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Validation of a post-packaging pasteurization process to eliminate Listeria monocytogenes from ready-to-eat meat products
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A small steam and hot water pasteurization unit was validated for its effectiveness in the elimination of Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat meat products. Bologna, turkey breast and roast beef slices, and smoked sausages were inoculated with a L. monocytogenes cocktail and pasteurized to...
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Using 1D and 2D Nanomaterials in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells to Enhance Light Harvesting and Charge Collection
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The increasing global energy demand and scarcity of available energy resources have spurred research efforts to find cheap and abundant alternative energy sources. Solar energy is the inexhaustible renewable energy resource that has the potential to supply more than 15 TW/annum of carbon-neutral...
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Fall 2014
Optical imaging of membrane potentials has become an immensely popular approach to study neuronal activity. Over the past decades, a number of voltage indicators have been introduced including the voltage sensitive fluorescent protein (VSFP) and microbial rhodopsins. However, most of these...
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Fall 2018
Enzyme-responsive degradable polymers are of great interest both from fundamental science and real-world application perspectives. Enzyme-responsive polymers, because of their ability to interface with and sense biological processes, can have many applications in systems that operate at the edge...
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Transparent transducers and fast electronics for next-generation ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging
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Most ultrasound transducers are opaque. Transparent transducers could lead to novel applications, including combined optical and ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging and other multi-modality systems. This thesis introduces transparent capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers and...
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Superhydrophobic Micro- and Nano-structured Surfaces: Fabrication, Wetting, and Evaporation
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Water-repellent, superhydrophobic (SH) surfaces have attracted a remarkable interest in researchers for both purely academic pursuits and industrial applications, including nanofluidics and microfluidics, coatings, and drag reduction, due to their unique self-cleaning and drag reduction...
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Fall 2009
Resonant microcantilevers are promising transducers for bacteria detection because of their high sensitivities. Surface stress and mass from adsorbates affect the resonant frequency. We developed a novel method for decoupling the frequency contributions of a change in mass and surface stress on a...
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Fall 2009
Microcantilever sensor has gained much popularity because of its high sensitivity and selectivity. It consists of a micro-sized cantilever that is usually coated on one side with chemical/biological probe agents to generate strong attraction to target molecules. The interactions between the probe...
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Fall 2011
This current work investigates pore structure of various reservoir-rock materials using state-of-the-art microscopy such as micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) and Focused Ion Beam-Scanning electron Microscopy (FIB-SEM). Novel sample preparation methods have been developed for such rock cores,...