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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Fabrication protocol"”.
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Fabrication of resonant optical waveguide biosensors using electron gun depositions
… of refraction and thickness is required from the fabrication process.;Fabrication of the biosensor transducer was performed from Electron Beam Physical Vapor Depositions. This thesis outlines the development of the protocol for the fabrication process and discusses the improvements made to the …
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Submicron patterning using laser interference lithography
In this thesis, the theory, fabrication protocol, and initial results of an alternative nanopatterning technique called Interferometric Lithography (IL) are presented. Comprised of the identical process attributes of traditional projection photolithography, IL mirrors the wafer preparation and …
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Characterizing Muscle and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Imaging Phantoms for NMR Application
… altered relative diffusion time. We changed the fabrication protocol by comparing reagent-grade peanut oil to cooking-grade peanut oil and creating the water and lipid phases separately versus together. There was no significant difference (p = 0.05) in T2 relaxation of the 40% and 70%. The …
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Designing high performance overall water splitting electrocatalysts from non-precious metal selenides
… non-precious transition metal selenides. Facile fabrication protocol of first-row transition metal selenides has been accomplished efficiently. These first-row transition metal selenides have not been widely investigated for OER till now. Therefore, their potential for electrocatalytic water …
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Microfabrication of conductive polymer nanocomposite for sensor applications
This dissertation developed novel microfabrication techniques of conductive polymer nanocomposite and utilized this material as a functional element for various physical sensor applications. Microstructures of nanocomposite were realized through novel microcontact printing and laser ablation …
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Hydrogels for Biomacromolecule Immobilization and Sensing
… discussed has its function derived from a novel fabrication protocol or through the development of new hybrid polymer biomaterials. Molecular sensing was accomplished by preparing crosslink-cleavable hydrogels with progressively more complex recognition elements. Initial work investigated the …
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Passive Acoustic Mapping of Microbubbles in Focused Ultrasound Induced Brain Therapies for Preclinical Studies
… angle at 1.1 MHz, and a low-cost, batch-wise fabrication protocol, the receiver was then used to construct a receive array. An initial ultrasound-propagation simulation study was conducted to optimize the sparse array layout for both transmit and receive. A 256-element sparse hemispherical …
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Progress in coherent lithography using table-top extreme ultraviolet lasers
… industry, a small-scale but reliable nanofabrication tool can dramatically help the research in the field of nanotechnology. This dissertation describes alternative extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography techniques which combine table-top EUV laser and various cost-effective imaging …
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Optimizing Multi-Well Micro-Electrode Array (MW-MEA) Design to Study the Electrophysiology of Neurons
… create 3D microelectrodes on the fMEA. 3D-fMEA fabrication proved to be challenging due to several difficulties in the wire bonding process, used for converting the planar fMEA to 3D-fMEA. Thus, to further the study on the effectiveness of fMEA and 3D-fMEA, the choice of material and fabrication …
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Applications and Advancements of Dynamic Isoelectric Focusing
… can produce several polyurethane pieces. This fabrication method has proven useful for making DIEF holders. The next step was to make DIEF a truly comprehensive proteomic tool by incorporating it into a microfluidic chip. Multiple sample fractions are rapidly generated on chip through the use …
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New approaches to scaled-up carbon nanotube synthesis and nanotube-based metal composites and sensors
… of CO and acetylene resulted in carbide-free fabrication of the nanocomposites. A reaction mechanism supporting the observed carbide-free growth is also presented. In the third phase of the research performed, a SWNT fabrication protocol using CVD growth or electrophoretic deposition was …
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Imaging biological water permeability barriers using CARS microscopy
… and relative simplicity. In this thesis, the fabrication process of a human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) microvessel microfluidic was investigated and optimized for future studies of vascular permeability and physiology. Several factors in the device assembly process were identified …