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Collective Mechanochemical Growth of Carbon Nanotubes.
(2014)
Hierarchically ordered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising for integration in high-performance structural composites, electrical interconnects, thermal interfaces, and filtration membranes. These and other applications ...
Continuum-Scale Modeling of Rechargeable Batteries
(2020)
During the operation of a rechargeable battery, the electrochemical reactions occur at the interface between the electrolyte and the active material in the electrode. The electrochemical performance of such batteries is ...
Predicting the Formation Pathways and Morphologies of Oxygenated Carbonaceous Nanoparticle Precursors in Premixed Flames
(2017)
Organic nanoparticles are an inevitable by-product of combustion phenomena that have deleterious health and environmental effects. They are carcinogenic because they damage biological cells due to their small size and their ...
Modeling Reaction and Transport Effects in Stereolithographic 3D Printing
(2020)
Continuous stereolithography has recently emerged as a leading technology in additive manufacturing (3D printing). Though several methods for continuous printing have been reported, they all share the benefit of reducing ...
Computational Discovery of Solid Electrolytes for Batteries: Interfacial Phenomena and Ion Mobility
(2020)
Solid-state batteries (SSBs) using a solid electrolyte (SE) and Li-metal anode are promising technologies that can increase energy density and minimize safety concerns for applications such as electric vehicles. Although ...
First Principles Study of Magnesium/Oxygen Batteries and Glassy Solid Electrolytes
(2018)
A transition to electrified transportation would benefit from the development of batteries with energy densities beyond that of Li-ion batteries. New battery chemistries and materials are needed to realize this transition. ...
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 ...
Multi-Scale Modeling and Simulation of Polymeric Liquids in Fast Extensional Flows
(2019)
This thesis contains simplified simulations of polymers in the entangled melt/solution state and in the glassy state in fast extensional flows where chains become locally stretched at modest strains. Comparisons to ...