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Internal curing in cementitious systems made using saturated lightweight aggregate
ZrN/AlN buffer layers for epitaxial growth of (In,Ga)N on silicon substrates
 
Experimental determination of mode I stress intensity factors for elevated temperature fretting fatigue of a nickel-based superalloy
Modeling inflation and growth in polyimide foam processing
 
Zinc oxide based Acetylcholinesterase biosensor for organophosphorus pesticide detection
Nanostructured porous microshell films for microsensing applications
 
Wear of nanostructured tool coatings bonded to turning inserts dry turning a tantalum tungsten alloy
Development of injectable hydrogels containing chitosan
 
Damage detection of sandwich structure using time domain reflectometry
Distinguishing inertia effects from the intrinsic mechanical behavior of soft materials at high strain rates by Kolsky bar experiments
 
Molecular dynamics simulations of the mechanical deformation behavior of face-centered cubic metallic nanowires
Fabrication of ceramic microparticles and capsules via microfluidic processing of a preceramic polymer
 
Development of honeycomb sandwich finite element modeling techniques for dynamic and static analysis
A Kolsky bar using a hollow incident tube
 
High rate properties of porcine skull bone tissue
Dynamic fracture toughness of soda-lime glass
 
Validation of VARTM patch repair for composite structures
Development, processing, and characterization of cellulose nanocrystal neat films
 
New methods to quantify the cracking performance of cementitious systems made with internal curing
Study of catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cell
 
Chemical modification of silicon surfaces through functionalization with novel diruthenium molecules
Effect of meso to micro transition in morphology dependent fracture of SiC ceramics
 
Microstructure and piezoelectric properties of Ba(Zr0.2 Ti0.8)O3-x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO 3 lead-free material system
Development and implementation of an experimental program to investigate cost-effective concrete bridge deck preservation methods
 
Quantification of restrained shrinkage cracking of concrete with ring specimens
Construction of a web-based tutorial for three-dimensional hypothetical ternary phase diagrams
 
Construction of a web-based tutorial for hypothetical binary phase diagrams
Quantifying the performance of macrosynthetic fiber reinforcement and shrinkage reducing admixtures in large scale concrete slabs
 
Identification and counting procedure for tin whiskers, hillocks, and other surface defects
Strain engineered ferroelectricity in barium strontium titanate grown on niobium-doped strontium titanate via pulsed laser deposition
 
Enhancing the oxidative stability of vegetable oils using metal oxide additives
Numerical modeling of microperforated acoustical materials
 
Modeling surface nanostructuring in silicon, germanium, gallium antimonide
Effect of surface roughness and morphology on sputtering yield
 
Chloride transport and shrinkage of plain and internally cured concrete
Materials Analysis Particle Probe (MAPP) diagnostic
 
Uncertainty quantification in capacitive RF MEMS switches
Thermal cycling fatigue of organic thermal interface materials using a thermal-displacement measurement technique
 
Flux entrapment and Titanium Nitride defects during electroslag remelting
Capturing variability in injection molding with short fiber polymer composites
 
Effect of machining damage on low cycle fatigue crack initiation life in drilled holes in Udimet(RTM) 720
Dynamic triaxial compression experiments on Cor-Tuf specimens
 
Effect of crystallographic orientation on sub-critical grain boundary cracking in a nickel based superalloy
Heterojunction bipolar transistor for power switching applications
 
Insitu electrical sensing and material health monitoring in concrete structures
Analysis of interdiffusion and diffusion paths in multicomponent systems
 
Heteroepitaxy on nanoscale substrates: Application to solid-state lighting
Modeling macrosegregation during the vacuum arc remelting of Ti-10V-2Fe-3Al alloy
 
Texture and anisotropy in ferroelectric lead metaniobate
Deformation dependent electrical resistance of MWCNT layer and MWCNT/PEO composite films
 
Thermal effects on domain orientation of tetragonal piezoelectrics
Processing effects of the evolution of the microstructure and preferred orientation of hydrothermal perovskite thin films
 
Numerical and experimental study of constrained solidification
Evolution of the plasma-sprayed microstructure in 7 wt% yttria-stabilized zirconia thermal barrier coatings during uniaxial stress relaxation and the concomitant changes in material properties
 
Design and characterization of hybrid peptide sol-gel materials for the solid state induction of neuronal differentiation
Influence of mixture composition on the noise and frictional characteristics of flexible pavements
 
A mathematical formalism for diffusion in crystalline solids incorporating deviations from the Fickian behavior
DNA templated magnetic nanoparticles
 
Towards understanding milling induced disorder: Crystal defects formation and evolution in molecular crystals
Metal-insulator transitions in non-stoichiometric, chromium, and titanium doped vanadium oxide thin films
 
Growth and characterization of metal-semiconductor nitride multilayers and superlattices for solid state thermionic energy conversion
Electrospinning of ceramic nanofibers
 
Microstructural characterization in nanocrystalline ceramic thin films
Low-temperature densification of ultrafine grained Al 6061-T6 by polymer bonding
 
Molecular theory of liquid crystal thin films
Fabrication and characterization of nanowire array composites for thermoelectric power generators
 
Photoacoustic characterization and optimization of carbon nanotube array thermal interfaces
Control of nanogap dimensions in selectively etched nanowire heterostructures
 
Hydrophilic-oleophobic stimuli-responsive materials and surfaces
Adhesion between particles and nano-structured films
 
Development of efficient molecular simulation techniques for engineering applications
A nanolaminate manufacturing technique for multifunctional materials and devices
 
Stark tuning of electronic properties of impurities for quantum computing applications
Carbon nanotube mechanics in scanning probe microscopy
 
Development and evaluation of suspension plasma sprayed yttria stabilized zirconia coatings as thermal barriers
Thermal properties of food and pharmaceutical powders
 
Vibrational spectra of nanowires measured using laser Doppler vibrometry and STM studies of epitaxial graphene
Investigating carbon nanotube growth with the transmission electron microscope
 
Fundamentals of metal oxide catalysis
Fundamental investigations related to the mitigation of volume changes in cement-based materials at early ages
 
Electronic transport driven non-equilibrium phenomena in nanoelectronic, spintronic and thermoelectric systems
Arbitrarily explicit/implicit computational procedures for modeling phase evolution
 
Ultrafine-grained commercially pure titanium and microstructure response to hydroxyapatite coating methods
Dry powder segregation and flowability: Experimental and numerical studies
 
Development and application of a framework for the production and improvement of antibacterial and biocompatible polymers
Gallium phosphide as the high bandgap material in high-efficiency multi-junction solar photovoltaics
 
Use of the Al-Ga-In-Sn system for energy storage and conversion
In situ transmission electron microscopy studies of initial stages of vapor-liquid-solid growth of Si nanowire
 
Development of a 3D polymer reinforced calcium phosphate cement scaffold for cranial bone tissue engineering
Optical metamaterials: Linear and nonlinear characterization and application to optical limiting
 
Microvoid formation and Kirkendall effect in lead-free solder joints
Thin film mixed conducting cathodes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells
 
Exploration of epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide
Dynamic failure of borosilicate glass under various loading conditions
 
Multi-scale predictive modeling of nano-material and realistic electron devices
Studies on conducting polymer and conducting polymerinorganic composite electrodes prepared via a new cathodic polymerization method
 
Frequency and polarization resolved phonon transport in carbon and silicon nanostructures
Synthesis and cell uptake study of plasmonic gold nanoparticles and nanostars with magnetic cores
 
Examining multi-component DNA-templated nanostructures as imaging agents
Crack propagation through adhesive interface in glass driven by dynamic loading
 
The influence of the effective physical properties of tin electrodeposited films on the growth of tin whiskers
Formation pathway of CuInSe2 nanocrystals and solution deposition of CuInSe2 films for photovoltaic applications
 
Investigation of dislocation behavior in micron and sub-micron thin films
Ferroelectric domain switching of individual nanoscale grains in polycrystalline lead zirconate titanate thin films
 
Metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion relations and their near-field and radiated-wave applications
Selective-area nanoheteroepitaxy for light emitting diode (LED) applications
 
Crystallization behavior and microstructural characterization of drug/polymer systems
Heat transport in thermoelectrics
 
Synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles for electrochemical biosensor applications
Efficient and cost-effective thin film solar cells processed by direct pulsed laser crystallization and direct pulsed laser recrystallization techniques at room temperature
 
Strain engineering on Si/Ge nanoscale heterostructures using molecular dynamics
Collagen peptide-based biomaterials for protein delivery and peptide-promoted self-assembly of gold nanoparticles
 
Effect of applied stress, crystal orientation, and phases on type-II hot corrosion of CMSX-4
Effect of strain on indium incorporation in heteroepitaxial (In,Ga)N nanomaterials
 
Structural, thermodynamic, electronic, and magnetic characterization of point defects in amorphous silica
A maximum entropy fracture model for low and high strain-rate fracture in SnAgCu alloys
 
Aluminum rich alloys for energy storage and conversion
Generation of colloidal granules and capsules from double emulsion drops
 
Kinetic and spectroscopic study of catalysts for water-gas shift and NOX removal
Effect of crystallographic orientation on hillock formation in thermally cycled large grain tin films
 
Novel approaches for wide band gap solar cells
Thermal transport in layered materials for thermoelectrics and thermal management
 
Modeling ferroelectric hysteresis dynamics in lead-free materials
Nanoscale material design for photovoltaic applications
 
Molecular mechanics of tropocollagen-hydroxyapatite biomaterials
Stress and strain field singularities, micro-cracks, and their role in failure initiation at the composite laminate free-edge
 
Biomimetic silica encapsultation of living cells
Indium arsenide as a material for biological applications: Assessment of surface modifications, toxicity, and biocompatibility
 
Recovery of microfields in fiber-reinforced composite materials: Principles and limitations
The influence of particle shape on structure, mechanics, and transport in granular materials
 
Shape memory in nanostructured metallic alloys
Microstructural effects on constitutive and fatigue fracture behavior of SnAgCu solder
 
Development of a reinforced electrochemically aligned collagen bioscaffold for tendon tissue engineering applications
Surface characterization of retinal tissues for the enhancement of vitreoretinal surgical methods
 
Mesoscale modeling of strain induced solid state amorphization in crystalline materials
Study of uncertainty in the application of the micromechanical enhancement method to predict failure initiation of fiber composites
 
The fabrication and characterization of double-gyroid and thin film photovoltaics
Controlling the emission and propagation of light with nano-plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces
 
Effect of fly ash on the optimum sulfate of Portland Cement