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Additive Manufacturing of Carbon Steels Through Direct Ink Write Printing of Oxide Precursors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-05-05)A method for additive manufacturing of various carbon steels from low cost and stable oxide powders is presented. This method uses direct ink write (DIW) processes to extrude inks composed of oxide powders, plastic binders, ... -
Capillary and Localized Magnetic Effects in Cellulose Nanocrystal Thin Films
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-27)Bioderived materials such as cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) have inherent structural organization that can be exploited for the control of dimensionality, periodicity, and functionality of biocompatible and photonic materials. ... -
Quantifying Charge Transport in Chemically Doped Semiconducting Polymers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-27)Semiconducting polymers are a class of materials that engenders the solution processibility, mechanical compliancy, and biocompatibility of archetypal polymeric materials with the charge transport properties, optical ... -
Correlating microstructure with the corrosion properties of Aluminum and Stainless Steel alloy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-25)The primary research objective was to develop a relationship between the microstructure and the material’s susceptibility to degradation in corrosive environments. Susceptibility to, and mechanisms of, corrosion were ... -
Advances in Processing of Transparent Lutetia-Based Ceramics for High Power Laser Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-04-11)Conventional and scalable methods of green-body formation of powder compacts, along with temperature/pressure processing methods, were optimized to sinter Lu2O3 powder compacts to relative densities of 97-98%, with ... -
ONSET OF KISSING BOND FORMATION FOR VARYING LEVELS OF BONDLINE CONTAMINATION IN CFRP
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-01-14)Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer or CFRP is an important and widely used material in the aerospace industry. CFRP utilizes adhesive bonding as the primary joining method and may suffer from a defect known as a kissing bond. ... -
Fabrication & Characterization of Thin-Film Solid State Metal Fluoride Batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-04)The increased proliferation of consumer electronics and electric vehicles has led to an exponential increase in the demand for lithium-ion batteries. Commercially used intercalation-based cathode materials in Li-ion batteries ... -
TUNING ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF LITHIUM-SULFUR BATTERIES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-03)As the world faces a growing need to electrify and reduce carbon emissions, batteries offer much needed energy storage for electric cars, mobile devices, and the grid. The lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery combines low weight, ... -
Low melting point solid electrolytes for scalable manufacturing of all-solid-state li-ion batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)All-solid-state lithium-ion batteries (ASSLBs) without flammable liquid electrolytes offer improved safety for electric vehicles and other applications. However, current inorganic ASSLB manufacturing technology suffers ... -
Modeling, Design and Demonstration of a Single, Innovative Metallurgical System for Socketable and Surface-Mountable Board-Level Interconnections
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)OEM Microprocessors have conventionally been packaged using Land Grid Array (LGA) designs, press-fitted into sockets for ease of reworkability. However, Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages have recently become mainstream for ... -
Deformation and Damage Evolution in Thin Metal Sheets during Steady-State Crack Growth using Incremental Strain Field Mining
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)Deformation and crack behavior is difficult to characterize in ductile metals at sub-millimeter thicknesses using conventional fracture mechanics approaches. This is because of the challenges posed by large scale plasticity, ... -
Comparison of the effect of experimental parameters on the properties of spin-coated and inkjet-printed indium tin oxide films
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-27)Transparent conducting films (TCFs) are films of optically transparent and electrically conductive material. TCFs are typically used as electrodes in photovoltaic applications like solar cells, LCDs, etc. that call for low ... -
Nanocellulose-based Glass Fiber Sizing for Lightweight Fiberglass Composites
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-29)Development of our understanding of nanomaterial interfaces is crucial for the automotive industry, whose future will be shaped by lightweight materials and the economic and environmental benefits they yield. This work ... -
Electric-Field-Induced Phase Transitions in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3 Thin Films
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)In this work, an extensive investigation towards understanding and controlling the electric field induced phase transition in PbZrO3 was taken, focusing on optimizing the processing conditions to control the microstructure ... -
Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials and Cellulose for Sustainability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-28)Self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature. It is widely recognized as an external field-free means to construct intriguing structures that promise new opportunities for developing miniaturized optical, electronic, optoelectronic, ... -
INVESTIGATION OF PROCESSING-STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS IN VAPOR PHASE MODIFIED CELLULOSIC MATERIALS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-22)Cellulosic materials are widely used in our daily lives for paper products and functional polymers. The cellulose molecule has a high density of hydroxyl groups, which causes strong intra-/inter- fiber hydrogen bonding. ... -
Design, fabrication and characterization of electrospun fibers, yarns, and scaffolds for textile-based tissue engineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-27)This dissertation focuses on the design, fabrication, and characterization of electrospun fibers, yarns, and scaffolds, which are building blocks of textile-based tissue engineering, an important field in regenerative ... -
Machine Learning based Models for the Design of Solid Polymer Electrolytes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-05-01)With the prolific popularization and development of lithium-ion batteries, safety issues associated with the use of flammable organic electrolytes have increasingly garnered more attention. A promising alternative to organic ... -
A Large Scale Computational Study of Fatigue Hot-Spots
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-04-26)Formation of a fatigue crack at the subgrain scale is a statistically rare event, as plastic deformation at the microscale ranges from highly heterogeneous at low strain to homogeneous at high strain. Fatigue Indicator ... -
High Throughput Exploration of Process and Chemistry Space in 18% Ni Maraging Steels of Grade 350
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021-02-02)Maraging steels are ultra-high-strength steel alloys used in critical aerospace applications such as landing gear, and rocket motor cases. Current maraging steel alloys have been developed with different compositions and ...
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