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- This thesis presents a new self-assembling robotic system that diverges from traditional approaches by enabling robots to build structures not constrained to a lattice and formed based on environmental conditions, rather than on a priori blueprints. Robot self-assembly is a class of behavior in swarm robotics in which many robots...
- Keyword:
- Attachment, Self-assembly, Locomotion, Robot, Climbing, and Algorithm
- Subject:
- Robotics and Design
- Creator:
- Swissler, Petras Juozas
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16195 and etdadmin_upload_924376
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- The building blocks of life are proteins. These incredible nanostructures are responsible for forming the diverse infrastructure of living systems and for performing countless biological functions. In Nature, these materials and systems achieve structural complexity and function through highly regulated and controlled assembly of protein building blocks, driven by specific...
- Keyword:
- Hierarchical, Supramolecular , Proteins, and Self-assembly
- Subject:
- Nanotechnology and Chemistry
- Creator:
- Hayes, Oliver George
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_835884 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15660
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- As the pursuit for higher performance and lower cost photovoltaics, and for new applications of optoelectronic devices moves beyond crystalline silicon, there are many unique opportunities for materials research into hybrid organic-inorganic, and organic semiconductors. This dissertation focuses on both hybrid organic-inorganic materials and organic materials for optoelectronic applications. In...
- Keyword:
- Perovskite, Self-assembly, and Ferroelectric
- Subject:
- Inorganic chemistry and Materials Science
- Creator:
- Passarelli, James
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/15/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_797908 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15491
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- Self-assembly of colloidal particles at the nano- and microscale has been a powerful tool for producing structures with emergent properties in applications ranging from electro-mechanical systems to photonics and biomedical devices. Great success has been achieved in experiments, where a variety of exotic phases have been discovered and even reconfigurable...
- Keyword:
- Soft materials, Computer simulation, Nanoparticles, Self-assembly, and Electrostatics
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Computational physics
- Creator:
- Wang, Ziwei
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_747162 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15154
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- Biomaterials have immense potential for studying fundamental biological processes and developing therapies to help regenerate or replace the structure and function of injured tissues. In order to accomplish this, they need to be designed to mimic the structure and function of Nature’s most important material, the extracellular matrix (ECM) surrounding...
- Keyword:
- Peptide Amphiphile, Growth Factor, Aptamer, Biomaterials, Self-assembly, and Extracellular Matrix
- Subject:
- Materials Science
- Creator:
- Serrano, Christopher
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_681720 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14779
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- Soft materials such as colloids and polymers often exhibit a variety of mesoscopic structures that are governed merely by weak physical interactions. Due to these intermediate structures, they can be easily taken out of thermal equilibrium by introducing external stimuli such as a shear flow and electromagnetic fields. This thesis...
- Keyword:
- Phase transition, Nonequilibrium dynamics, Coarse-grained simulations, Self-assembly, Soft matter, and Machine Learning
- Subject:
- Materials Science, Computational physics, and Statistical physics
- Creator:
- Han, Ming
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14411 and etdadmin_upload_618073
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- Organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells aim to provide efficient, flexible and lightweight photovoltaics (PV) with simple processing and low-cost. Advances in device optimization, structural and molecular design, as well as mechanistic understanding have helped increase device efficiency and performance. Within the framework of active layer optimization, systematically improving bulk heterojunction...
- Keyword:
- bulk heterojunction, solar cell, Self-assembly, hydrogen bonding, morphology, and Organic photovoltaic
- Subject:
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Creator:
- Taner Aytun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/19/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation