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Mechanical response of polymer matrix composites using indentation stress-strain protocols
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Polymer Matrix Composites (PMCs) are an important material for many advanced applications due to their potential to combine critical mechanical properties with a high strength-to-weight ratio necessary for advancing ... -
Hybrid organic-inorganic materials synthesized via vapor phase infiltration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-09-07)Polymers are used in a wide range of applications, from high-tech devices to everyday products, yet they suffer from limitations such as low chemical stability and mechanical strength. By incorporating inorganic constituents ... -
Integrated dielectrics for protection and gating of epitaxial graphene devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-08)Epitaxial graphene is an exceptional platform for high performance carbon nanoelectronics and fundamental transport studies. Compared to exfoliated and CVD graphene, epitaxial graphene exhibits robust electronic transport ... -
Studies on polyacrylonitrile/cellulose nanocrystals composite precursor and carbon fibers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-10)In this study, PAN fibers containing up to 40 wt% CNC were spun by gel-spinning technology. The structure, morphology, and mechical properties of PAN/CNC precursor and their carbon fibers have been studied. The results ... -
Responsive nanostructures for controlled alteration of interfacial properties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-15)Responsive materials are a class of materials that are capable of “intelligently” changing properties upon exposure to a stimulus. Silk ionomers are introduced as a promising candidate of biopolymers that combine the robust, ... -
Expanding quantitative tools for secondary structure analysis of DNA aptamer candidates selected via CompELS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-30)Aptamers are single stranded RNA or DNA oligonucleotides with high affinity and specificity for a particular non-nucleotide target. Historically, aptamers are selected from combinatorial libraries of 10E12-10E15 sequences ... -
Ultra-thin polymer dielectric materials and ultra-small via and trench processes for 20micron bump pitch re-distribution layer (RDL) structures for high density packages
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-15)Higher interconnect density between multiple chips is required because of the need of the high bandwidth data transmission for many electronic systems, such as smart mobile devices, cloud and edge computing, and in machine ... -
Synthesis, modification and characterization of economical high performance reverse osmosis membranes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-06-27)Water is becoming increasingly scarce as the demand for fresh water continues to increase in a drastic manner. One potential new water resource is desalination of sea and brackish water. Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes ... -
Micropatterned chemistry and structure in layered bionanocomposites
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-06-28)The quest for humankind’s increased capabilities in gathering information, analyzing data, and controlling our surrounding environment is leading to a proliferation of connected physical objects that can sense, compute, ... -
Controlling light-matter interactions in QD photonic sources via optical gain and loss
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-07-03)The goal of this research is to control light-matter interactions in three levels of hierarchical robust photonic systems: individual and assembled nanostructures, individual local assemblies and coupled local assemblies. ... -
Hard and soft nanocomposites enabled by rationally designed nonlinear copolymers derived from high functionality polyols
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-06-08)Controlled living polymerization techniques, such as atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT), have enabled the synthesis of well-defined ... -
Shock compression induced phase changes in cerium-based metallic glass
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-29)The research performed in this work was aimed at investigating pressure-induced phase changes in a Ce-based metallic glass (MG) through the use of laser-driven shock experiments and atomic resolution structural characterization. ... -
Beyond conventional Li-ion: Aqueous Li ion batteries and mixed metal fluoride cathodes for Li and Li-ion batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-05-22)This thesis explores the promises of and challenges posed by several alternative Li- and Li-ion battery chemistries: substituting the organic or polymer electrolyte with an aqueous electrolyte, and substituting intercalation ... -
Probing complex ionic dynamics on the nanoscale via energy discovery platforms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-08-01)Ionic dynamics underpin the functionalities of a broad spectrum of materials and devices ranging from energy storage and conversion, to sensors and catalytic devices. Electrochemical reactivity and ionic transport in these ... -
Functional polymer composite encapsulants for electronic packaging
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-28)Polymer-based materials have attracted more and more interests in recent years for fundamental studies and for practical applications, for they combine material benefits of both the polymer matrix and the inorganic filler. ... -
First-principles theoretical characterization of the electronic structure of iron and iron oxide surfaces and their interfaces with organic layers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-21)Organic compounds offer considerable promise in iron corrosion prevention. Attachment of organic molecules to the metal surface can alter the corrosion reactions by changing the activation barriers of the anodic and/or ... -
Design of multicomponent nanostructured surfaces with tailored optical properties
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-07-05)Two promising ways of manipulating light-matter interactions at the nanoscale are through the use of noble metal plasmonic nanostructures and quantum dots. However, the majority of previous studies focus on single particle ... -
Physical mechanisms of laser-activated nanoparticles for intracellular drug delivery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-18)Novel intracellular drug delivery techniques are needed to overcome the barrier of the cell’s plasma membrane. In this study, we leveraged a novel, laser-mediated technique known as transient nanoparticle energy transduction ... -
Data-driven PSP linkages for atomistic datasets
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-05-23)For a variety of materials, atomic-scale modeling techniques are commonly employed as a means of investigating fundamental properties, including both structural and chemical responses. While force-field based calculations ... -
Segregation, capture and recovery of tumor cells in human body fluids for microfluidic assay & rat experiments with a CTC-Dialysis animal model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-13)In a cancerous human body, tumor cells rapidly proliferate and metastasize in body fluids and it is this liquid manifestation that provides us with an opportunity for their segregation, capture and recovery. The liquid ...
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