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Promoting Molybdenum Carbide for Biofuels Upgrading
(2019)
Pyrolysis biofuels are an attractive near-term solution for reducing carbon emissions from vehicles including automobiles and jets while still being compatible with current engine technology. However, in order to be used ...
Machine Learning for Automatic Structure Analysis and Experimental Design
(2019)
Self-assembly is a ubiquitous process that holds great promise for the design and engineering of new materials and systems. While chemistry today is largely based on combining a few building blocks into molecules with ...
Assembly Behavior of Hard and DNA-Programmable Colloidal Shapes into Complex Crystal Structures
(2021)
Compared to atomistic assemblies with angstrom (Å) length scale, colloidal crystals at nanoscale often exhibit emergent and unique electronic, optical, mechanical and magnetic properties. Recent significant efforts in ...
Multi-Scale Modeling and Rheological Approaches for Understanding the Structure-Property Relationships of Surfactant Solutions.
(2015)
In this work, we applied multi-scale modeling and rheological measurements to understand the structure-property relationships of surfactant solutions. We used molecular dynamics (MD) and dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) ...
Destabilization and Aggregation Kinetics of Asphaltenes.
(2014)
Asphaltenes are the heaviest fraction of crude oil and can precipitate due to changes in temperature, pressure or composition. It was previously shown that the precipitation and aggregation of asphaltenes is a kinetic ...
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 ...
Designing Heterogeneous-Based Cascade Catalytic Systems for Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation.
(2016)
The search for sustainable and economical chemical processes is a key priority for the chemical industry. Cascade catalysis presents a promising technology to meet this need by combining multiple catalysts to drive a ...
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 ...