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Multiscale Investigation of the Nonlinear Rheology of Wormlike Micelles
(2018)
Wormlike micelles (WLMs) are formed by reversible self-assembly of amphiphilic (e.g. surfactant) molecules usually with the aid of salt which acts to screen the electrostatic repulsion between the micelles to achieve giant ...
Investigation of the Optical Properties of Novel Organic Macromolecules for Solar Cell Applications.
(2015)
The search for renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuel has been a major research focus in the energy sector. The sun, with its vast amount of energy, remains the most abundant and ubiquitous energy source that far ...
Selective Wettability Membranes and Surfaces for the Separation of Oil-Water Mixtures, Extractions, and Fouling Prevention
(2018)
The separation of miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures is one of the most widely utilized unit operations in the world. The energy-efficient separation of immiscible oil-water mixtures is critical for a wide variety ...
Probing Heat Transport and Energy Conversion at the Atomic and Single Molecule Scale
(2018)
The study of heat transport and energy conversion constitutes an important subject in modern physics and engineering research. The widely-applied Fourier’s and Planck’s laws have proven to be very useful to describe heat ...
Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation of Polymeric Liquids in Fast Extensional Flows
(2019)
This thesis contains simplified simulations of polymers in the entangled melt/solution state and in the glassy state in fast extensional flows where chains become locally stretched at modest strains. Comparisons to ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...