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Fall 2022

Jen, Nathan A

This thesis discusses the deformation behavior of compliant tubing consisting of one of two silicone elastomeric bases and a reinforcing knitted fabric jacket. The primary application of this tubing is the ex vivo heart perfusion (EVHP) device, a medical implement that keeps a donated heart alive...

Spring 2013

Kazemlou, Shokoufeh

The sources of inducing field gradients and their implications are investigated inside the microfabricated post arrays. A parametric study is conducted to understand how the posts arrangements, distance, and size change the field and field gradients. The results provide criteria where the...

Fall 2014

Gaikwad, Rohankumar

With conventional sources of oil depleting, non-conventional oil resources such as heavy crude oil, oil shales, and oil sands are gaining importance as alternatives. Various extraction processes have been employed to separate bitumen from oil sands. The relatively unexplored electromagnetic...

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...

2005

Magual, Alejandro

Spring 2022

Arango Vasquez,Daniela

Filiform corrosion (FFC, also known as under-film corrosion) is commonly observed on surfaces of coated aluminum (Al) and aluminum alloys (AA), especially in environments combining marine and industrial atmosphere. The chemical composition of the substrate is believed to play an important role in...

Spring 2019

Dwaik, Carol G

Stabilization of water-in-oil droplets during bitumen extraction and refining process poses a major challenge in the oil sands industry. These crude oil emulsions are stabilized by rigid films at water droplet-oil interfaces. The salty water remaining in oil causes equipment corrosion, catalyst...

Fall 2018

Xiong, Ming

Rechargeable zinc-air (Zn-air) batteries have gained renewed interest among the various technologies available with their high theoretical energy density and low cost. However, large-scale industrial deployment of Zn-air batteries is limited by several issues; the most concerning of these are low...

2006

Liu, Haifeng

Fall 2009

Crozier, Brendan Matthew

Iron-cobalt alloys have been extensively studied as potential hard disk drive write head materials due to their potentially high saturation flux densities (~2.4T), low coercivities and ease of deposition. Iron-cobalt plating solutions have, however, been shown to have stability issues,...