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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
CNT-based Electrochemical Filter for Water Treatment: Mechanisms and Applications
(2015-05-07)Water treatment is a critical global challenge requires innovated effective solution. Conventional treatment methods includes membrane filtration, adsorption and electrochemical oxidation of organics. This dissertation ... -
Control and Optimization of Soft Exosuit to Improve the Efficiency of Human Walking
(2018-05-03)Researchers have strived to develop lower limb wearable devices to improve the efficiency of human walking, however significant device inertia, kinematic constraints and the lack of optimal control strategies has limited ... -
Crystal-Liquid Transitions Studied With Colloids in an Electric Bottle
(2016-05-18)In this thesis, we have presented the experimental investigations on the crystal-liquid transitions in a colloidal system. Colloids behave as big atoms, thus they are good model systems to study the dynamics of condensed ... -
D,L-Cyclic Peptides as Structural Materials
(2015-04-17)The bioengineer has a choice of building with proteins, peptides, polymers, nucleic acids, lipids, metals and minerals, each class containing tremendous diversity within its category. While the platforms are diverse, they ... -
Design of Hybrid Passive and Active Mechanisms for Control of Insect-Scale Flapping-Wing Robots
(2015-09-20)Flying insects exhibit a remarkable ability to fly in environments that are small, cluttered and highly dynamic. Inspired by these animals, scientist have made great strides in understanding the aerodynamic mechanisms ... -
Design, Dynamics, and Energetics of a Meso-Scale Flapping-Wing Robot
(2018-08-31)Biological fliers are capable of extremely agile and efficient flight. Man-made flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) on the scale of insects and small birds have been used to understand and mimic the behaviors of their ... -
Deterministic Single-Cell Encapsulation for in Vitro Microsystems and Therapeutic Cell Delivery
(2017-05-15)Encapsulation of cells into microscale hydrogels (microgels) may abet a number of regenerative medicine therapies by enabling precise microscale control in assembly of complex tissue mimics and programming in vivo delivery ... -
Development, Aircraft Integration, and Field Deployment of a CO2 Herriott Cell to Measure Arctic Carbon Fluxes
(2017-01-13)The warming of the Arctic, as mediated by climate change, will precipitate a feedback effect. Should the carbon in soil be processed and emitted as the greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4, the feedback effect will be positive; ... -
Diamond Based Optical Components for High Power Laser Applications
(2016-10-28)Diamond is a particularly attractive material for nanoscale technologies and bulk optics due to its exceptional material properties. Optically, diamond has a relatively high refractive index (2.4) and a wide bandgap of ...