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- 1Berg, Peter (Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Long, Rong (Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado)
Results for "supervisors_tesim:"Tang, Tian (Mechanical Engineering)""
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Manufacturing and characterization of blended PVDF/PVDF-TrFE polymers: a study towards future sensor applications
DownloadSpring 2022
Poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and its copolymers received increasing attention due to their electroactive properties and lower processing cost in comparison to the conventional piezoelectric ceramic materials, which are widely used in electronics, energy harvesting, biochemistry, and sensor...
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Fall 2015
Drop transfer from one solid surface to another through stretching liquid bridges between them is important for many industrial applications. Due to the different dominate forces, three possible regimes exist: Quasi-static Regime, where the transfer process is only dominated by surface forces;...
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Spring 2024
Nanotechnology has advanced in recent years to the extent that custom-tailored structures of high regularity can now be synthesized with high precision. Single-digit nanochannels (SDNs), referring to nanochannels with a diameter or conduit width of less than 10 nanometers, present unique...
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Investigations of interactions between membrane and PEI/siRNA nanoparticles and their implication for non-viral gene delivery
DownloadSpring 2021
Cell entry of polynucleotide-based therapeutic agents can be promoted by nanoparticle (NP) mediated delivery. This dissertation investigates membrane penetration of polynucleotide NPs, using mainly computational approaches, accompanied by some experiments. Major emphasis was placed on...
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Molecular Dynamics Study of Clay-Polymer Interactions in the Treatment of Mature Fine Tailings
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In this dissertation, all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to study the mechanisms of clay-polymer interactions and the effects of solution chemistry in the treatment of mature fine tailings (MFT). The fine solids in MFT were mainly clay particles such as montmorillonite...
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Spring 2021
Asphaltenes are the heaviest and most polar group of molecules in crude oil. Colloidal behaviors of asphaltenes, including the aggregation and interfacial behaviors, have impacts on many petroleum production processes. For example, the aggregation of asphaltenes can lead to problems such as...
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Constructing Continuous Strain and Stress Fields from Spatially Discrete Displacement Measurements in Soft Materials
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Recent studies show that particle tracking together with moving least-square (MLS) method is capable to interpolate displacement field and to determine strain and stress fields from discrete displacement measurements in soft materials. The goal of this study is to evaluate of the numerical...
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Fracture Modeling in Elastomeric Materials: Relating the Macroscopic Response to Microscopic Processes
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Inelastic material behavior is known to be able to enhance the fracture toughness of elastomers. However, how to optimally exploit this toughening mechanism is still being investigated. In this thesis a series of continuum models are developed to describe such inelastic behaviors, with the goal...