• Porous Matrimid Support Membranes for Organic Solvent Separations 

  Moschella, Emily S.

  Porous Matrimid® polymeric membranes were developed as supports for thin film composites (TFCs) of dense, selective polymers to target organic solvent separations. Selective polymers form dense membranes and must be thinly ...

• CO2 Capture Using 3D Printed PIM-1 Incorporating Solid Adsorbents 

  Sidhu, Nathan A.

  Rising atmospheric CO2 concentration has exceeded nature’s carbon recycling capacity and caused severe environmental hazards. To capture CO2 from point sources and from atmospheric air, various solid CO2 adsorbents, including ...

• Protein Nanocarrier for Targeted Intracellular Delivery of Functional Antibodies 

  Lukianov, Cyril Igorevich

  The cell membrane remains a formidable barrier for antibody-based therapies, and efficient intracellular delivery of functional antibodies may be critical for modulating intracellular signaling mechanisms and protein-protein ...

• Computational Characterization of Disordered Metal-Organic Frameworks 

  Han, Rebecca (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-02-28)

  Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of crystalline nanoporous adsorbents with numerous applications due to their highly tunable physical and chemical properties. However, MOFs are limited by their susceptibility ...

• 3D Printing Structured Nanocelluloses and Their Composites: Printability, Structures, and Properties 

  Li, Vincent (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-05)

  Cellulose remains to be one of the most renewable and abundant engineering material used in current society. In the past decade, a new area of cellulosic materials in the nanoscale regime, also known as nanocellulose, has ...

• Role of microRNA 214 in Cyclic Stretch Induced Aortic Valve Pathogenesis 

  Salim, Md Tausif Tausif (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-27)

  Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is one of the most prevalent valvular diseases among the elderly population. Unfortunately, there are no therapeutic drugs available to treat this disease. In this regard, mechanosensitive ...

• APPLICATION OF METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS (MOFs) TO CAPTURING CO2 DIRECTLY FROM AIR 

  Darunte, Lalit A. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-10)

  Increased CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is increasingly linked to climate change. With the aim of developing next-generation carbon capture technologies; this thesis focuses on the use of solid amine-functionalized ...

• Towards an enzymatic route to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid 

  Rose, Harrison B (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-05)

  This research project explored the selection and development of an enzymatic route from the renewable feedstocks furfural and carbon dioxide to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, a building block for bio-based polyesters. A ...

• CONCURRENT APPROACH FOR RAPID PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND ISOTHERM CHARACTERIZATION 

  Guo, Siwei (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-02)

  The design of simulated moving bed (SMB) separation processes is a challenging and time-consuming task, especially when competitive multicomponent adsorption is involved. This thesis project focuses on developing an ...

• Engineering Therapeutic AvrA Nanoparticles with Enhanced Uptake and Intracellular Delivery with Applications in Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

  Ling, Kevin (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-30)

  The work presented in this thesis focuses on reengineering naturally-derived, evolutionarily optimized molecules as drug delivery vehicles and therapeutics. We have identified AvrA, used by Salmonella, as an effector enzyme ...

• A Decade Of Emissions Controls And Their Role On An Ever-Changing Atmosphere 

  Vasilakos, Petros (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-21)

  The impact of emission controls in the decade 2001-2011 has been studied using a variety of models, that were updated to increase their predictive accuracy and to better represent the physics of atmospheric aerosols. ...

• Hybrid Nanocomposites for High-Performance Li-Ion Battery Electrodes: Carboxylated Polythiophene-Based Electrodes 

  Kwon, Yo Han (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-16)

  This thesis describes systematic approaches to Li-ion battery electrodes: How methodical and structural consideration for both ion and electron transport coupled with electrode materials’ surface chemistries can contribute ...

• Studies on amyloid aggregation and cross-species prion transmission 

  Sharma, Aditi (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-02-21)

  Ordered aggregation of proteins into amyloids (and their transmissible versions, prions) has been shown to result in several neurodegenerative diseases in humans and other mammals. While the effect of ions has been extensively ...

• Surface Chemistry on Interaction of Biomass Derived Oxygenates with Heterogeneous Catalyst 

  So, Jungseob (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-22)

  The discovery of crude oils in the 19th century and processed inexpensive fuels has contributed to the industrialization of the word and heavily lifted standard of living. However, the alarming about the finite nature and ...

• MICRONEEDLE BASED DEVICE TO SAMPLE INTERSTITIAL FLUID THROUGH SKIN 

  Samant, Pradnya P (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-01-22)

  Diagnosis of diseased state and regular monitoring during treatment is essential to effective management of diseases. Detection of biomarkers in body fluids such as blood, urine, saliva, and sweat is the basis for diagnosis. ...

• Understanding the effect of physico-chemical properties of particles on cellular interactions 

  Garapaty, Anusha (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-17)

  Polymeric micro and nanoparticles are useful carriers for drugs and vaccines. During these applications, particles come into contact with macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system leading to their internalization. On ...

• Infrastructure investment and operation decisions for biobased production networks 

  Realff, Matthew J.; Danyluk, Steven; Whittaker, Craig; Kim, Jinkyung (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-11)

  Biomass to fuel process development and analysis continues to be of significant interest to a number of companies.

• Computational study of understanding porous materials stability upon acid gas treatment 

  Liu, Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-06)

  The stability of porous materials in acid gases and water environments is a critical property as well as an issue that must be addressed when applying porous materials in adsorptions, separations and catalytic processes, ...

• Modifying the depolymerization of sacrifical polymers for electronic devices 

  Phillips, Oluwadamilola S. (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-08-23)

  Decomposable polymers can be used in fabrication of integrated circuits and packages. Polymers that can be triggered to depolymerize into volatile, monomeric units are particularly useful as template materials for the ...

• Mobility of the imidazolate linkers in neat and confined ZIFs probed by 2H NMR 

  Zhou, Erkang (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-12-07)

  Significant work is being devoted to the reduction of global energy consumption associated with industrial separations, with increasing attention being focused on membrane technology. In particular, MMMs containing ZIFs ...

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