Browsing by Author "Balbuena, Perla"
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Cristancho Albarracin, Dahiyana (2014-05-07)Nanomaterials are expected to overcome the challenges imposed from bulk materials in the design of electronic devices. With the help of nanotechnology smaller, lighter, and more energy efficient materials can be used in ...
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Chen, Chien-Fan (2016-07-12)Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in research efforts in energy storage for vehicle electrification. Lithium batteries, such as lithium-ion and lithium-sulfur batteries are leading the race towards meeting ...
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Cho, Sangho (2015-08-07)With recent technological improvements, fabrication of integrated circuit elements on shrinking scales is required to meet the demand for massive storage and fast data processing. As the fabrication of high resolution ...
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Salazar Zarzosa, Pablo F. (2010-07-14)Computational methods are a convenient resource to solve drawbacks of drug research such as high cost, time-consumption, and high risk of failure. In order to get an optimum search of new drugs we need to design a rational ...
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Reyes Valdes, Olga Juliana (2016-04-08)Several of the most catastrophic process safety incidents, such as Bhopal and most recently Texas West Fertilizer explosion, were initiated by runaway reactions. Consequences of such incidents include, fatalities, environmental ...
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Kumar, Narendra (2016-04-07)Using ideas of materials genome initiative, it is possible to create new materials with tailored properties for applications in nanoelectronics, sensing, and catalysis among other fields. The contamination of groundwater ...
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Santos, David A (2022-07-20)Several origins of battery performance degradation are traceable to multi-field and multi-physics coupling originating at atomistic scales, manifested at mesoscale dimensions, and compounded up to the level of electrode ...
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Chakrabarty, Arnab (2010-10-12)Polymer nanocomposites refer to a broad range of composite materials with polymer acting as the matrix and any material which has at least one dimension in the order of 1 ~ 100 nanometer acting as the filler. Due to ...
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Kuncharam, Bhanu Vardhan (2013-11-26)This research explores a novel application of catalytic membrane reactors for high- purity hydrogen extraction from bioethanol reforming. Conventional membrane systems employ hydrogen permselective materials such as ...
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Jeon, Ju Won (2014-10-15)Energy storage has been emerging as an important research topic because of the lack of fossil fuels and growing energy consumption. This thesis focuses on synthesis and characterization of electrode materials such as ...
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Zhao, Jin (2010-01-14)A recently developed chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis process called CoMoCAT yields single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT)s of controlled diameter and chirality, making them extremely attractive for technological ...
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Li, Jingrui (2023-01-31)Corrosion is an electrochemical phenomenon that usually occurs on metal anodes. However, localized corrosion on the cathode has been reported many times, and its corrosion mechanism is still unclear. To gain a better ...
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Park, Jinhee (2013-04-19)Porous metal-organic materials (MOMs) are assembled through coordination between two types of building units, metal or metal-containing nodes and organic linkers. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have 3-D infinite structures ...
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Kwon, Hyuk Taek (2015-11-06)Propylene/propane separation is one of the most challenging separations, currently achieved by energy-intensive cryogenic distillation. Despite the great potentials for energy-efficient membrane-based propylene/propane ...
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Youmsi Pete, Edwin Larry (2015-02-16)The Vapor Compression Cycle (VCC) is the fundamental thermodynamic principle behind most Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR) systems. HVACR systems account for a vast majority of the energy ...
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Alvi, Scheherzad (2022-09-27)Reaction mechanisms are generally probed by looking at the energetics of observable intermediates and the transition states that have observable effects on rates or selectivity. Mechanisms are complex, however, and there ...
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Wood, Adam; Balbuena, Perla (2006-07-11)Platinum and platinum alloy surfaces are used as catalysts to promote the reduction of oxygen, one of the reactions used to generate electrical energy in low temperature fuel cells, which are sought as promissory clean ...
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Jha, Swarn (2017-12-11)With the recent advances in micro-electronics and exponential rise in demand for electronic devices and their miniaturization, it is of utmost importance that self-diffusion phenomena in silicon be well understood. However, ...
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Zhang, Haomiao (2016-02-24)This dissertation presents the first investigation of a novel mixed conducting BaZr0.9Fe0.1O3-δ perovskite (BZF10) in terms of materials properties, combined electrochemical and catalytic properties over a complete span ...
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Ryu, Yeontack (2012-11-30)Carbon nanotubes are made into films or bulks, their surface or junction morphology in the networks can be modified to obtain desired electrical transport properties by various surface modification methods. The methods ...