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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"properties of water"”.
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Properties of water frost formed at cryogenic temperatures.
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1967.
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Configurational properties of water clathrates through molecular simulation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1991.
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Collisional and structural properties of water ice in planet-forming regions
With the number of detected exoplanets standing at close to 2000, it seems that planets are ubiquitous throughout the universe. However, the processes leading to their formation are not well understood. It is widely accepted that planets form by dust aggregation from the material of protoplanetary …
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Self-healing properties of water filtration membranes containing amphiphilic comb polymer
… (Chromerge)) and/or annealed (in 90⁰C deionized water), and their elemental surface composition and specific carbon binding environments are determined by XPS. Filtration experiments are done by alternating feed solutions of deionized water and a foulant (either bovine serum albumin or an …
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Evaluation of Stain Blocking Primer Coatings with Low Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Content and Effects of Drying Conditions on the Properties of Water Reducible Coatings for Polypropylene
… reduce the volatile organic compound (VOC) limit of specialty primers, sealers, and undercoaters (SPSU), also referred to as stain blocking primers, from 350 g/L to 100 g/L in January of 2012. These coatings are primarily used as stain blocking primers over a variety of substrates, such as wood …
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Fluid Flow Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal Systems
… subseafloor structure and temporal variability of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems are examined from a largely theoretical standpoint. The nature of tidal signals is considered in detail and there is a discussion of the mechanisms by which the tidal modulations observed at seafloor …
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Self-Diffusion and Temperature Mapping of Food Materials Using MRI
Properties of water in foods play an important role in food processing. Molecular self-diffusion of water is affected by a variety of parameters, including chemical composition, internal structure, and temperature of foods. Studying self-diffusion noninvasively using magnetic resonance imaging …
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Ligand shell morphology of water-soluble mixed-monolayer protected gold nanoparticles
Nanoparticles comprise a versatile class of nanomaterials that consist of particles that have a characteristic length scale less than 100nm. They are on a similar length scale as many biological elements, so it is fitting that they are being used increasingly in biological systems for a variety of …
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"Inhabitants of the Deep": Water and the Material Imagination of Blackness
… undertakes a black ecocritical study of the trope of water in African Diasporic Literature. Over the course of three chapters treating fiction, drama, and photography, in a study both multi-generic and interdisciplinary in scope, I illuminate the ways in which black literature …
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Molecular modeling of water and aqueous electrolytes under electric field: thermal, dielectric, and transport properties
Water plays a critical role in thermal transport, electrochemical energy storage, and electrically driven interfacial phenomena. Accurately capturing its coupled thermo-electrical behavior remains a challenge in MD simulations. This study combines machine learning, and MD simulations to provide a …
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Design and analysis of the power electronics system for the Lean Operation Rotary Adsorption Cooling System
… sustainable space cooling systems in the face of the growing threat of global warming. While traditional cooling systems rely on large amounts of grid electricity and a suite of environmentally harmful chemicals, the LORACS instead leverages thermal properties of water and desiccants to create …
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Vadose Zone Hydrology near the Vicinity of Edna's Dome, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
… cave sites separated by only a few tens of meters. One site (FF) has a freefalling water component where water descends nearly 30 meters from the ceiling of a vertical shaft. The other location (WW) appears to have continuous water to rock contact as it descends to near the same level in …
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Effect of cross-linking on the diffusion of water, ions and small molecules in hydrogels
Understanding the diffusion of small molecules in hydrogel system is of major importance in a variety of applications including drug delivery systems, tissue engineering and contact lens. Cross-linking density of hydrogels has been commonly used to tune key parameters like mesh size and molecular …
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Waterscape
Water plays an integral role in mediating the natural environment, ecosystems and habitats, and in shaping our natural landscapes. Using water as a tool for form-finding in landscape design fosters a sense of awareness of the relationship and interaction between people, water and the land. The …
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Efficient Biomolecular Computations Towards Applications in Drug Discovery
… structure-based drug design. The ability of these methods to address biologically relevant problems is largely determined by the accuracy of the treatment of complex solvation effects in target biomolecules surrounded by water. The implicit solvent model – which treats solvent as a …
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Low Temperature Drying of Ultrafine Coal
A new dewatering technology, called low temperature drying, has been developed to remove water from ultrafine (minus 325 mesh) coal particles. The process subjects partially dewatered solids to intense mechanical shearing in the presence of unsaturated air. Theoretical analysis of the thermodynamic …
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Theoretical Approaches to the Characterization of Water, Aqueous Interfaces, and Improved Sampling of Protein Conformational Changes
<p>Methods to advance the understanding of water and other aqueous systems are devel- oped. This work falls into three areas: The creation of better interaction potentials for water, improved methods for sampling configurational space, and the applications of these methods to understand systems of …
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Spatio-temporal characteristics of the Agulhas leakage: a model inter-comparison study
Investigating the variability of the Agulhas leakage, the volume transport of water from the Indian Ocean to the South Atlantic Ocean, is highly relevant due to its potential contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the global circulation of heat, salt and …
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General reviews of electrochemical and corrosion phenomena under conditions associated with supercritical water oxidation
Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) is a promising technology for destroying highly toxic organic compounds present in aqueous waste streams. Organic wastes that have been identified as possible targets for destruction by SCWO include EPA-regulated organic wastes, organic components of DOE mixed …
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Developing Fast and Accurate Water Models for Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Water models are of great importance for different fields of studies such as fluid mechanics, nano materials, and biomolecule simulations. In this dissertation, we focus on the water models applied in atomistic simulations, including those of biomolecules such as proteins and DNA. Despite water's …
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