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- 1Alshareef, Ali Haider
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- 5Gupta, Rajender (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 4Huang, Biao (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 3Xu, Zhenghe (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 2Chen, Weixing (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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A molecular dynamics simulation study on the deformation behavior for nanotwinned polycrystalline copper
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Present research is focused on the mechanical behavior of nanoscale copper with growth twins. Atomistic calculation (Molecular Dynamics simulation) with embedded-atom method potential was used to study the fundamental deformation processes that occur in columnar nanocrystalline copper. The...
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A Preliminary Study on Pyrolysis and Gasification of Asphaltenes and Coal-Asphaltenes Slurry in Entrained Flow Reactor
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The aim of this work is to study pyrolysis of coal-asphaltenes slurry in an atmospheric entrained flow reactor. Athabasca asphaltenes and Genesee coal, both from Alberta in Canada, were selected as the feedstock. Char characteristics and the structure of asphaltenes and slurry chars including...
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Spring 2012
The chemical mechanical polishing of Copper (Cu-CMP) is a complex and poorly understood process. Despite this, it is widely used throughout the semiconductor and microelectronics industries, and makes up a significant portion of wafer processing costs. In these contexts, desirable polishing...
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Fall 2012
Coal pyrolysis liquids are rich in olefinic, phenolic and aromatic compounds, but traditional hydroprocessing destroys their inherent synthetic values. Acid catalyzed processes are not considered, because coal pyrolysis liquids also contain nitrogen bases. We aim to find appropriate catalysts...
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Spring 2012
Gold and silver dressing alloys were created by DC magnetron sputtering and compared with pure silver nanocrystalline dressings using conventional biological and physical characterization techniques. While the gold/silver dressings were weaker antimicrobials than the pure silver nanocrystalline...
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Adsorptive Removal of CO2 by Amine Functionalized Sorbents: Experimental and Kinetics Study
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Adsorption processes using functionalized ordered mesoprous silica sorbents have shown a great potential for post-combustion CO2 capture from flue gas. In this work an experimental and theoretical investigation was conducted on the adsorptive removal of CO2 onto amine functionalized mesoporous...
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Fall 2012
A Lennard-Jones gas confined by two parallel solid walls was studied using non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics, where one-dimensional, steady heat flow was introduced through the gas. Under this condition, the velocity distribution in the direction of heat flow was found to develop skewness and...
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Fall 2012
This thesis explored the properties of asphaltene nano-aggregates in crude oil and toluene based solutions and fouling at process furnace temperatures, and the links between these two phenomena. The link between stability of asphaltenes at ambient conditions and fouling at the conditions of a...
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Fall 2012
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a powerful ultra-thin film deposition technique that uses sequential self-limiting surface reactions to provide conformal atomic scale film growth. Deposition of ALD films on many substrate systems has been studied before; however, limited data is available on...
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Atomistic Simulations for Investigating Structural Stability and Selecting Initial Adsorption Orientation of Lysozyme and Apo-α-Lactalbumin at Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Surfaces
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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate the structural stability of lysozyme and apo-α-lactalbumin under physiological pH and solution. Upon introduction to the solution, apo-α-lactalbumin showed lower stability than lysozyme with higher backbone root mean square...