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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Nanoengineering"”.
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Experimental Nanoengineering of Multifunctionality into an Advanced Composite Laminate
Advanced structural fiber composite materials have lightweight, multi-directional, and tailorable properties which are vital for weight-critical applications such as aerospace vehicles. Nanoengineered aerospace-grade composites have been developed to have integrated multifunctionalities while …
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A Nanoengineering Approach to Oxide Thermoelectrics For Energy Harvesting Applications
The ability of uniquely functional thermoelectric materials to convert waste heat directly into electricity is critical considering the global energy economy. Profitable, energy-efficient thermoelectrics possess thermoelectric figures of merit ZT ≥ 1. We examined the effect of metal nanoparticle – …
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Electron beam generation and structure of defects in carbon and boron nitride nanotubes
… has also been proposed as a potential tool for nanoengineering of nanotubular structures. Here we develop a theoretical description of the irradiation mechanism. First, the anisotropy of the emission energy threshold is obtained via density functional based calculations. Then, we numerically …
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Pharmaceuticals on the Nanoscale: Multi-dimensional Electron Diffraction of Organic Molecular Crystals
… of dosage modalities include innovations in nanoengineering, access to spatially resolved structural information at the nanoscale will become increasingly important. In this thesis, the potential for the application of these electron diffraction techniques within the pharmaceutical industry …
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Exploring heat transfer at the atomistic level for thermal energy conversion and management
… management of microelectronic devices. While nanoengineering offers unique opportunities to manipulate heat to our advantages, it also imposes challenges on the fundamental understanding of nanoscale heat transfer. As the characteristic lengths of the system size become comparable to the mean …
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Ligand Effect on Gold Nanomolecules Demonstrated Using Aliphatic, Aromatic and Bulky Thiolate Ligands
… AuNPs</em>, which must be focused to enable nanoengineering at atomic level. Overall, the work presented in this dissertation discuss; 1. The influence of thiolate-ligands on atomic structure and formation of AuNMs, and their physicochemical properties will be established based on …
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Magnetic polyamide 6 nanocomposites for increasing damage tolerance through self-healing of composite structures.
Self-healing materials have the ability to repeatedly repair damages that occur before complete failure of materials. The development of stimuli-responsive self-healing materials has been in demand recently for composite structures, since their failure is relatively uncertain and can result in …
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Natural and engineered surfaces for enhanced phase change heat transfer
Phase change of water is a ubiquitous process that occurs throughout nature and in a wide range of engineering systems. Over the last century, many researchers have studied the effect of surface wettability on the enhancement of phase change heat transfer. Interestingly, interfacial phenomena …
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Magnetic field directed self-assembly of gold Pickering emulsion for preparing patterned film.
Patterning plays a vital in role in sensor-based devices like surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA), radio frequency (RF) antennas and many others. The linear array spacing and width of gold strips has been shown to increase the local intensity …
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DNA Origami Mechanisms and Machines
This thesis establishes scaffolded DNA origami as a viable approach to designing and fabricating nanoscale mechanisms and machines. The work presented shows a fundamental proof-of-concept for the fabrication of DNA Origami Mechanisms and Machines (DOMM). The scope of the project is to design, …