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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 ...
Assembly of Colloidal Crystals with Well-Characterized Pair Interaction Potentials.
(2010)
The study of colloidal particles is of particular interested because of their applicability in photonic band-gap and sensing materials, food, and cosmetic products. The behavior of colloidal particles is difficult to ...
Advanced Components of Microfluidic Systems for Bioanalytical Applications.
(2009)
The need for detailed understanding of fundamental and advanced components towards the widespread use of microfluidic systems are addressed in this dissertation. First, to understand mixing in microfluidic lab-on-a-chip ...
Multifunctional Polymer Coatings via Chemical Vapor Deposition Copolymerization.
(2009)
The dissertation investigates how reactive polymer coatings can facilitate controlled immobilization of multiple biomolecules and can control multiple surface properties independently for biomedical applications. Chemical ...
Microfluidic Two-Phase Biochemical Reaction Systems for DNA Analysis.
(2010)
The advance in microfluidics and microfabrication enables the miniaturization of the conventional biochemical reactions to achieve inexpensive and rapid assays. In this dissertation, biochemical reaction microsystems in ...
Pooling Designs for High-Throughput Biological Experiments.
(2010)
High-throughput experiments provide a fast, automated way to obtain massive amounts of information about biological systems. In several instances, these experiments subject a large number of items (biological samples or ...
Development of Photoelastic Methods Towards Study of Mechanical Aging of 2-Dimensional Granular Assemblies.
(2009)
Phototelasticity is a well-known method for experimental stress analysis of solid transparent materials. It has commonly been used to measure stresses from the analysis of photoelastic fringes. In this study, a test apparatus ...
Directing Vascular Cells by Cyclic Tensile Strain: Contextual Role in Angiogenesis.
(2008)
Mechanical stretch, a normal physiologic signal in the vascular system, regulates vascular development and regeneration, but the mechanisms underlying these endothelial (EC) and smooth muscle cell (SMC) responses remain ...
Computational Reaction-Diffusion Analysis of Cellular Systems for Tissue Engineering and Quantitative Microscopy.
(2009)
Reaction-diffusion mechanisms underlie communication of cells within and among themselves and also with their environment. In this thesis, I have developed computational approaches to better understand these mechanisms in ...
Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Dilute Polymer Solutions with Entanglements
(2007)
This dissertation describes the development of a bead-spring Brownian dynamics model for simulating the topological interactions between polymers and thin obstacles. We apply this method to electrophoretically translating ...