Although petroleum and other fossil fuels have traditionally been used to fulfill our energy needs, rising concerns over energy security and the climate-changing effects of our continual greenhouse gas emissions have led ...

Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology has attracted interest as a cleaner alternative to conventional coal-fired power generation processes. While a number of pilot projects have been launched to ...

Methylation at the 5 position of the cytosine base, when followed by guanine (CpG) in the promoter region of a protein-coding gene, is an epigenetic modification that has been shown to be involved in gene silencing. While ...

Micro-contact printing has emerged as a promising new technique for patterning micron scale features with a wide variety of materials. Most of the materials examined have been small, reactive molecules patterned on surfaces ...

Reducing dependence on petroleum feedstocks motivates engineering novel conversion technologies to convert biomass as a renewable resource into target value-added products. In this thesis we developed a new pathway for the ...

Silicon microfabrication techniques and scale-up by replication have for decades fueled spectacular advances in the electronics industry. More recently, with the rise of microfluidics, microfabrication has enabled the ...

We have developed a continuous multi-stage high-temperature and high-pressure microfluidic system. High-pressure conditions enabled the use low molecular weight solvents that have previously not been available for quantum ...