Browsing by Author "Yu, Choongho"
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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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Fan, Tianzhu (2023-07-07)Wastewater, a significant byproduct of human activity, often contains a complex mixture of pollutants that are detrimental to both public health and the environment. Despite significant advancements in wastewater treatment ...
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Yoon, Sungjun (2017-07-24)Renewable energy sources are promising alternatives to a battery. Due to the varying power profile of renewable energy sources, an energy harvester needs the different power management techniques including boosting the ...
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Zhang, Yuwei (2021-04-05)This thesis investigates chemo-mechanics of functional thin films for lithium-ion batteries and neuromorphic computing devices. We provide synthesis details of several functional thin films, including textured V₂O₅, textured ...
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Habibollahzadeh, Mehdi (2020-04-09)Water is a strategic resource for cities and industries, and reserving this fresh water is a big challenge for them. Osmosis pressure has become the most popular way to treat water; to get drinkable water or to remove ...
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Bhadriraju Venkata Naga Sai, Bhavana (2023-06-28)Chemical processes are complex and often characterized by nonlinearity, time-variation, and uncertainty. As a result, data-driven modeling approaches have gained widespread popularity in industry and academia for modeling ...
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Yang, Gang (2017-05-19)The climate change induced by greenhouse gas emissions has urged us to look for alternative energy sources instead of relying on burning fossil fuels. Converting chemical energy to electrical energy through a zero-emission ...
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Deng, Wei (2019-07-10)Inadequate access to clean water is a pressing problem across the world, which calls out enormous research efforts to develop efficient and economic solutions to the safe reuse of wastewater. In this dissertation, heterogeneous ...
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Zhang, Zimeng (2021-04-27)Polymeric composites with various functionalities are widely used in the aerospace, automotive, medical industries. Direct ink writing (DIW) is an extrusion-based 3D printing method that builds the object from 3D model ...
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Ramu, Gokula Krishnan (2016-11-22)Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are nanoporous materials comprising of metal nodes coordinated to organic ligands. They exhibit regular crystal lattice structures with well-defined pores. Owing to the ease with which the ...
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Kalidindi, Sanjay Varma (2012-07-16)Cellulose whiskers (CWs) obtained from naturally occuring cellulose are nano-inclusions which show a lot of promise as mechanical reinforcements in polymers. Typically, a relatively high content is added to realize improvement ...
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Hsu, Jui-Hung (2018-04-30)Composites made of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) and carbon nanotube (CNT) have shown unchanged or even increased thermopower when electrical conductivity was raised by altering the ...
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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 ...
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Gomez Ballesteros, Jose Leonardo (2017-04-18)Various aspects of the catalytic synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on transition metal nanoparticles were studied by combining atomistic simulations: reactive molecular dynamics (RMD), density functional ...
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First Principles Investigation of Structural, Mechanical and Thermodynamic Properties of MAX Phases Son, Woongrak (2018-07-26)MAX phases are layered carbides or nitrides with general formula of Mvn+1AXvn. In this work we present a first principles investigation of structural, mechanical, and thermodynamic properties of MAX phases. Up to date ...
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Ayyildiz, Burak Celal (2016-06-28)Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are clean energy sources which are offering solutions to some problems that are caused by climate change and global warming. One of the biggest obstacles in the way of development ...
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Lin, Henry Taisun (2016-07-22)Lithium sulfur batteries offer many advantages such as high specific capacity, environmental friendliness and low cost. However, several problems limit their commercialization, like low sulfur utilization because of the ...
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Cao, Yirui (2022-03-16)Fused-ring heterocyclic aromatic compounds represent an intriguing family of organic π-systems for fundamental chemistry and practical properties. The term “hetero-” indicates the presence of heteroatoms in the aromatic ...
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Jo, Young Kyong (2012-10-19)Two types of core/shell nanoparticles (CS-NPs) generation based on laser ablation are developed in this study, namely, double pulse laser ablation and laser ablation in colloidal solutions. In addition to the study of the ...
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Pu, Xiong (2014-05-29)Lithium batteries are receiving increasing interest worldwide due to the urgent demand for higher energy density, longer cycling life, cheaper price, and better safety, so that long-distance electric vehicles and stationary ...