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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Methodology For Developing Biodegradable Polymer Blends And Composites For Agriculture, Fangzhong Xing
Methodology For Developing Biodegradable Polymer Blends And Composites For Agriculture, Fangzhong Xing
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The use of polyethylene (PE) films to improve soil conditions and to increase crop yield has produced microplastics that are harmful to our ecosystem. The overall objective of this thesis is to develop an effective biodegradable polymer/composite to replace PE, and hence, to reduce microplastic pollution. The focus of this research is to develop a systematic protocol for assessing the suitability of the biodegradable films based on industry standards in agriculture. For this purpose, a range of biodegradable polymer blends are prepared using polylactic acid (PLA) and polybutylene adipate-co-terephthalate (PBAT) with varying PLA to PBAT ratios. Solvent casting combined with …
Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction To Ammonia On Cu Based Nanoparticles Using Quantum Mechanical Simulations, Kathan Bhavin Shukla
Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction To Ammonia On Cu Based Nanoparticles Using Quantum Mechanical Simulations, Kathan Bhavin Shukla
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Nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) is critical for environmental remediation and energy conservation, as it can remove harmful nitrate (NO3-) from water sources while producing usable ammonia (NH3). Cu represents one of the most promising non-noble-metal NRA electrocatalysts. However, the intrinsic catalytic activity of Cu facets and their influence under different pH conditions remain unclear, particularly in the presence of ions commonly found in wastewater such as Cl-, Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+. Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we evaluated the nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA) pathways …
Investigating The Rheological Behavior Of A Simple Yield Stress Fluid Under Shear Flows, Francesco Accetta
Investigating The Rheological Behavior Of A Simple Yield Stress Fluid Under Shear Flows, Francesco Accetta
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Many soft materials display unique and complex rheological behavior characterized by a transition from a solid-like to a fluid-like state upon the application of a force that exceeds the threshold to flow, known as the yield stress. Yield stress fluids are found in a wide range of commonly encountered materials including microgels, emulsions, and foams, and have been widely studied by rheologists over the last several decades. Carbopol is a popular polymeric microgel system as it displays simple, non-thixotropic rheological behavior and is typically seen as an ideal yield stress fluid. Previous research has demonstrated the reproducible behavior of shear …
Coupled Oscillators: Protein And Acoustics, Angelique N. Mcfarlane
Coupled Oscillators: Protein And Acoustics, Angelique N. Mcfarlane
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This work encompassed three different vibrational energy transfer studies of coupled resonators (metal, topological, and microtubule comparison) inspired by the lattices of microtubules from regular and cancerous cells. COMSOL Multiphysics 5.4 was utilized to design the experiment. The simulation starts with an acoustic pressure study to examine the vibrational modes present in coupled cylinders, representing α-, β-tubulin heterodimers. The Metal Study consisted of 3 models (monomer, dimer, and trimer) to choose the correct height (40 mm) and mode (Mode 1) for study. The Topological Study was run to predict and understand how the lattice structure changes over a parametric sweep …
Flexible Microfluidic Device With Nonplanar Interdigitated Microelectrodes, Saud Alssaidy
Flexible Microfluidic Device With Nonplanar Interdigitated Microelectrodes, Saud Alssaidy
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The lab-on-a-chip concept has improved significantly in recent years to meet global demand for various applications with the advent of new technologies. Much progress has been achieved, but many microfluidic devices still suffer from design limitations in terms of sensitivity and selectivity because they use rigid, fragile substrate materials and conventional electrodes, which do not provide high sensitivity or selectivity and suffer from signal-to-noise ratio issues. This work proposes a novel device architecture that uses flexible, transparent top and bottom layers integrated with (nonplanar interdigitated microelectrodes) to create a sandwich-like flexible substrate base. The top and bottom layers consist of …
Treated Hfo2 Based Rram Devices With Ru, Tan, Tin As Top Electrode For In-Memory Computing Hardware, Yuvraj Dineshkumar Patel
Treated Hfo2 Based Rram Devices With Ru, Tan, Tin As Top Electrode For In-Memory Computing Hardware, Yuvraj Dineshkumar Patel
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The scalability and power efficiency of the conventional CMOS technology is steadily coming to a halt due to increasing problems and challenges in fabrication technology. Many non-volatile memory devices have emerged recently to meet the scaling challenges. Memory devices such as RRAMs or ReRAM (Resistive Random-Access Memory) have proved to be a promising candidate for analog in memory computing applications related to inference and learning in artificial intelligence. A RRAM cell has a MIM (Metal insulator metal) structure that exhibits reversible resistive switching on application of positive or negative voltage. But detailed studies on the power consumption, repeatability and retention …
An Electrical Matlab Model Of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Huize Xue
An Electrical Matlab Model Of Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation, Huize Xue
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Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO), a part of Plasma electrolytic Deposition (PED), has been developing for surface modification of metallic materials in the past 20 years. During PEO process, sample always connect with anode of DC power source, under high temperature, accelerating process of oxidation reaction to from an average and dense oxidation film. A general passage, Plasma electrolysis for surface engineering, written by A.L. Yerokhin, X. Nie gives us a trend of what happened during PEO process but did not determine specific material and value. Linxin Zhu’s Development of PEO invent a new boiling system and investigated relationship between surface …
Optical Properties Of Polymers And Their Applications, Samiha Hossain
Optical Properties Of Polymers And Their Applications, Samiha Hossain
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The last decade has witnessed explosive growth in the world of photoactive polymers for a variety of applications in several sectors of the global economy. The need for efficient, reliable, and low-cost data acquisition, storage, processing, transmission, and display technologies has made it necessary for research aimed at addressing these needs. Recent accomplishments in this materials area represent exciting opportunities for major innovations in various fields. However, further work needs to be done to transfer the technology from fundamental R&D to manufacturing. The goal of this study is to provide a better understanding of the optical properties of polymers and …
Analysis Of 3d Printed Ndfeb Polymer Bonded And Organic Based Magnets, Chimaobi Ibeh
Analysis Of 3d Printed Ndfeb Polymer Bonded And Organic Based Magnets, Chimaobi Ibeh
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Additive manufacturing (AM), or commonly known as 3D printing, has introduced to the manufacturing and commercial sectors novel ways of reducing production times, decreasing material waste, and enabling end products with multi-material configuration and complex geometric designs. From industrial scale to customer-based printers, AM has revolutionized the approach to manufacturing, prototyping, and designing in the field of medical, automotive, aerospace, biomedical, electronics and customizable products. Recently, additive manufacturing has crossed over to the area of applications in magnetism due to the economic push for the miniaturization of electronic and mechanical devices, reduction in production costs and material & design flexibility. …
Formulation Of Uv Curable Resins Utilized In Vat Photo Polymerization For The Additive Manufacturing Of Gun Propulsion Charge In 3d Printers, David T. Bird
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Formulating resins for Additive Manufacturing (AM), utilizing UV laser stereolithography, is a new technique that makes it possible for the fabrication of complex geometries with high dimensional resolution. This layer by layer photopolymerization approach spans various industrial sectors from adhesives, inks and optical fibers to nanotechnology and biomaterials. UV curable resins such as epoxides, vinyl ethers and other acrylates are important monomers that offer effective mediums for energetic materials, and the potential exists to develop environmentally friendly formulations with suspended energetic materials at various solids loading levels.
Developing techniques for UV curing formulations of highly loaded energetic suspensions is a …
Electrical Properties Of Metal/Wse2structures, Zeel Rajiv Gandhi
Electrical Properties Of Metal/Wse2structures, Zeel Rajiv Gandhi
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The formation of low resistance metal contacts on two-Dimensional layer (2-D) of WSe2 is a big challenge. In this research, a comparative study is presented on the electrical properties of metal/WSe2 Schottky barrier diodes with various metals such as Au, In, Al, and Ga in the temperature range of 80K to 400K well within the domain of thermionic emission theory.
Topics covered here include the factors that determine the Schottky barrier height, the device capacitance, and its current-voltage (I-V) characteristics. I-V curves for different metals on WSe2 are analyzed as function of temperature. Barrier height is determined from Au-nWSe2 Schottky …
Numerical Simulation For Identification Of Insects Using A Cw Lidar System, Christo Videlov
Numerical Simulation For Identification Of Insects Using A Cw Lidar System, Christo Videlov
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Mosquitos are the most common vector of disease in the world, causing millions of deaths a year. While curing the diseases they cause is one approach to this problem, another could be to avoid the mosquitos in the first place. Knowing their flight patterns, location, and population in one area could aid in this. Additionally, classifying the mosquitos in an area would be helpful. The age and sex of the mosquito is important to find as they affect the chances of the insect carrying diseases such as malaria or yellow fever.
Many current methodologies to monitor insects are based on …
Memorizing Chromic Response To Pressure, Maulik Kiritkumar Padh
Memorizing Chromic Response To Pressure, Maulik Kiritkumar Padh
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Almost all appliances are prone to mechanical stress in one form or the other. An increasing dependence on machines in daily life calls for a need to increase their maintenance quality. Various materials, methods and configurations to observe mechanical pressure have been devised and this paper discusses one such technique. The use of gold nanoparticles in its one dimensional array causes plasmonic coupling between the nanoparticles, which when disrupted creates a plasmonic shift in its assembly. Such a film, when casted on a polymer with a known elastic limit, causes deformation by an application of stress. This forces the film …
Corrosion Studies Of Stainless Steel Blades, Dhruv S. Kothari
Corrosion Studies Of Stainless Steel Blades, Dhruv S. Kothari
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Corrosion is a subject of interest to interdisciplinary research communities that includes fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, metallurgy and chemical engineering. In order to understand the mechanisms of corrosion and the function of corrosion inhibitors, the reactions at the interfaces between the corrosive electrolyte and a steel surface, particularly at the initial stages of the corrosion process, need to be described. Naturally, these reactions are strongly affected by the nature and properties of the steel surfaces. It is however seen that the majority of recent corrosion and corrosion-inhibition investigations are limited to electrochemical testing, with ex situ analysis of …
Smart Polymeric Temperature Sensors – For Biological Systems, Greenee Anilkumar Sinha
Smart Polymeric Temperature Sensors – For Biological Systems, Greenee Anilkumar Sinha
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The damaged brain is vulnerable to increase in brain temperature after a severe head injury. Continuous monitoring of intracranial temperature depicts functionality essential to the treatment of brain injury Many innovations have been made in the biomedical industry relying on electronic implants in treating condition such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) or other cerebral diseases. Hence, a methodical and reliable way to measure the temperature is crucial to assess the patient’s situation. In this investigation, an analysis of various approaches to detect the change in the temperature due to resistance, current-voltage characteristics with respect to time has been evaluated. Also, …
Electrical, Electronic And Optical Properties Of Mos2 & Ws2, Weitao Tang
Electrical, Electronic And Optical Properties Of Mos2 & Ws2, Weitao Tang
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Two dimensional materials such as graphene, boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDCs) monolayers have arisen as a new class of materials with unique properties at monolayer thickness. Their electrical, electronic and optical properties are of great importance for a variety of applications in optoelectronics as light emitters, detectors, and photovoltaic devices. This work focuses on MoS2 and WS2, which are two important members of the TMDC class of materials. The properties of monolayer MoS2 and WS2 are investigated as well as the properties of bulk MoS2 and WS2 to provide an understanding …
Heat Transfer In Silicon - Experiments And Simulation, Chihlin Huang
Heat Transfer In Silicon - Experiments And Simulation, Chihlin Huang
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The purpose of this thesis is to study the heat transfer in silicon. Silicon is the key semiconductor material, and thermal processing is the traditional method that is used in semiconductor processing. In this research, we can predict the temperature of the silicon wafer during heating. This ability to predict wafer temperature during semiconductor processing will facilitate in the following: (a) Process temperature uniformity, (b) Film thickness uniformity, (c) Diffusion, (d) Process yield, (e) Thermally induced stresses, and (f) Device yield - spatially and temporally across the wafer. For low temperature applications, IC chips can be modeled to simulate the …
Electrical, Electronic And Optical Properties Of Mose2 And Wse2, Sushant Shashikant Rassay
Electrical, Electronic And Optical Properties Of Mose2 And Wse2, Sushant Shashikant Rassay
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Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) crystals have emerged as a new class of semiconductors that display distinctive properties at monolayer thickness. Their electrical, electronic and optical properties are of particular interest and importance for applications in optoelectronics as light emitters, detectors, and photovoltaic devices. Monolayer MoSe2 and WSe2 have an intrinsic band-gap in the visible region of the solar spectrum (400nm - 700nm) which makes them distinct from other 2-D materials like graphene.
In this study, the electrical, electronic and optical properties of monolayer and bulk MoSe2 and WSe2 are studied. The electronic band structures are presented for …
A Computational Model For Transdermal Diffusion Of Lidocaine And Tetracaine Topical Patches, Qian Dong
A Computational Model For Transdermal Diffusion Of Lidocaine And Tetracaine Topical Patches, Qian Dong
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In recent years, transdermal drug delivery patches (TDDP) have developed rapidly. This is because the TDD system has more advantages than traditional drug delivery systems such as oral medicine and intravenous injection. In order to reach the circulatory system of the human body, drug molecules have to pass through the epidermis (outer layer) of the skin. The barrier properties of epidermis originate from low permeability of stratum corneum (SC) which is the outermost layer of the human skin. The objective of this thesis is to build a Finite Element (FE) model, utilizing commercial FE software (ANSYS), that can be implemented …
Diffusivity Of Drug Actives In Transdermal Drug Delivery (Tdd), Natali R. Gendelberg
Diffusivity Of Drug Actives In Transdermal Drug Delivery (Tdd), Natali R. Gendelberg
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Transdermal Drug Delivery (TDD) through skin patches has many advantages including the following: slow and continuous administration of the therapeutic over long periods of time, timely dosage, accessibility, kinetic maneuverability, elimination of the “First Pass Effect” and negative side effects on the digestive tract. All of the above justify investment into further development of TDD therapies, despite the skin permeability restrictions posed on size and charge by the skin. As skin permeability varies between all individuals based on age, ethnicity and lifestyle, the determination of the proper drug dosages to be contained in the skin patch is highly reliant on …
Magnetic Augmented Rotation System (Mars ) - Properties And Performance, Ruolei Liu
Magnetic Augmented Rotation System (Mars ) - Properties And Performance, Ruolei Liu
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Magnetic Augmented Rotation System (MARS) is proposed as a system for conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy. It works on the principle of magnetic coupling. Because it is contactless, compared with traditional gears, it increases the transfer efficiency from a driver to a rotor; reduces noise, requires no lubrication and has low maintenance cost. In order to assess the performance of MARS, a charging system based on MARS is implemented. This system includes rechargeable batteries in the range of 6 volts to 12 volts, a load in the form of a light bulb, a voltage transformer, and digital multimeter …
Infrared Imaging - Case Studies And Applications, Shuang Du
Infrared Imaging - Case Studies And Applications, Shuang Du
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Recent advancements in the manufacture of solid state detectors have led to significant improvements in the use and applications of infrared (IR) imaging. Compared with traditional imaging in visible light, infrared imaging has abilities to convey significant additional information. Applications in medicine require wavelengths in the range of 0.8 to 25 microns while metrology and astronomy, traditionally, require wavelengths in the range of 25 microns to 1 mm.
In this study, infrared imaging has been used as a tool to characterize a variety of objects and systems. Some of these case studies have been considered under conditions of thermodynamic non-equilibrium. …
Koh Etching Of Silicon, Ying Wang
Koh Etching Of Silicon, Ying Wang
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In this research, a series of comparative etching experiments on silicon wafers have been carried out using potassium hydroxide (KOH) for different experimental etching conditions for concentration, temperature and time on (100) orientation p-type silicon wafers. Besides the basic etching conditions, the position of the immersed wafer also has unpredictable effect on the etching process. This may be attributed to the relative contact position between the surface of the immersed wafer and the flow patterns of the stirred etching solution.
The surface morphology analysis indicates that the specific position of the wafer, with respect to the flow of the etchant, …
Thermoelectric Properties Of Silicon-Germanium Alloys, Aniket Annasaheb Maske
Thermoelectric Properties Of Silicon-Germanium Alloys, Aniket Annasaheb Maske
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Direct energy conversion from thermal to electrical energy, based on thermoelectric effects, is attractive for potential applications in waste heat recovery and environmentally friendly refrigeration. The energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric devices is related to the thermoelectric figure of merit ZT, which is proportional to the electrical conductivity, the square of the Seebeck coefficient, and the inverse of the thermal conductivity. Currently, the low ZT values of available materials restrict the large scale applications of this technology. Recently, however, significant enhancements in ZT have been reported in nanostructured materials such as super-lattices mainly due to their low thermal conductivities. According …
Thermal Properties Of Graphene, Vishal Vijay Nakhate
Thermal Properties Of Graphene, Vishal Vijay Nakhate
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The two-dimensional (2D) monolayer structure of carbon atoms were initially considered as unstable. The 2D materials have recently been discovered and many researchers have started analyzing these materials. Graphene, a two-dimensional allotrope of graphite with sp2 bonded carbon atoms, is arranged in honeycomb structure. Graphene has excellent thermal conductivity and can be considered as a potential material for applications in the electronics industry where heating of materials is a serious concern.
In this study, thermal properties of p and n doped graphene nanosheets and nanoribbons are studied as function of percentage composition of the dopants and the direction of dissipation …
Optical Properties Of Black Silicon - An Analysis, Suramya Sekhri
Optical Properties Of Black Silicon - An Analysis, Suramya Sekhri
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Silicon is the preeminent solar cell material of the day because it is the first semiconductor that was learned to commercialize and continues to be the principal semiconducting material used in photovoltaic technology for the manufacture of solar cells. Silicon, an indirect band gap semiconducting material, has a reflectance of about 30% in the visible range of wavelengths. Standard Silicon solar cells are not entirely useful in the infrared spectrum region. In order to enhance the performance of Silicon solar cells, reflectance losses must be minimized and absorption must be maximized. In the solar cell industry, anti-reflection (AR) coating is …
An Extended Duration Operation For Solid Hollow Fiber Cooling Crystallization Method, Chi Jin
An Extended Duration Operation For Solid Hollow Fiber Cooling Crystallization Method, Chi Jin
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As recently demonstrated by Chen et al. [1], the solid hollow fiber cooling crystallization method to achieve continuous polymer coating/encapsulation of submicrometer particles, has advantages of no problem with high pressure, easy scale-up and production of free-flowing coated particles. There is a concern whether this crystallization method can be applied for an extended duration coating process; it was not investigated in the previous study. Therefore, in order to examine this problem, in this work, the duration of the whole crystallization coating process has been greatly extended from 5 min to 60 min and 120 min. For the purpose of being …
Computational Studies Of Electronic Structure Of Doped Graphene, Yan Chu
Computational Studies Of Electronic Structure Of Doped Graphene, Yan Chu
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In the literature, extensive studies have been performed to study the electronic properties of doped graphene. This is due to the potentially large number of applications of graphene in p-n junctions, transistors, photodiodes and lasers. By utilizing single heteroatom chemical doping method or electric field-induced method, one can introduce a band gap, ranging from 0.1eV to 0.5eV, in graphene. A tunable bandgap is highly desirable because it would allow significant flexibility in the design and optimization of such devices, particularly if it could be tuned by adjusting the doping configurations. Here, we demonstrate the realization of a widely tunable electronic …
Design, Construction And Characterization Of A Wind Tunnel, Chang Ge
Design, Construction And Characterization Of A Wind Tunnel, Chang Ge
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The wind tunnel is the most fundamental test equipment for aircraft testing and studying aerodynamics. Because of the complexity of the test-subject's geometry, it is difficult to study the aerodynamic pattern simply based on theoretical calculations. Most of the aerodynamics experiments still use wind tunnels. The progress of the wind tunnel is highly related to the advancements in air crafts. Aircraft manufacturing has pushed the wind tunnel technology forward. Wind tunnels can be categorized by the wind speed limit differences, which are controlled by the mechanism of the driving methods, structure applications, etc. In this case, we built a small …
Design, Construction And Characterization Ofa Magnetic Augmented Rotation System (Mars) Based Wind Turbine, Da Li
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Magnetic Augmented Rotation System (MARS) works by magnetic field coupling, to transfer torque from the driver to the rotor without contact. This characteristic has significant applications to the wind turbine but research in combination of MARS and wind turbine has not been done in the literature. In this thesis, a small-scale wind turbine is designed, built and characterized in a prototype wind tunnel. The test results are analyzed and computer-aided software simulation is used as an auxiliary method to understand the mechanism of MARS. The power coefficient of this new wind turbine is estimated to be about 40%. The “gear …