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Interplay between electronic structure and catalytic activity in transition metal oxide model system (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The efficiency of many energy storage and conversion technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cells, rechargeable metal-air batteries, and hydrogen production from water splitting, is limited by the slow kinetics of the oxygen ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a central role in all biological processes. Akin to the complete sequencing of genomes, complete descriptions of interactomes is a fundamental step towards a deeper understanding ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Three-dimensional biomaterial scaffolds have begun to shown promise for cell delivery for cardiac tissue engineering. Although various polymers and material forms have been explored, there is a need for: injectable gels ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Monolithic integration of III-V compound semiconductors and Si complementary metal-oxide- semiconductor (CMOS) enables the creation of advanced circuits with new functionalities. In order to merge the two technologies, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Ligand-stabilized nanoparticles (NPs) assembled into long-range ordered arrays, also known as "nanoparticle supracrystals (NPSCs)", are expected to provide a powerful general platform for designing new types of solids. In ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Liquid foams are dispersions of bubbles in a liquid. Bubbles are stabilized by foaming agents that position at the interface between the gas and the liquid. Most foaming agents, such as the commonly used sodium dodecylsulfate, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)A central pillar of real-world engineering is controlled molding of different types of waves (such as optical and acoustic waves). The impact of these wave-molding devices is directly dependent on the level of wave control ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Lithium-battery technologies have promising potentials to enable efficient energy distribution, sustainable transportation systems, and the widespread of renewable energy. One of the most critical challenges that limits ...
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Femtosecond-laser irradiation as a platform for tailoring the optoelectronic properties of silicon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Silicon is the most abundant semiconductor on earth and benefits from decades of technological development driven by the integrated circuit industry. Furthermore, silicon allows for facile n-type and p-type doping, has a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)One dimensional photonic band gap fibers have proven to be fascinating and versatile devices, as demonstrated by many applications. The ability to control and design these fibers to achieve specific functionalities will ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)360° transverse domain walls (360DWs), which form readily from transverse 180° domain walls (180DWs) of opposite sense, demonstrate qualitatively distinct behaviors from their constituent 180DWs and are therefore of interest ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Chemomechanical coupling in single eukaryotic animal cells is investigated in the con- text of the attached (substratum-adhered) and the suspended (free-floating) states. These dichotomous configurations determine behavioral ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Nonreciprocal photonic devices including optical isolators and optical circulators are indispensible components in present day optical communication systems. Although highly desired by the fast development of silicon ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Making nanocomposites from combinations of materials each with their own unique functional advantage can often solve issues that cannot be addressed when utilizing only one type of materials. Therefore, controlling ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Epitaxial Ge thin films are being investigated for many important roles in next generation microelectronics. Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) utilizing Ge channels have demonstrated dramatic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Biological materials have developed hierarchical and heterogeneous material nanostructures and microstructures to provide protection against various environmental threats that, in turn, provide bioinspired clues to man-made, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Grain refinement in materials has been one of the most common strategies for improving the strength of materials. However this comes at the price of reduced ductility, fracture toughness and stable fatigue crack propagation ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Solid-state dewetting of thin films is a process through which continuous solid films agglomerate to form islands. This process is driven by capillary forces, often occurring via surface self-diffusion. Solid-state dewetting ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis relates to the emerging field of high-throughput density functional theory (DFT) computation for materials design and optimization. Although highthroughput DFT is a promising new method for materials discovery, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are quasi one dimensional structures which have unique transport properties, and have a potential to open a bandgap at small ribbon widths. They have been extensively studied in recent years due ...
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