Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Title
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation contains two different research topics. One is a ‘Nano Scale Device for Plasmonic Nanolithography – Optical Antenna’ and the other is a ‘Nano Scale Device for Rapid Sensing of Bacteria – SEPTIC’. Since ...
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(2021-04-15)Environmental sustainability covers a wide range of issues starting from a specific location to a global one. Energy and water issues are two essential elements of a sustainable society. The research objectives in this ...
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Nano-Domain Analysis Via Massive Cluster Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry in the Event-by-Event Mode (2011-02-22)Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) is a surface analysis technique which characterizes species sputtered by an energetic particle beam. Bombardment with cluster projectiles offers the following notable advantages over ...
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Nano-Enabled Hydrogels for Continuous Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Monitoring of Metabolites (2019-01-28)Chronic disease management can benefit from continuous real time tracking of disease relevant biochemical levels using minimally invasive implants. Current methods however rely on electrochemical sensing methods integrated ...
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(2015-12-08)This study basically focuses on numerical simulation of shale gas flow. To be able to capture the complex nature of shale gas reservoirs, different storage and flow mechanisms must be taken into consideration. Shale ...
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(2021-04-01)Structural energy storage devices combine the energy storage properties of batteries and supercapacitors with the mechanical properties of structural composites. Such multifunctional devices may allow for energy to be ...
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(2010-10-12)Over the past few decades there has been great interest in exploring alternatives to conventional separation methods due to their high cost and energy requirements. Membranes offer a potentially attractive alternative as ...
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(2012-10-19)Nanocrystals embedded zirconium-doped hafnium oxide (ZrHfO) high-k gate dielectric films have been studied for the applications of the future metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and nonvolatile memory. ...
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(2014-05-03)Spice essential oils and their constituents are powerful antimicrobials against foodborne pathogens. However, their low sensory threshold and low aqueous solubility make their application to fresh produce a challenge. ...
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(2018-04-27)Direct-write extrusion bioprinting, a form of additive manufacturing, is a useful technique to recapitulate anatomical complexity for tissue engineering applications. However, bioprinting has hit a bottleneck in progress ...
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(2016-06-02)“Smart” hydrogels are an emerging class of biomaterials that respond to multiple external stimuli and investigated for a range of biomedical applications, including therapeutic delivery, and regenerative engineering. ...
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(2019-12-12)Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is emerging as a promising method for rapid fabrication of biomimetic cell-laden constructs for tissue engineering using cell-containing hydrogels, called bioinks, that can be cross-linked ...
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(2013-11-21)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are very attractive as energy generation devices because of their high energy efficiency, flexible fuel selections and clean energy conversion. To avoid cell cracking and formation of ...
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(2011-08-08)Unconventional nanofabrication techniques; both those which have been newly developed and those under development, had brought inexpensive, facile, yet high quality means to fabricate nanostructures that have feature sizes ...
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(2009-05-15)A nanofluidic biosensor using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) was developed to detect the β-amyloid (Aβ) protein, one of the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recent studies have indicated that investigating ...
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(2010-07-14)The objective of this work is to develop a micro/nanofluidic-based single molecule detection (SMD) scheme, which would allow us to inspect individual protein or protein complex study protein-protein interactions and their ...
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(2012-02-14)Organic semiconductors have generated huge interested in recent years for low-cost and flexible electronics. Current and future device applications for semiconducting polymers include light-emitting diodes, thin-film ...
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(2009-05-15)A method offering precise control over the synthesis conditions to obtain carbon nanotube (CNT) samples of a single chirality (metallic or semi-conducting) is presented. Using this nanolithographic method of catalyst ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The work presented herein describes efforts to synthesize and characterize cyanide-bridged molecular compounds with high-spin ground states. This investigation focused primarily on the assembly of hexacyanometallate units ...
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(2015-12-07)The evolving field of nanomaterial synthesis needs adaptable techniques for the modification and construction of multifunctional components. In this work, a unique layer-by-layer (LbL) method is demonstrated as a generic ...