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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"material design"”.
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Material design for a robotic arts studio
… no simple way to begin creating with these new materials without first learning a wide range of programming and electronic skills. This thesis discusses a set of technologies and activities designed for an introductory robotic art course that enable art students with little technical background …
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Shape changing composite material design for interactions
This thesis is about designing shape change composite material for interactions. Interaction has gone beyond computer screens and electronics to enter the realm of physical materials. Shape changes at the micro level will cause shape changes and other physical property changes at the macro level. A …
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Material Design and Durability Characterization of “Non-Brittle” Geopolymer
… offering a variety of possibilities for material design. The microstructure of fully reacted K-poly(sialate-siloxo) type geopolymer is nanoporous and sponge-like, consisting of nanoparticulates ranging from 5-15 nm separated by nanopores on the order of 3 to 10 nm. The nanoparticulates …
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Exploring Immersed FEM, Material Design, and Biological Tissue Material Modeling
… Method (IIFEM) for shape optimization and material design, while also investigating the modeling and parameterization of lung tissue for Diver Underwater Explosion (UNDEX) simulations. In the first part, a shape optimization scheme utilizing a four-noded rectangular immersed-interface …
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Biomineralized Composites: Material Design Strategies at Building-Block and Composite Levels
… minerals, have evolved unique structural designs to fulfill mechanical and other biological functionalities. Aside from the intricate architectures at the composite level and 3D assemblies of the biomineral building blocks, the individual mineral blocks enclose intracrystalline structural …
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A Computational Approach to Efficient Electrode Material Design for Electrochemical Oxidation of PFAS
… understood, which hinders the development of design principles for efficient electrode materials. This thesis presents a computational framework to advance the understanding of the oxidation mechanism of EAOP, focusing on perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a model contaminant. Through quantum …
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Biologically-inspired Structural Color: Material Design and Fabrication Strategies Drawn from Nature’s Color Palette
… fascinating case study for exploring the role of material design on macroscale properties and can provide insights on animal evolution, photonic devices, human and animal communication, signaling, and art. These impressive effects result from interference and diffraction of light incident upon …
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Modularizing transformations : a goal-oriented design tool of a modular four-bar linkage mechanism
Recent advances in materials science and manufacturing technology have not only provided promising opportunities for industrial and product design but have also catalyzed the emerging areas of transformable material design. This field of transformable material design is a multidisciplinary subject …
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Utilizing of Magnesium Oxysulfate Binders for Additive Construction Applications
… is serving multiple transdisciplinary top-notch material design and technological topics. It is a proof of concept of the feasibility of 3D printing using Magnesium Oxysulfate (MOS) binder as an alternative to the ordinary Portland cement (OPC) to be utilized in terrestrial and extraterrestrial …
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Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design
… year 2020, the accumulated mass of anthropogenic materials now outweighs all living biomass on Earth. Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of …
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An Investigation into full color Edge-lit Holographic Optical Elements
… elements) in silver halide and photopolymer materials create diffraction structures that have significant impact on effective recording performance. Typical off-axis holographic recording regimes as well as holographic directional diffusers are analyzed to establish a performance baseline for …
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Modeling ion mobility in solid-state polymer electrolytes
… the end goal of enabling rapid computational material design.
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Mechanical and trajectory design of wearable Supernumerary Robotic Limbs for crutch use
… This paper first details the mechanical and material design choices that drastically reduced the weight of this SRL prototype, including advanced composite materials, efficient joint structure, and high-performance pneumatic actuators. The latter half of this paper characterizes the …
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Desarrollo de prototipo de aplicación móvil interactiva para la enseñanza del idioma francés en menores de diez años.
… corre bajo la máquina virtual Java y diseño con Material Design. Se determina el nivel idiomático a desarrollar correspondiente al nivel A.1.1 con sus competencias específicas sobre las cuales se desarrollan los módulos de la aplicación.
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Extending yield-stress fluid paradigms
… fluid into a useful methodology for the design of rheologically complex materials; the second is based on the discrepancy in the behavior in extension of model yield-stress fluids versus application-relevant materials. Through implementation of material design principles of selection and …
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Crack propagation in bone on the scale of mineralized collagen fibrils: role of polymers with sacrificial bonds and hidden length
… fracture toughness than what is observed in materials without such features. Here, we investigate this hypothesis using a simplified model of a mineralized collagen fibril sliding on a polymeric interface with SBHL systems. A 1D coarse-grained nonlinear spring-mass system is used to model the …
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Deep learning methods for the design and understanding of solid materials
The trend of open material data and automation in the past decade offers a unique opportunity for data-driven design of novel materials for various applications as well as fundamental scientific understanding, but it also poses a challenge for conventional machine learning approaches based on …
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Assessing Structure–Property Relationships of Crystal Materials using Deep Learning
… and interest in the field of high-performance material design. This is primarily because deep learning algorithms in nature have huge advantages over the conventional machine learning models in processing massive amounts of unstructured data with high performance. Besides, deep learning models …
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Design, fabrication, and application of daytime radiative cooling
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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