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Amorphous Al-transition Metal Alloys as Anode Material for Lithium Ion Battery
(2006-01)Al based alloy powders (Al₈₅Ni₅Y₆Co₂Fe₂) are produced by spray atomization method. High energy ball milling is done to modify the surface topology and particle size for better electrochemical performance. X ray diffraction ... -
Amorphous Metallic Glass as New High Power and Energy Density Anodes For Lithium Ion Rechargeable Batteries
(2002-01)We have investigated the use of aluminum based amorphous metallic glass as the anode in lithium ion rechargeable batteries. Amorphous metallic glasses have no long-range ordered microstructure; the atoms are less closely ... -
An Analytical Solution on Convective and Diffusive Transport of Analyte in Laminar Flow of Microfluidic Slit
(2004-01)Microfluidic devices could find applications in many areas, such as BioMEMs, miniature fuel cells and microfluidic cooling of electronic circuitry. One of the important considerations of microfluidic device in analytical ... -
Anisotropic Superelasticity of Textured Ti-Ni Sheet
(2002-01)A recently developed crystal-mechanics-based constitutive model for polycrystalline shape-memory alloys (Thamburaja and Anand [1]) is shown to quantitatively predict the in-plane anisotropy of superelastic sheet Ti-Ni to ... -
Apatite-Polymer Composite Particles for Controlled Delivery of BMP-2
(2004-01)We have developed a versatile delivery platform comprising a novel composite of two biomaterials with proven track records: apatite and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA). These composites have been tested in the delivery ... -
Apatite-Polymer Composite Particles for Controlled Delivery of BMP-2: In Vitro Release and Cellular Response
(2005-01)Bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) has the ability to induce osteoblast differentiation of undifferentiated cells, resulting in the healing of skeletal defects when delivered with a suitable carrier. We have applied a ... -
Apatite-Polymer Composites for the Controlled Dual Delivery of BMP-2 and BMP-6 for Bone Tissue Engineering
(2005-01)The release of growth factors from tissue engineering scaffolds provides signals that influence the migration, differentiation, and proliferation of cells. The incorporation of a drug delivery platform that is capable of ... -
An Application of Augmented Reality (AR) in the Teaching of an Arc Welding Robot
(2005-01)Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology that utilizes computer vision methods to overlay virtual objects onto the real world scene so as to make them appear to co-exist with the real objects. Its main objective ... -
Application of Stereo Imaging to Atomic Force Microscopy
(2002-01)Metrological data from sample surfaces can be obtained by using a variety of profilometry methods. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), which relies on contact inter-atomic forces to extract topographical images of a sample, ... -
Applications of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Inviscid Transonic Aerodynamics
(2003-01)Two extensions to the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) technique are considered for steady transonic aerodynamic applications. The first is to couple the POD approach with a cubic spline interpolation procedure in ... -
Applications of Semidefinite Optimization in Stochastic Project Scheduling
(2002-01)We propose a new method, based on semidefinite optimization, to find tight upper bounds on the expected project completion time and expected project tardiness in a stochastic project scheduling environment, when only limited ... -
Approximate Low Dimensional Models Based on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Black-Box Applications
(2007-01)Many industrial applications in engineering and science are solved using commercial engineering solvers that function as black-box simulation tools. Besides being time consuming and computationally expensive, the actual ... -
Assembly Design and Evaluation in an Augmented Reality Environment
(2005-01)The technologies and methodologies of assembly design and evaluation in the early design stage are highly significant to product development. This paper looks at a promising technology to mix real components (e.g. physical ... -
Assembly Guidance in Augmented Reality Environments Using a Virtual Interactive Tool
(2005-01)The application of augmented reality (AR) technology for assembly guidance is a novel approach in the traditional manufacturing domain. In this paper, we propose an AR approach for assembly guidance using a virtual interactive ... -
Association Behavior of Biotinylated and Non-Biotinylated PolyEthylene Oxide-b-Poly(2-(Diethylamino)Ethyl Methacrylate)
(2005-01)Biotinylated and non-biotinylated copolymers of ethylene oxide (EO) and 2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DEAEMA) were synthesized by the atom transfer radical polymerization technique (ATRP). The chemical compositions ... -
Association Behavior of Poly (methyl methacrylate-b-methacrylic acid-b-methyl methacrylate) in Aqueous Medium
(2004-01)ABA type tri-block amphiphilic polyelectrolyte consisting of poly(methyl methacrylate-block-methacrylic acid-block-methyl methacrylate) (P(MMA-b-MAA-b-MMA)) was synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization technique ... -
Association Behavior of Poly(methacrylic acid)-block-Poly(methyl methacrylate) in Aqueous Medium: Potentiometric and Laser Light Scattering Studies
(2003-01)Atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP) technique was used to synthesize poly(methacrylic acid-block-methyl methacrylate) (P(MAA₁₀₂-b-MMA₁₀)) copolymer in order to study the aggregation behavior in aqueous solution ... -
An Asymptotically Optimal On-Line Algorithm for Parallel Machine Scheduling
(2004-01)Jobs arriving over time must be non-preemptively processed on one of m parallel machines, each of which running at its own speed, so as to minimize a weighted sum of the job completion times. In this on-line environment, ... -
Atomic Force Microscope: Modeling, Simulations, and Experiments
(2002-01)The quality of atomic force microscope (AFM) data strongly depends on scan and controller parameters. Data artifacts can result from poor dynamic response of the instrument. In order to achieve reliable data, dynamic ... -
Atomistic Simulations of Metallic Cluster Coalescence
(2002-01)A new computational method is introduced to investigate the stresses developed in the island-coalescence stage of polycrystalline film formation during deposition. The method uses molecular dynamics to examine the behavior ...