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A micro-deionizer for dielectrophoretic manipulation of cells	A musculoskeletal model of the rat hindlimb: Application to neuroprosthesis development and quantitative gait evaluation

A parametric design study of an electrochemical sensor	A therapeutic nano device based on molecular recognition-triggered conformational change

Acoustic excitation of liquid fuel droplets and coaxial jets	Adaptive control of opto-electro-mechanical systems for broadband disturbance rejection

Adaptive coupling of FEM and RKPM formulations for contact and impact problems	Adaptive optics with adaptive filtering and control

Advanced interpolation technologies for complete profile motion control-theory and implementation	Advanced motion control applied to hard disk drives and fast tool servos

Band-gap assisted surface plasmon sensing	Because we are egocentric

Characterization and improvement of magnetostrictive composites	Characterizing nickel-manganese-gallium bulk and composites for actuation and damping

Chemical construction, mechanical characterization and durability of metal and composite structural joints	Control of cellular signal transduction networks using a stochastic search algorithm

Coupling effect of finite magneto-electric laminate composites	Damage tolerance and durability of GLARE laminates

Damping properties of terfenol-D composites	Development of a cytomic force transducer for experimental mechanobiology

Dislocation-based crystal plasticity finite element modelling of polycrystalline material deformation	Distributed learning and efficient outcomes in uncertain and dynamic environments

Driving liquid-metal droplets for RF microswitching	Effect of Brownian motion on thermal conductivity of nanofluids

Effective elastoplastic-damage model for fiber-reinforced metal matrix composites with evolutionary fibers debonding	Electrowetting-on-dielectric microfluidics: Modeling, physics, and MALDI application

Energy based coupled elastoplastic damage-healing formulations for earth moving processes	Engineering electromagnetic metamaterials and methanol fuel cells

Experimental measurements of the effective thermal conductivity and interface thermal conductance of a lithium ceramic pebble bed	Experimental study of the effect of channel orientation and flow oscillations on nucleate boiling heat transfer and the critical heat flux

Experiments and numerical modeling of fast flowing liquid metal thin films under spatially varying magnetic field conditions	Fabrication of three-dimensional microbatteries

Far-field superlens for optical imaging beyond diffraction limit and other nano-plasmonic devices	Fault detection filter and sequential probability test for system health monitoring

Flexure-based nanomagnetic actuators	Fluid dynamics of an electrowetting drop: Theories, simulations, and experiments

Fluid-elastic instability in tube arrays subjected to air-water and steam-water cross-flow	Heat transport in polymer thin films for micro/nano-manufacturing

High heat flux removal using biporous heat pipe evaporators	High-performance adaptive control of optical jitter in laser beam systems

Holographic interferometric study of heat transfer to a vapor bubble sliding along a downward facing heater surface	Hybrid RANS-LES modeling of high-Re turbulent flows

In-situ measurement of intrinsic interface strength and moisture-effected interfacial fracture energy	Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations of defect nano-mechanics with applications to dislocation dynamics in irradiated alpha-iron

Lab-on-a-chip systems for blood cell separation, counting, and characterization	Learning in large-scale games and cooperative control

Linear time varying repetitive control and its applications	Low noise UHF BAW quartz resonator and oscillator

Magnetic nanocomposites: A new synthesis method and microwave absorption properties	Manipulation of microscopic gas bubbles by using surface tension: Capturing, venting and pumping

Microfabrication of three-dimensional structures and characterization of molecular machines	Modeling and experiment of compressed air hybrid engines

Modeling for free surface flow with phase change and its application to fusion technology	Molecular dynamics simulation of the surface tension and contact angle of argon and water

Molecular mechanics: The integration of synthetic and natural molecules into nanomechanical systems	Multifunctional composites for data storage, artificial muscles, and microstructures

Multiscale modelling of self-organized mono-layer surface atomic clusters	Nanoengineered surfaces: Design, fabrication, and applications to microfluidics and tissue engineering

Numerical and experimental studies of flexibility in flapping wing aerodynamics	Numerical and experimental studies on thermal deformation of ceramic breeder pebble bed systems

Numerical prediction and experimental validation of pool nucleate boiling heat flux under variable gravity conditions	Numerical simulation and feedback control of separated flows

Numerical simulation of the dynamics and heat transfer associated with a single bubble in subcooled pool boiling and in the presence on noncondensables	Numerical simulations of hypersonic boundary-layer stability and receptivity

Numerical studies of hydrodynamics of fish locomotion and schooling by a vortex particle method	Numerical study of single bubble dynamics during flow boiling

On the creation of radio frequency identification (RFID) based automatic identification and data capture infrastructure	On the design of deviation-function based gerotors: Theory and algorithm

Passive biomechanical characterization and modeling of bovine extraocular tissues	Passive cancellation of low frequency sound waves using optimized embedded mechanisms

Photobiological hydrogen production and carbon dioxide sequestration	Photobiological hydrogen production and carbon dioxide sequestration

Porous thin films for MEMS on-wafer packaging	Portable digital microfluidic system: Direct referencing EWOD devices and operating control board

Probing the effects of nanoscale architecture on the mechanical properties of periodic surfactant-templated silica/polymer composite thin film	Refined beam theories for inhomogeneous, anisotropic cylinders with arbitrary cross-sectional shapes

Semi-analytical methods for analysis of prismatic structures with piezoelectric inclusions	Skin-friction drag reduction in laminar and turbulent boundary layers

Stochastic estimation and control of wind turbines for enhancement of efficiency	Strength/moisture relationship for interfaces and joints for robust prediction of reliability

Structural integrity enhancement of graphite fiber composites using nanoparticles	Sub-diffraction-limited optical imaging with superlens and hyperlens

System identification and dynamic tuning of a tunneling accelerometer and MEMS vibratory gyroscope	The development of microbatteries based on three-dimensional architectures for autonomous micro devices

The influence of effective and magnetoelectric coupling on the elastic and wave mechanics of linear multiferroic continua	The thermodynamics of dense granular flow and jamming

Thermophysical properties of individual and ordered nanowire composites for thermoelectric applications	Thin film nickel-titanium endovascular stent grafts for cerebral and aortic aneurysms

Transient radiation transport in biological tissues and applications to autofluorescence of human skin	Transverse jet shear-layer instabilities: Linear stability analysis and numerical simulations

Tribological properties of pseudo-elastic nickel-titanium	Wall heat flux partitioning during subcooled flow film boiling of water on a vertical surface

Wavelet-based homogenization with application to flow in porous media