Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a material with significant potential for commercial applications. It has material properties similar to isotactic polypropylene; it can be produced from renewable resources; it is biodegradable. ...

In this thesis, I discuss the application and development of methods for the automated discovery of motifs in sequential data. These data include DNA sequences, protein sequences, and real-valued sequential data such as ...

Miniaturized chemical-systems are expected to have advantages of handling, portability, cost, speed, reproducibility and safety. Control of fluid path in small channels between processes in a chemical/biological network ...

Tracking the Brownian motion of colloids was first used about a hundred years ago to demonstrate the molecular nature of matter. Today's colloidal scientists perform particle tracking experiments to assess the structural ...

(cont.) time, while obtaining useful information about the thermodynamic behavior of the system. We show how statistical mechanics can be formulated using the wavelet transform as a coarse-graining technique. For small ...

A Multi-Scale Analysis methodology was developed and carried out for gaining fundamental understanding of the pharmaceutical powder blending process. Through experiment, analysis and computer simulations, microscopic ...

Ionized physical vapor deposition (IPVD) and electrochemical deposition (ECD) are two major thin film deposition processes in the microelectronics industry. The ion fluxes with high kinetic energies in IPVD process involve ...