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Increasing regulations requiring industrial zero-liquid discharge necessitate the development of efficient desalination technologies for treating high salinity brine. Membrane distillation (MD) is promising for such ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging modality based on low coherence interferometry, can be extended to obtain various endogenous functional contrasts. This thesis focuses on the development and translation of ...

Although Reverse osmosis (RO) is the state-of-the-art desalination technology, it still suffers from persistent drawbacks including low permeate flux, low selectivity for non-ionic species, and lack of resistance to chlorine. ...

Piezoelectric devices, e.g. piezoelectric stack actuators, have several salient features inherent to their structure. They are efficient, have a high bandwidth, and their capacitive loading allows for static loads to be ...

Ultrasound is used extensively in medicine to non-invasively examine soft tissues. Compared to computed-tomography (CT) scanning or X-ray imaging, ultrasound is lower-cost, more portable, real time, and subjects neither ...

The three dimensional (3D) acoustic arrival structure of the undersea ambient noise field is important for many reasons, and can give us significant insights into the Arctic environment. For example, the anthropomorphic ...

Gradient index (GRIN) materials offer the most general manipulation over wave fields of light compared to conventional refractive optics, where the light is deflected by the curved surface. The creative way to implementing ...

Heat dissipation is a critical limitation in a range of electronic devices including microprocessors, solar cells, laser diodes and power amplifiers. The most demanding devices require dissipation of heat fluxes in excess ...

Oil is a widespread pollutant from oil spills to industrial oily wastewater in the oil and gas, metalworking, textile and paper, food processing, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. A wastewater of particular concern ...

Evaporation, a commonly found phenomenon in nature, is widely used in thermal management, water purification, and steam generation as it takes advantage of the enthalpy of vaporization. Despite being extensively studied ...