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Quantitative Modeling of Entangled Polymer Rheology: Experiments, Tube Models and Slip-Link Simulations.
(2016)
Rheology properties are sensitive indicators of molecular structure and dynamics. The relationship between rheology and polymer dynamics is captured in the constitutive model, which, if accurate and robust, would greatly ...
Continuous Microfluidic Viscometers for Biochemical and Diagnostic Analysis
(2017)
Microfluidic technologies have advanced rapidly over the past two decades. Numerous microfluidic devices to assess different biomarkers have been reported, yet very few address physical properties, such as viscosities, of ...
Energy Conversion from Gradients across Bio-Inspired Membranes
(2017)
Membranes are fundamentally important barriers that enable the processes of life by slowing the dissipation of gradients and transducing usable energy from entropic driving forces. This dissertation presents three ...
Isolation and Characterization of Circulating Biomarkers to Predict Patient Outcomes in Late-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
(2021)
This work hypothesizes that the molecular characterization of extracellular vesicles (EVs) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs), biomarkers found in peripheral blood draws, can be used to monitor, and predict, treatment ...
Reaction Kinetics, Catalyst Development, and Reaction Networks for Hydrothermal Hydrodeoxygenation.
(2014)
This dissertation examines issues related to producing a hydrocarbon biocrude from wet algal biomass. It first reports on the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL), a high-temperature (>250 °C) and high-pressure (>40 bar) aqueous ...
Stochastic Modeling of the Formation of Aromatics in Combustion
(2021)
Understanding the formation of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in combustion not only bridges the knowledge gap between the small gas-phase species and incipient soot particles, but may also help address the global ...
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. ...
Characterizing the Ce3+/Ce4+ Chemistry for Use in Redox Flow Battery Applications
(2022)
Energy storage technologies will be crucial to meeting rising renewable electricity demand in the U.S., but there is currently not enough storage capacity to meet this demand. As described in Chapter 1, redox flow batteries ...
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 ...
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase and Structural Transitions in Model Lung Surfactant Mixtures.
(2010)
Lung surfactant (LS) is a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that reduces and regulates the surface tension in the lungs, thereby decreasing the work of breathing. A thorough understanding of LS function is critical ...