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Description:: Peptide Amphiphile (PA) molecules developed in the author's laboratory and others have shown great versatility in creating self-assembled nanostructures with built-in biological and/or chemical functionalities. Their applications in spinal cord injury repair, angiogenesis, promoting cell adhesion and templating inorganic materials have also been well studied. Complementing previous compositional studies, where...
Keyword:: peptide amphiphile, alignment, Biomaterials, and liquid crystal
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Shuming Zhang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/02/2018
Date Modified:: 10/02/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-08
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Freeze casting is a technique for processing porous materials that has drawn significant attention for its effectiveness in producing a variety of tailorable pore structures for ceramics, metals, and polymers. With freeze casting, pores are generated based on a solidification process where ice crystals act as a sacrificial template which...
Keyword:: processing, preceramic polymers, freeze casting, ice templating, ceramics, and porous
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Maninpat Naviroj
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/27/2018
Date Modified:: 03/27/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The scope of this thesis extends to the study of surface structures and electronic properties in a number of complex oxides. The c(6x2) surface reconstruction on SrTiO3 (001) was solved using a combination of plan view transmission electron microscopy imaging, atomic resolution secondary electron imaging, and density functional theory calculations....
Keyword:: electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, surface science, and lanthanide scandates
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Pratik Koirala
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/26/2018
Date Modified:: 03/26/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Semiconducting nanoelectronic materials, including single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess interesting optoelectronic properties that could enable next-generation electronics, sensing technologies, and biomedicine. In this thesis, biomolecule-assisted dispersion and assembly of these nanomaterials are explored for human toxicity, environmental hazard potential, and applications in supramolecular hydrogels. Liquid-based...
Keyword:: Carbon Nanomaterials, Toxicity, Biofunctionalization, Supramolecular Hydrogel, and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Nikita Mansukhani
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/27/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: I present research in systems of biomedical relevance consisting of agents near or com- prising surfaces using computational approaches. The research topics include formation of bacterial biofilms, behavior of charged species near stacked, like-charged lamellae, and the the conformational behavior of lamellae with strong self-attraction. In chapter 2, I present...
Keyword:: biophysics, soft matter, molecular dynamics, coarse graining , self assembly, and computer simulations
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Bernard McAlpine Beckerman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/13/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Plasmonic nanostructures can confine light at their surface in the form of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) or localized surface plasmons (LSPs) depending on their geometry. SPPs are excited on nano- and micropatterned surfaces, where the typical feature size is on the order of the wavelength of light. LSPs, on the...
Keyword:: Modelling, Nano structures,, Plasmonic, and Material Science
Subject:: Material Science and Engineering
Creator:: Alexander John Hryn
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/13/2018
Date Modified:: 02/13/2018
Date Created:: 2016-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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