Browsing by FAS Department "Engineering and Applied Sciences - Engineering Sciences"
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3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Human Tissues
(2016-04-26)The ability to manufacture human tissues that replicate the spatial, mechano-chemical, and temporal aspects of biological tissues would enable myriad applications, including drug screening, disease modeling, and tissue ... -
Achieving Mechanical Versatility in Robots and Structures Through Laminar Jamming
(2018-09-25)There are two major physical paradigms in robotics---soft robots and traditional rigid robots. Soft robots are made of compliant materials and have excellent adaptivity, robustness, and safety, whereas traditional rigid ... -
Acoustic, Microwave and Optical Devices in Lithium Niobate and Diamond
(2019-09-12)Microwave photons are dominating local information processing, while optical photons are essential for long-distance communications. Micro/nano-devices hybridizing microwave and optical signals can thus provide unique ... -
Advances in Environmental Measurement Systems: Remote Sensing of Urban Methane Emissions and Tree Sap Flow Quantification
(2019-09-11)Two projects were designed and implemented in an effort to gather high quality data focused on two metrics important to environmental science: methane emissions from cities and the flow rate of sap in trees. Methane is a ... -
Algorithms and Array Design Criteria for Robust Imaging in Interferometry
(2016-05-14)Optical interferometry is a technique for obtaining high-resolution imagery of a distant target by interfering light from multiple telescopes. Image restoration from interferometric measurements poses a unique set of ... -
An injectable, spontaneously assembling biomaterial-based cancer vaccine platform
(2017-09-07)Cancer immunotherapy has the potential to provide a cure for many patients. Therapeutic cancer vaccination can stimulate the immune system to eradicate tumor cells while sparing normal tissues, and establish long-term ... -
Analysis and Generalization of Several Information Processing Methods Related to Stein’s Lemma
(2019-05-03)Stein's lemma was proposed by the statistician Charles Stein as a beautiful and simple lemma about normal distributions. In spite of its simplicity, it has applications to many important methods of information processing ... -
Architected Cellular Ceramics via Direct Foam Writing
(2017-04-27)Cellular architectures are ubiquitous in nature due to their low density, excellent mechanical properties, and multifunctionality. The ability to create synthetic materials with similar architectural complexity would benefit ... -
Architectural Implications of Automatic Parallelization With HELIX-RC
(2015-09-23)As classic Dennard process scaling fades into the past, power density concerns have driven modern CPU designs to de-emphasize the pursuit of single-thread performance, focusing instead on increasing the number of cores in ... -
Atmospheric Observations and Models of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Urban Environments
(2015-05-18)Greenhouse gas emission magnitudes, trends, and source contributions are highly uncertain, particularly at sub-national scales. As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, one potential strategy for reducing these ... -
Atomic Layer Deposition of Thin Film Indium Oxysulfide - A Non-Toxic Electron Transport Layer for Chalcogenide Solar Cells
(2018-05-10)CZT(S,Se) (Cu2ZnSn(SxSe1-x)4) has emerged as an earth-abundant, non-toxic alternative to thin-film photovoltaic technologies based on CIG(S,Se) (Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2) and CdTe. Devices employing CZT(S,Se), however, suffer from ... -
Bio-Inspired Design for Mechanical and Biomechanical Applications
(2018-12-18)Over the course of billions of years, nature has evolved materials, structures, and morphologies that exhibit a wide range of unique functionalities. Some of these traits are of particular interest to scientists and ... -
Biomaterial Directed Immune Modulation and Tissue Regeneration in the Context of Skeletal Muscle Injury
(2018-10-19)Chronic wounds and inflammatory diseases pose a significant health challenge worldwide. In fact, chronic inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of 7 of the 10 leading causes of death in the United States (CDC, 2016) ... -
Biomaterial-based Helper T-cell Therapies for Ischemic Diseases
(2018-05-10)There exists a critical need to develop improved therapies for ischemic diseases, such as peripheral artery disease (PAD). Ideal therapies for PAD not only restore vascularization and blood perfusion to ischemic limbs but ... -
Biomimetic 4D Printing
(2016-05-12)Advances in the design of adaptive matter capable of programmable, environmentally-responsive changes in shape would enable myriad applications including smart textiles, scaffolds for tissue engineering, and smart machines. ... -
Biomimetic and Estrogenic Plant-Based Nanofibrous Wound Dressings
(2019-03-11)Naturally healed wounds do not perfectly regenerate cutaneous connective tissue, which often leads to extensive scarring or unhealed wounds. However, engineering regenerative wound dressings, which is a $10 billion market ... -
Biosensing for Multiplexed Genome Engineering: Applications in Renewable Chemical Production
(2015-05-15)Engineered biological systems are increasingly used to produce fuels, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals. While transforming cells into renewable chemical factories presents an enormous opportunity, development ... -
Buckling Induced Functionality in Soft Structures
(2016-04-18)A variety of instabilities can be triggered when elastic structures are subjected to mechanical loadings. While such instabilities have traditionally been considered as a failure, a new trend is emerging in which the ... -
Click Functionalized Polymeric Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering
(2016-02-25)ECM-mimicking biomaterial research has driven numerous advances in tissue engineering in recent years, as new developments in polymer chemistry and cell-material interactions have allowed bioengineers to create complex ... -
CMOS Interface for Mammalian Electrogenic Cell Interrogation
(2016-10-19)Classical tools to record and stimulate electrogenic cells, mainly cardiac cells and neurons, are intracellular patch clamp micropipettes and extracellular microelectrode arrays (MEAs). The former has high precision while ...