Browsing Colleges and Schools by Author "Ugaz, Victor M."
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Frisani, Angelo (2011-08-08)The design of passive heat removal systems is one of the main concerns for the modular Very High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (VHTR) vessel cavity. The Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS) is an important heat removal ...
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Jin, Xin (2012-07-16)Most paved roads in the United States are surfaced with asphalt. These asphalt pavements suffer from fatigue cracking and thermal cracking, aggravated by the oxidation and hardening of asphalt. This negative impact of ...
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Shaikh, Faisal (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Although advances in microfluidic technology have enabled increasingly sophisticated biosensing and bioassay operations to be performed at the microscale, many of these applications employ such small amounts of charged ...
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Nozaki, Manabu (2012-07-16)Diversion methods are routinely used in both matrix acidizing and fracturing stimulation treatments. In this study, we focus on one of the classical mechanical diversion methods, ball sealers. Ball sealer diversion is used ...
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Confocal microscopy studies of colloidal assembly on microfabricated physically templated surfaces Sharma, Sumit (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)In this research we consider two different approaches for microfabricating physical templates to be used in template directed colloidal self-assembly experiments. Fabrication of templates, usable with confocal microscopy, ...
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Jin, Xin (2012-02-14)Fatigue cracking is one primary distress in asphalt pavements, dominant especially in later years of service. Prediction of mixture fatigue resistance is critical for various applications, e.g., pavement design and ...
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Sinha, Nipun (2009-06-02)Boiling is the most efficient form of heat transfer. Thermo-fluidic transport mechanisms at different length and time scales govern the nature of boiling. This study was conducted to enhance the understanding of the surface ...
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Banneyake, Bm U. (2010-01-14)Lipid bi-layers are ubiquitous components of biological cells and are found in a variety of cell components. In biological membranes, lipid bi-layer membranes carry membrane proteins, which control transport of material ...
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Liu, Yen-Shan (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)The development of a versatile system capable of providing rapid, portable, and inexpensive detection of explosives and energetic compounds is needed critically to offer an enhanced level of protection against current and ...
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Salpeter, Nathaniel (2012-07-16)This work focuses on both high fidelity experimental and numerical thermal hydraulic studies and advanced frequency decomposition methods. The major contribution of this work is a proposed method for spatio-temporal ...
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Chang, Ya-Wen (2012-10-19)Controlling the assembly of amphiphilic molecules and micron-sized, disk-shaped particles at different length scales into ordered structures enables bottom-up organization which is of great interest to emerging technologies ...
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Lo, Chih-Cheng (2009-05-15)DNA gel electrophoresis is a critical analytical step in a wide spectrum of genomic analysis assays. Great efforts have been directed to the development of miniaturized microfluidic systems (“lab-on-a-chip” systems) to ...
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Dhopeshwarkar, Rahul Rajesh (2009-05-15)A simple and efficient technique for the concentration enrichment of charged species within a microfluidic device was developed. The functional component of the system is a hydrogel microplug photopolymerized inside the ...
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Li, Yu-Chin (2012-07-16)A variety of materials were used to fabricate nanocoatings using layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly to reduce the flammability of cotton fabric. The most effective brominated flame retardants have raised concerns related to ...
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Vaghetto, Rodolfo (2012-07-16)An experimental activity was performed to observe and study the effects of graphite dispersion and deposition on thermal hydraulic phenomena in a Reactor Cavity Cooling System (RCCS). The small scale RCCS experimental ...
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Sudarsan, Arjun Penubolu (Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The capability to easily and inexpensively fabricate microfluidic devices with negligible dependence on specialized laboratory equipment continues to be one of the primary forces driving the widespread use of plastic-based ...
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Estrada, Roy Tonacao, III (2012-02-14)Fluorescent labeling can improve the detection sensitivity in capillary electrophoretic (CE) separations down to attomolar concentrations. However, most fluorescent labels are not compatible with CE because their fluorescence ...
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Attila, Can (2009-05-15)Differential gene expression of P. aeruginosa in a rhizosphere biofilm on poplar tree roots was examined in order to identify new virulence factors from this human pathogen. Changes in gene expression for poplar trees ...
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Rocha-Zapata, Aracely (2012-10-19)This research investigates the interfacial interactions between biological entities and synthetic materials at two length scales: bulk and nanometer size. At the bulk scale, biomolecule adhesion is key for synthetic material ...
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Chen, Xiaojia (2009-05-15)Invented in the 1950s, gel electrophoresis has now become a routine analytical method to verify the size of nucleic acids and proteins in molecular biology labs. Conventional gel electrophoresis can successfully separate ...