Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Chemical engineering"
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Concentrating Alkalinity for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide: Using Osmotic Pressure for Concentration and Separation
(2024-03-12)Climate change has resulted in the pressing need to globally manage carbon sources and sinks. Reducing emissions as much and as fast as possible must be prioritized to avoid the worst harms from global warming, which will ... -
Droplet Microfluidics: Tools for Screening and Sorting Applications
(2013-10-15)Microfluidic droplets are a powerful tool for screening large populations of cells, molecules, and biochemical reactions. Droplet systems are able to encapsulate, incubate, screen, and sort millions of samples, providing ... -
Elasticity of Compressed Emulsions
(2014-06-06)The interfaces of bubbles and droplets imbue foams and emulsions with extraordinary mechanical and chemical properties. The remarkably large interfacial area of these structures controls their thermodynamics and makes ... -
Oxidation Catalysis by Novel Dilute Palladium-in-Gold Nanoparticles Supported on Porous Silica
(2021-06-30)This thesis investigates the activity of dilute palladium-in-gold nanoparticles supported on porous silica for oxidative catalysis, exploring its capability to catalyze the oxidation of carbon monoxide and the selective ... -
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Spheres with Specific Interactions
(2014-06-06)In this thesis, I discuss engineering colloidal particles to have specific, isotropic interactions and studying their cluster geometries in equilibrium. I discuss light scattering experiments showing that a highly specific ... -
Using Capacitive Deionization for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide: Theory and Demonstration of the Bicarbonate-Enriched Alkalinity Concentration Swing
(2024-03-12)To respond to the climate crisis and avoid its harms to vulnerable communities across the world, humans' collective priority must be to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Because some emissions associated with ...