# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering by Title

• (1965)

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• (1996)
Titanium disilicide (TiSi$\sb 2$) has found widespread application as a material for transistor gate/source/drain contacts. Considerable interest has arisen in fabrication by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) because of ...

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Cell adhesion plays a critical role in development, and in the maintenance of tissue integrity. Cadherins are calcium-dependent adhesion proteins which mediate cell adhesion in soft tissues. Several theories have been ...

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• (1961)

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• (2002)
The competition between crystallization and gelation in colloidal suspensions is addressed as arising from three underlying processes at the particle level, viz., aggregation, dissociation, and rearrangement. Particles ...

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• (1962)

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• (2004)
Similarly in this thesis, multistream laminar flow is used in microfluidic systems for (1) biocatalytic synthesis of fine chemicals by microscale-enabled efficient regeneration of cofactors, as well as for (2) the study ...

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• (2004)
This work complements previous studies by Metsi and by Zinchenko and Davis. In extending the work of Metsi, this study considers non-unit viscosity ratio for large scale monodisperse systems, higher dispersed phase volume ...

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• (2004)
Shear thinning and shear thickening of suspensions of plate-like particles are studied. It is found that shear thinning is caused by both the decrease of the strength of the Brownian motion and the decrease of the hydrodynamic ...

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• (2000)
Emulsions and foams are of fundamental importance in a wide variety of industrial and natural processes. The macroscopic properties of these multiphase systems are determined by the viscous and interfacial interactions on ...

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• (2002)
Our algorithm follows a Stokesian dynamics formulation by evaluating many-body hydrodynamic interactions using a far-field multipole expansion combined with a near-field lubrication correction. The breakthrough O(N ln N) ...

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• (1999)
Comprehensive tests of the algorithm have been conducted demonstrating its accuracy and speed relative to Stokesian dynamics and spectral boundary integral computations. The speed of the algorithm is such that simulations ...

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• (1992)
The overall objective of this work has been to apply high-performance, parallel computers to equation-based chemical process flowsheeting. The primary focus was on investigating parallel techniques for improving the ...

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• (1992)
A laser initiation technique was developed that could control both the time and the location of pit initiation on a pure aluminum electrode that was immersed in 1.0 M NaCl, pH 11 solution and held under an applied potential. ...

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• (1997)
Controlled multiple pit studies conducted under the above experimental conditions showed that pits do interact with each other and that the surrounding pits serve to stabilize the central pit and affect its lateral growth. ...

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• (1993)
Advances in supercomputer architectures and mathematics have enhanced the performance of the equation-based approach in chemical engineering process simulation and design problems. However, the progress in the area of ...

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• (1993)
Measurement techniques for limiting activity coefficients ($\gamma\sp\infty$) are reviewed with respect to aqueous solutions. Literature values for $\gamma\sp\infty$ of solutes in water at 25$\sp\circ$C were compiled and ...

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• (2006)
In this thesis, we investigate the role of colloidal dynamics in governing diverse macroscopic phenomena in colloidal gels. The ability to design materials using predictive tools requires that we understand how the desired ...

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• (1978)

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• (1997)
The pH and chloride microsensors were used to study propagation and repassivation of pits on pure aluminum in pH 11 NaCl solution. It was concluded that the pH inside a growing pit was around 2.7, and the chloride concentration ...

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