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Spring 2021

Hartley, Kendra Jade

Hand injuries, due to impact, are common workplace injuries. Many work gloves afford impact protection through design of add-on components known as bumpers. Glove design criteria are complex (e.g., limitations from human factors, dexterity, use case, hand size variability) and commercial bumpers...

Spring 2016

Bhambri, Pallavi

The current study investigates the drag reduction (DR) using high molecular weight polymers such as commercial polyacrylamide, polysaccharides and thermo-responsive polymers. A Taylor-Couette (TC) setup was designed and fabricated to examine the abovementioned polymers for drag reduction, and to...

Spring 2013

Luo, Xiaoxiong

This thesis investigates electrically conductive polymer nanocomposites formulated with metal nanowires for electrostatic discharge and electromagnetic interference shielding. Copper nanowires (CuNWs) of an average length of 1.98 µm and diameter of 25 ± 4 nm were synthesized. The oxidation...

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Elwi, A. E., Kamel, Ayman Mohamed Samir., Cheng, J. J. R.

Structural engineering report SER 252 | SER-ID SER252

Fall 2015

Pouralhosseini, Sayyid S

Mixtures of colloids + non-adsorbing polymers + good solvents are well known to exhibit multiphase behaviors that are driven by the depletion flocculation mechanism where one phase, designated a colloid gas, is largely comprised of polymer and solvent, while the other phase, designated a colloid...

Fall 2015

Perron, David H.

Nanoplasmonic devices have received much attention in recent years due to their ability to confine light below the diffraction limit, thereby providing a potential route to the creation of nanometer-scale integrated photonic devices. However, with the strong confinement of light come large...

Spring 2013

Ferguson, Brendan J

An alternative method of manipulating fragile MEMS devices during fabrication has been developed. A specialized manual or robotic end effector utilizing a gecko inspired adhesive can replace the slow and costly manual tweezers used by the MEMS foundry Micralyne Inc. Improving the adhesive...

Fall 2016

Bayati, Fatemeh

Synthetic polymers are still widely used in today’s life despite all environmental issues attributed to them. Replacing synthetic polymers with natural biodegradable polymers has been considered as a way of reducing these environmental impacts partially, if not completely. Hydroxyporpyl xylan...

Spring 2019

Jami, Rafat

Long chained polymers were evaluated for their impact on reducing pipe erosion during two-phase flow. The research study was compartmentalized into three categories. One of the components of this study investigated the erosion of different materials in an attempt to find a faster eroding...

Fall 2022

Omaña Moreno, Alvaro A.

The work in this Thesis describes significant progress made in the field of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) at the intersection between modern main group chemistry and materials chemistry. Mainly, this work focuses on the use of an intramolecular phosphine-borane FLP (namely, o-iPr2P(C6H4)BCy2 or...