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Fall 2023

Sajiv Kumar, Roshni

Owing to the factors of low cost, abundance and lower emissions from natural gas as compared to diesel and gasoline, there has been a surged interest in utilizing natural gas for transportation purposes. Though it is known for natural gas to burn in a clean manner with considerably fewer...

Spring 2011

Karimi, Arash

Thin film pyrolysis was used to thermally crack the pendant groups from asphaltene molecules. The cracked products were rapidly quenched to minimize further decomposition. The liquid products were condensed and collected, with over 91% material balance on the recovery of gas, liquid and coke...

Fall 2011

Luo, Jia

This thesis presents research on the selection and development of thin film deposition of materials and initial data on the integration of a pH measuring device suitable for evaluation. This device used two particular tantalum compounds deposited by dc magnetron reactive sputtering as functional...

Spring 2015

Tan, XueHai

This thesis encompasses aspects of alloy design, fabrication and characterization of thin films, which are employed as model systems to enhance hydrogen storage kinetics and thermodynamics in magnesium hydride and to enhance the catalytic efficacy and corrosion stability of platinum-based...

2006

Eastman, Craig Dennis

Fall 2020

Flood, Richard

The demand to develop Materials Genomics and Integrated Materials Computation requires the availability of high temperature property data of liquid metals. High temperature metallurgical processes, such as refining, casting, welding and additive manufacturing, can be optimized and operate more...

Spring 2013

Ansari, Nesma Nasir

Solvents are ubiquitously used in oil sands extraction industry to enhance the separation of bitumen froth. With developing new technologies such as non-aqueous bitumen extraction, the need to track solvent interactions with oil sands components throughout the extraction process and to identify...

Spring 2018

Liu, Fanghui

Micro and nanoscale confinements and local curvatures, which are ubiquitous in natural and man-made materials and systems, cause significant impact on thermodynamic phase behavior. This effect has been extensively studied for single component solid's liquid phase transitions, but rarely for...

Spring 2014

Kabiri, Maryam

The spontaneous assembly of polypeptides through non-covalent interactions at physiological conditions is the main focus of the presented work and will be discussed from two different perspectives: (i) the interaction of peptide chains with themselves leading to formation of higher order...

Spring 2023

Abraham, Rosmi

This thesis investigates the thermo-mechanical behavior of picograms of fluids using a suspended microchannel resonator called microfluidic cantilever operating in dynamic mode by exploring the interfacial effects of liquids on the resonance frequency. Microfluidic cantilever is a promising...