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- 2Bhaduri,Swayamdipta
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Spring 2014
The development of rapid detection techniques to be applied at the point of use, has been gaining significant attention in the recent years. Rapid techniques are important and preferable methods in healthcare and environment sector due to the advantages they offer such as low-cost and reduced...
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Spring 2011
This dissertation investigates the size based separation of DNA molecules in nanoparticle arrays under asymmetric pulsed electrophoresis. Crystalline arrays of nanoparticles within microfluidic channels are fabricated using colloidal self-assembly, yielding structures with pore sizes ranging from...
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Fall 2012
Clinical point-of-care (POC) diagnosis remains an open and challenging field of research worldwide in which the study of the mechanism and dynamics of protein molecule separation using electrophoresis is of considerable interest. The quality of a protein separation is strongly dependent on the...
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Spring 2016
Towards minimizing the cost of Micro Total Analysis Systems(µTAS) or Lab on a chip (LoC) systems, it is important to minimize manufacturing and assembly cost and time, and lower material costs. While the choice of material does govern material costs and the manufacturing process required and...
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Fall 2015
An investigation of the velocity profile in a microscale (<5mm) channel using micro PIV technique is presented. Measuring the velocity profile in the microchannel becomes increasingly important with the improved attention to microscale devices. Theory dictates that flow in the channel has a...
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Microfluidic Investigations of CO2 Mass Transport at Elevated Pressure and Salt Precipitation
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Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in geological reservoirs is one of the mitigation strategies to slow down the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration due to human activities. Effectively characterizing the transport phenomena between CO2 and materials in reservoirs, including mass/heat...
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Spring 2018
The aim of this study is to develop a technique capable of performing three-dimensional particle tracking by using images from a plenoptic (or light field) camera. Use of a plenoptic camera enables the collection of three-dimensional positional data within a volume, which would normally require...
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Fall 2012
Quantification of transport properties at pore scale is important for efficient oil extraction, improving fuel cell performance etc. An experimental methodology is developed for calculating permeability and porosity in microfluidic devices that contain structured and unstructured porous media....
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The Biomicrofluidics of Microbiologically Induced Calcite Precipitation Mediated by Sporosarcina pasteurii
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I studied a particular bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii (S. Pasteurii) which has a unique ability to cause chemical precipitation in an aqueous medium in the presence of certain molecules like urea. These precipitated chemicals can go deep inside a network of micro-scale pores and cause clogging....
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The Biomicrofluidics of Microbiologically Induced Calcite Precipitation Mediated by Sporosarcina pasteurii
DownloadSpring 2018
I studied a particular bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii (S. Pasteurii) which has a unique ability to cause chemical precipitation in an aqueous medium in the presence of certain molecules like urea. These precipitated chemicals can go deep inside a network of micro-scale pores and cause clogging....