_fakT - Contains the data for a specific shape to study the effect of scaling up the number of particles (governed by ns) and the propulsion (governed by fa) in its chain., -- stability - Contains the data and theoretical model (stability.py) to study the stability of the six different shapes., -- tuning_design_forM - Contains the data for sequential tuning the design parameters to fold the shape "M" as described in the corresponding publication., and -- two_neighboring_cds_segments_ - Contains the data to study a system of two neighboring chain segments with respect to different parameters discussed in the publication.
- Keyword:
- active particles, colloidal robotics, design, kilobots, and morphological control
- Citation to related publication:
- Agrawal, M, Glotzer SC. (2020). Scale-free, programmable design of morphable chain loops of kilobots and colloidal motors. PNAS. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922635117
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Rivera-Rivera, Luis Y., Moore, Timothy C., and Glotzer, Sharon C.
- Description:
- The dataset is organized as follows: the data for each of the three target structures is contained within a directory with the structure name (e.g., kagome, pyrocholore and snub-square). Within each structure directory, data obtained from alchemical and self-assembly simulations are separated into alchem and self-assembly directories respectively. An additional suboptimal-self-assembly directory is only present for the snub-square structure and contains the data for the pattern registration analysis discussed in the SI. For a detailed description of each file contained within each directory, please refer to the README file.
- Keyword:
- inverse design, self-assembly, triblock Janus particles, crystallization slot, and digital alchemy
- Citation to related publication:
- Rivera-Rivera, LY, Moore, TC & SC Glotzer. Inverse design of triblock Janus spheres for self-assembly of complex structures in the crystallization slot via digital alchemy. Soft Matter, 2023, 19, 2726-2736 doi: 10.1039/d2sm01593e
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Moser, Carol, Schoenebeck, Sarita , and Resnick, Paul
- Description:
- These data, survey instruments (including informed consent) and analysis scripts come from Carol Moser's dissertation titled, Impulse Buying: Designing for Self-Control with E-commerce.
- Keyword:
- Impulse Buying, Self-control, and Experimental Design
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Dillahunt, Tawanna R., Lam, Jason, Lu, Alex, and Wheeler, Earnest
- Description:
- Today’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) support job searches, resume creation and the ability to highlight employment skills on social media. However, these technological tools are often tailored to high-income, highly educated users, and white-collar professionals. It is unclear what interventions address the needs of job seekers who have limited resources, education, or who may be underserved in other ways. We gathered insights from past literature and generated ten tangible design concepts to address the needs of underserved job seekers. We then conducted a needs validation and speed dating study to understand which concepts were most viable among our population. We found that the three most preferred concepts immediately addressed job seekers’ most practical needs. and Per reviewer feedback, we aim to improve the utility of this publication to other scholars by including our research materials here. This dataset includes the interview script, storyboards that were used in the needs validation study, the demographics survey/questionnaire, and the consent form.
- Keyword:
- Design, Underserved job seekers, Storyboards, Speed dating, Employment, and Needs Validation
- Discipline:
- Other
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- Creator:
- Whitaker, Steven T., Nataraj, Gopal, Nielsen, Jon-Fredrik, and Fessler, Jeffrey A.
- Description:
- File: P,jf06Sep2019,mese.7 The multi-echo spin echo (MESE) data was acquired using a 3D acquisition with an initial 90 degree excitation pulse followed by 32 refocusing (180 degree) pulses, resulting in 32 echoes with echo spacing of 10 ms. The repetition time of the sequence was 1200 ms. Each refocusing pulse was flanked by crusher gradients to impart 14 cycles of phase across the imaging volume. The initial excitation pulse had time-bandwidth product of 6, duration of 3 ms, and slab thickness of 0.9 cm, and each refocusing pulse had time-bandwidth product of 2, duration of 2 ms, and slab thickness of 2.1 cm. The scan took 36 min 11 s and covered a field of view (FOV) of 22 x 22 x 0.99 cm^3 with matrix size 200 x 200 x 9., File: P,jf06Sep2019,b1.7 The Bloch-Siegert (BS) scans were acquired using a 3D acquisition. The excitation pulse of these scans had time-bandwidth product of 8 and duration of 1 ms. The pair of scans used +/-4 kHz off-resonant Fermi pulses between excitation and readout. The BS scans took 2 min 40 s in total and covered a FOV of 22 x 22 x 0.99 cm^3 with matrix size 200 x 50 x 9., File: P,jf06Sep2019,mwf.7 The small-tip fast recovery (STFR) scans were acquired using a 3D acquisition. The first two and last two scans were pairs of spoiled gradient-recalled echo (SPGR) scans with echo time difference of 2.3 ms. (In the related paper, only the first set was used, i.e., only 11 of the 13 scans were used.) The remaining scans used scan parameters that were optimized to minimize the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) of estimates of myelin water fraction (MWF). The RF pulses had time-bandwidth product of 8 and duration of 1 ms. Each pair of SPGR scans took 58 s and the nine STFR scans took 3 min 36 s for a total scan time of 5 min 32 s (4 min 34 s if one pair of SPGR scans is ignored). The scans covered a field of view (FOV) of 22 x 22 x 0.99 cm^3 with matrix size 200 x 200 x 9., File: meseslice5.mat Contains the 32 echoes of the MESE image data for the middle slice of the imaging volume. Saved using Mathworks MATLAB R2019a., File: b1slice5.mat Contains the transmit field inhomogeneity map for the middle slice of the imaging volume., File: recon.jld Key "img" contains the 11 STFR images for the middle slice of the imaging volume. Key "b0map" contains a field map estimated from the two SPGR scans. Key "mask" contains a mask of the voxels for which to estimate MWF. Key "T1img" contains a T1-weighted image for anatomical reference., File: headmask.mat Contains a mask for visualizing just the brain (ignores the skull) for the middle slice of the imaging volume., File: rois.mat Contains masks for various regions of interest (ROIs), used for computing statistics. Keys "mtopleft", "mtopright", "mbottomleft", and "mbottomright" refer to the corresponding locations on the anatomical reference image (see related paper). Key "mic" refers to the internal capsules, and key "mgm" refers to a gray matter ROI., The raw data files (P-files) can be read into the Julia programming language using the Julia version of the Michigan Image Reconstruction Toolbox ( https://github.com/JeffFessler/MIRT.jl) or into MATLAB using TOPPE ( https://github.com/toppeMRI/toppe). The reconstructed slices used in the related paper are provided for convenience, and are stored in .mat files that can be loaded into Julia (using the package MAT.jl) or MATLAB, and a .jld file that can be loaded into Julia (using the package JLD.jl). The Julia code for processing the data to create MWF maps is hosted publicly on GitHub at https://github.com/StevenWhitaker/STFR-MWF., and Files: toppe-master.zip and MIRT.jl-master.zip are archived versions of the TOPPE and Michigan Image Reconstruction Toolbox code sets from GitHub as of 2/28/2020.
- Keyword:
- myelin, machine learning, kernel learning, magnetic resonance imaging, and scan design
- Citation to related publication:
- Whitaker, S. T., Nataraj, G., Nielsen, J.-F., & Fessler, J. A. (2020). Myelin water fraction estimation using small-tip fast recovery MRI. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 84(4), 1977–1990. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28259
- Discipline:
- Health Sciences and Engineering