The purpose of this research is to synthesize nanostructured and porous hydrophilic networks (nanoporous hydrogels) using block copolymers and to understand their transport properties. Nanoporous materials are synthesized ...

Stimuli-responsive polymer thin films provide the ability to control the interaction of a surface with its environment. Synthetic techniques with fine compositional control are required to engineer specific responses to ...

Metabolic engineering is a science concerned with the improvement of cellular properties through the application of recombinant DNA technology. To this point, the field has frequently been limited to methodological issues ...

The coupling between polymer models and experiments has improved our understanding of polymer behavior both in terms of rheology and dynamics of single molecules. Developing these polymer models is challenging because of ...

We have conceptualized a new class of polymer-linker-drug conjugates to achieve targeted drug delivery for the systemic treatment of cancer and other inflammatory diseases. The physiochemical properties of the polymer allow ...

A methodology is presented for assessing the current and future utilization of agricultural crops as feedstocks for the production of transportation fuels, specifically, the use of corn grain and stover for ethanol production. ...

An experimental study was performed to characterize the effects of different patterns of membrane depolarization on undifferentiated pheochromocytoma (PC 12) cells. In response to chronic depolarization, cytoplasmic free ...

In pharmaceutical manufacturing practices, blending of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) with excipients is a crucial step in that homogeneity of active ingredient after blending is a key issue for the quality assurance ...

In the initial investigation of this thesis, Fick's second law of diffusion was modified to describe both the transient, and the steady-state, transdermal transport of hydrophilic permeants through unbranched, aqueous pore ...