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Spring 2014
Customer-oriented manufacturing demands that engineering design and production planning are fully integrated. This study proposes a generic feature association method and a detailed framework for the implementation of an advanced Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that can unify product...
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Fabricating and Characterizing Multifunctional Graphene Nanoplatelets-based Polylactide Nanocomposites
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With rising environmental concerns related to plastic pollution and dependency on petrochemical resources, biopolymers have been gaining attention. Polylactide (PLA) as one biopolymer option has attracted much interest. However, the low thermal and electrical conductivities limit its full...
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Fabrication and Characterization of Micro-patterned Porous Membranes Using Hydrogel Facilitated Phase Separation Method
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Membrane separation processes are now well-established technologies in a wide range of applications, including biotechnology, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, food processing, petroleum, wastewater treatment, and seawater desalination. The main challenges in membrane separation processes are (i)...
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Fabrication and Characterization of Photolithographically Patterned Rough Surfaces Demonstrating Extreme Contact Angle Behavior
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This thesis features experimental work done to fabricate and characterize silicon surfaces patterned using photolithographic techniques, both standard and novel, to produce a variety of surfaces with roughness of controlled geometric properties. In specific, one set of the surfaces fabricated...
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Fabrication and Testing of Inkjet Printed Electrodes for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis
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To study the relatively novel technology of anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis in a scientific manner, a controllable and repeatable electrode fabrication method is needed. While inkjet printing has been successfully used to fabricate electrodes for proton exchange membrane (PEM)...
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Fabrication and Wettability Characterization of Electrospun Fibrous Nylon 6/Silica Nanocomposites
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Electrospinning is a simple and versatile method to fabricate polymeric nanofibers and nanocomposites fibers for a wide range of applications。 Electrospun Nylon 6 nanofiber mats have been used in tissue engineering, filtration and protective clothing. Silica nanoparticles are a type of popular...
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Fall 2012
Clinical point-of-care (POC) diagnosis remains an open and challenging field of research worldwide in which the study of the mechanism and dynamics of protein molecule separation using electrophoresis is of considerable interest. The quality of a protein separation is strongly dependent on the...
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Fabrication of WC-based Metal Matrix Composite Coatings via Low-pressure Cold Spraying for Enhanced Surface Properties
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A low-cost, low-pressure cold spray unit was used to fabricate tungsten carbide (WC)-based metal matrix composite (MMC) coatings. A variety of coatings were fabricated and characterized. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), coupled with image analysis, Vickers micro-hardness, and X-ray diffraction...
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Fabrication, modeling and experimental study of bending deformation of micro-ferrogel fibers in a non-uniform magnetic field
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Hydrogel smart polymers have achieved a great attention in the research area of drug delivery, MEMS/NEMS, microfluidics and sensor design because of their responsiveness to various environmental stimuli- pH, temperature, light, electric field, enzyme etc. This thesis presents the modeling,...