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Fall 2014

Pan, Feng

Electrospinning is an efficient and versatile technique to fabricate polymer nanofibers. In this study, ultrafine Nylon 6 nanofibers were successfully fabricated by the electrospinning technique. The electrospinning voltage, solution concentration and flow rate are three parameters that have been...

Fall 2017

Esparza, Yussef O

Chicken feathers are an abundant by-product from poultry industry. Feathers are composed of around 90% keratin, a valuable protein bioresource that have great potential for non-food applications. Keratin is characterized by a high content of cysteine residues forming disulfide bonds. This feature...

Spring 2016

Wang, Yinan

Protein–carbohydrate interactions are involved in a wide variety of cellular recognition processes including cell growth regulation, differentiation and adhesion, immune response, and viral or bacterial infections. Recently, utilization of carbohydrate based polymers and nanomaterials for various...

Spring 2016

Yang, Jingqi

The overall objective of this thesis research is to gain fundamental knowledge on the relationship between barley protein molecular structures and their interfacial properties as well as to develop barley protein value-added applications with special emphasis on their utilization as nanoparticles...

Fall 2018

Mahsa Kalantari

Electrospinning of polystyrene (PS) as a ubiquitous polymer attracted tremendous attention. Though, different reinforcement techniques are commonly considered for the electrospun PS fibers because of their fragile structures. High mechanical properties of Cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) allow these...

Fall 2012

Sohrabi, Amirreza

A drug delivery system was designed based on the encapsulation of Ampicillin sodium salt in Poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)-Nylon6 core/shell nanofibers and the release characteristics and antibacterial activity of the system were investigated. It was revealed that the system is capable of...

Fall 2019

Awad, Rania

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are emerging nanomaterials with desirable characteristics including biodegradability, renewable sources, high aspect ratios, high surface area, and high strength. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is the most commonly used polymer precursor for electrospinning due to its high...

Fall 2012

Mojir Shaibani, Parmiss

One-dimensional BiFeO3 (BFO) nanofibers were fabricated using the simple electrospinning of a Nylon6/BFO solution, carried out on a homemade electrospinning apparatus, and subsequent calcination at 600 °C. The photocatalytic activity of the nanofibers and their application in water purification...

Fall 2019

Avci, Beste

Tissue loss is a health problem that affects millions of people globally. The conventional methods such as the transplantation of autografts and allografts do not always result in full recovery of damaged tissues. Tissue engineering emerged as a field with the ultimate goal of obviating the need...

Spring 2019

Xu, Kenny

Asphaltenes are the heaviest fraction of crude oils. Asphaltenes are composed of carbon rings with aliphatic side chains, and they are precipitated from crude oils with small-chain alkanes, such as pentane or heptane. This complex class of molecules can be problematic during oil extraction,...