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Food protein-stabilized nanoemulsions as potential delivery systems for poorly water-soluble drugs: Preparation, in vitro characterization and pharmacokinetics in rats
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He, Wei, Tian, Zhiqiang, Wu, Wei, Hu, Fuqiang, Chen, Lingyun, Tan, Yanan
Nanoemulsions stabilized by traditional emulsifiers raise toxicological concerns for long-term treatment. The present work investigates the potential of food proteins as safer stabilizers for nanoemulsions to deliver hydrophobic drugs. Nanoemulsions stabilized by food proteins (soybean protein...
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Surface modification of zirconium implants via electrochemical anodization and wet chemical techniques
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Metals such as titanium (Ti) and zirconium (Zr) have been widely applied in the orthopaedic and orthodontic field for construction of joint replacement prostheses and teeth implants due to their lower cytotoxicity, excellent mechanical properties, and corrosion resistance. However, the current...
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Thermal Sprayed Coating as a Structural Health Monitoring Sensor for Engineering Structures
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Failure prevention in engineering components is vital to efficiently reducing costs and very crucial to preservation of lives. Crucial to this failure prevention is the requirement of knowing stresses within the components, not just to counter the risk of overloading but also to determine the...
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Application of Thermally-Sprayed Coatings as Heat Tracers for Carbon Steel Pipes to Mitigate the Effect of Ice Accumulation and Freezing Damage
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The bursting of pipes due to freezing of contained liquid is considerably costly in industrial applications, resulting in over $4 billion in damage over the last decade alone in the United States. This doctoral research program attempted to study the root cause of the failure of pipes due to...
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Fall 2015
Ice accretion is a problem that affects the performance and safety of structures that are exposed to cold weather environments. In wind energy production, a constantly growing industry, ice accretion has been found to decrease the performance, produce mechanical failures, and decrease the safety...
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Changing Landscape Coatings for Bioactive Bone Fixation Implants via Flame Spray Deposition
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Owing to the bio-inert nature of load-bearing alloys and the brittle nature of bioactive materials there is a need to develop a composite bioactive material suitable for load-bearing applications. To fulfill this need, a new composite coating of a load-bearing alloy and a resorbable bioactive...
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Development of a Multi-material Extruder System to 3D Print Hard Thermoplastics, Soft Elastomers and Liquid Metals
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Functional sensors often consist of rigid parts, soft rubber-like parts, and mechanically tunable electronic components. As part of a larger project to 3D print tunable antennas, it was tasked to develop a printer that could directly produce 3D stretchable electronics with soft and hard...
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Spring 2013
The temperature distribution of a flame-sprayed metallic layer on glass fiber-reinforced epoxy flat plates was determined experimentally, analytically, and numerically. The composite samples consisted of flat composite glass fiber-epoxy plates fabricated by filament winding, a layer of garnet...
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Spring 2021
Membrane desalination processes have attracted much attention in the last few decades with regards to water purification. While some methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) are demonstrated at the commercial scale, some such as membrane distillation (MD) have not been deployed, mainly due to issues...
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Spring 2014
Recent technological advancements in the field of neural recording and decoding have changed the landscape of neural prostheses. However, a lack of biocompatible electrodes for long-term neural recording resulting in loss of electrode functionality is currently a major limiting factor for...