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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Multifunctional Materials"”.
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Rapid on-demand polymerization for multifunctional materials
Multifunctional materials are able to perform multiple functions through judicious combinations of structural and non-structural properties, leading to enhancements in systems-level performance. Because multifunctional materials are inherently complex, their manufacturing is typically expensive and …
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Multifunctional Materials for Energy Harvesting and Sensing
… investigates the fundamental behavior of multifunctional materials for energy conversion. Multifunctional materials exhibit two or more functional properties, such as electrical, thermal, magnetic etc. In this dissertation, the emphasis is on understanding the principles for energy …
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Optical characterization of thermal transport in multifunctional materials
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Voxelized Atomic Structure Framework for Atomistic Modeling of Multifunctional Materials
… considered the smallest relevant length scale in materials modeling, and thus form the foundation of the multiscale physics governing the material response. This work introduces a new Voxelized Atomic Structure (VASt) framework for formulating physics-based, high-fidelity reduced-order material …
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Spin labile conducting metallopolymers : a new architecture for hybrid multifunctional materials
The synthesis of 3-ethynylthienyl- (2.07), 3-ethynylterthienyl- (2.19) substituted qsal [qsalH = N-(8-quinolyl)salicylaldimine] and 3,3' -diethynyl-2,2' -bithienyl bridging bisqsal (5.06) ligands are described along with the preparation and characterization of eight cationic iron(III) complexes …
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Nanostructured multifunctional materials for control of light transport and surface wettability
… Combining optical and wetting functions in multifunctional materials is critical for practical engineering applications such as energy harvesting, color generation, and operation of optical instrumentation in humid conditions. However, analyses of the functional design constraints of …
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SURFACE ENGINEERED NANOSTRUCTURED OXIDES AS MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Durante i tre anni del dottorato di ricerca in Scienze dei Materiali e Nanotecnologie presso il dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche dell Università degli studi di Catania mi sono occupato della ingegnerizzazione di superfici di ossidi nanostrutturati, con opportune molecole funzionali, al fine di …
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Synthesis of new substituted organosulfur donors for the preparation of conductive and multifunctional materials
… substituted ligands and their ability to form multifunctional materials (chapter 4). In chapter 2 the preparation of novel BEDT-TTF donors containing an alkene in the side such as (I) and (II) is reported. Single crystals of oxidised material have been prepared and conductivities have been …
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Towards Multifunctional Materials based on Coordination Complexes of Sulfur-Containing Diarylazo and Cucurbit[6]uril Ligands
… explored, working towards the discovery of new multifunctional materials. The first project focuses on the coordination chemistry of sparsely reported redox active sulfur-bearing diarylazo ligands. Homoleptic complexes with ligands 2-5 were successfully prepared with Cu2+, Ni2+ and Co2+/3+, in …
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Zinc(II) Schiff Base Complexes and their Aggregation/Deaggregation Properties: Versatile and Multifunctional Materials as Chemosensors and Building Blocks for New Supramolecular Architectures
In questa tesi di dottorato si riporta la sintesi, caratterizzazione e studio delle proprietà di aggregazione/disaggregazione di una serie di complessi anfifilici derivati da basi di Schiff bis(salicilaldiminato) di Zinco(II), con diversi gruppi diamminici a ponte, e le loro applicazioni come …
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Towards engineering living functional materials
… devices. The field of engineered living materials (ELMs) aims to recapitulate the remarkable properties of natural biology to create novel, growable, multifunctional materials using genetically engineered organisms.
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Hybrid Living Materials : a digital fabrication platform for functional bacterial technologies
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the new material takes on the properties of both. Yet, the integrated control of both material and biological properties and their interactions remains challenging due to the complexity of natural …
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Scaling Carbon-Cement Supercapacitors for Energy Storage Use-Cases
… cement composites, known as EC3 cells. These multifunctional materials combine structural performance with electrochemical energy storage capabilities, enabling integration directly into civil infrastructure. The research focuses on three essential challenges for real-world deployment: (1) …
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On Demand Liquid Metal Programming for Composite Property Tuning
… order to develop these soft electronic devices, materials and manufacturing strategies are required for these soft, stretchable, and flexible systems. Further, the ability to effectively tune not only these mechanical properties but also their thermal and electrical properties is key to …
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Analysing First Passage Time Distributions of Large Ill-Conditioned Energy Landscapes
… are associated with molecular switches and multifunctional materials, and are expected to exhibit multiple relaxation time scales. Energy landscapes, consisting of local minima connected by transition states, can be represented by a kinetic transition network. Each local minimum is …
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Probing Coherent States and Nonlinear Properties in Multifunctional Material Systems
The rapid progress on developing new and improved multifunctional materials, for optoelectronic and spin based phenomena/devices, have increased the importance of the fundamental understanding of their coherent states and nonlinear optical properties. This study is aimed at characterizing, …
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Fabrication and Evaluation of Specialty Nonwoven Materials
The present work is to develop multifunctional materials with high performance on chemical absorption, adsorption and on acoustic absorption and insulation using natural fiber nonwovens via carbonization and activation. Evaluation of these textile materials includes tensile strength, …
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Synthesis of Heteroleptic Redox-active and Spin-crossover Complexes
… conductivity hold significance in the field of multifunctional materials, of which there are few examples that feature mixed ligand systems. Information describing this type of chemistry and the magnetic interactions that govern these characteristics is introduced in the first chapter of this …
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Synthesis, physical properties and processing of multifunctional molecular materials
New multifunctional materials (MMMs) where conductivity and magnetism coexist or, in some cases, interact, have been prepared and fully characterized as quality crystals or thin films. [(BDH-TTP)6] [Fe(croc)3] ·CH2Cl2 (1), where paramagnetism is due to isolated Fe(III) metal ions with S = 5/2 …
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Metal based reactive nanocomposites prepared by cryomilling
… biological weapons, it is of interest to develop multifunctional materials combining the high energy density of metal fuels with the biocidal activity of halogens. A challenge of this effort is to design and prepare powder-like Al-I2 materials which can be used as drop-in replacements for pure …
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