School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Computational study of understanding porous materials stability upon acid gas treatment
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Microfluidic platforms and multivariate analysis for immune cell signaling study
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-13)Cell-mediated immunity is a critical component of an adaptive immune system, where immune functions are mostly mediated through the coordination of T cells. The understanding of fundamental T cell signaling processes ... -
Physical and chemical adhesion of complex structured biomaterial particles: Pollen exine and cellulose nanocrystal
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-22)Micro- and nano-particle adhesion plays an important role in many industrial fields, for example, in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS, affecting fabrication yield and operation), in printing (transfer toner particles ... -
PIM-1-derived carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes for organic solvent reverse osmosis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-07)Current separation technologies rely heavily on energy-intensive methods such as distillation, crystallization, and absorption to separate organic molecules. Utilization of membrane-based organic solvent separations—that ... -
Catalytic conversion of methane into alkanes and oxygenates and deactivation of hydrodeoxygenation catalysts
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-15)In this thesis, a catalyst comprising of NiO/Ce0.83Zr0.17O2 (NiO/CZ) that is capable of activating methane to form surface methyl groups was developed. Some of these species couple to higher alkyl chains. These alkyl groups ... -
Engineering a whole-cell zinc biosensor
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-22)Malnutrition is a significant healthcare concern across the globe. Though normally evocative of images of starvation or hunger, malnutrition also encompasses deficiencies of critical micronutrients such as zinc. Studies ... -
Model-based optimization of simulated moving bed reactor operations in isolation and within an overall process
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-28)Simulated moving bed reactors (SMBR) is a process intensification solution that can offer advantages in productivity, conversion, purity, and solvent consumption over the conventional sequential integration of reactor and ... -
Particle affinity for oil-water interfaces and selective adsorption
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-21)Many applications require the selective removal of particulate contaminants from aqueous solutions. Standard froth flotation is a very efficient process that is commonly used in these applications to indiscriminately remove ... -
Systems design and uncertainty quantification of co2 capture from air
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-08)The rapid increase in concentration of atmospheric CO2 has stimulated the recent development of CO2 capture technologies. One of the strategy is to capture CO2 directly from ambient air which, if successfully implemented, ... -
Engineering localized surface plasmons in doped semiconductor nanomaterials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-21)Doped semiconductors materials have emerged as the preeminent materials platform for development of optoelectronic technologies harnessing the LSPR phenomena in the infrared spectral regime. The capacity to engineer a ... -
Enhanced contaminants removal for paper recycling by adsorption deinking and new flotation methods
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-27)The recent progress and increasing popularity in digital printing technology created new challenges in recycled paper quality and recycling process runnability due to the sub-micron size, strongly negative charge, and ... -
Controlling residual metal in carbide-derived carbons for acid gas removal
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-21)Carbide-derived carbons (CDC) contain a porous network of uniform pore sizes created through the removal of the metal heteroatoms and the reorganization of the remaining carbon. A key advantage of CDCs is that the metal ... -
Transition metal-containing carbon molecular sieve membranes for advanced olefin/paraffin separations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-21)In this work, carbon molecular sieve (CMS) dense film membranes derived from 6FDA-DAM:DABA (3:2) polyimide precursor were studied for separation of mixed olefins (C2H4 and C3H6) from paraffins (C2H6 and C3H8). Olefin-selective ... -
Defect engineering and conversion of metal-organic frameworks for adsorption and electrical energy storage applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-19)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are hybrid porous materials, constructed by the assembly of inorganic metal ions or clusters and organic ligands. MOFs have attracted considerable research interest in the fields of gas ... -
Scalable technologies to control liquid wetting and adhesion on fiber based substrates
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-18)In this thesis, we explored how wetting properties change with surface chemistry and the topology of the fiber network through controlled plasma etching with combined coating techniques and pulp pretreatment. The approach ... -
Multi-scale modeling of ice crystal formation in clouds
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-23)Understanding human impact on climate is the foremost challenge of the 21st century. In particular, significant work remains to explain how anthropogenic emissions affect cloud properties and how cloud properties, in turn, ... -
Investigation into obstacles to the implementation of the directed-self assembly of block copolymers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-11)To meet the growing demands of the microelectronics industry and their desire to continue Moore’s Law, a variety of routes to extend or replace optical lithography have been suggested. Among these options is the directed ... -
Control of diffusive time scales in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks for the kinetic separation of light hydrocarbons
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-03)The goal of this thesis is to investigate new sorbent materials for the kinetic separation of light hydrocarbons and incorporate them into a viable mass transfer contactor for use in a pressure swing adsorption unit. Three ...
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