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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 ...
Mixed-Cation Zeolites with Minimum Lithium and Silver for Air Separation
(2018)
Air separation is a key process in today’s industry and is achieved by various methods including but not limited to the energy intensive cryogenic distillation of liquefied air and pressure swing adsorption process. The ...
Exploiting Polymer Theory to Simulate the Rheology of Micellar Solutions and Polymer Glasses
(2018)
Exhibiting different rheological (viscoelastic) behaviors, micellar solutions and polymeric glasses are at the center of many applications.
For micellar solutions, I have developed a mesoscopic simulation model, drawing ...
Advancing Empirical Models for the Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Microalgae
(2018)
Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a sustainable-energy technology used to convert microalgae into an energy-dense biofuel precursor known as biocrude oil. This dissertation illuminates myriad effects of HTL process inputs ...