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The Study of CO2 Conversion in a Microwave Plasma/Catalyst System.
(2012)
The continual and increasing use of fossil fuels throughout the world has advanced concerns of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations, causing a swell of scientific effort to mitigate the predicted effects of ...
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Fuel Injector Tip Wetting as a Source of Particulate Emissions in Gasoline Direct-Injection Engines
(2019)
Gasoline fuel film deposited on the tip of a fuel injector, i.e. injector tip wetting, has been identified as a significant source of particulate emissions at some operating conditions of gasoline direct-injection engines. ...
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 ...
A Building Block Approach Towards Novel Nonlinear Optical Materials.
(2007)
The purpose of the present research is to develop and apply a building block approach towards the design of novel nonlinear optical materials, capable of exhibiting enhanced Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) behavior. These ...
Regulating Gene Expression Through DNA Mechanics: Tightly Looped DNA Represses Transcription.
(2010)
It is now widely accepted that the mechanical state of DNA can play a major role in regulating the activity of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Not only have the global levels of supercoiling been shown to regulate transcription, ...
Novel Imaging Systems Using Nanophotonic Devices
(2021)
Novel technologies and innovations lead to new applications. This dissertation demonstrates new applications enabled by novel nanophotonic devices. I will describe two nanophotonic devices: hyperbolic metamaterial and ...
The Measurement and Optimization of Direct Laser Acceleration
(2023)
This thesis presents experimental measurements and numerical modeling of electron acceleration optimization and laser channel formation in relativistic laser interactions with underdense plasma, as well as scintillator ...