# Browse Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering by Title

• (1990)
Defect studies have been performed on the intermetallic compounds $\rm Al\sb3Ti$, $\rm Al\sb3V$ and $\rm Al\sb{67}Ni\sb8Ti\sb{25}$ which were deformed at elevated temperatures. Test materials were prepared via the rapid ...

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• (1989)
The deformation mechanisms of four rapidly solidified (RS) and hot extruded aluminum alloys were investigated. Al-8.8Fe-3.7Ce (all compositions in wt%) and Al-8.9Fe-6.9Ce alloys produced from RS powders and two Al-8Fe-2Mo ...

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• (2009)
Planar photonic crystals have been used as the basis of many biological sensing devices. Here, we successfully demonstrate that the combination of the photonic crystal structures and a dielectric nanorod coating prepared ...

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• (2015-01-21)
Research on theoretical models to study stress wave management has created new opportunities to design and fabricate beads and laminated composites in order to improve the material performance of engineering devices such ...

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• (2013-02-03)
Proximity field Nano-Patterning (PnP) is a large-area interference lithography technique that is used to fabricate multi-dimensionally periodic micro-structures. Though a potent technique for 3D microfabrication that offers ...

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• (1995)
This thesis is on theoretical and experimental studies of a controlled porosity inorganic composite using hollow ceramic microspheres. It evaluated the microsphere geometry issues and physical/electrical properties important ...

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• (2010-05-19)
Most commercially available reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes are based on the thin film composite (TFC) aromatic polyamide membranes. However, they have several disadvantages including low resistance ...

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• (2015-01-21)
Aromatic thermosetting copolyester (ATSP) has been under development since 1995 in Professor James Economy’s research group at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It can be seen as a major development in high ...

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• (2013-08-22)
There are mainly two projects in this thesis, one is to develop chemically treated activated carbon fibers for mercury removal from power plant effluents, and the other one is to design advanced nanofiltration membranes ...

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• (2011-08-25)
Aromatic thermosetting copolyester (ATSP) has promise in high-temperature applications. It can be employed as a bulk polymer, as a coating and as a matrix for carbon fiber composites (ATSP/C composites). This work focuses ...

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• (2013-02-03)
Thermal expansion is historically reported as an average coefficient to estimate the change in dimensions of a material as it is heated or cooled. This average works well for approximating thermal expansion in high-symmetry ...

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• (2011-01-21)
We investigate the ignition and dynamics of detonation waves in condensed phase explosives using direct numerical simulations and asymptotic analysis. We develop a model to simulate deflagration to detonation transition ...

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• (1996)
In the 1970's, the first activated carbon fibers(ACFs) were developed from phenolic precursors by Economy et al. These fibers addressed the serious limitations of ACGs and possessed excellent contact efficiency (fast ...

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• (2005)
This dissertation presents, for the first time, the successful development of an all-alkoxy based, sol-gel process for integrating thin films of magnetoresistive doped-lanthanide manganites onto silicon-based substrates. ...

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• (1993)
The Ryshkewitch equation, $\sigma$ = $\sigma\sp\circ$ exp($-\beta$P), has been a classical formula representing the strength of porous ceramic materials. Here $\beta$ is an empirical constant. Hence this equation lacks the ...

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• (2010-08-31)
The aim of my Ph. D. thesis is to generalize a method for targeted anti-cancer drug delivery. Hydrophilic polymer-drug conjugates involve complicated synthesis; drug-encapsulated polymeric nanoparticles limit the loading ...

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• (2013-05-24)
The dielectric and pyroelectric properties of ferroelectrics have been utilized extensively in a variety of applications such as memories, transducers, and sensors. Traditionally, such applications have utilized bulk ...

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• (1996)
Diffusion along twist grain boundaries was studied using the Embedded Atom Method (EAM). Six (100) twist grain boundaries (8.79$\sp\circ$-43.6$\sp\circ$) in Copper were investigated using energy minimization. Both vacancy ...

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• (2014-05-30)
Concerns over the stability and security of the fossil fuel supplies as well as their environmental impact have generated interest in hydrogen as a sustainable energy carrier. Developing effective hydrogen storage for ...

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• (1990)
We have obtained for the first time a fairly complete two dimensional picture of interactions between two adatoms on a surface as a function of both the interatomic distance and orientation. Four different combinations of ...

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